He had good timing and called out at 9:30 as I was walking up the stairs. We read some Boxcar Children upstairs, and played with the stuffed animals, particularly Marshy. He asked why the Titanic sunk and if ships now have grand staircases. We looked up photos of cruise ship interiors and exteriors. In discussing the Titanic I taught him the word hubris Downstairs he told Carly he wanted to go on a cruise ship and he did his (annoying) baby cry.
We played Minecraft in his sky cube world, then I made oatmeal and an egg for breakfast. August persuaded Carly to play piano, then I played with him. Carly went up to a meeting, then August and I went up to the bedroom and wrestled. We went back downstairs and watched Grian, then read chapter 13 of The Boxcar Children. He played some piano, then we watched a few minutes of the CNN Sesame Street town hall on racism. He was quite interested in it.
He then used five stars to play some Minecraft with Carly. Randomly he said, “Hey mama. I’m a socialist, just so you know…we’re basically all socialist…(capitalists) don’t help poor people…I totally agree with socialism.” He and I had discussed socialism and capitalism a couple days ago. Carly left, and we ate a lunch of crackers and cheese and plum and watermelon and chocolate milk.
Some more piano time, then we read chapter 14 of The Boxcar Children. I got him to do a video of jokes for Eve, and that went better today. We then watched a video to learn about amnesia, learning about retrograde and anterograde amnesia.
We went upstairs and played a Ms. Safe game a bit and did some wrestling. I started getting tired so suggested we go back downstairs. We went outside and watered his weeds and he wanted to do alone time outside. He listened to “King Midas”, then we heard a song “Ode to Odd” from the host’s band, Old Wild Eyes. He liked that, so we added it to our library. Then he listened to a short story about fairies. For Minecraft we started another copy of the Sky Cube world from the beginning, just in survival.
He was going to read to me but instead ended up doing rhythms in GarageBand. He discovered the ‘chance’ feature. Carly got home and he wanted to play chess. He told her, “Mentally prepare yourself to lose.” Which was a line he stole from her. I had brought him his water bottle, and a while later he thought that the AC had cooled his water. I told him I’d put ice cubes in it.
I made dinner, the soy noodle recipe, and he started Minecraft with Vivian and Colin early. Carly helped them talk through some sort of Minecraft problem, where August didn’t want Vivian to do so much in creative. They agreed to switch to Vivian’s Poop world, but then August couldn’t connect to the world. So he and I played together in our survival world instead.
We all ate dinner. August came up to me in the kitchen and told me, “This is a nice dish. It has a lot of flavor.” I had turned off the air conditioner as the evening was cooling. August said, “Can we turn the air conditioner on? It’s kind of silent.” And he looked at our shelf and said, “We have so many devices!”
I went for a run as August was reading the Sid the Science Kid book to Carly. A few minutes into my run they called me on FaceTime so he could tell me he’d read the whole book: “Thousands of words.” When I got back they were running circles in the yard. While I took a shower and got some work done they made a card for Vivian and Colin (a Charlie Brown and truck for them) as Carly is sending Cassie some masks.
August watched the newest Mumbo Jumbo, and told me later that they had talked to Oma, who was in Seattle. He said, “Kayla has quite a dollhouse collection going.” “A skunk fainted on the roof.” Of the dollhouse, that is. They played some of the Simple Rocket game, then they came up and he took bath. Carly took a shower, but at first he discussed the definition of ‘stupid’ with Carly, and found out that he’d been given a wrong definition in preschool. To which he concluded: “I learned my lesson: never get advice from a preschool teacher…they’re not detailed enough.”
In bed, as he ate crackers, he said, “I think the people in the LEGO app think they’re conscious: our decisions are decisions they THINK they make.” This was based on a conversation we had had a couple days ago, but took it a bit further. He was grumpy when I said there wasn’t time to do a Brother and Sister game. We went and brushed our teeth instead, and still grumpy he sang a couple of “mean songs”, which were generally quite cute. This did lead to a discussion of racism and insulting people based on their skin color. He very quickly decided he’d never say anything like that though.
We listened to the same Benge album again. All of his talking, which went on and, meant it was probably 12:20 before he was asleep.
Morning piano:
The end of a pretty song:
Wanting me to tell the jokes:
Jokes for Eve and a silly dance:
Geometric beats:
Chasing mama:
Song of the day:
