I woke him up to say goodbye before I left at 7:30. I said goodbye and told him Mama was downstairs and that he could keep sleeping if he wanted. He nodded to me, eyes still closed, but then did get out of bed and went down to Carly.
I knew there would be light traffic, being the second day of Rosh Hashanah, but I was still shocked when I got on the highway and literally saw no cars for a minute, just bicycles. I thought I had got my holidays wrong and it was somehow Yom Kippur or something.
I got to Sabeel at 9. Marc had brought falafel. We met with Omar until he had a meeting at 10 with some potential German funders. Marc and I worked on editing stuff, then everyone had burgers for lunch. Pretty good. We met with Omar again afterwards, and I got going later than usual, getting home a little after 5:30. No traffic this morning, but some odd driving stuff. On the way into Jerusalem there had been a random police barricade at one point, then on the way back I had to detour a bit due to an accident.
While I was gone they had played Minecraft, of course, and had walked over to the mall, taking his bike, to do some grocery shopping. He got a lollipop. He also did an art project, mixing paint, cardboard, an egg carton, and other stuff. Carly said that there were several times that she was able to go upstairs to do things like laundry, often for several minutes, and he would stay downstairs on his own. And at one point she told him she was going to do some reading. He sat next to her on the couch and played with his graphing calculator app. He would occasionally say something to her, but otherwise let her read for a half hour or so.
They have finished all the Dogman books and had started a Minecraft-based book called Diary of a Slime. He ate some ravioli and stuff for dinner, then I read him part of the book. Intrigued and repulsive were new words from that. He put a tissue on his head and played around. He then had a Brother and Bar game with them playing Minecraft. We watched an episode of My Little Pony, Nd played with Legos for a bit. Then another Brother Game based on the My Little Pony episode. Bar took the class on a field trip to her weather factory. The teacher was nervous. They went to the moon, then Mars. There were then angry robots that took over the earth.
He went to the bathroom, and said he had seen a little a little worm thing in his poop, and that he’d seen them before. Carly got a spoon and container and scooped up his poop, but didn’t find anything. He was pretty sure of it though. Afterwards, he told us of people he had treated in his lab. They had had things like worms and ants. One person had “ated cooked beef on the ground that looked okay but there were ants…”
Out at the couch he explained to me that if nature took over, humans would come back because our DNA would still be on the planet and would do a little Big Bang sort of thing to make a human again. We read Ponyville Mysteries #1. When talking to Carly he said he “took” something, instead of “taked-ed.” Carly complimented him for it, but he said he’d go back to “taked-ed” because “You’ll be sad…because I’m not like I used to be.” Carly said she wouldn’t be sad about him fixing his grammar, as long as he just kept saying “coisonous” instead of “poisonous.” August asked how the word is really pronounced, then kept repeating “POI-sonous? POI-sonous? POI-sonous? POI-sonous?” as if he’d never heard the story before.
We took him up and Carly gave him a bath. In on the bed Carly saw August and I doing our head butting for the first time. She had no idea that this went ll the way back to when he was a baby and he didn’t like kisses so we started to do gentle forehead kisses, which would then end up pushing against each other. She brushed his teeth, and I left them about 9:30 and went for a run.
Tissue on his head:
Discussing his inventions:
