He woke up at 6:20. I escorted him downstairs to Carly on the couch, where he fell back to sleep until after 7:30. He read a Bob book to her, and I said good morning and went back up to work. He watched some stuff, and I watched a couple of the machine videos (including a ham slicer) with him while I had some breakfast. He played with printer stuff and used part of the yellow tube and dipped it in ink and made circles on paper, then brought it up to show me. I was working up in the office.
Carly told me that he asked about the difference between ‘synthetic’ and ‘sympathetic’, and also asked what ‘documentary’ meant, out of the blue. I herd him singing really loudly.
I went down at 11:15. Carly was resting on the couch. He and I joked he had worn her out. He told me he’d been outside to check the tomatoes and that wilting flowers on a tomato plant are good because it means a tomato is coming. He had finished the other printer and we now started on the smaller one. He randomly sang a “Stupefying number 6” song. As we got things apart he was saying, “Take a step inside circuitry.”
They drove to the school and went to the pool. It was cooler now, as the heater was off, and August was braver about getting in the pool then she was. He was really calm in the pool. They did a lot of relaxing stuff, and he’d lean his head back on his floaties.
They came back and he did more rock hammering. Inside I then helped him as he made a soup. He used his mixers that Eve gave him, putting one in the drill to turn it. He took apart the printer and I made an iherb order. I figured out that from the UAE (where it randomly defaulted me to) Israel doesn’t show up as a shipping location. Once I switched to the U.S. it did.
We discussed clouds and whether planes can be rained on. we determined that planes spend most of their time at 31 to 36000 feet and there are only cirrus clouds only at that height, which don’t really rain. He used a motor with the battery again. He was saying, “I’m waiting for delicious excitement.” His finger started bleeding. He wasn’t sure why, but I think he caught the fingernail trying to pull things apart. He handled it really well and didn’t get upset. I had him rinse it in the sink, and I went up to get a bandaid. I told Carly how he was responding. I went back down and put the bandaid on him, and I went out to the living room. He stayed in the bathroom, then. Minute later he came out and said, “My tummy hurts.” I picked him up, then he wanted to cuddle with Carly. She laid him on the couch and he lay there for several minutes, but then seemed okay.
We finished Captain Underpants#10, bought #11, then started #1 while we waited for it to download. He ate artichoke with Carly and she made a smoothie. We then went back to the printer.
We all ended up outside, and we ripped up newspaper for the compost. He found a round piece of paper outside and drew a monster face on it and taped it to a stick. He was going to make more as I went up and worked. He ended up doing a page of satellite readings and hanging it up. He read a Bob Book to her, then he got burned on his arm, near his elbow, when he bumped into the hot glue gun. This one was a lot harder on him. Luckily wasn’t a bad burn, but involved a lot of writhing around on the couch and hitting his burn with his hand. And he wouldn’t allow ice on it.
He eventually recovered, and Carly headed to the store. He played GroForest, then we went and wrestled on the bed. He was my bad pillow and I was returning him to the store. Near the end he was drinking from his water bottle and I said something that made him laugh and he sprayed water all over the bed. He was hungry, and didn’t want the curry. I suggested carrot sticks and he said, “That’s a great idea.” I was joking bout cutting them so thin that you couldn’t see them, and handing him air.
Carly was home at 7:10. She said that the sun was huge. We both hit her with jokes about how it is actually huge. I complimented him on coming up with the same joke as me, but he said, “It’s not a joke” and that it really is huge. Which itself seemed to be a joke, as he doesn’t really have a problem with taking things literally. Earlier today Carly had asked him what he was hungry for, and he replied with “I’m hungry for taking things apart” and laughed at his own joke.
He ate a good amount of carrot and I now made him oatmeal with mango. We were listening to the Chemical Brothers, and he danced on the couch and moved his arms to the beat and pointed out that he was doing it. He ate his oatmeal and we talked about going to Ikea sometime. We discussed airport security, and he had a theory that the reason you were supposed to move slowly at points was because they had extra scanners. He then asked me why they needed so much security, and I was trying to come up with reasons. When I couldn’t, he put “Thinking juice” in me.
Carly came down. We watched part of the the Al Jazeera document with Omar in it together. When August saw Omar he asked, ‘Is he angry?” We talked about why. A few minutes later we saw Omar again and August asked, “Is he still angry?” I said yes, it hadn’t changed in five minutes.
He wanted one of the new ‘magic’ lollipops that Carly had gotten at the store, so we made it a hair washing day. I gave him his bath. As we got ready for bed he had a lot of questions about who can see his penis and and also bullying. He asked if there were electronic bullies. He said, “I think it is cyberbullying.” He’s watched the BrainPop video on bullying a few times. We brushed his teeth, then I left them at 9:15.
Carly thinks he is dyslexic. She had him reading to her, and asked if they letters move around and he says they do. She was doing some sort of dyslexia checklist with him and said when she had him sounding out words to tell her what sound it started with, he did really well with a lot of them, but then had no idea about ‘map’. I have no idea what that has to do with dyslexia, but I also don’t know much about dyslexia.
Working on the next printer:
Stupefying number six song:
Gears slo-mo:
Breaking up rocks:
