Carly was back to work today. He was up at 7:15. I read Ponyville Mysteries #2 then we went out and checked on the vines. He went to the bathroom, then sang “I go to the bathroom and wash my hands”. I didn’t get it on video and he said I was too slow and should have gotten it the first time. We played Minecraft And he had oatmeal and mango. He had a Brother game, based on the My Little Pony episode where Rarity gets wings but they are fragile and melt/burn in the sun. He had Bar make Brother wings and he does the same thing. I told him about Prometheus. Then a brother game where the vine takes over the house. Dad negotiated a solution with the talking vines.
August told me he wants a pick axe. A real one. So he can use it when he goes to an archeological site with Gramma and Grampa. Suddenly, one of the lights in the living room flashed and went off. I thought the bulb burned out, but then realized that neither light worked. Checked the breaker box, but no breakers were thrown. But other things weren’t working either: microwave, oven, some outlets, other lights, and everything upstairs in the bathroom, main bedroom, and office was out. But about half the house was working.
August found this disturbing, and went outside and wouldn’t come back in. When he relaxed a bit he asked, “Is this what it’s like to die? The power going out…” And later made the connection “It’s really quiet.” We had a really interesting conversation: “Did you know that as you die you can bring back your life…your memories…?” “What I think it feels like when you die…” He basically said that you couldn’t anything but that you could hear spooky stuff.
He saw a cat going under the fence and said, “Don’t tell criminals this, but a criminal could use a car to steal something from our yard.” He told me he only goes outside when the power’s out, so I joked about turning the power off to get him outside. He climbed on the teeter totter and told me he is a rust artist, scratching on the rust on it.
Then, suddenly the power came back on throughout the house. When I talked to Shmuel later he said that there are three power lines coming to the house and that the power company must have had a problem. Seemed odd to me, but I’m hoping he was right.
He did alone time, mainly sitting on the couch and listening to music and I exercised. He also made a little “robot” from Legos. We then played Minecraft. For lunch he requested a hummus sandwich like Carly had had on the trip. I made him a half (all the bread we had) and he ate the whole thing. We watched the Brainchild about germs; he said he would never use the 5-second rule after that.
We got ready and were driving by 12:30. He was wearing his shirt with buttons on it, and as we walked to the office he told me they control different “mechanisms” in him, like a “lollipop dispenser.” We had a few minutes, and there is a TV on the wall that silently shows some ads/videos on a loop. There is one with cavemen, and August asked why one of them makes a circular motion with his arms. I missed it, and told him I’d keep my eyes open for it while he was with Gabi. Didn’t see it though.
He went right in with Gabi. There was a lot of noise and laughter. When he came out he had five pipe cleaners wound in circles to take home. Didn’t really learn what else they had done. August didn’t want to go on any kind of adventure, so we just headed back to the house.
We were home at 2:20. While discussing Minecraft and how the forge works smelt was a word of the day. Shmuel came by and dropped off some plants. August and I then did a Brother game where his class goes on a field trip to Bar’s weather machine again. I fixed the kitchen cabinet door that keeps coming loose, and while I did that August did pencil hole art, taking a pencil and poking holes in paper. They were maps of all the places that Bar and Brother have been: one for on the land, one for in the ocean, one for voids, and one for other galaxies.
He remembered a game on my iPad that I had downloaded but never played that he wanted to try. It is called Opus and is about a robot trying to find Earth. That was our reading time, as there are a lot of words and I was getting him to help with them. Inept was a word of the day. He then did a 3D puzzle app where you make a shape out of blocks that matches the shadows that it casts on walls. He was hungry and had some dry Cheerios.
Carly got home, and she sliced up some fresh mango. Carly said she thought we were near the end of mango season, and I joked we were in for four miserable months until we could get strawberries. August asked, “Why is it like four miserable months until we have fresh strawberries?…They’re just regular months without fresh mango…We’ll, it makes them a bit worser…But nothing to worry about.”
He explained his pencil art to Carly. Carly went outside for a while. On the couch, he briefly imitated both Ms. Marion and Eve: “No Eve! I’m going to throw you in detention for a million years!” We played Minecraft. For dinner he had little sushi that Carly made and an egg. We read some of the Ponyville Mysteries, then watched a Minecraft video (https://youtu.be/fNFR9mvtxR4), then a couple of educational videos from Bright Side: “What would a trip through the past be like?”https://youtu.be/R9df8trZW8Q
and “What will happen to the Earth and us in 1,000 years?”https://youtu.be/T2vAcoyGKgw
He then had a Brother game where he met a girl that had all the powers mentioned in the last video (like accessing the internet in her brain). He then spotted Story Dice and had me tell a story. I revived Dr. Figelmeister’s assistant and had a story about him making a delivery.
I went for a run. I came back and took a shower, then took over reading the Diary of a Creeper book to him. He asked me for a story from my childhood and we ended up discussing Glacier National Park. He really wants to touch snow. We also ended up discussing my arm surgery. Carly had mentioned showing him the photos sometime, so I showed him the photos, which he really liked. He was asleep by 10.
Rust artist:https://youtu.be/f3dWIQeXUcQ
Writing with charcoal:
Brother and Bar maps:
His super powers:
