I was woken up a little before 7 by a guy dumping metal out of a white van onto the garbage pile. Might have something to do with police presence over there lately. Not sure if I mentioned that yesterday, after inspecting the pile quite a bit, the cops came back a few minutes later with someone with a trailer and they picked up a whole pile of metal pieces and hail them away.
August called out “Mama! Dada!” from his bed a little before 8:40. I went up and he stayed in his bed, taking several minutes to flip around in his bed before he hopped up and said, “I need my phone.” He wanted to see if Carly had written back. “What’s b-e-l-i-e-v-e spell?” “What’s s-e-r-i-o-u-s-l-y spell?” He then sent her back an email about gods not being real. And informed me that an upside down smiley face means sarcasm. He managed to send her a few sentences in return. He likes to end his sentences with three exclamation points, then there periods. Not sure where he learned that one.
He went to the bathroom, then I finished chapter 1 of The Hardy Boys #1. He had won the bet, since Carly was inside, and chose Survival Trival to play in. We listened to some Wow in the World. He played piano, and we had oatmeal before listening to Mumbo Jumbo episode 4. Lots of fun words for him to ask about like chuff out, rapscallion, and precarious.
We went upstairs for a Brother and Sister family reunion game involving the FBI agent. The whole family showed up for a reunion after Baby Sister was born, even though they were told it was cancelled this year. The following year the family tries to hide, and the FBI agent tried to keep the relatives from tracking them to the jungle, but Brother accidentally gave up the secret.
After quite a bit of that we went outside and he checked on his plants. There are more of the little berry things growing. We then read chapter 2 of the Hardy Boys in the swing. Jalopy was a word of the day.
Inside we did a Brother and Detective mystery where they tracked down a stealing clown. The Detective asked Brother if he’d seen someone with orange boots and yellow pants and blue hair. August came up with those, not me, so I decided it was a clown. The clown had stolen the money from the circus. They tracked down the clown and the money and the circus was able to reopen.
Back outside we saw a claw truck come and pick up the garbage across the street. And it was followed by a police car, who stopped and watched, then continued along with the claw truck. We ate pizza for lunch outside, then inside we had a piano competition. I then made a strawberry smoothie, and delivered some up to Carly. We watched PBS video “How do we know the universe is ancient?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Vhh70Lw9w). i.e. was a new phrase. Then a video on autism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukO28tQywI&t=322s). One of his top teeth is really loose and he keeps playing with it. Finally, we watched the Ted-Ed video “Does grammar even matter?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_eBrIDUuc) and learned the terms descriptivism and prescriptivism. He’s a descriptivist.
We went outside to play our ball game and do a Brother game where he met a girl named Eliza who moves things with her mind. Back inside he listened to “Grasshopper songs and Owl Desserts” for alone time, then played Polytopia. He was hungry so had some apple sauce and we played together. Our Tiv Taam order came. I had the door open and the guy brought it right inside the door. August called, “Thank you for social distancing!” Shmuel came by and gave us a flower pot and a red ball for August. August played piano for him. Carly came down and we put groceries away.
I was going to go for a walk as August was playing with Vivian and Colin. They couldn’t manage to connect though and I was trying to help. August was getting pretty frustrated, and I tried to set up Minecraft Realms. Still no luck. He hung up with them and just wanted to play with Carly instead. I went for a walk.
When I got back he was still playing with Carly and talking to them. I went and took a shower, then he was listening to the Stories Podcast story “Two of Everything” and eating some food. I washed dishes. We watched Mumbo Jumbo’s episode 5 where he asked about daft and told me he likes how they say lee-ver for lever. Other new words were brill, quids in, and sweet fanny apples. When the video was over he asked me, “What’s existential?” Mumbo had also used that.
He watched an Ants Canada as I finished the dishes, asking about tenants and amicably. We went upstairs and he went to the bathroom. We talked about what it feels like to go to sleep and wake up. He said he likes waking up, all at once, and said, “It’s stunning.” Lot of Minecraft talk, then we listened to “Polly and the Pumpkin Seeds”. He finished up some food up there (I had gotten him tofu and asparagus when he said he was still hungry) then we brushed our teeth. He listened to another story called “Arthur the Ugly Duckling”, then the Peace Out “Calmness” episode. I put on Benge’s Home Music by 10:45 but he had trouble getting to sleep. After 20 minutes or so we switched to the piano album we’ve been listening to. He kept trying to ask me Minecraft stuff, and finally was asleep sometime after 11.
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Loose tooth:
