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uhhhhhhhhhhh think he was a bit nervous…. or got a bit bored…..

Then he realized the vampire teeth were annoying. Then he became the boy with the jack-o-latern cape, darth vader bucket, and a pitchfork. This, he explained was a ‘Skeleton King.’

He didn’t even take the pitchfork out of the car with him when we arrived at Sembawang naval base. And before long, the cape was gone too. So the Skeleton King becomes, “boy with t-shirt and sandals and a brimming bucket of candy.”

in the meantime, kids are scurrying around as tiny Jawa and Tusken Raiders or Ewoks versus AT-RTs.

The other astonishing thing is that his phonics lessons, which he’s been taking for maybe six months, have suddenly begun paying off. He is reading Clifford books and sounding out everything himself. He is clearly immensely proud that he can now read and wants to show his chops to anyone whole will sit down to “Clifford Flies a Jet” etc. It’s pretty funny.

Hanging out for lunch on Tuesday

Luke was first to wear my special sodium-flare notch-filter brazing lenses. After Ling gets back from her Wolves’ Lunch today, I’ll bike to the shop, build my fork, and try out these brazing goggles. They are meant to notch-filter the sodium-wavelength flare of melting/burning flux, so that I can see the underlying metal’s temperature better.

Class cupcakes

Tomorrow is his last day of school, too, I think. Kindegarden starts in August.

But Luke enjoyed himself. He kept wanting to do things around the floor. He was quite keen to do sanding of the bike frame I’m working on. I was pleased to let him, as I had spent the previous three hours polishing the brazes.

Last night had a big, loud dinner at Buko Nero.

Now we’re getting ready for the Turkey/Trapeze party. The turkey better be good, because the Trapeze is going to be called on account of relentless rain.