He was up just before 7:10. When I went up he walked around upstairs and in the bedroom he saw a big container of Vaseline. He said, “You said we didn’t need a big box of this…here it is, right in mama’s bedroom.” He had wanted to get a big container at the pharmacy, but I had said no as we already had two. Apparently Carly had gotten one though for her dry hands. He then got in the couch bed and rested for twenty minutes. Downstairs he watched Phineas Rage videos while we waited for the new Ben Braver book download. He watched for a few minutes, then we played our survival world in Minecraft for the rest of the time. He watched the Kurzgesagt video on aDyson Sphere, then we read some Ben Braver when it finally downloaded.
He did some 3D graphing and we did Brother and Sister games along the way. We listened to the Wow in the World episode about singing mice. He was hungry so we had some quiche, then he played with the guitar. He was asking how you actually play again. I hope his guitar arrives soon.
He started on piano for alone time, then listened to “The Queen’s Gift” on Circle Round for rest of alone time. He asked what passed away meant, so a word of the day.
In Minecraft he talked about how he had liked our dancing on his wool dance floor when we played earlier, and how he likes the Clearcraft texture pack we’re using. We listened to Brains On! and learned about mirrors and sequins. For his educational video he watched Kurzgesagt on the Great Filter and had banana yogurt.
He let me go upstairs and take a shower. He played Blocks while I did that. We then ended up playing in the bed upstairs after he joked about it being sleeping time. He was Myna fainting over and over because of cats. We went downstairs for music time and worked on “Skip to My Lou”. We got through the whole song, and he earned a star for the amount of time. He had peanut butter crackers and more there were more Brother games.
I got him out for a bike ride. He wanted to go the opposite direction of the mall in order to avoid the bees. I headed down to the old highway, and there were some bees down there at first, but we got past them and he was okay. About halfway over towards the entrance to town he at first said it was time to head back, but then he remembered where it went and he said he wanted to do a full loop, going up the sidewalk towards the school. We did that, and also explored a couple of side streets he’d never been on. He didn’t want to stop at the park on Vatikim as he said there’d be too many bees. I stopped us at the close park though to get a drink.
He initially ran away when he saw a kid with a dog on a leash, but then agreed to stay and we could read a book when he had the idea of going up to the top of the sip. We went up there and read some How To. Carly emailed that she was on her way home, and August ‘spied’ on her from the ship and spotted her coming out of the path. He started excitedly yelling for “Ms. Althauser!”
We walked home with her. He ran off past recycling to get away from the dog and Carly followed him and I got the bike. At home I made us chocolate milk, as promised. For alone time he listened to “Grandfather Stone” from Circle Round. Carly went outside to work. We played Minecraft and were “Farmer August and Miner Dada”. He had some stir fry for dinner. He watched “Why Whales Don’t Get Cancer – Peto’s Paradox” and “Death from Space – Gamma Ray Bursts” from Kurzgesagt.
He then went outside with Carly and was doing graphing out there. Back inside she read Clementine. They almost finished it. He lost interest for the last few pages, as usual, as the climax had passed. They went and played piano together. I went over and got him to play all of “Skip to My Lou” and he did the whole song several times. Tomorrow we can work on adding chords to a song for the first time.
He was then asking Siri random questions, like “Hey Siri, what’s the price of the most expensive Christmas light ever.” And “Show me pictures of the oldest grand piano.” He did a lot of Siri searches, both on the HomePod and on my phone.
He played guitar again. He did more octaves and also was able to copy part of a song he plays on piano. He also played the “Asteroid Song” again and played it for Carly when she came down.
We got him upstairs and Carly gave him a bath and then finished the last few pages of Clementine: Friend of the Week. I took him in to bed and we read Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? and The Hole in the King’s Sock, two picture books from Korea that we haven’t read in a long time. August found them both very funny, but I don’t think he remembered either of them.
He asked “What’s à ‘golden era’?” From a video, I think. He kept talking and talking. Finally I was able to read a little of How To. We listened to “The Boy Who Loved Cheese Too Much” on Stories Podcast then “Puppies” from Bedtime Explorers. I put on some Lullatones and he was asleep at 10:40.
Silly in the bed:
Some writing:
An asteroid song 1:
An asteroid song 2 – full version:
Spying on mama and surprising her:
All of Skip to My Lou melody:
