He was up at 7:30. I was getting ready to go to Jerusalem for a meeting at Sabeel with Omar and Marc. He was playing GroForest when I left at 8:50.
I got to Sabeel at 10. Omar had gotten egg pies with meat for breakfast, and pastries. We had a good talk about August and school to start with. Marc really understood gifted students, sticker charts, etc.
We did a lot of work. We decided to change the calendar to start with January 1. Will require a fair amount of work, but is a good decision. We also talked about the Al Jazeera that Omar was in, and how August asked if he was angry. Omar said his family thought he was too angry, and I said it was a “restrained anger.” Omar said he was going to quote me on that. I also decided that the way to solve the conflict was to give Trump land to build a golf course. That came after Marc pointed out that Trump loves Britain. And I realized that he would love any country he had a financial interest in. It’s an update of the old McDonald’s diplomacy idea, where no two countries that both have McDonald’s have been at war.
When I got home at 5 the house was very quiet. I noticed the speakers from the office had been brought down. They had had the sliding door to outside open, and August was amazed about that, then wanted to play music outside and they got the speakers.
The house was quiet because he was calming down in the bedroom from something. He was hiding under the blanket on the bed and would pop out and say, “That’s confusing.” Carly went down and I stayed with him. It took a good amount of time, but he was calm the whole time. He had hit Carly with his headphones cord when he was swinging it around after she had said they couldn’t go to a coffee shop today. We discussed other alternatives where he could have asked for something else to do.
He went downstairs and apologized, then we got out the Legos to build a tower. It was a sort of cell phone tower. He was then running around the house. Mikaela is home, so I got him outside, giving him challenges to touch invisible animals. He was using infrared vision to see them. He debated whether invisible squirrels produce x-rays or not.
We had french toast for dinner, then he was playing with one of his cords from a printer, and tied up my legs. He requested a poached egg, and Carly tried one for the first time and it turned out quite well. He did remember the poached eggs we had had in Athens, and wondered why this one wasn’t as tall. I told him we needed a poached egg pan for that.
We read some Nick and Tesla and ‘bric-a-brac’ was a word of the day, as was ‘coupon’. We had a long discussion about the value of gold, why it is valuable, and how that is different than money. I was rubbing his back and hitting it rhythmically and he seemed to like that quite well; not something he’s been fond of before.
He then calmly sat on the couch and ate Cheerios and listened to the new Mountain Goats album for several minutes. Earlier we listened to the new Josh Ritter album.
He requested to trim some of my hair to use in a potion upstairs. I needed to get a haircut, so said yes, as long as Carly supervised. So he trimmed a little off the back, and she straightened it up.
He made a mixture in a bowl, then was making things in his laboratory, like the perfect robot pet for me. Gave him a bath, then he laughed when I accidentally put my toothpaste on his toothbrush. I washed it off, but he said he liked the slightly minty flavor when it was added to his. We read more of Captain Underpants #11 and I left them at 9:40.
His fun mirror on the wall:
Running and touching invisible animals:
Humming and Legos:
