He woke me up at 5:20 or so, then was up at 6:35, right after Carly had closed the door. I brought him down and he cuddled under the blanket with me for a couple minutes, then we played Minecraft. Then we had a Brother game where he bought professional cookware from Flim and Flam (the hucksters in My Little Pony). It did not turn Brother into a professional chef. He had oatmeal, and asked, “What’s membrane?” From Minecraft.
As an example I mentioned flying squirrels. He said, “Oh dada,” thinking I was making it up. I had to show him a photo. He discussed vaccines, starting with “You know how they compa4ed vaccines to seat belts?” He somehow got around to mentioning cars losing their downforce, so I showed him the Peter Dunbreck crash Le Mans crash:https://youtu.be/e21ZjwZGjiQ
August then talked about his flying car, and we looked at old attempts at flying cars: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/g2021/history-of-flying-car/ And we watched a flying squirrelhttps://youtu.be/NR4JYGUdbWE
We then processed that with a Brother and flying squirrel game, where Brother finds a flying squirrel. He then wanted music time and we set up GarageBand. He started by experimenting with chords in C. He was then learning how to play “Sentimental Wars” on the piano.
I made a mango lassi and he watched a marble race then a Brave Wilderness about spiders. Then there was a Brother game with Millie being a wandering spider. He made a “Skitter, skitter, skitter” noise as she walked around. She made a nest in Brother’s hair, then caused a panic at school. They then played Legos.
We got going to Herzliya Park. The time had been changed to 12 for other families that were coming. We were a little late, and walked in round 12:15, August riding his bike. We were walking in at the same time as Lacey and her kids, and one of their friends. We then saw Lauren and Gilad. August rode around a bit, then asked for a snack. The other kids talked about playing tag but August said no. We sat and ate and they went off on the play structure.
August rode his bike around some more, and got close to the other kids a couple times. August agreed to go over on the merry-go-round with them, but when we got there they were getting off and climbing over a railing. He went on by himself for a minute, then needed the bathroom. I had looked at the book place when he was riding his bike (he said “Noooooooo!” when I said that was what I was doing), and when we came out of the bathroom he asked if there was anything interesting. There were Time Life books and he picked out The Scientist, Matter, and The Earth to take home.
And he told me, “Every good habit has a bad side, and every bad habit has a good side.” For example, lotion wastes money. Lindsey had also shown up with a 5-year old, but we never met him. As August was riding back from the bathroom, he was surprised by a bunch of backpacks that a school group had left in front of a bench. He swerved to the left, but fell off to the right.
He mainly landed on the backpacks and only had the most superficial of scrapes. But he got really upset. I was holding him and he was insisting on going to the car and leaving. Or at least going to the car. It took us a long time to get there, as he wouldn’t calm down enough for me to set him down, get the books I was carrying, go back to the benches and get our snacks, etc.
He got back on the bike for me to push him to the benches and we packed up, then he rode his bike the entire way to the car. But with his eyes closed. I had to push him and steer. He did calm down in the car. May have gotten him back out to the park, but we needed to leave soon by then anyway to stop at Tiv Taam on the way to pick up Eve. It was a little after 1:30 when we left.
We went to Tiv Taam for a few essentials. But mainly to pick out a snack to have with Eve. August has been asking for watermelon on and off for a month or two. A couple times I’ve told him he needs to get it with Carly, as I don’t like watermelon enough. Anyway, that’s what he wanted to have with Eve and he thought the big Tiv Taam had it. Unfortunately, I think we are past the season. He was fine with that though, and instead picked out a chocolate pudding cup for each of them, and two goose pates and a pack of sliced meat to have on crackers.
As we went back to the car he asked, “If germs are in the air does that mean they have wings?” We talked about that, and was confused by my use of particle as he only knows it as meaning elementary particles like electrons etc. So I explained its broader meaning.
We drove to the school and dropped off the bag of art supplies at the middle school office for Carly to get. We went quickly into the library to look for Bone 8. No luck, and it turns out it is lost. As we walked out of the library he spotted the librarians talking to someone outside of the library. August was surprised and said “Oh hey.” To Liz, then Amanda and Ilana.
We went down and got Eve. We saw Heather and Zoe. August wanted to head straight home but Eve wanted to go watch Alejandro play soccer. And to play herself. They watched from the wall for a few minutes, then Alejandro asked her to play, but Eve got discouraged because she didn’t know how and he wasn’t telling her. A mom was playing with them and tried to get her involved, but Eve wasn’t sure. It looked like she might go back out, but then it was moot as the field was taken over by baseball practice. Alejandro ended up being upset and Eve went and comforted him before we left.
We swung by and saw the chickens for a minute, then headed home. They had their puddings, then I got the crackers and meat out. Eve painted, then I was their patient. They put the play dough around my face and taped parts of me up. August took a photo. August had earlier found chunks of dried paint and put them in water, expecting the to dissolve. He checked on the experiment but they hadn’t changed much.
Eve made a potion. She was then August’s patient, and had brain problems. They ended up at the white board, debating the cause of her problems. August said things like “Then your hypothesis is…” a couple times, and then kept explaining “But that doesn’t explain why your nerves aren’t working.” She finally asked what nerves are, and he explained.
August had been playing with Legos and they had this discussion, and they both transitioned to playing with Legos. They were calm and quiet. Amazing. And they were that way when Heather and Zoe showed up at 5:30. His fact for Heather today was explaining how obsidian is made. At first I thought he was going to tell her about obsidian in Minecraft, but he stuck to the real world. They also discussed Coyote Peterson and August explained who it was, and it turned out she had seen one of his videos where he gets bitten.
Carly had also gotten home and one upstairs. After they left August watched a Brave Wilderness video. We then did the Brother and Sister game where Sister is jealous that Brother is spending all his time with Baby sister. Bar punishes her.
I showed August a video of the Red Bull pit crew doing a pit stop in zero G:https://youtu.be/IVMICgfzICs
Then did a Brother and Millie story where she is being a tomato plant to study what that is like. They were making a tree house, as he wants to live alone like Greena.
After that he was trying to negotiate for more Minecraft time. Carly got out the Science Comic: Plague book she had checked out. He was excited about that. They read the whole thing. He didn’t like it because there wasn’t a big infection that you got to see. I then read him three chapters of The Last Kids on Earth. He told Carly it was “Much better than that lame book.” As he pointed to the Plague book.
I went for a run and Carly put him to sleep in the Zinnie room for the first time. He was still up when I got back, and came in the bathroom to use the toilet before I got in the shower. He was asleep about 9:50. She used the mediation app with him. He told Carly he had been wrong about not wanting her to do it.
His car with wings: https://youtu.be/4CSUK4pfymI
Playing with chords:
Riding in Herzliya Park:
Singing on the swing again:
Pudding with Eve:
Potions time again:
Doctor time:
