He was up at 7:20. I was already up and went down with him. He went out and found Carly. Back inside he watched Julius Jr. and had oatmeal and mango. Carly started us on a big clean up. She had a bucket of stuff from outside to throw out and I helped him sort through it and he chose a couple things he wanted to keep, like his Hello Kitty cup.
We went upstairs for a Brother Game. There’s been a flatbed scanner, waiting to be taken apart, and we took it up and used it for the game. It was a Bar invention. At first it was a “laser reflector…it’s also a spy pager. It can print out a page on what people are doing.” He also used the new microscope on my phone. He said it was a “bioscanner” and asked “what’s ‘biomass’?” A word of the day.
Back downstairs he looked under couch with a flashlight and found a bouncy ball, then played with it. I decifered water and sewage bill, which had come to us instead of going to the business office. He ate some meat and crackers and we read My Little Pony and finished volume 5. He had more meat and crackers. Carly took over and read Dog Man. I went up to work.
I came down at 12:30 and took him to Gabi’s. On the way there we discussed elements and compounds, and he invented something called phosphofluoride.
Gabi had a pair of walkie talkies, but they didn’t have batteries. August went out with him to find a screwdriver, and told me to wait in the room. Back in his office August took the screw out and put it back in. While he did that Gabi suggested I got sit out in the lobby. I went about and they played on their own, with the swords, for about 20 minutes. August then wanted me to come back in when he wanted me to see the charades game. We played that all together for the rest of the time.
Outside, August played in a little bushy area. He had found ants on the way in, and now dug through some broken asphalt. We then walked a block to the west, to Pizza Rondo. On the way, he reached down and picked up a chunk of something from the ground. It was a chunk of metal. And at first it was hot, and he wrapped it in his shirt.
As we ordered a medium cheese pizza, he kept speculating on what kind of metal it was. He told me about some app he had seen advertised that identified objects. A woman pointed it at a coconut and it said ‘coconut’. I wasn’t sure what app he was talking about, and told him at best it would say ‘rock’, and not tell us what kind of metal it was.
We ate the whole pizza, half each, although I ate his crust. We then walked back to the car. He discussed how sweating and cooling off and keeping warm work. I saw a mural of a spider/octopus and we walked down to look at it, then walked around the block and up a path to our car.
We were home home just after 3. He went outside with Carly. There’s a hole by our kitchen door that looks like a wasp’s nest, but we’ve never seen anything by it. August said “If I see a bee, let’s pack up our luggage and go.”
Inside, he or Carly got out the magnet blocks. I did magnet blocks with him for a while. He had made a house with a carport on his own, then he had me build a car. He added to it. I went up to work at 4, but the car broke and he got quite upset about it; not something that has happened recently at all.
I came down and helped him rebuild it and played with him for a while long, then went back up to work. They FaceTimed with Cherie and Vivian and everyone. I came down at 7:10. He ate carrot, cantaloupe, and soup.
They were looking at something on her iPad and discussing bacteria and viruses and vaccines. He said he wanted to get tons of vaccines and said “I love getting vaccines.” We said we’d remind him of that next time he had to get one.
He also asked “What’s improvisation?” He had two bowls of oatmeal and we read volume 6 of My Little Pony.
I took him up for his bath. He was sitting in the shower and singing. He was playing with the small funnel and a small nozzle piece, putting them together. He was figuring out ways to squirt water out, and they were also timers. He found the electric thermometer and said “I can’t wait to get sick.”
I washed him and washed his hair. He had a lollipop, but didn’t use it much. He is quite fine with getting sprayed by the shower head over most of his body now, and doesn’t need his hair blow dryer. He did more singing after his shower, singing a song for me to record.
I left them at about 9 as she was going to put pajamas on him. I said good night and went for a run.
Playing with the scanner:
Explaining his magnet block house:
Lollipop song:
