No Gabi today, as he cancelled yesterday, saying he is sick.
August called me up at 9:12. He yelled loudly, so I thought there was a problem or he’d had a bad dream or something, but when I got up he was calmly sitting on his bed. We read some Tristan Strong, then did our teeth before going downstairs. He wanted patiently on the couch while I washed his water bottle and Carly got ready, then they played Minecraft together. He was placing pressure plates. over every surface, which led to an annoying or satisfying (based on who it was) sound when you walked over them.
He was singing something and I sang back. We joked about musicals, which Carly doesn’t like. He ate his frozen mango with a fork. He really likes spearing them on the plate. And we played a couple rounds of that Vivofit Jr. game. I got him outside and we played fetch, with him as the puppy. He was then a flying squirrel. We discussed the plants in the yard, and he told me what Carly had taught him about one of the plants growing new ones, and he pointed out the little tomato plants growing from where compost was used. And he told me, “What I really like is when there’s water droplets in these plants. It makes it look especially nature-y…especially green.” He was referring to the plants in the container on top of the fence.
Inside he read parts of “The poem that’s titled ‘the poem that’s titled ‘the poem that’s titled ‘the door.’’’” and we discussed all the quotation marks. We then went upstairs for wrestling, and the whole out of fix-it shots game and whatnot. I ended up coming up with teasing names for some of the magic characters: Barki, silly Millie, Zero the Hero Sandwich.
Downstairs we watched Grian and had a couple crackers and peanut butter. He listened to “Brothers and Bees” for alone time. Learned a word in there. For lunch Carly made peanut butter tofu and broccoli. As we ate I read What If?. He asked more about boomerangs when they were mentioned and we watched a couple of videos of people throwing them. That led to going upstairs for a game with Brother meeting a boomerang champion. Somehow, Discombobulated became a word of the day.
After more wrestling we went back downstairs. He played some chess with Carly, then they tore up paper bags and watched part of a Choose Your Own Adventure thing on Netflix. He didn’t like that much so they switched to Prehistoric Road Trip, finishing episode two and starting three. I went upstairs to do some work and heard him playing piano.
I came down at 3:50. He was playing Dragonbox Big Numbers. I looked up when he really got into that game for the first time, and it was April 7, 2017. It was a day we did our last, or one of our last, big days on the Seoul Trail, and we played it on the long train ride home.
I then got him out on a run. We did .4 km. Not our longest, but it was just one run, without stopping. We ran up the back trail, then he agreed to turn left this time and we went around the block that way, then to home.
We did a little reading when back at the house, then watched the newest Iskall. I went up to my work time at 5:30. Carly got him out on a walk to the park, and he actually wanted to go see the nice dog in the yard, so they tried to go do that, but the owner was out in the yard. August told me he wants to watch another race tomorrow. Carly made sushi, then he had his Minecraft time, followed by chess with Oma. After work I went for a run.
After his bath I got him in bed and he listened to “Three Little Pigs” and “Polly and the Pumpkin Seeds”. He was grumpy when I wouldn’t play games with him, but we went and brushed our teeth, and back in bed he cuddled with me. Thought he might fall asleep like that. He asked about why worlds in Minecraft could work in newer versions, but not the other way around, and we discussed software compatibility. Finite was another word of the day. He told me that when they went to the park he saw ants swarming a dead bug. It’s the most ants he’s seen eating something. We listened to the Late Night Tales: John Hopkins album, and he was asleep around midnight.
Fetching:
Running the lines:
Chess with Oma:
