He was starting to wake up when I went in at 7:40. the first thing he said to me was he asked to add to our house in Minecraft. We went downstairs, and I read the first two chapters of Bone.
We then played Minecraft, then I exercised. He got extra time because of that, but he did a good job stopping before his time was even up. I made fried eggs for breakfast. He had a second. He had some of the new strawberry banana apple juice and said it was really good. I said I wasn’t particularly fond of banana taste in juice and he responded incredulously: “What are you even saying? Why are you saying this? That is crazy.” He had his second egg, even though I broke the yoke.
He made up a black hole toilet, and we discussed discussed how scientists study black holes even if they can’t see them. He then talked about a “colored telescope” that is 19 stories tall.
We read volume 7 of My Little Pony. We discussed our agenda for the day. I had the idea of writing that each day on the iPad as well, and writing down his ideas, so he could read along. That worked well, and he decided to do some alone time, making a pillow fort/sculpture over between the red chairs. We started with that.
He made a fort, then we started to take apart the blender, then put it back together (we hadn’t gotten really far) when I realized it was a juicer, which August wanted to buy at Ace. Jeff just got rid of this one because the plastic pieces are wearing out. I figured we could at least try a juicer with this one so we wouldn’t have to buy a new one.
He was going to do more alone time, but found his kid chopsticks first. He practiced with them, then took them apart and used them for a Brother game: they were extendo fingers, a locator, and musical fingers. Ended up with doing dangerous things with Baby Sister. They went in the Spaceslug, Bar’s spaceship, and he made it slimy after Baby Sister suggested it. We were listening to the newest Joe Strummer album.
We went back upstairs and he told me the story of a dog that broke it’s foot. “The end. I mean, to be continued.” Told the creepy photo story as well. We went downstairs to do some math on the white board. We did fraction addition and subtraction, and ‘Numerator’ and ‘denominator’ were words of the day. We had a good talk about visualizing numbers in our heads: “So I wrote 24 in my head, mysteriously.” “I can actually visualize pictures from the past in my head…it’s amazing.”
He also talked about how he could feel something like the door, then walk and feel something else, like the table, and still be feeling the first thing: “I can feel two things at th same time…Can anybody else do that? Cuz I have spefial mind powers.”
I made egg salad during this time and we had sandwiches for lunch. We read My Little Pony and ‘celadon’ was another word of the day. He said “I’d say you’re the greatest man, and mama’s the greatest girl…we’ll, I mean woman.” And “Did you know if you killed your ancestors, you’d fade away?” Turned out it was from the caveman book Carly is reading to him.
We went out and cleared out the blue shelves, taking out the books. We might still get something smaller to put out there, or not. He had a fruit roll up that showed up from somewhere and declared it the best thing ever.
We went up and made the beds. He kept playing with chopstick inventions and showing them to Baby Sister. We started My Little Pony #8. We then did reading time. He did quite well, despite doing lots and lots of walking around and me telling him he had to come look at the words.
He asked “What’s a hanky?” From My Little Pony, I think.
We then walked up to do recycling. He found a big walking stick while up there. He had wanted to do the Wizards Unite game, so we sat in the park and did that, first at the exercise equipment, then up at the alligator bench. When he sat on it he asked “Remember the alligator bench?”
We then walked south for a couple blocks to play a little more. It was nice to hear August talking about walking down more streets again, even if it was for a game. When we got back to the house at 5:15 he commented on how he had chosen to go on a walk, and that he trusted me about the weather.
He checked on the vines by the Zinnie house, then ate a full banana. Carly got home. We had also put down more ant poison. He told us “We should move to a new house cuz there’s so many problems with this house. I can list them for you: 1. The vines…”
He went out and did three plant chores with Carly, then came in and played Minecraft. I was making dinner. He chose the big shell noodles and I just put pesto on them. He had that, and seconds, and a schnitzel and carrot and mango.
They FaceTimed with Cherie and Vivian and Colin. Colin kept saying “Ketchup farted” and bit tongue. August told them at length about how his iPad time has changed.
He was then still walking in circles and talking about how his planet used to be made of cake but now it’s all covered with trash. “…a ton of trash flying through the cosmos…Isn’t that a nice ending? Then the aliens flew through space to become humans for ever.”
We played the extra 30 minutes of Minecraft he had earned, then read My Little Pony. He took a long time on the toilet, then we went upstairs and he played in the sink. I talked to him about a possibility of a martial arts class for Krav Maga (the Israeli take on them) that one of the homeschooling moms was suggesting on WhatsApp. I went in the office to talk to Carly, and he called “Maybe I could try it.”
I washed him, and Carly brushed his teeth. He remembered the bug video Carly had mentioned earlier, about a fungus that controls the brain of insects. He said to her “You know how sometimes when people are talking to you they want you to look at them? Could you do that?” She was looking for the video at the time. They watched the video about cordyceps from Hostile Planet by National Geographic. I went for a run. Left them just before 9:30.
Building a pillow fort:
Explaining the fort:
Extendo-fingers:
Telling a story:
Poking the plastic:
Explaining his iPad time to Vivian:
