He was up at 6:35, requesting new shorts. Got him changed and he went to the bathroom, but then he couldn’t get back to sleep. He lay in bed for a long time, and I closed the blinds on the windows and eventually put on the Philip Glass piano album we’ve been listening to and he eventually fell back to sleep. I then got him up at 9:10. Read I read a few of the Sideways School stories then we headed downstairs. He went outside with Carly for several minutes, then came in and they played Minecraft together.
We had french toast for breakfast, then they headed to the nursery to get some plants. It was a quick trip. Apparently there were lots of bees and August was quite scared of them. He chose one plant, then ‘let’, barely, Carly grab a few more plants before they got going.
At home we got ready to go to the pool. He got his swimsuit on backwards, and Carly called it “All the rage.” No kids at the pool today, but Ms. Myriam was there and we talked to her a bit. I asked her about Bar and Ben, and I was right about them not going to the school anymore. They are going to the Israeli school up the street. But she said she’d start bringing them to the pool when there school is out, so hopefully we’ll see them again. No other kids at the pool, or really anyone we knew. We played the kick board game again, using a chair to shoot at as opposed to the railing. He did more math. He also wore the vest today, so was more mobile in the pool and could chase us. Carly was teaching him averaging near the end.
We headed home, and I made us hot dogs for lunch. For alone time he listened to “Animal Jam”, which he really likes, then on of “The Wylderwood” stories as we started Minecraft in a lucky block world. We then went outside to see the plants, which Carly had been planting.
I had work to do so headed up for that. I came down a little after 5 and they were doing their Minecraft time early. I cooked broccoli for him, then headed back up and worked from 5:30 to close to 8. When I came down Carly was doing a lot of ripping of paper bags for the compost and watching Just Mercy. I played chess against August, and I had a pretty impressive checkmate against him, which involved a nice fork leading to a sacrifice, leading to a checkmate. August was just fine with being checkmate, then wanted me to set up a similar position for Carly to try to figure out. I set up a position with a revealed checkmate for them to figure out.
I started to clean up the kitchen, and handed August a piece of the leftover broccoli and pretended it was broccoli candy. He took it and ate it, then told Carly, “Dada called this broccoli candy and actually he’s right; it’s pretty good.”
I went for a late run and Carly gave him a bath, then they played chess while I took a shower. I finally remembered to find a chapstick for him, as his top lip has been a bit red today. He listened to a story about the first Phoenix, then I read a couple of Wayside School stories. Groused was a word of the day. We joked about everyone grousing, and he said, “Except black people…I’m giving them credit to balance it out.” An interesting way to try to make up for racism. I read the story about a boy chewing on pencils. He was laughing hysterically. I tried to video him laughing so insanely hard, but it turns out that the phone stops video recording when you switch to the book app. I switched to the iPad to read, and recorded the end, but really missed the parts where he was absolutely screeching and rolling around on the bed.
We went to the bathroom and brushed our teeth, and he was being silly as Bar. He asked, “What’s a Druid?” Another word of the day. He talked about an add-on he’d downloaded for Minecraft and is excited about. He says it has blue food. We listened to the piano music and he was asleep around 11:45.
Pool math:
Piano time:
Amused by Sideways School Stories:
