So the spike in COVID-19 cases the last few days is linked to schools, and the Health Ministry is recommending re-closing middle and high schools. A decision will be made tonight.
I went and woke him up at 9. Took a few minutes, then he wanted to go play chess with Carly. We went and did our teeth first, then he went down and found her outside. After she finished an email they played chess on the iPad. At one point I heard him say, “Ooh, you got yourself into a pickle.” He played chess with me a little, then we played Minecraft. After that he watched Ants Canada videos and ate oatmeal. Cannibalism was a word of the day, and he asked me, “Did you know sapphire tarantulas are parthenogenic?”
Carly had the idea that he could play more Minecraft if, every three minutes he wrote down his coordinates to practice his writing. He did that for a couple rounds. We were all discussing making a geocache and what to put it in, and I said something about the best container would be the small containers we use most often. August then said something along the lines of “Frequently instead of most often…synonym…” And of ‘synonym’ he said, “That’s like so good of a word…the funnest grammatic word in the world…”
He then played in Carly’s bag scraps she was cutting up for the compost. He did some more Minecraft writing, doing some words now, then played Carly chess again. Carly made hot dogs for lunch; they ate theirs with sauerkraut. Then more chess. I got him outside and we played around. He watered his plants. Weedy 3 is looking better, after being droopy since being planted. We played games where I kicked the ball over the slide, trying to hit him. He got exercise by climbing up and down on the ladder. He said I got a billion points for tiring him out, and he lay on the swing. He listened to the new Stories Podcast story “Monkey Mayhem” for alone time. New words were_bush baby_ and galagos. I think he kept listening to one or two stories after that.
We went inside and he watched GoodTimeswithScar. He really wanted Carly to watch it with him and she watched from her chair. He played some piano, then we played Minecraft together, in lucky block for a few minutes, then in our survival world.
He and Carly did an ant walk, feeding them cut up grapes. Back at the house August is starting to reject some of my music (like Carly), telling me, “Could you stop the rock? I don’t like rock as much as other music.” They went back out to get a weed they had found that was the same kind as the one that had been pulled. They came back and Carly planted it in a pot. I gave August my camera and he took a video of her planting it and did a bit of a tour of the yard. I was making banana bread, and August came and helped me finish it. He was talking about making it really fluffy banana bread. Along the way he asked, “What’s doubt?” And “What’s true to his word?”
He was getting hyper, and sang a sort of “War and government” song, but then we went upstairs for some wrestling time. We were up for a half hour, then came down and checked on the banana bread, then headed back up. He said, “Now let’s resume that Brother and Sister game…” Part of the game involved Nosisi getting hurt by anvils from Ms. Danger’s class.
We came down to get the bread out and had some. He then did reading and story time with Carly. First they read a few books about friends moving away (that Ilana had found in the library) and August was reading some of the words, then the book about Ada Byron Lovelace. Scandalous and paralyzed were words of the day. He was still hungry, so I washed his water bottle and heated up cauliflower for him. I then went for a run.
He played Minecraft with the cousins, then when Carly talked about how he was almost to first grade he agreed to read one book a day to her. He was reading to her, from Epic, I think. And he’s starting to have a real reading voice now. From listening to us, of course, but I think the podcasts have helped as well. He then did some really cool piano playing.
His bottom was kind of itchy, and he said it was another mosquito bite. That was fine by bed time. The wart on his nose seems to be causing more discomfort, and Carly has gotten him washing his hands really regularly. He said he had an idea for a Brother and Sister game, inspired by the banana bread. I mentioned fixing the broken piano key, a B flat, tomorrow, and he said, “I regret saying I don’t use it a lot because I use it a lot for G minor.”
Upstairs we watched NASA/Space X coverage and ate banana bread and crackers and tuna. His game/story was pretty good. Brother found a girl in the park and she offered him banana bread. It was really good, then he went home and all the food he ate tasted like mud and other gross things. He went back to the park to find out that it was Millie, and that the banana bread had been magic. The antidote was “It’s vegetables; your nemesis…I did it in favor of parents, to make you eat your vegetables.” We repeated the story with Sister.
Carly then gave him a bath. He asked about seeing Eve again and was upset about the answer. He went in his room and turned the AC on really cold. Carly comforted him a bit. I got crackers and peanut butter, and his iPad so he could watch the launch coverage, as he didn’t want me in the room. He changed his mind with a few minutes left, and we all watched the launch together. That was really cool, and he loved that it was live. He was still hungry and Carly brought him oatmeal, which he ate as he watched the rest of the coverage.
We brushed our teeth. After two minutes was up and I had moved on to floss and mouthwash he was still brushing. I asked what he was doing, and after a few seconds he said, “Toothbrush Music! How does it make all those wonderful noises?” In the room we put on a new album I had found called Drei by Swod. He liked it, and we listened to a couple of the songs, then the whole album from the beginning. He pretended to be paralyzed, and told me, “I got measles and it left me paralyzed and blind.” I think he learned about measles with Carly. He brought up something random before falling asleep but I don’t remember what it was. He was asleep about 11:40.
Purple berries:
Minecraft writing:
Song of the day:
Planting Weedy 4 and a tour of the garden:
Zinnie cam: making banana bread:
Fluffy banana bread:
War and government song:
Drumming in 8/8 and 10/8:
Watching the Space X launch:
