Finally got him up just before 8. He went straight into the bathroom. Downstairs we read Bone. ‘Reflex’ was a word of the day. He told me that 120 shekels isn’t actually a lot of money. He then imagined overpaying stores for things and being rich. He wants to play cards, adding the 8 of diamonds he found on the ground the other day. The rich thing turned into imagining a ball fight in a store, and the kids crying in the chaos.
We looked at our agenda, and he started to draw arrows. When he took the pencil he immediately started using pinchy fingers and asked if he was doing it correctly. His pointer finger has a tendency to work its way up the pencil, but he was doing a great job, and it was cool to see him defaulting to it.
We did some Minecraft, then I exercised. Had a few minutes to play more Minecraft with him after I was done. I made french toast for breakfast, then we went outside for a couple minutes. We then started volume 10 of My Little Pony. Next was a Brother game where Bar had inifinite hair; she could pick things up with it. He had a little script:
Bar: “I’m ready to right!”
Brother: “What? We’re making a pillow fort!”
Bar: “Oh, I thought that was the plan.”
We went upstairs and made a pillow fort, then went down and did his reading time. We went back upstairs for a Brother game where Millie was a snake, squeezing Baby Sister. Then it was Brother’s birthday party and Baby Sister was getting upset.
I did laundry and he put undewear on his head. It was all black. As he played in the sink he asked “Can I use this underwear for my halloween costume? I’m going to be a bat…I need fabric wings so I can fly.” And he asked “How do you make a slingshot? I want to make a slingshot sometime.”
We went downstairs and looked at library books to decide which to keep and which to return. We read some records from the Guinness Book of World Records. He then told me about his records, which include playing Minecraft for 17 days straight and marking the deepest underwater vehicle: “A world record in a world record cuz the rover took the most efficient fuel ever.” “Also, most goodest jail.” He then explained why soap might hurt a plant. He was doing his walking in circles this whole time. He was then my germ teacher. We had saved some of his words to do, and we finally finished those.
Before we left the house he caught a fly outside the kitchen door. We finally left for lunch at 2. I had been starving for lunch for a long time, but as he’d been walking in circles he was telling me he wasn’t hungry.
We parked by the house with sculptures and walked to VIPizza. We each got a slice of corn and he got a drink pouch. As we ate he asked what the first Brother and Sister game was. I found it, from January 2 of this year:
“He worked on the “quilt” then said he could do it on his own. He immediately asked me to do “a imagining game.” Carly protested, saying he just said he was going to sew. He replied, “The sewing will be part of the imagining game. You got it?” So I was his brother and he was my sister, and I was going to get dressed and he (she) was sewing my shirt into a blanket and I was upset about it. Eventually, he put it on my legs as I typed as a blanket….He wanted to continue with the imagining game and we called each other “sister” and “brother.” If I forgot and talked in my normal voice he’d say, “Talk in your boy voice!” He watched one of those balancing game videos on YouTube, then one on how clay is made. He then had the idea, still in character, to go out and find more greensand and put it in water to see if it would dissolve and make sand.”
He noticed that there was no music in VIPizza today. They usually have some sort of classic rock or blues or something playing. Once it was Supertramp, once Ray Charles. We started to read a paper book I’d brought, Horrible Harry and the Mud Gremlins. ‘Fibber’ was another word of the day.
We stopped at the bank, then went to the Stop City grocery store, then stopped at the pharmacy. August has been asking to get a soft sponge to wash himself with, and he chose a nice pink one.
Carly said there were packages at the school, so we swung by there on our way home. We picked them up and got home at 4:30. There were some very scraggly plants from Shmuel waiting by the gate. August watched a big line of ants outside our gate.
When Carly got home we opened the packages. One was a shaker for cinnamon and sugar. The second was for August: collection of the Mane 6 ponies from My Little Pony. He was pretty happy about those. It will be interesting to see how much he plays with them.
He told us he’d teach us to survive in a war: “Step one: avoid the pointy parts…Step two: run to a nearby store. Step three: steal some stuff. Step four: Throw…You can break conditioner on the ground to make it smelly for the people fighter. And if you find jewelry please throw it to gross out the boys…Also, in a war you’re allowed to do anything to protect yourself…” The pointy parts stuff was from one of their books. He had talked about using things in the pharmacy as weapons. And at the car he had said he knew everything about hurting people so that he could survive in a war.
He did his Minecraft time and I taught him to teleport. He asked “What’s flesh?” A word of the day, as well as ‘papyrus’.
He went over to the Legos and Carly took over and I went up to work. A bit later he came up and got me. Wanted me to see a world in Minecraft. He had had quiche and rice, and now had more rice. He then had a Brother game where Sister set Minecraft harder for him and he was scared by all the monsters. The world he had wanted me to see was in the expansion app. It was a giant Pokémon you could explore. We did that for a few minutes.
I got him upstairs with his new sponge. He played in the sink, and made an instrument from the sponge with the eye dropper he found at recycling on top of it. The water hitting the eye dropper made a rhythmic pattern as it it it. He asked “Did you know that love means letting go?” Which is from My Little Pony. We talked about how it is true and not true, and I mentioned letting him move away when he was older. He said, “No. I want to stay with you until you die.”
We got him ready and I left them a bit after 9:30 and went for a run.
Walking in circles and explaining his world records:
Being my teacher:
Opening the present from Oma:
Musical instrument on the new sponge:
