He was up at 8:35. Called me up and asked for new pants. Gave him a pair and we decided they had gotten too small, so switched to shorts. As I made up the couch he asked “What’s RIP mean?” When we went downstairs he went to the bathroom and said “Here’s a fun out of tune double bass instrument you could play in the orchestra.” He was referring to the groaning noise that happens when you slightly push down the buttons.
We played in our survival world, then had oatmeal. I needed to finish up some work, so we watched the newest Iskall video and I worked. When it was over he went and played piano. I was finishing up an email, but he suddenly got really impatient for me to be done and started pushing me from behind, etc. I finished, but then went outside to take a break. He came out, and instead of calming down went the other way. We went back inside, where he had a big meltdown, to the point where Carly came down to help for a few minutes. She went back up as he was sort of calming down, and after a few more minutes we were doing okay.
He had asked about whistling the other day, so we found a Bright Side video on how to whistle and watched that and practiced. He then watched another Bright Side video or two, one of which was on ‘Lifehacks’. We moved to the microscope, where we had talked about examining the different kinds of salts and sugars. I got those out, along with pepper, sesame seeds, and something else. We studied a few of them under the microscope. They are things that are kind of big though—we probably would have been fine with a magnifying glass. We need to start figuring out better ideas for the microscope.
For lunch he ate the last of the salmon and French fries. A sort of fish and chips. He plated piano, then listened to “Billy Goats Gruff” for alone time. He had listened to “Dinosaur Christmas” yesterday. Not sure if I’ve heard that one. He asked, “What’s a precaution?”
In Minecraft we went to the nether in our survival world. He then spent a long time in the bathroom. He was Myna talking about her mega base. I had a headache, but not because of his explanation. I went upstairs for Advil, and August eavesdropped on Carly and heard them talking about Civic Mirror. He heard them talking about a constitution and not having one. He asked me, “What’s a constitution?” We went back downstairs and looked at pepper and oatmeal.
We got ready to go for a walk. We were talking about giving each other challenges in Minecraft, and then about how to give one to Carly, when she came down. We went for our walk and fed them a couple pieces of his snack bar. I had fun with some photography of the growth of the cacti and other things. We were discussing the microscope more and I mentioned pond scum. He asked what scum meant, so another word of the day.
He brought up food banks, and we had a long discussion about how they work and the ethical and practical decisions that go into people choosing to go to them. We then watched the Sarah and Duck Sea Cow episode, as we had read about manatees the other night.
Carly came down, and he started to get hyper. Carly and I were trying to finish the fruit and vegetable order. I asked if he needed a few minutes of Mama time and he said, “Pay attention to me!” That seemed to work pretty well. She gave him attention, and they discussed Civic Mirror and started to plan their own country and I finished ordering the fruit and veggies.
Carly made dinner (a couscous thing and rice and tofu) and I finished the piano key caps for the day (over halfway done) and he played piano, skipping the gap. He then played Minecraft with Vivian. He really liked the couscous dish again. Carly talked to Cherie and then played with them in Minecraft. I went for a run, and it was the first time in weeks that I ran the whole distance (3.5km), as my right ankle had been bothering me. So for a while I had just been walking, then working back into running gradually as the ankle took it.
When I got back August reading to her on Epic. Not sure he read enough though to earn a star. When I came down from shower she was reading Nate the Great to him. I had tried the same book a few months ago, and she came to the same conclusion as me that it wasn’t very good. August said something was “indeed” and Carly and I were quite amused.
I did a little work, and he made a book structure behind me and connecting to Carly. Carly was really tired. She got him upstairs though and gave him a bath. In bed he listened to “Max Goodname and the Song of the Basilisk”. Basilisk was another word of the day. He was then playing the waking me up game, and fed me Cheerioes as I slept. Carly came in and said good night. We went and brushed our teeth and then then read National Geographic Kids about more animals that are endangered/recovering, and about ways that people can help. Had lights off and an Olafur Arnalds album on right at 10:30, but didn’t help him get to sleep any faster. He woke me a few times, and said he couldn’t get to sleep a few times. He was finally asleep by 11:25.
Toilet instrument:
End of a song:
Song of the day:
More song of the day:
Loose tooth:
Improving around the missing keys:
Bubbles in the water bottle:
