He got up at 8:40. I was just going to go up and get him. He met me on the stairs and said good morning. He went down to Carly as said, “Hello crazy early awake mama.” We joked around on the couch about “jinx, double jinx” and whether Carly does it correctly, and then our different ‘cultures’ (which led to a discussion of taking our shoes off and liking kimbap being the only things we’ve really held on to from Korea), then he went to play piano. He had something that we recorded as the song of the day, then I went over and was playing with him. He wanted to do a piano competition with Carly and told me, “Piano competition coming through…Make way for the best piano player ever!” He was then teaching her all the intervals. She had difficulty understanding him when he said “third” (he has difficulty with the ‘er’ sound in the middle and it sounds more like ‘ur’ or something), but it reminded me that he’s recently been practicing his ‘r’ sound and starting to get it, and ‘l’ is sounding better and better. He was teaching her how to move her hands up and down the piano and when she made a mistake he told her, “No, no! No no no! That’s not the technique!”
He did some Supersonic Piano, then he and I played Minecraft. He randomly asked, “What’s bid farewell mean?” I heated French toast for us and we ate outside. He had a game with Sister training for space. It was really warm and sort of hazy today, and after a few minutes allergies started to hit me, so we went inside. Carly did some reading to him.
They then painted. Carly started a painting of a roll of toilet paper. I started playing Alice In Chains for the day, as it is April 5. August was mixing colors, and said, “Since I know about Minecraft now I’m going to change this to terracotta orange!” I then went for a run. When I got back he was watching Coyote Peterson. I made grilled tuna for lunch and we ate outside.Carly was gardening, and talked about how she had used some of the compost. August was impressed and said, “Whoa. We’re starting to make some self-sufficience.”
We went inside and watched the newest Grian. He then listened to the Story Pirates “Maybelle’s Treats/The Mystery of the Materializing Kitten” episode. We went upstairs and played Brother and Sister and the Astronaut game. I turned it into a pillow fight as much as possible. He had the AC on, then fan, and I was getting allergic, so we went downstairs. Carly read Martin Bridge: Ready to Take Off and I went upstairs and finished our taxes. He then listened to “A cup of poi” on Circle Round. I came down and told him what poi was, a word of the day.
We did a little work on “Hacked” and then played Minecraft. There was a weird glitch in our survival world, but just on August’s iPad, where it didn’t load the chunk he was standing in and he fell out of the world. He then had fun playing with the glitch, as if he tried to build in it, it would actually load the correct blocks and then they would become real to him. When he eventually logged out and back in it was back to normal. The Tiv Taam order arrived and Carly wiped it off.
I read some What if but was then getting allergic so we watched the newest Iskall video. Afterwards he was talking to Carly and me about Minecraft plans with Vivian. We had contemplated skipping today, after his reaction yesterday. When we settled on 30 minutes he didn’t handle that well. We were talking to him and it went pretty well though. At one point he wanted to just talk to Carly so I headed upstairs for a while. I finished putting together our taxes.
We had dinner (potato and eggs, etc.). When we called Jeff they couldn’t play today. August got upset again. Eventually he wanted to go upstairs to “Hide” in the bedroom, with all the pillows, but with me. We talked about the need for a backup plan. He gave a thumbs up to that.
Back downstairs Carly trimmed my hair. August thought that was pretty boring, but waited patiently. They then skyped with Chuck and Cherie. He showed them music and talked about technique and the songs, like where “Hacked” is from.
Carly took him up to a bath. She was then folding the warm laundry. He finds it satisfying to pull the legs of his pants in and out. A new skill, and he likes the warm laundry. He was then saying, “I like to say 22nd time’s a charm.” I got him to brush his teeth.
We went in the bedroom at 9:40. We listened to “Honey Bear” on Stories Podcast. Then the story after that. He went to the bathroom and needed more Cheerios. We listened to a Peace Out about breathing, then he requested Bach. I put on an Tom Koopman album of Bach organ music, with the Toccata con Fugue. August was pretty amazed: “You’ve got to be kidding me.” It took him a good amount of time to fall asleep, despite doing a lot of yawning earlier. He was asleep by 10:55.
Song of the day:
Learning some Spanish:
The weird Minecraft glitch:
You’re the funniest person song:
Satisfying clothing:
