He woke up at 8. “Bad dream. I woke up.” Got him back to sleep, then woke him back up at 9:30. We finished the fourth Boxcar Children book, then read about Poseidon in the Bernard Evslin book. We took care of our teeth, then went downstairs. Out the kitchen window I spotted a bird eating his berries on his weed. I picked August up to watch. “So that’s where they’re going! Relationship!”
He played some piano, then we played Minecraft. He played more piano, then we had oatmeal for breakfast and watched Iskall.
We went upstairs for wrestling. I was babysitting a baby rhino. Gored was a word of the day. Then there was an amnesia camp involved. Downstairs we read some of Have a Hot Time, Hades book. Then he listened to a couple of Stories Podcast stories for alone time. In Minecraft he flew around one of the Sky Cube worlds on his own, then started a new world. His time was up and I hadn’t joined him and he wasn’t entirely happy about that.
Carly got home, and raced upstairs for a meeting, and August and I had grilled tuna sandwiches and watermelon for lunch outside. Read a little more of Hades. He was playing on the slide and I was sitting on the grass reading to him. He saw flies drinking the watermelon juice left on his plate. He talked about wanting to leave meat out so that we could grow maggots.
He played a lot of piano, and has changed his style again. He was doing stuff with lots of grace notes, and I asked why it sounded differently and he talked about how he was using notes outside of the scale he was on. It was really cool that he was consciously exploring that.
We watched Ted-Ed on Alzheimer’s (https://youtu.be/yJXTXN4xrI8) and “How Memories Form and How We Lose Them” (https://youtu.be/yOgAbKJGrTA). Then the new Kurzgesagt on “Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization?” He played some Simple Rocket, then I got him on a walk. We fed the ants some hummus, then grabbed his water bottle and walked over to the banana flower area and sat on the bench. I read more Hades and round trip was a word of the day.
We came home and he had us play a little Would You Rather? Carly came down, then I got him to read a book on Rivet to me before we watched BDubs. We learned the word lambasting from that.
I had to go up to work at 5:30. At 6 I had a meeting with our financial advisor about the change of accounts to a new firm. Carly had to come up and switch with me for a bit as the account is in her name. I then worked until about 8. They had dinner and played Minecraft. She was reading Jake Drake: Class Clown to him at one point. I went for a run as he was exploding rockets in Simple Rocket. He had some cucumber and hummus, and told me he’d already had two dinners. He played some amazing piano for us. He told Carly she needed to play in minor keys, and she said, “This summer you can teach me the minor scale.” To which he replied, “This summer? Oh yeah, cuz it will probably take an entire summer.”
We got him upstairs and I gave him a bath. In bed we read a little of Hades, then he listened to “Good News, Bad News”. He did some Would You Rather, asking me, “Would you rather bathe yourself in fire ants or feral ants?” We brushed our teeth, then listened to Benge’s Experiental Non-Vocal Electronic Pop and he was asleep by 11:30, which was nice.
Morning music:
Morning music 2:
Ant feeding:
Walking and discussing Minecraft:
Song of the day:
Blowing up rockets:
Song of the day 2:
Carly added masks at school:
