Carly and I were both up during the night. He was up by 7. She was already up, so I stayed in bed until around 8. When I went down he was eating oatmeal outside. He then had some pomegranate seeds before having one of the last cookies. We did a Brother game in Minecraft where he borrowed diamond pick axes from Myna’s chest while she was gone, but then he died, losing them and all the diamonds he had mined. He then had to make it up to her. The game kept going through through time travel, Bar and and a EMP, the story police, and eventually devolved into the void. Then there was a repeating Brother, bullies, and Bar story where he kept getting bullied and Bar would punish the new bullies.
We read two chapters of Berenstain Bears book. Then another Brother game that I stopped it when it was just about someone getting hurt. He got upset and hit me. I went upstairs to work, and he came up to apologize a bit later.
Back downstairs we did music time. arpeggio was the word of the day. He was playing Ode to Joy with proper fingers, and learned more of Yankee Doodle, and started learning bits of Sentimental Wars. He as then drawing out notes on paper, making compositions for me. Well, for Brother to play. He was using his own system, then I got him to switch to real staff. He was a bit reluctant to do so. But he was starting to make his own system pretty convoluted to explain things, and while I like the creativity involved, it would also be easier to use the real system, and he would learn more.
He then switched to Pages and explained his system from the other day where numbers stood for things: “You can explain heaviness with numbers…zero is no mass.”
We then watched Brave Wilderness. He watched the bullet ant episode, and agitated was a word of the day. He then watched the harvester ant. There’s an ad that he keeps seeing that allows you to morph photos of people into animals and he wants to get it.
They did a Brother and Minecraft game while we had lunch and I ate outside. He came out, and found a little one sprouting like one of our bushes: “Okay. That makes my day.” He rode his bike up the street to the park and I did recycling. He came with me, deciding not to just ride around the park, and played in the dirt by recycling. He said, “My head’s in space. What’s the point?” “I’m trying to be funny.” While I did recycling he picked up leaves and asked, “Are this leave’s vacuoles full?”
Back at home Carly started reading to him. I went upstairs to work for a while. I came back down and worked next to him as he had earned his 30 minutes. He then watched the Coyote Peterson porcupine episode and ate cereal as he watched Coyote get stabbed by a porcupine.
He had a Brother game where he played on Myna’s server. He was a blacksmith in their town. Myna explained the system whereby redstone circuits were used to bring Brother the raw materials he needed. He talked about how the system was simple to use but complex underneath. I pointed out how that was a really interesting observation.
We went outside to go on a bike ride. But while we were heading out we saw a crow drop a nut on the street. It didn’t break open, so we watched it try to break the nut on the street with its beak. It then flew up on top of a post and we watched it trying to break it there. It eventually flew off, still holding the nut. We went riding at 4:20. We rode 2.1 miles, going a little further in places (like past the strawberries and across the little pedestrian bridge on the other side of the big pedestrian bridge) than he has been comfortable doing before.
At the end we rode down the path behind our house. As we got to the street he had me stop. He had spotted a yellow smiley face ball under a car. We got it and claimed it as ours.
At home we read the rest of the Berenstain Bears book. He was then being a bit grumpy. He had carrots with lemon for dinner, then was looking t the periodic table on my phone. Carly read him a Myna Minecraft book. For some reason she said “Nice try.” He told her, “Don’t say that. I hate it.” And he compared it to cubby.
I went for a run. When I got back he was finishing a Brave Wilderness video. He had more carrot, then a cookie. Carly gave him a bath. He told us, “Since I have a time machine, my job is to go to the past…I use weapons in appropriate ways.” He eventually was talking about how he “turns people off.” Like, he doesn’t kill them in the past, but just turns them off as a setting for the world (like flipping the ‘peaceful’ switch in Minecraft). I said we wouldn’t be here now in the present if he turned people off in the past. He said it wouldn’t change the present: “Imagine you have a piece of paper with writing on this side and this side. If you rip it in in half this half is still there…”
He asked, “How does your brain keep you balanced?” Something to look up later. He also asked How can his eyes act like microscope: “I looked up close even when I was far away.” He talked about doing it while we were on our bike ride, looking up at birds on wires and being able to see them as if they were up close. This is an ability he has mentioned several times in the past. It seems to be part of his ability to imagine something in his head. He agreed, and said, It’s all about memory…my old friend, memory.”
We listened to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. He was shaking his egg shaker along to it. He actually asked me to move to the lower bed after a few minutes of having me up with him. He kept shaking his shaker, and finally went quiet. He fell asleep about 9:30, right at the end of the symphony, it seemed. His egg shaker was right next to him on the bed.
Music time 3:
Playing Ode to Joy with all his fingers:
Explaining his composition:
Being funny by recycling:
