He was up just after 7. Downstairs we read “The Strange Shirt Spot” by Dr. Seuss. I told him it was his half birthday, but didn’t get much of a response from him. He then asked for Minecraft, after he turned on the air conditioner. We played Minecraft, then I made oatmeal for breakfast. We read My Little Pony #14. He did a lot of laughing.
He had a Brother and Sister game where Bar took over his room with a telescope and other equipment, right after he had cleaned it and was ready to go to bed. Repeated with it being broken electronics, then chemicals. We read another My Little Pony story. We went over and worked on the research station he had started on yesterday. We added a roof that the copter thing could land on. He was going to do alone time next, and we got the whiteboard ready for some art. He took the dried blue whiteboard marker apart outside to see what it was like.
We then did alone time, and he spent most of it calmly sitting on the couch. He got Siri to play some random music and added “& New” by Eyedi to his playlist. He listened to music, ran around a little, and watched me. When I went upstairs to brush my teeth he stayed downstairs most of the time, then finished his alone time with some Legos and humming.
We did his extra 30 minutes of Minecraft. We were discussing why gold is actually not good for tools and swords, and ceremonial was a word of the day. He told me he could do the pool sound effect by covering his ears. We had some lunch (meatballs and beans and rice) and a popsicle. We talked about the words sealant and seal. He made a connection because seals are blubbery, so squishy like sealant.
We read My Little Pony. He asked “What’s unity?” So another word of the day. We got ready to go, then walked up and did recycling. He looked at a secret space up in a tree.
We then drove down to the Poleg Mall. We walked in and he saw a video of people in those flying suits on one TV as we walked in. We found the Rebar, and at first he wanted a chocolate one, but actually changed his mind and got an apple/mango/banana one for his half-birthday smoothie. I had them call his name, and he sat on the stool and drank it. We had fun with some rhyming time, and he asked “What’s bakbuk mime?” Water bottle in Hebrew.
We then went downstairs to the toy store. They had a pair of cheap flippers, but they were too big. He looked at a few toys, and I found microscopes, for future reference. We did buy a little ball to use in the pool though.
We got going and to Mr. Gabi’s a few minutes early. August had fallen asleep just before getting there. He was awake enough to say “Carry me up” though once we had parked, although his eyes never opened. I carried him up and he curled up on a chair for a coupe minutes, but perked up and went right in when Gabi opened the door, and I didn’t see him until 50 minutes later, except for once when they came out to get a cutting board or something of the sort.
We had planned on getting pizza afterwards for dinner, but August wanted Sushi Ishimoto. So we drove there. I think he had forgotten that the place had moved, as when we used the bathroom in the mall he was asking a lot of questions about if we were allowed to, and then why did malls have to have public bathrooms. Then he realized we were going to someplace in the mall. We ordered the chicken dish we like and pad thai with shrimp, then waited outside. I read a little about plate tectonics, and he made a paper analogy, initially talking about the layers of rock as sheets of paper. I was able to extend that to the plates pushing together as stacks of paper being pushed together.
We got the food and headed home. We dished up, and Carly got there a couple minutes later. He asked, “Can you teach me about war?” Part of which I think had to do with something with Gabi.
He was doing “airplanes” onto the couch, then had oatmeal. I went up to work from 7 to 8. I came down and took over, and August and I watched the Apple event. Hearing about the new products was pretty inspiring to August, as after he had some crackers and met, he had a Brother game wher Bar made a game inspired by Minecraft, but where everything looked and acted real. We had just seen the game demos as part of Apple Arcade.
We went upstairs for his bath. He was now talking about making phones with new features, then a watch. One feature was that you could leave your phone downstairs, and if you got a call it would actually send a sort of small shock to you upstairs so you would feel it.
There was more Brother game. I didn’t quite get what the game was this time. Brother on an island again, and I think it was part of that game that Bar had designed. I left them around 9:20 and went for a run.
Taking apart a marker:
Sparkly shirt:
Flying onto the couch:
