He was quiet through the night, although carly was up early. I was up just after 7, then august was up at 7:20. I thought he was staying up, and jokingly pulled him into the bed. He crawled in next to me, curled up facing away from me and fell right back to sleep. At first I was stuck, but when he kept sleeping and sleeping I was able to sneak out of bed, and he slept until 8:20. When he went down to Carly the first thing he asked was “How fast would a car have to go in miles an hour to go a mile in one second?…3600.” He answered it himself. Carly then read My First Book of Quantum Physics. He knew there were waves beyond ultraviolet and pointed out when their chart only went that far.
Carly headed upstairs to meet with Jeff and Alix. August discussed Minecraft a bit, played piano, and went to the bathroom. We playedMinecraft. Yet another new jungle world. He didn’t play his whole time and switched to a Phineas Rage Island Survival video and I made pancakes with strawberries. He watched the Kurzgesagt video on Coronavirus and then about bringing a piece of sun to Earth.
He played piano, then I read the first issue of The Thirteenth Doctor of Doctor Who to him. Carly came in and we gave him a special video time (he watched Phineas Rage) and Carly and I discussed whether we should go to the U.S. We then went upstairs for aMillie and Brother game. I made up the “Tree Punching Song” song. Brother was on a server, trading with villagers.
When we went downstairs Carly was watching Gandhi. So to be funny August started searching Google for “thermonuclear weapons” and watched a couple videos about nuclear weapons. He then did a graphing competition with her and declared, “I’m going to get my moneys worth.” When he was graphing he said, “That’s what happens when you mess around with radians.” Carly needed another neck massage, then we had lunch outside. I had made schnitzel and rice with peas. He was confused about people out walking dogs, stating, “Nobody likes dogs. They lick you.” And, “I like parrots in Minecraft more than dogs in real life. They don’t peck you.”
Back inside he went to the bathroom, then was quizzing Carly about the Hermitcraft server. Carly said that everything he was saying was nonsense and gave an example of what it sounded like. August said, “You should say upside down turnipy Yankees.”
He had seconds on lunch and we sat outside. Carly went for a run. We discussed festivals and fairs, like in Pennsylvania. He requested Brains On! We listened to “Bigfoot, Unicorns, and Dragons: Making Sense of Myths, Part1”
I went up to work. He got an extra video when carly needed to talk to Cassie. He did alone time listening to a Stories Podcast and then did Minecraft. He did his second alone time and I played with him. He listened to Supersonic Piano (his favorite is “Lost” and he likes “Castle March”) and then we watched StressMonster. We had crackers and cheese. For dinner we had some of the pasta with tofu and broccoli left, but were out of parmesan. But we had the mint pesto and August liked that.
Colin called and Carly brought him to August on the couch. At one point he said, “Get Ata please. I miss her.” Meanwhile, I was chatting with Peter and Sarah about the Edmonds district and their resistance to providing distance learning. The internet had gone done many hours ago, and we’d been using our cell signals. August eventually got pretty stressed about it though, and just cuddled with Carly saying, “I’m bored, I’m bored…” Carly thought of pictionary, and he got into that again. He had some pretty good ones.
After pictionary I tried to figure out our internet provider. August refused a bath. Cuddled under the blanket with me. I remembered the squirrel game, and Carly reminded me of even further back in Korea when he would be a baby bird and we’d give him colorful worms. Carly told us there’s another baby in our old apartment, as the couple that took it over had a baby.
After a bath was done and the internet had suddenly come back on we got him Cheerios and went in to bed. We listened to “The Very Sick Goblin” from Stories Podcast. Adapted wotd We then listened to the first episode of Eleanor Amplified, “Robot”. Peril wotd He told me that was too exciting though for bed time so we tried Dirtgirl’s Nature Detective Academy, with an episode called “Flowers”. We listened to the Mendelsson album from Kickstarter and he was asleep by 10:45.
Couch kicking:
Kicking slo-mo:
Ice spinning silliness in Minecraft:
His turn to be silly:
Pictionary time:
Reading the emotions poster: