Called me in once during the night. His covers were down and I pulled them up. When I got up in the morning though he was on top of the blanket, with his head near the end of the bed.
He woke up just before 8:35. I went up, and he requested the waking me up game on the couch bed. His wart then came off while on the bed. Looks better already. We played that for quite a while until I heard Carly’s phone ringing and we took it down to her and he said good morning. He then headed back upstairs and we played more of it, finally going downstairs after 9:05 and he headed to the piano. I had replaced the broken key that I’d glued last night. He had a cool motif he was playing with. I recorded part of it, but missed where he’d been playing with it with two hands.
He went to the bathroom, then asked, out of nowhere, about whether people were still cutting down trees. I talked about here, the U.S., and Brazil, and reminded him about the cocoa bean activity where we’d made decisions about where to grow our beans. He asked about the word timber, so that was our first word of the day.
He requested the survival world, so we played in that. We then had oatmeal and watched GoodTimeswithScar. He played piano, then we went upstairs for the waking up game. And we did one more level in the Brother game before August had fun falling and jumping on the bed. Finally got him downstairs, and as he played piano I made him a flip book, which we’d heard about in the history of film video. He wanted me to do Earpaggio, so we did that, and he videotaped me doing it, and also took a time-lapse.
We then made cookies as we listened to DJ Spooky albums. He then listened to Stories Podcast, finishing the Max Goodname story. Stunt was a word of the day. He then listened to “White Flowers, Red Roses”. We had the rest of the salmon for lunch, and ate outside. He explained why he doesn’t like their “The Brilliant Firefly” stories. Basically, it is a superhero story. He then listened to “Thor in the Land in the Giants” and told me, “I’m really familiar with Loki after ‘Loki and the Golden Hair’.”
He went upstairs to tell Carly that cookies were ready, but when he found out the first sheet of them only had brown chocolate he decided to wait 15 minutes until some with white chocolate were done. That was impressive. We played piano, and I was learning “Daybreak”. He then watched an Ants Canada video. He asked me what poaches and maintenance meant. I was working on the new keycaps, and he also came out to ask me what advantageous means.
He came out and watered plants. Carly was then done with work, and he was bothering her, even saying that he had moved up annoying day again. I told him it wasn’t okay to switch to being annoying like this and he got upset with me. Carly took him upstairs, then he came back down and was supposed to talk to me about it, but started getting more upset, telling me “I need you to forget about it!” He really felt bad about being criticized. We got him calmed down, and a minute later he asked Carly, “What did I get upset about?” He then listened to “The Fairy’s New Year Gift”
I made dinner: baked teriyaki peanut butter tofu, lemony asparagus with a peanut sauce, and a packaged big couscous thing. He of course liked the last thing the best. He played Minecraft with Vivian. She downloaded some random world that had military equipment in it. I went for a run and then took a shower. He read to Carly for another star. They used Epic, and August was reading at up to Level H.
He brought the bowl of popcorn upstairs (not sure if they had been watching something) and hung out around me as I got to work. He was still hungry, and Carly brought up the rest of his dinner and he ate the tofu. He was passing on the asparagus, but when I said he could have a cookie if he ate it then it disappeared quickly. I told him he could leave his last usual bite. Carly was talking to Cherie, and August was teaching her about Minecraft. They also went downstairs so he could play piano for her.
I was still working, and Carly gave him his bath, then was reading to him from Older than Dirt. He was typing emails, and sent Cherie links to Mumbo Jumbo and other Hermitcraft videos. He was quickly finding each person’s first episode of season 7. I’m not quite sure how he was doing it. We said good night and went to brush our teeth. He called out “Vivian!” once when he meant “Sister!”
We read more of National Geographic Kids, reading about tamarins rhinos. August had a game with Brother meeting à tamarin scientist. prey was a word of the day when it turned out that Brother’s cats were preying on a rare population of tamarins.
He asked, “What’s luxurious mean?” It is from a Synctuition ad we’ve started to see on YouTube. It’s a horrible meditation app. August also learned the word luxurious from it, and said something about a “luxurious voice”.
He played his melodica, then I put on a Howie B album, Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts. We very briefly played the waking me up game as we started to go to sleep. He randomly asked,
“What’s cahoots?” and was asleep around 11:30.
Morning piano 1:
Morning piano 2:
Falling on the bed:
Falling slo-mos:
A flip book:
Earpaggio:
Earpaggio time lapse:
Watering plants:
Melodica tune:
