I heard a door upstairs but then thought it might have been my parents. But a couple minutes later, at 7:25, I heard a thud, thud, thud. I went up to find him lying on the couch, kicking the front of it with one foot. He ended up cuddling on my lap for a few minutes. When I asked how his stomach felt he said, “Not so good.” I carried him down, and he curled up on me on the couch. He wanted some water. Just a sip but then he coughed/threw up. Luckily I had brought down the bowl, although very little came up.
He then curled up by himself in the black chair for awhile. We moved to the couch and read the rest of Hilda and the Black Hound. My parents were up by the time we were done. He was then feeling good enough to eat his vitamins and the last of the zucchini bread.
He watched a StoryBots and I showered. He watched Pink Panther and ate some of the zucchini bread and Cheerios. We read more of Hilda and ‘snob’ was the word of the day. We read about the first third, our third full reading of the book. He played with his tape and grampa for a few minutes and I made french toast but then he just lay on the floor. I asked how his stomach was and he now said 3. It had been a 5 earlier, and a 1 when he threw up.
He felt a little warm and said he felt warm. We played around with the thermometers and batteries (he had dropped one of them in water awhile back and the battery corroded) andtook his temperature. 37.1. Not really high, but a bit high for him. He had wanted to experiment with the corroded battery, but didn’t have enough energy to get up and squirt soap on it. That clearly communicated that he wasn’t feeling well. He was out of time for watching Netflix/YouTube, but I let him watch some BrainPop Jr. videos—about Halloween, boiling and evaporating.
He lay on the floor again and played with the lotion container and pen. He then had the tissue box and tucked some under his chin, then fell asleep at 12:30 cuddling the tissue box.
I typed and read and updated the blog. My parents went for a walk. I exercised and switched to the Seven Brief Lectures on Physics book as I did some cleaning. I gently woke him up at 3:15. He lay around until 3:30. Took his temperature again and it was at least 37.6. He pulled it out when I said it was high. I gave him some medicine and he said it “Tickles my throat.” He talked about the vibration of the particles in his throat.
We talked about Gramma and grampa’s walk and dogs—they had been startled by the dog that jumps up on the fence up on Kibuts Galuyot. They were also followed by a couple of dogs for a bit. August said he had a dog rock throwing machine “You can borrow it…I can make it smaller so it fits in your pocket…a hundred times stronger than trees.” At first he said it was in a park in the United States, but then he brought it back here for them to use.
He Played with grampa’s watch and turned things digital—that is, he turned them into 1s and 0s so that you could just put your hand through them. We read three Skybrary books: Freda Stops a Bully, Freda Says Please, and Great Choice, Camille!
He then asked for a mango smoothie. He watched more BrainPop Jr. and I made a smoothie. Carly then got home, close to 5. He cuddled with her as he watched a bit more. Then they went out to get leaves to make tea for him. He had one pant leg halfway up as he did that and as he showed Gramma the bug catcher.
Carly made him tea and he drank his tea and stared at the ceiling in the kitchen. To Carly he said, “I love you ten infinities.” Then to the medicine: “I love you five infinities.”
He wanted more smoothie but settled for frozen mango. I thawed some, but he didn’t really eat it. He was then looking at the table with the flashlight and asked who made it dirty in a funny voice. He asked me what another student would say when he was gone and had me be Candy and Reia asking about him. He told me he and Candy had talked about a spider at rest time, although he said the teachers didn’t say anything to them.
We got all the options out for dinner, including the mashed potato pastry I got at the bakery the other day. August liked it, but it was too peppery after a few bites.
I went for a run, and when I came back he was eating popcorn and watching polar bears. He hadn’t wanted to read. Carly said that after having watched this video so many times she understood why polar bears were going extinct and that it seemed unstoppable. I then joked about what other species she would be willing to let go.
I took a shower, then we started reading Hilo 4 from the beginning. After a few chapters I took him upstairs and we brushed his teeth. We did a Storytelling Dice story called “Another Crazy Mission”. He wanted his photo taken of the face he was making in the mirror as he lay with his head in his hands.
I left him and Carly a little after 9. I thought they were asleep and when I heard a door at 10 I thought it was Carly still up. But it was August. He came down, very happy to see me. We read more of Hilo 4, and finished chapter 8. At the end of the chapter he was ready to go back to bed. He went in at 10:30 and was soon asleep. Carly said he really had been trying to go to sleep earlier, thus the quiet.
Trying to wake him up:
Google Docs song:
Adapting a song from dance class:
Sick boy
Sleeping with the tissue box
Drinking medicine
Showing Gramma the bug catcher
Being cute in the mirror