He sat up at one point during the night and swayed around for a couple minutes before lying back down. He then woke up at 1:30 and said his stomach hurt. I had him go to the bathroom and he said he felt better. He started to open the door to the bedroom before I reminded him we were sleeping in the other room. He went right back to sleep. He woke up one more time, asking to have the covers pulled over him.
He got up at 7:20. Very groggy and had me carry him down. After a little while we watched the start of the Formula 1 US Grand Prix. He recognized the names of the Mercedes drivers. He then watched Phineas Rage and had Cheerios.
We moved to books. I got more Sesame Street books, as they are on sale because Sesame Street is 50 years old. We read Another Monster at the End of this Book and then The Great Cookie Thief and How to be a Grouch. He did a lot of laughing. We looked at our plan for the day and he wanted to add in science. We started with educational videos, and he watched Bright Side videos on how touchscreens work (https://youtu.be/yU5kPoc7sL4) and how GPS works (https://youtu.be/wCcARVbL_Dk)
What’s transmit mean? Word of the day. He then told me about a system that only takes one satellite instead of four. “But I said it bounces of of stuff, so it can’t see through a liquid…” I think that is a detail he remembers about why mapping satellites can’t map the ocean floor.
He talked about a second satellite and how you had to download data from it, then about building a Mars base and a Dyson sphere. And then, “I’m starting to make time machines and spaceships that can escape black holes.”
Laser that punctures into another universe to steal energy “It’s kind of like a nail. Simile!” He’s also made a real effient coal plant, and drained the power from Betelgeuse.
We went upstairs for a Brother game. We now have a full sequence of back stories: first family pet tiger, ocelot at the zoo, finding Tigey. Downstairs he asked about ghost circles, from Bone, and I said I think they had been made up for Bone, unlike dragons, etc. which exist in other myths. We talked about folklore, and he wanted to see a folk tale. So we watched a video of a Chinese story about how dragons came to be (https://youtu.be/B-FhdksLz0c) After the first watching he said, “That was amazing. Can we watch it again?”
He got dressed, supposedly to go out to look for an insect for his bug catcher, but he never did that. He was hungry, so I made a smoothie. While I started to make that he opened Rivet and read a book by himself. That was really cool. We did a short Brother playing Minecraft game. Then stories where he let his ice cream and slushee melt. Brother talked about other ice cream times and animals on the beach instead and was upset when they melted. We got back to Rivet. I read a book called No! and one called Akku’s Angry. August then read a level one book about a rainbow cone to me.
For alone time he worked on drawing circles with the compass and then did other art. He was drawing Xs on a computer screen and their was some story about it. He sang, “everyone is stupid except me…except me, Dada, and mama…Just kidding.”
He watched more of the Phineas Rage island survival videos, then ate the rest of his piece of pizza, crackers, and hummus for lunch. We got ready to go. In looking for a chicken noodle soup recipe he declared that what he had wanted was just chicken broth and noodles. I decided it probably wasn’t worth making a full pot of soup then and that we’d try to find a can of soup instead. He told me about his new Mineceaft version: “The Wi-Fi edition!”
We got going and drove to the little mall. We parked and went to the bike shop. August saw the bikes that looked just like his, and he gave one a hug. I ws looking at the boxes of car bike racks they had in a window and trying to decide which I wanted. August was telling me to just ask, and that turned out to be the right choice. It turned out those were just empty, and they only had one choice. So we bought a yellow bike rack and took it back to the car.
We then went to Tiv Taam and did some grocery shopping. Got some chicken soup stuff and ingredients for a quiche. August got some banana milk to try, a new yogurt, and one of the pudding things he likes.
By the time we got home my energy was gone. We watched a My Little Pony, where they meet Babs for the first time, then did music time. We played around in GarageBand, particularly with percussion, then he did a little Simply Piano. He was just finishing that up when Carly got home. Soon after that we were discussing our day and he wanted to make snickerdoodles right then. I told him that was going to be tomorrow. He got upset and started hitting me. First time upset during the day.
Carly talked to him, and they went outside and he watered the plants. I was out there with them for a while enjoying the evening. He wanted corn so I brought him a bowl of it to eat and some banana milk (he had also had the chocolate pudding and some banana milk when we got home). At one point he skied about his evening time and I said he had two minutes so he should go have a deep conversation with Carly. They argued about the meaning of life. Carly wanted ‘love’ to be part of the equation; August was focusing on ‘fun’. He then changed tact and claimed that there was no single meaning of life. He claimed it was, “Nothing… You’re free (to choose)… Infinite (options).”
We went in and played Minecraft. I finally finished Brother’s house. We then watched a StoryBots episode about why people look different. I was excited to see Reggie Watts as a guest star in the episode. When that was over I went to get us food. I heated up the chicken Chong that he had wanted earlier but not eaten. I was sitting, looking through the fridge for something for me, and he asked about quiche and I said that was for tomorrow as well. He got upset and said I wasn’t letting him do anything fun.
We talked on the couch, then he went to eat the Chicken Chong. He said he wasn’t going to eat any food any more since it comes from poop (we had been joking about that). He ate though, and afterwards asked, “Am I made of poop?”
He was getting two Halloween candies, as it was a hair washing day. He ate one on the way upstairs. On the bed we read two more Sesame Street books I’d bought (Grover’s 10 Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World and The ABCs of Cookies) and more Olga. He had some Cheerios, then I washed his hair. He was still hungry, so went downstairs for some of the new cereal and milk.
We got him ready, and I left them at 8:30.
Explaining his satellite:
Reading by himself:
Garage school song and dance:
Some keyboard improv:
