He got up at 3am to use the bathroom. Right back to bed after that. He woke up at 7. Right away he asked me what it was he had wanted to do last night but couldn’t. Downstairs we remembered it was doing more of the recycled art with Carly.
He watched one of the last Phineas Rage Minecraft videos. He then got Carly to do her recycling art and she turned her bottle thing into a flower. I remembered how he had wanted to put fruit in the water bottle thing (he calls it “the refresher”) and cut up some pineapple. They went out and watered plants. He was talking about root systems and what he learned on Magic School Bus.
Back inside he had a Brother game where he is covered in snot. When I then didn’t want to do another Brother game, in Minecraft, he suddenly hit me in the back. He apologized, then was making things out of plastic. He made his first gun, then a wind machine to use as a fan. We then finished reading What Do We Know About Earth’s Oceans? We talked about human migration and the big flood in the Americas. gyre was a word of the day as we learned about ocean currents. He sang the “evaporation…” song we had made up when we read the first half of the book.
They worked on the flower cum palm tree. He added roots. He kept working on it and sang a “We have to fix the vacuoles” song. We watched Ted Ed videos. First about cell membranes (I had seen it on Facebook), then about Loki, Talos, and Hercules. He had a theory that Atlas is running around the sun and that’s what makes the year.
He was really wanting mama time and kept asking when she could play with him. She was making food. She worked with him more. The rice, green beans, and broccoli were done so he ate outside. They were looking stuff up and discussing things like diabetes. He had some of the lentil dish when it was done.
They left around noon to go to the beach. Soon after they left it got really cloudy and I thought I heard one clap of thunder. A few minutes later I got a message from Carly saying it was raining at the beach. They sat in the car for five minutes, waiting for it to pass, then got driving. They went north to Poleg Beach. It had stopped raining by then and they were able to play. They tried to make a system to catch the waves like last time but it didn’t work so well. August told me, “The waves were unpredictable.” But they played for a good amount of time, then went to the big Tiv Taam for a few things.
They were back at 3:45 and were outside for a while. They watered Shmuel’s plants. When I came down he was doing along time with the dictionary. He had some food, then they debated which world they should play in Minecraft. They played, so I went back up to work. I then heard him watching educational video, so kept working, then Carly was skyping with her parents when I came back down.
August was hungry, so I cut up some pineapple and he had a cherry yogurt. Still hungry, and it turned out he hadn’t actually eaten his earlier dinner. I heated it up and he ate a good amount of that.
We started reading a new book called Timmy Failure, about a kid who has a detective agency. We then did movie time. I made a bag of popcorn and we watched episode 1 of season two of Llama Llama, then a My Little Pony episode about an Apple family reunion.
Afterwards he wanted music time, saying we hadn’t done it for a while. It was bath/bed time though and I got him upstairs. In the shower he was asking impossible questions, like what would happen if he put an infinitely strong plug over a hose with infinite pressure. There were several like that. They all turned into black holes, basically. As the scenarios got bigger it did things like tearing apart space-time. It turned into a chaos/discord scenario with ice cream floating through the air, etc. He was then telling me all about physics on his planet, which made no sense to our understanding of physics.
He was humming tunes and I conducted him. He got grumpy about no music time again. I put my fingers out like keys and he was playing notes on them and I was making the notes. I brushed his teeth and thought I spotted some redness around his top right canine tooth. It may have just been some food. I brushed it again, then he hid his head. He said it did bother him. Carly was there and we were asking him more about it but assuring him it was okay. We’ll check on it.
He discussed Carly’s contacts with her, then we were rolling our eyes around. I left them at 9. I think they were reading a book after that. I went for a run.
Evaporation condensation song:
Fix the vacuoles song:
Reading the dictionary again:
Spinning:
