He was up right at 7:10. I carried him down. I noticed that Carly had the unit on fan mode in his room. Don’t know if they had not used the heater during the night. He took a few minutes on the couch for a few minutes, then we finished_The Last Kids on Earth_. Then he switched to Minecraft. He logged in and said, “Everything’s so peaceful. The beautiful sunrise…”
We played Minecraft, then ate oatmeal. He then did alone time and more Minecraft. He then watched the two Kurzgesagt ant videos. He then had a Brother where he returned home to find a “room-sized super colony of fire ants” in his bedroom. It was Millie being an ant and taking over his room. Sister becomes an ant as well. Brother is upset so refuses to change them back. He ended up tied up for five years. We went upstairs and played more, and August was an ant.
We finally looked at our calendar for the day. We then played with his new modeling clay/play dough from Max. He liked the smell, but I thought it was pretty bad. He mixed the colors all together (it was only 5 shekels) and then wanted to see what happened when he mixed some with paint. He spent several minutes doing a paint mixture. I was making towers with the play dough and mentioned architect. He said, “I should be a architect when I grow up.”
He added some of his paint to his painting from yesterday and said he gave it a moustache. Well, beard. “I present you: brown muck….mud brown.”
He read a level 2 book in Rivet about frosting a cake blindfolded. He ate the last bit of his leftover pizza, then I made a grilled cheese sandwich. He asked me again if I had arguments. I suggested convincing Carly to get a bike:
“If you don’t have a bike you’ll miss out on a lot of the fun we’ll have.”
He put lotion on his hands as they were getting dry after the oatmeal.
He looked at Google maps and street view as I figured out where we could park and bike. He told me “I want to try a tomato sometime…like a seventeenth of a tomato.” He was kind of grinning as he said it, then added, “If I DO like it, guess what? I’m going to make fun of you for not liking it.”
We got ready to go. He asked if he could tell the friends that he had gotten his flu vaccine. He gathered them on the couch upstairs. He then told them, and sang a tune for them. He then put them in bed for sleep time: “You’re nocturnal.” He covered them up with pillows to keep them safe from monsters before we left.
He sang a tune and was drumming on things as we left. We saw David as we left the house and left by 1.
As we drove he asked a couple questions: “why when you start saying a word over again it starts sounding like an alien word?…What is time?”
We got to the north end of the Netanya waterfront, where the trail ends, and parked. We started riding south. He was humming, and started noticing all the cats, especially on the way back.
We rode 2.87 miles before stopping at 2:30, by the ice cream shop that he hates, for a snack. He had a bar and corn crackers, then cashews. We did Brother and Sister stories. There was a void nightmare, then one where they sleepwalk to the water store and wet their beds. And then Sister was allowed to do research in Bar’s lab, much to Brother’s chagrin. He ran around, pretending to elytra with his hand (flying in Minecraft). He then needed to use the bathroom. He went in the bushes by the construction area where they’re building a new elevator down to the beach.
He then said, “This is a nice spot. I’m going to savor it.” He spent a few minutes picking seeds off of bushes and said, “Good luck seeds!”
When we got going we rode a bit further south and turned around at the playground, just over 3 miles. As we rode back north he told me about a huge obstacle course he made.
On the way back north we rode a couple laps around the big empty square. And I noticed that the little carousel was open now. He went on it and we talked about the other ones he’s been on. He said he likes the ones that go up and down.
The rest of the way back he talked about how we must be experiencing some sort of time warp thing causing cats to teleport into our time. He was really into that as we saw cat after cat after cat.
At the car I took a photo of him holding up 6 fingers to show how many miles we rode. We drove home, listening to Sotry Pirates.
At home he wanted to do a Brother game during iPad time and was a little sad when I said I had to leave. But I got ready to go and he was mixing paint on his how. I thought it was his alone time so he could do iPad time, but he had forgotten about earning time and it was really just something he started on his own.
I left at 5:10 and met the other guys at the school. Plans had changed as Younes was closed. We went up to Ishimoto in Even Yehuda. I was able to order something slightly spicy for once, getting a curry. We then walked down to the movie theater and watched Scorsese’s The Irishman. A three and a half hour movie, plus intermission and previews (all for Amazon and Netflix shows/movies).
While I was gone they did a lot of painting, and of course his iPad time. He was upset when it ended, but stopped short of hitting. He got to skip a bath. When I checked in with them at the movie’s intermission, they were in bed, doing story problems.
Mixing play dough colors: https://youtu.be/adsIuwaq-R4
Play dough and paint mixture:
Talking to the friends:
Making music on the third wheel:
Elytraing:
Carousel 1:
Carousel 2 – his time loop song:
