The weather was often warm and sunny, so we spent
more time biking and walking. We brought bubbles,
sand toys, and popsicles to the playgrounds. That
was nice.
A+ has been practising crossing the street by
herself. She's quite proud of being able to go
ahead of me. She was also proud of making her own
choices at the farmers market, carefully counting
out $5 and a collection of coins that all together
summed up to $12 for a bottle of very dark maple
syrup, and choosing a sourdough loaf after some
discussion with the baker.
A+ enjoyed doing an Easter Monster Math Hunt, as
is apparently now our tradition. I drew lots of
Minecraft mobs on brightly-coloured sticky notes,
labelled the front sides with letters and wrote
equations on the back sides. A+ wanted to practise
solving for variables, so I wrote two-step
equations of the form 2 * n + 3 = 7. As she
found each sticky note, she brought it to me and
figured out the answer in her head, and I wrote
her answer down. When she collected all of them,
she sorted them by number and then figured out the
phrase using the letters in the front (CHOCOLATE
EGGS), whereupon she received the chocolate egg
I'd brought along for snack.
In Minecraft, we switched from Create: Perfect
World to the Create: Ultimate Selection modpack
because A+ wanted to use Create 6.0. Fortunately,
this didn't mean restarting our world from
scratch, since it was an upgrade. After we got
everyone on board, I built a full enchanting table
setup, got myself a Fortune 3 pickaxe, and started
caving. We also experimented with a Minecraft
Create Mod club on Outschool, but it wasn't really
A+'s thing between the lag and the overwhelming
experience of stepping into a world that's already
quite built up. We'll probably just keep playing
ourselves. If A+'s cousins or friends from the
playgroup want to join in, we figured out how to
set up port forwarding, so we can set up a server.
