He was up just after 7:30. Very sleepy looking as he came downstairs and cuddled on the couch, not saying anything. Finally, the very first thing he said was, “You owe me two chocolate chips.” I told him I knew he would say that. He then said he needed to use the bathroom. He told me, “I’ll tell you a simile…the end of a cold is like descending on an airplane, because descending is down.” “I kind of thought of it because your ears pop when you are going down, and that’s like a stuffy nose.”
He then gave me one of his decisions: “Which one will you choose. It is very hard to choose, because they are both death: getting smashed by an asteroid, or getting sliced in half by a sword.”
We played Minecraft and ate banana bread. We then watched the ASAPScience Periodic Table song and How to Learn Faster. And then a Bright Side video called “Why C students are more successful than A students”
He had a Brother game with him going to Greena. He took books to her, She invented hoola hoops in the jungle. He was then a cute mouse that ended up having a disease. He made a rubber band chain and we stretched it across the house. I made a strawberry and mango smoothie for a late breakfast and he had Brother playing Minecraft. He did 15 minutes of alone time and I exercised, then we did 30 minutes of Minecraft. He asked, “What’s depths mean?” A word of the day.
He had a little pizza for lunch before we left, but didn’t eat much of it. He was then singing the title line of “Enjoy the Silence,” which we were listening to the remixes of. As we finally got ready to go, he asked, “How does a baby fit all of the things they need to live inside them? They’re so small… and their internal organs?”
I had suggested going to a climbing wall place, but he asked, “What was the other thing I wanted to do?” Zip line and trampolines were what he’s talked about. He didn’t think he’d like the climbing place for long, and I reminded him there was a small zip line at the park down on the Yarkon River (Hayarkon Park). So we decided to take my bike down there.
We listened to Story Pirates both ways, working our way backwards to the beginning of season 3, then listening to the end of Season 2, which we haven’t heard. We’ll now go back and start at the beginning of season 2. We got riding at 12:20. We rode for a little and made our way to the playground.
We stopped to do the zip line. He was right on it. He at first didn’t know what I meant when I said he would just hang from the bottom of it last year, so I showed him the photos. He said he was being dumb or stupid not actually sitting on it last year. Another example of how he’s become much less scared of things. Similarly, clouds were pretty thick when we started riding and he didn’t worry about it raining.
He did the zip line a good dozen or twenty times. I was taking photos of him and he almost hit me once. He told me to scoot farther away, arguing “You know you should do different perspectives.” We stopped for a snack and he told me how “I have a while website where people can buy Zipline transportation.”
He then had a Brother game where they go to Zipline World. The parents paid a bunch of money for it but it turned out Brother didn’t want to go on, just watch other people. Then, Dad got tickets to LEGO World. But he only took baby brother as the others weren’t interested. Bar ended up taking Baby Sister, who hadn’t wanted to go the first time because Lego World wasn’t dangerous enough for her. Bar helped make it more dangerous. When the parents find out they get really upset that Bar is taking her to dangerous things.
We got riding again at 1. We worked our way through the park, then rode upstream on the north side of the river. We went a bit more than a mile that way, not quite making it up to the water park. August spotted interesting mushrooms on the way, then identified birch trees, or at least something similar. He recognized them from Minecraft, of ll places.
We turned around, then I spotted a little outdoor cafe place in the park and suggested we stop. I was thinking juice, he was thinking ice cream, so we got both. We got an Oreo ice cream sandwich and a fresh orange juice. We sat in the corner and ate. We shared both. At first he said the juice wasn’t sweet, but I said that was because he was eating the ice cream. When he was done with that he got into the juice and really liked it.
We got riding again. On the way back I spotted a big sign with a picture of a dog on it. It was right near where I thought I had seen a wild dog/fox/something a previous time we were here geocaching. Later, at home, I translated it and found out there are jackals there, so that was what I had seen, and not just a dog on the loose.
I managed to wind around the park just enough (we took a dirt path back to the east a little further downstream, to where we had started our walk down the river with Chuck and Cherie) and we were just at 4 miles when we got bck to the car.
We listened to the Story Pirates on the way back. They talked to one of the authors, who was 5, and she talked a lot like August, using similes, for example how singing was like a net in her head to catch ideas before they get away.
We were home at 2:50. We sat in the car listening to the end of the Mr. Banana Face Guy song. As we went in we were discussing pizza places and I said it was hard to beat VIPizza. He replied, “Except Korea noodle pizza…What? Why wouldn’t I remember?”
He got a random song from Siri when asking for “Pay Your Dues”. As usual, it was a random rap song with explicit lyrics, and the title had nothing to do with what August had said. He liked it though and added it to his playlist.
He got on Minecraft and Gilad called a few minutes later and they played together in their original world. They mainly added on to the roller coaster, and Gilad showed him how to make the track go up and down and use powered rails. August played with him for over an hour. When August’s time was up he got upset, even though I was willing to give him a couple more minutes to finish up with Gilad. He hung up Skype, then closed Minecraft right away, without saying goodbye. August came over to one of the red chairs (I had been sitting in the other one) to do his clamming, which was generally pretty good, but then he insisted that I move somewhere else in the house to give him his space. We were talking about how he couldn’t just chase me around the house, wanting his space, when Carly got home.
After a bit he was better. She was holding him upside down by his feet, then he had pizza and carrots for dinner. We did a bit of a Brother game. Carly had been outside and now came in. She read the Myna book to him.
He did tape and reusing art. He had started with tape again yesterday, andn we now talked about how he was entering a new taping phase. He sang about what he was doing and how things were his middle name. He pointed out that the My Little Pony episodes always have a friendship problem in them, but the comic issues do not and asked why that is. Carly pointed out that he was making a text-to-text connection.
He then painted with her. She was painting a picture of Lady Bird Johnson. He was wanting her precious white paint, which we were almost out of. I did dishes and got an email out to my book group. I realized we are reading our 95th book as a group. August told her about overpopulation saying, “Because overpopulation IS HAPPENING.” He then showed her the Kurzgesagt video on it and I went for a run. Carly made something out of recycled materials to, but August wasn’t impressed by it. When I got back and had taken a shower I made a turtle with him. He made a mushroom, and we had the turtle sitting on it. He liked that better, and was trying to convince Carly to make hers better.
I got him upstairs and washed him. Afterwards, he was standing and staring off, I think playing with his spit. Carly asked what he was doing and he said, “Just pretending I’m a plant. The roots are sucking up water…there’s an infections…water from the stream…my own game with spit.”
They said good night and I got him in bed. We finished reading the “Reflections” series in My Little Pony. He was then repeating, “I just can’t help but wonder: is it an alien?” Which is a line from a Kurzgesagt video. He asked “whats honorable mean?” He was then asking about black holes, for example, could a black hole crush a neutron star (as he remembered a neutron star has an incredibly strong crust)? We listened to Bach’s solo violin works, and he was asleep at 9:50. Later, as I was going to sleep, he sat up in bed, still asleep, for a couple minutes, then lay back down. I’ve seen him do that before.
Zip line 1:
Zip line 2:
Tracking his walking distance:
Singing his art process:
Singing his art process 2:
Finishing his creation:
Explaining his creations:
