He was up just after 7:30. He curled up on the couch with me and watched a few minutes of the 4 Hours of Silverstone. We read several poems in I’m Just No Good at Rhyming. He then wanted Minecraft. We played and ate some banana bread, then read Bone Volume 3. We then watched Kurzgesagt videos on “Is meat bad for you?” (https://youtu.be/ouAccsTzlGU) and and “What happened before history?” (https://youtu.be/dGiQaabX3_o) Generation was a word of the day.
He then told me about how he had invented a bunch of things back in history, like discovering electricity: “By rubbing rocks together and using certain fibers you get from animals as cords…” Then he talked about how he invented healthier food. He discussed more inventions and we played with Legos.
He had wanted to learn about pneumonia, so we watched a video (https://youtu.be/dzJNabJAPaE). He then did alone time, starting with mandala art on his iPad. I then looked over and he had two books on his lap. They were the two Bone books and he was looking through them. I asked him what books he was reading later. I thought he might pick up on the word “reading” and argue that he wasn’t reading, but he didn’t do that.
Back in Minecraft we worked on the upside down house—it is attached to the bottom of a rock overhang and you can only fly up to it.
He asked for salmon with lemon for lunch, so I made that. We were listening to Beatles, as the deluxe edition of Abbey Road came out today. We did the Brother and cookie game. The usual one at first, with all of his family/friends eating his cookie. But then one where he buys one for everyone, but there is a riot in the mall when passers by think he is giving away free cookies to everyone. We watched an episode of My Little Pony. He screamed when Twilight Sparkle got scared by snakes.
We ate lunch and he had his whole piece of salmon, then he had a cookie with milk. He spit milk everywhere when he was just drinking it at the end and got a chunk of cookie in his drink. We then did music time on the iPad and guitar. He kept doing music for alone time, then we did 15 minutes of Minecraft. He got upset when I literally had a second more of Minecraft than him. I went up and started laundry.
He was playing with the unicorn horns (the ones Taya left), being silly with them, then we played with Legos and we made a remote control for the robotic worm that we had made. We did a little more guitar time. He was jokingly using the word hate and I explained why that was not okay. He seemed to get it, but couldn’t let another joke go by: “I won’t say hate anymore…oh no, I said hate.”
He asked if people could make obsidian, so we looked up mad-made glass and discussed that. He also asked about humans first making clothes, and he said that we should go back to not wearing clothes as a species.
We left a little after 3. As we got in the car he talked about wanting to teach Kai about Minecraft when he is older. He said he doesn’t really like babies and that “The only thing I’ve discovered about babies is that they have their own language.”
We got to school, and he was asking me about some symbol that he’s seen in Minecraft, but only in survival mode. I figured out he was talking about the achievement notifications. As we got to the pool, Omri and Jonathan were out of it, and August talked to them for a few minutes. I got in the pool first. August spent a lot of time on the steps, practicing back and forth, and taking the vest off. He was also swimming around really fast. He’s got pretty good form for just figuring it out on his own.
Carly showed up, and I got out after another ten minutes or so. August got out, and Carly was playing with Jonathan and Zohar and one of her friends. They were chasing and splashing her in the pool. August had been encouraging this for several minutes, but didn’t like how they were splashing Carly. He seemed to think they were being too rough. He started to get upset, and we called it a day; the pool was closing in a few minutes anyway.
At home we had some dinner. I made a schnitzel for August, but he says he’s tired of schnitzel. He had carrot coins though. He played with Legos with Carly. He brought up more preschool memories, saying, “My teacher says you HAVE to have a plan before you start to write.” This was in context of discussing abstract art, and how he likes abstract art. I understand what they were trying to teach the kids (and I also think they were trying to preserve art supplies), but it really did seem to stifle his creativity, as he would never do the art table, and I remember clearly Marion’s disdain for his focus on wanting to do “abstract” things, when she wanted him to work on figurative work. Carly taught him about Miro.
I went for a run. When I came back they were reading a Sir Cumference book (they’ve about read all eight available on Skybrary), then watched a video about the Titanic in Skybrary. “Why would they say it is unsinkable? Cuz then people would just stay in their rooms…”
Cary gave him bath. She took a shower and we read The 117-story Treehouse. I brushed his teeth. Carly came up and talked to him for a few minutes. As he went to the bathroom he asked me how I would make water if I had to. I told him about collecting evaporated water on plastic, and how I learned that from a Reading Rainbow video when I was a kid—just like the Skybrary video he’d just watched on Skybrary.
I had lights out at 9:45. August was making rhymes, like:
Why look up at the sky
If you’re about to die?
Because you love your mothers pie?
He said I should use a weight room. I reminded him about the weight room at school and that we’ve been meaning to go there. He remember Shani trying to take him to the sensory room. And he’s interested in going back to her house. I suggested we could go to both the sensory room and weight room some day. He said he didn’t want me to steal from the sensory room. Don’t know why he asked that, but it led to a discussion of illegal things and prison, etc. He asked what a judge does. There had just been story police in the treehouse book, so that was where some of it was coming from. I sang to him, and he was asleep by 10:20.
This morning, as we first played with Legos, he told me he had had a weird dream last night. He didn’t remember much of it, but he had remembered it because he had been playing with the Legos in his dream. He didn’t remember much of it, and I forgot some of the details he did tell me. But it is one of the only times that he’s voluntarily told me about a dream he had.
He also, when playing with the sparkly unicorn horns thing, talked about wanting sparkly lips. He’s also talked about wanting a fancy necklace, like the silver ones at the mall. Fancier than a bead necklace that we could make.
I had had it on our agenda to record a video birthday message for Dad. Forgot to do that though, and thought about skyping after he was asleep. We’ll call in the morning.
Nerves as wires:
Nerves as wires 2:
Laughing in the pool:
Being a water monkey:
Chasing game in the pool:
