I woke him up at 9:10. He barely opened his eyes and gave the cutest, most slurred “good morning” ever, then rolled away from me and went back to sleep. As he woke up he said, “Daddy, daddy” Then he said, “Did you know there’s two kind of writing…the simple kind…the kind where it changes over time because people have different opinions?” He was talking about prescriptivist versus descriptivist. Which we discussed months ago. He is still a descriptivist.
Carly headed to the pharmacy. I read a couple chapters of Sideways Stories from Wayside School. We took care of our teeth and headed downstairs. We played Minecraft, and Carly got back and made him some quesadilla. He then wanted more, so I made another. We then went upstairs to wrestle. Lots of laughing with the monster game. Then we did a Ms. Safe and piano lesson game, followed by Bar upset about her report card because she gets an F is ‘safety’. She then does everything she can to get an A in safety.
We went down and he went and played piano, then we watched the newest Grian before playing some War. He started winning again. I made an egg and turkey scramble for lunch and he played chess. Carly came down and he did some chess with her. He set up a position with a pinned queen where he had to keep checking so as to not lose his queen. He ate outside with Carly.
At 2 I realized he had a meeting with Gabi and he walked in just at the perfect time. We went upstairs and he had his meeting. I think they played tanks, chess, and reversi. He had just been eating, but came out to ask for crackers. Seems like it’s really a tradition for him now. Carly and I worked on a Tiv Taam order, then when August was done he wanted to wrestle.
We did that, then headed downstairs, where he drew ‘typing and vocabulary’ from the basket. I said words and he would guess on how to type them. That worked quite well. He would be sure to have his incorrect spelling, followed by the correct spelling. He next drew ‘Dada or Mama read outside’. We took the blanket out and I read 3 or 4 chapters from Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
He listened to a story for alone time. Then in Minecraft we worked on figuring out an add-on he had. It had a bunch of new mobs you could spawn, but for all the new items I had to use the command line to give them to him.
Carly made gnocchi and broccoli for dinner, and we all ate, then Vivian called about 5:15. August showed her the new world, and I knew they’d want the items, so I got them set up with stuff, then went for a run. When I got back they were outside playing cards again. Cherie played chess with him again. He again went up to the bedroom and turned the AC on cold. Carly took him popcorn. And I went in once to find him humming, eating popcorn, as Cherie played against the computer.
When they were done Carly came up to give him his bath. She got a message from Cherie, jokingly asking if it felt like he was babysitting her, since she was bad at chess. August was confused by the question: “No? She’s thousands of miles away…” August told Carly, “I’m gold…my name starts with the symbol for gold: AU.” He remembered that from yesterday when I was teaching him how to type his name, and he was sometimes spelling it ‘Ao’.
Carly put his bath soap in a regular soap dispenser, so he can get it himself; a great idea. He went and picked out his clothes, saying, “That’s a valid combination.” It was father’s day, so we tried to Skype with my parents. We left a video message at first, as it said they were offline. They then called back. Mom asked how chess was going, and he said, “Victorious”. We Skyped for 20 or 30 minutes. He then listened to “Mr. Rat and His Daughter” and had two crackers. We brushed our teeth, and he was Myna talking about Minecraft. I had sister use the word lackluster to be unimpressed by one of her builds, and that was a word of the day. We had lights off at 11:10. He used “lackluster” a few times. We listened to the CVLTVRE album New. He woke me a couple times. He told me he wants to watch clouds tomorrow. Still awake, so we listened to the Trance Frendz album. Asleep around 11:30.
Piano 1:
Piano 2:
Spelling and typing:
Shooting rubber bands:
Watching Oma play chess:
Squeezing the ball:
Father’s Day message:
