I started waking him at 7:30. Just so tired and he kept closing his eyes or lying back down. Finat forced him up before 7:50. He still flopped back over on the bed and lay there for several more minutes. Finally, I got my iPad and started reading Astroboy. We read that about twenty minutes before heading down.
We read more Astroboy, then started over again with My Little Pony volume 1, as we finished 6 for the second time yesterday. He had oatmeal.
He asked about neutron stars and we looked up how big they are. Pretty amazing. I compared the size of one to the city of Netanya, but weighing 1.4 times our sun. He then said he had a round container in his lab that contains a neutron star. It is actually a crusher that is crushing it smaller and smaller, to the size of an actual neutron.
We went upstairs for a Beother game. Bar took them to her lab, showing them the neutron star. Then had Baby Sister prank calling. He suggested the space station. More prank calls. Searched the garbage dump again “I find new species of slug.” A lot more playing, then finally downstairs before 10.
He had his cheap snap bracelet in two loops together and said “Hey, this looks like a termite mouth. Well, a grandpa termite mouth.” I can’t explain that one. I started boilings eggs, and went outside for a few minutes. I sat on the lounge chair and he got his used piece of gum and was stretching it. He said it was his talent. And it was Baby Sister’s gum. He says he also has talents for pushing button and blinking. He kept stretching the gum inside.
He watched a Julius Jr. and I exercised. He then played Minecraft. He wanted to show Vivian a cave he found. Sadly, she goes back to school today, so it will be a while before he can talk to her again. I made egg salad, and then he ate the first sandwich I gave him. We read My Little Pony. He then ate a full second one.
He asked what ‘accessorize’ meant. It is from the book. He thought it meant ‘going up’, but I figured out he was thinking of ‘ascending’. He then had a Brother and Sister game idea: “But it’s a great one…it’s when Bar accessorizes the car…adds gadgets.” We did a short Brother game on that. He asked “Did you know bathrooms are the ultimate discovery?”
We worked on the cardboard fort. I did the wall and roof. He worked on the power supply and the vacuum cleaner, using his electronics kit with the vacuum cleaner thing.
We went back downstairs and I started to do the word writing. But he saw an app on my iPad that models a hydrogen molecule. It turned out to be way too confusing to explain, but he played around with it for a long time. He was studying Brother’s Brain: “I figured out why you’re getting headaches a lot. I dug around in your memories and found you’ve jumped off skyscrapers a lot.” He also had a lot of radiation in his body. Then he was studying the baby in the mother. There was a problem with the umbilical cord.
Induced wotd
Now there is a Baby Brother as well.
He read several words that I wrote and reviewed the ones he had done earlier. He went to the bathroom, and then caught a bug on the floor. He studied it for a while, then let it go outside. He was sitting on the floor and looking at the Magic School Bus book and asked me to read it. I read Inside the Human Body.
He finally got his clothes on, but went to the bathroom again:
“I need to go to the bathroom because I thought about going to the bathroom.” He asked “What’s a mane?” Another word of the day.
I got out crackers and meat and hummus for a snack. Tried to do it outside, but he wanted to go in.We ate inside and read My Little Pony. He asked about the “Secretariat Comet” and ended up watching the real Secretariat win the triple crown. He had pomegranate juice and I had iced coffee.
I hung up the photo that had fallen, and we played with Legos and I researched credit cards (the school is changing payroll stuff, and Carly was in a meeting bout it). I made a sculpture and August helped add to it, then he made a car. He couldn’t get all of the wheels to roll, so I taught him about level wheels using a straw to show him the angles. We listened to Velvet Underground.
I had knocked the Apple Pencil off the book shelves, and when August picked it up it was missing the cap. I was looking for it, didn’t find it, but found a piece of rotting up under the couch. That led to us vacuuming behind the couch. August helped me with that, and he was also playing on my iPad, starting with the hydrogen app again and then using a new musical rhythms app called Concentric. It is really quite cool and really helps you visualize rhythms. He showed it to Carly when she got home.
I went upstairs to work after we ate nutty noodles for dinner. August ended up eating two and half bowls. A good day of eating for him.
I worked for 1.5 hours. He had his evening video time while Carly took a shower. When I came out he watched a short Ted Ed video about viruses.
He wanted more food, and when I had learned how much he had eaten I said I was more than happy to get him a snack. He asked “Why are you MORE than happy?” I said I was just regular happy then. A subsequent conversation added ‘snark’ and ‘recipient’ to his vocabulary.
In the bathroom he had chemicals that take away humidity. He said they were “antihumistic.” And he recited a script I had used between Brother and Baby Sister. He seemed to remember several lines, but it involved Brother asking “How do you do that?” She replies “Magic” He says “But magic isn’t real. And she says “I have my ways.” He made his humidity chemical while playing in the sink, then played in the shower. He started talking science: “Water is the enemy of concrete.” “Wash me and I can tell you more science.” “Time is a negative physical thing.” Once out of the bath he then went and told Carly his science. She had the idea that he should have his own YouTube channel where he explained scientific concepts. We went down and he had some dry Cheerios as a snack. I left them at 9:20 and went for a run.
Gum stretching:
Hydrogen atoms 1:
Hydrogen atoms 2:
Echolocation tracker:
Suds squirter:
