He was up at 7:45 to use the bathroom. I then walked him downstairs to Carly and went back to bed as I had a headache. She read to him, then they played Minecraft outside. Carly figured out that the key to enjoying the lucky block worlds is listening to a podcast at the same time. When I came down they were finishing up and she was making him a quesadilla. I had to do a little work to get the video for work exporting, and she read some more Joey Pigza Swallows the Key to him as he ate the quesadilla and more fruit salad, getting to the description of spaghetti, and then they played a game of chess where August had a “perpetual” knight that had a spawn point.
They then set up the basket with activities to draw from today. He drew ‘chess on computer’ and they played on my iPad. He and I did Gravity Maze. He wanted to do the last card, and we had to look at the solution. He then took it up and showed it to Carly. We went up and wrestled. I remembered seeing Heather post a photo of getting crepes in Albania with Eve and Zoe and I showed it to him. We asked if the crepes were sweet or savory. They have also apparently adopted a couple of rescue turtles they found on the highway. Or tortoises. So that led to a game where he was a rescue squirrel, or a rescue tortoise.
Eventually we went downstairs and watched the newest Iskall video. He was really inspired by something he’d seen Iskall do with his Piglin farm and wanted to add it to what we had made, so he asked to have his Minecraft time first. We did that, and when his time was up he did a great job of getting right off. He then listened to “The Silent War for the Open Door” for alone time as he ate pizza on the swing. I sliced a banana for him, and he played chess on the board with Carly. He asked, “What’s ironic mean?” We discussed the definitions. He and I then played a full game of chess, using the teleporting corners idea. I taught him about dynamic positions in chess, and he used the term a bit later. It ended in a draw.
I then got him out on a run. We ran clockwise, then all the way up to the park. A total of .42km. Back at the house they played Mastermind and I vacuumed the filters from all the AC units. He then ate his chocolate bar and read part of the Inspector Hopper book to Carly. I took a video of him sing-reading, and he said, “You should post that on social media. Make it public.” They went outside, and he found a blue feather from a Eurasian jay. He put it in a bag with the parakeet feather he had found before.
I went upstairs to work from 3 to 4. They started with yoga and cut his hair. They did some math too, as he can now do addition with decimals. He was then watching the latest Mumbo Jumbo, I think from cutting his hair. I watched the end with him and we had pita and hummus. We played around on the couch, and he read more of the Inspector Hopper book to me. Carly took up recycling. We looked at the globe when he asked what eurasian meant. A word of the day. And we discussed longitude when he asked about it again.
We had some grapes, and I tried to get him on a walk or something. Vivian and Colin were going on a hike today, so no Minecraft. I gave in eventually and we did his evening time early, about 5:30, working on redstone. He’s really starting to figure it out. I went for a run at 6. He was playing chess when I got back and he’d had a piece of pizza. They were talking to Cherie. I took a shower, then Carly left to go to the art store. He and I ate rice and broccoli and cheese and watched Prehistoric Road Trip. Contaminate was another new word. We almost finished episode 2.
Carly got home, half successful. They didn’t have canvases. We got him out on an evening walk. Barely. But he did fine when we were out there. We walked each of the three directions as far as he would allow. Over by the ant area we saw a rabbit in the field. First time we’ve seen one. He also tried out the little hopscotch that someone had drawn, and had us moving the rocks that we could. When we got to the tree in that direction he instantly said, “We got to the tree. We got to the tree. Now let’s go home.” But we were then able to head in the other two directions, and he spent time checking out the tractor.
At home we did a little piano, then he started listening to Stories Podcast. Carly made him popcorn and he listened to a lot of stories. “Stubborn Goats”, a “Dog King” story and several others. I went upstairs to fix the keyboard and to type. He probably listened for about an hour.
Carly brought him upstairs and I got him to take his bath. Carly mentioned something about a ‘precedent’ and August said he didn’t like the American president. I talked about the difference between the two words. Referring to our negotiations over the start time of his evening time he said, “I don’t know why you didn’t remember saying we could play an hour early.” It had been a rather mixed-up affair.
In bed I tried to read to him, but he wanted to listen to podcasts, so listened to “The Cat Who Caught the Moon” and “The Fairy’s New Year Gift”. We brushed our teeth, and he asked about organ transplants and was shocked when I said I thought heart transplants are more common/possible than foot transplants. I said it is something we should learn about. He requested Beethoven’s Second, and he was asleep about 11:20.
Time for another run:
Sing reading:
A little piano tune:
