At some point during the night he moved his pillows and pulled up the warm blanket over himself. I don’t think I’d ever seen him do that before. Such a big kid. I hadn’t thought about the jump forward in time during the night when I set my alarm. So when he woke up at 6:15 I thought he was really early. I had him crawl down next to me for a couple minutes, then I realized it seemed awfully bright for 6:15 and remembered the time change. So we got up and went downstairs.
We went downstairs and he asked Carly for candy. We told him it had to be after healthy food. They went outside to check on the water bowls and to water plants. I picked him up outside. As I held him he said, “I have nothing to do. Can we get back to the treat argument?” He made an analogy that something was “…like a shockwave…”
Inside he ate an apple, then got a candy. He chose a banana taffy and loved it. We watched a little Formula 1 qualifying in Mexico and played Minecraft. From the qualifying flying lap was a word of the day, particularly the idea that flying could apply to something that was just fast, and not necessarily going through the air. He was grumpy about food and didn’t want scrambled eggs for breakfast. He eventually had oatmeal instead.
He watched a Bright Side video on what happens when you destroy a piece of art. He was then walking around, silly, and yelled out the window, “Anyone who’s noonynanny shout to me ‘Noonynanny!’” We did a Brother game. Bar had a priceless Roman temple artifact that he breaks. When she insists that he pay for it he runs away to live with Greena in the jungle.
Carly headed to the store. He watched another Bright Side video about what foods you can and cannot eat if they have mold on them, then a Kurzgesagt video about aliens. He did alone time, then played Minecraft. Then had a Brother scenario where he meets a time traveling Bar who is from a week in the future. This was based on a very funny My Little Pony episode where Twilight meets herself from a week in the future. We then watched an episode, involving a dessert eating mystery on a train. He then spent time telling me about his famous desserts. After he went to the bathroom he washed his hands, doing a good job: “You know, germs and all. You know I just watched that moldy bread video.”
He wanted to earn 15 minutes. Carly got home. He brushed the ponies’ hair for a few minutes and I put away groceries. He earned his last ten by playing with Legos. Carly made a berry and mango smoothie that was really good. He added two Wire songs to his playlist. We played his 15 minutes, then he ate Yogurt and raw tofu. We read the first issue of My Little Pony: Friends Forever and he was correct about Pinkie Pie sting the line about monkey ninjas in this issue.
He and Carly left just before 12:30 to go to Mr. Gabi’s. He later told me that they did sword fighting, play dough, and other things. Carly then took him over to Herzliya and they had pizza at a place right near the beach. They then went down to the beach and played in the water again. August let Carly go wading a bit in the sea this time. He also did some bike riding along the sidewalks area there, and stopped to use exercise equipment, and was having Carly use it.
They got home at 4:45. I came down after a couple minutes, and he was laughing hysterically. Carly didn’t know why. He wanted to watch an educational video, and Carly remembered she had something to show him. It was episode 1 of How We Got to Now, and all about how cities deal with water and waste. He watched more than half of it and would do a lot of talking about it later.
We did his evening time in Minecraft. He was throwing experience potions around a lot. For dinner he ate mango, cauliflower, and grapes. Carly was telling me something about the union at school, and August wanted to know what she was talking about. She mentioned the union and the board, and he reminded her he had a suggestion for them: opening a college. He even justified it by explaining that students would stay longer and pay more money.
He got upset about wanting more candy, I think it was, and yelled at me. I went upstairs to fold laundry. He asked Carly to ask me to come down so he could apologize. That was a good step. He told me about a condition called pebbleitis. It involves a lack of balance and vision and nausea. Can’t remember what video or potion inspired that.
He asked what the appendix is for and I looked it up. He then explained it: “My theory is that the appendix is kind of like a crafting table that makes more good bacteria…Analogy. Minecraft analogy.”
Carly gave him a bath, and I put him to sleep again in the Zinnie bed. Carly gave him one of her shirts to cuddle with, and he indeed fell asleep, by 9, cuddling with it. He’s never fallen asleep cuddling anything before.
Doing Rarity’s hair:
Theories about fizzy water:
