He came down the stairs on his own at 8:20. He went and turned on the AC and bathroom light, then we played a couple minutes of of Green Planet and I then read Tristan Strong. He went out to say good morning to Carly, then we played Minecraft.
Carly headed to the post office, trying to track down a package. She found out it was at some convenience store, but had no luck tracking it down. August and I finished Minecraft and had toast for breakfast and were watching some of Formula 1 qualifying. Racing is back, starting with the Austrian Grand Prix. August and I then played legos. He and Carly had done some yesterday. He and I were making spirals and saying they were DNA and putting them in him, doing things like giving him gills or turning his skin blue. He went and played piano and had a cool song he made up.
Carly had gotten home, then walked over to the mall to look for new Crocs for August. She called from there and he chose the blue over the yellow. She got home and he tried them on and liked them. He did a nice dance in them.
I then drove into town and succeeded in finding the convenience store with our package. They were still playing Mastermind when I got back, as they had been when I left. August had also had a full banana, which she’d cut up for him. They then went to do math at the blackboard. Carly decided to use the whiteboard because of the dust, and she remembered hitting chalk erasers together to clean them, back in elementary school. I was surprised they didn’t have a chalk vacuum machine, and I told her we had one in Chelan. She thought I was making it up at first.
They did some math, then he came to me and we played a few games of sprouts. He and Carly had watched the VSauce video on it a day or two ago and had been playing it. That ended with August piling stuff on top of me on the couch, and pretending to put me to sleep. He then went to supposedly paint with Carly, but that didn’t last long, then they played chess and cribbage. I went for a run in the heat.
He listened to “The Boggart” and “The Moon Rabbit” for alone time, then was playing Minecraft and listening to “The Singing Witch” when I got back. After my shower I finished in the lucky block world with him. We went and played piano together, then he was pretending to take away my lungs and we were wrestling in the kitchen. We then played a game of War with ten cards each and a lot of cheating. It was pretty crazy. We next took Mastermind upstairs and played on the bed. Defect was a word of the day.
He and Vivian had their Minecraft time early as they were going to their uncle’s house. I finished up with him, then he went outside with Carly. They brought in a bunch of rocks and shells we had from places and decorated the indoor plants with them. They then planted the mango seed that Carly had sprouted. As he was helping plant it he said, “This is the kind of brown I like.” He had told Vivian how he likes nature colors but “Minecraft doesn’t have the brown I like.”
Somehow the word trial came up as another word of the day. Carly discussed the two meanings of the word. He asked Carly to run the hose down the slide, and he played in it as a sort of water slide. I then went in with him to change his clothes, and he spent 5 coins for Minecraft and they played together.
I went up to work at 7 for the rehearsal for tomorrow. They went for a walk, taking an umbrella. He splashed water on it to make sure it worked. I came down after 8. We skyped with my parents. I asked how it went taking the cats to the vet. August asked, “Did they pee in the carrier?” Mom and August played a lot of cribbage on their own. Carly was organizing downstairs and I went down there to help her. After they were done with cribbage August and I played in the bed.
I got him out to start bath and Carly came up. She asked if he’d had fun with Gramma and he said that was “Confidential.” But when she said she needed to know so that she knew when he’d want to do it again he admitted he had a lot of fun.
We got ready to go into his room. He likes to run in as fast as possible now, “At the count of Banana!” He then yells “Bananas!” and we run in. Carly had found the ‘Turn Up the Bass Shirt’ in the backpack. It’s been in there for a long time as the backup shirt. I told him how I had bought it in Korea when he was a baby and it looked huge back then. Not it is probably getting small on him. He asked about why we had extra clothes in the backpack, and I mentioned mainly using the pants, if a diaper leaked or he stepped in water. I found myself missing his old pants. Think we saved one of the pairs I’m thinking about, somewhere.
“The Biggest in the World” but didn’t finish it and listened to “The Love Potion” instead. We brushed our teeth. In bed he asked, “Can I just skip forward to tomorrow?” We listened to a Max Cooper album, and he was asleep about 11:40.
“Ya bay” song:
Song of the day:
New shoes:
Shekel spinning:
Planting the mango seed:
Not tasting the first papaya:
