I woke him up at 7:30. Took him several minutes to wake up on the bed. Sat up or opened his eyes a few times. Finally headed downstairs just before 8. We watched a few minutes of the race, then reviewed the sign language words we had learned the other day (mom, dad, baby) and learned brother, sister, and eat. He said he could use that one.
He watched Julius Jr. and I exercised. He had me watch a big dominoes video with him, then we read the My Little Pony pirate story. ‘Mutiny’ was a word of the day. We went upstairs and I started laundry, but nothing happened. I figured out the water was off to that part of the house, so went out. But I found all three handles off. I ran back and forth testing things, and ended up with all three handles in the other direction. But we had had water to the house last night and this morning. Strange.
August had played with the Legos while I did that, and made a little remote control car. He had had a whiteboard eraser that was going to erase anything it touches in Brother stories, but now turned into the remote for the car. We went and played Brother stories with it. Brother kept crashing the car while trying to drive it. It was then a research drone, doing research. August got off on a tangent, telling Brother scary stories:
“One time at preschool a kind saw a girl Ina red dress holding up three fingers…This one is real. Then the day after that he saw her again and she was holding up FOUR FINGERS. Spooky!” I loved how he included the “this one is real.” Also, the story is based on one he saw on that Bright Side video, but he never understood that the reason that the girl puts up another finger (it is in a photograph) is that she’s killed another person.
He also told me “The universe is a circle of stretch rope. If you go over that rope you go out of the universe. Did you know that? The universe is just a rope, in space. That’s simple technology.” And he had goggles that give him any vision “thru vision…to see through walls.”
As he went to the bathroom at 10 he said “Brother, tell me on the comment section below if you know any top horror stories.” So then I was telling him ‘scary’ things that had happened to Brother: Once he had had to use a really dirty bathroom, and there was no soap! August reminded Brother that he always had backup soap, but then when Brother looked for it it had vanished. August (as Bar) then helped him look back in time and they realized that the dad had taken it when he was out.
Then, Brother told him that his sandwich had disappeared on an airplane. Sister then admitted that she had stolen it with the whole “look over there” misdirection, and she couldn’t believe he had fallen for it. August thought that was hilarious: “Haha! That’s the funniest story ever!”
August then talked about the “lavis world (lava world)…green nothing world.” based on Minecraft.
We went downstairs and played Blue Apprentice. Ate some pita. We went upstairs for more Brother and Bar with the rings. In a void, assuring Baby Sister the void wasn’t scary, but scared her. They were then attacked by tentacles and she used the rings to fight them off. We went down to try Carly’s mango ice cream. I had left it on the counter to thaw a bit and scraped off the freezer burned surface. The rest was just fine, and he ate a bowl. He explained how “Everyrhing needs power.”
We went outside and he played with a plate as a frisbee. He wanted to sit on my bike, and that led to me getting down the kid trailer thing. He hosed it off and I hooked it up. He sat on it while I pushed us around a circle of the yard. He liked it, but was done. He wanted to try on his helmet, but didn’t actually want to use it. I took it out on the street and rode in circles a few times, but that was it.
Back inside he reminded me about wanting to be able to control his dreams. He wants to dream about being in jail to know what it is like. He told me “Cuz I actually feel and think in my dreams…I want to poop in my pants, kill, spit on the couch in my dreams…” We read a few pages of a book on lucid dreaming. He said he liked it, but that was enough.
He then did art on the iPad for a while. He wore his swim goggles and pretended they were infrared goggles. He want to practice blowing bubbles so he chewed gum. He used the analogy of making a parachute shape and blowing into it. Seemed like he was getting the idea down, but not stretching the gum out enough. As he practiced he danced to Massive Attack.
He asked “Can I have a head drink?” By which he meant a hat with cans on it and straws down to your mouth. He said from Pink Panther, but also from Plants Versus Zombie, and Ben Braver has something similar. We read more My Little Pony.
Bar then invented a space slug. Then a space rainbow. Both were ships. The latter was actually the SpaceRain. He explained take off and landing and how they tilted up and down. Radiation. He was taking Baby Sister along. Wanted to do the funnest part of the SpaceSlug. “Then you’ll see real St. Elmo’s Fire.” He had me look up if St. Elmo’s Fire is actually dangerous, and it seems like it is.
The Brother/Baby Sister game turned into Baby Sister wanting Bar to have things that would protect her from doing dangerous things (like jumping in a hole through the Earth) but Bar said she couldn’t do it, but then encouraged her to do it herself: “You just start inventing, then you love it…then start inventing! Go Baby Sister!” Those ended with some invention that caused something to explode by Brother, and with the Baby Sister saying “Brother go boom!” August loved the line and kept repeating it. We had also eaten crackers and meat for lunch at some point.
We left at 2:45 and drove up into town and parked across from the hummus place. We went in and got a container of hummus. August spent a good 5 minutes playing with and studying the samples of fake grass outside a store next to it. We then headed to the pool.
It was the middle school pool party. So Carly just walked home instead, as it would have felt like work. We handed off the hummus to her so she could take it home and try it. August and I headed to the pool, and he was a bit wary of the pool party going on. Luckily, we found Omri’s family, including her dad, playing in the little pool. We ended up spending most of our time there, with August, Zohar, Omri, and their dad (and another dad with a preschooler) throwing around a ball. I mainly relaxed in the water, and help August get the ball when it came our way. He asked “What’s accessory mean? What’s biographic mean?” And one of the songs that played at the pool party was “Groove Is in the Heart” which I think he would like.
We finally went to the big pool about 4:30. Didn’t have much time though, as they ordered the kids out of the water even earlier than usual. August was eager to follow the orders to get out of the pool. And he started to panic for a couple seconds when he was out and I went to get a ball that was floating and he lost me in the sort-of-crowd until I called his name.
Out of the pool we hung out with the others and had some snack. I had brought enough zucchini bread to share a slice with all the families we knew there: Omri and family, Natalie and her kids, and Tessa’s family.
We got home at 5:15. When he was getting changed, he put his underwear on his head and fooling around. He was storing stuff up in his head. He was then doing spins on the floor, standing on a Lego piece. Finally got clothes on and had some soup and went outside with Carly. He then did the page of words that I’d written out for him (the ‘Word Spy’) with her and I went for a bike ride and took a shower.
He was watching Julius Jr. and having oatmeal when I came down. He went to the bathroom and put his clothes on himself, getting his underwear inside out. He said it was even comfier. He then talked about how “Sometimes I bring back memories at bedtime. And I just brought back a memory: at bedtime when I have a dream, I’ll try to realize it’s a dream.” I think he meant he remembered things from earlier in the day. And he also talked about his power: “And my power…I can see two pictures in my head at the same time.” “It’s totally cool.” He talked about that one months ago.
We read My Little Pony. ‘Thesaurus’ was another new word. I looked up some examples for words he said, including ‘ring’. He then practiced: “I have tons of hoops.” We also did ‘ribbon’ and ‘sad’. Carly took him upstairs and I washed him. He had the little set of keys he had found on the floor of Max (like for luggage or a box) and was scratching things with them, settling on one of his cardboard pieces. I left them at 9:30.
We talked about his sticker chart that is still up on the fridge earlier today and he still likes it up.
We also heard Black Black Eyed Peas today and I think he would like them. I also remembered how we had once walked by a car playing Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication and wanted to listen to it more.
Frisbee practice:
Chewing gum:
Sort of dancing and trying to blow a bubble:
Watching the splashing:
Crazy and watching the ball throwing:
