Thanksgiving, so Carly was off, but we didn’t do anything really related to the holiday.
He woke me up before 7, coming out to the couch. He lay his head on my back, then when I got up he lay down on the couch, stealing my spot, and said, “Ah, comfy.” I got him to get up and go back into his room and on his bed, and he fell back to sleep until 7:20.
Downstairs they did Minecraft. I did a little work then headed to licensing office. He did a lot of satellite work on his graphing calculator while I was gone. It is always an adventure up at the licensing office. They have a new system now where you have to have an appointment to get in. I wasn’t the only one surprised by this. It was pretty easy to sit down and figure out the website though and I got an appointment for 9:25. It was 9:22. I walked in and then right up to a window; the same guy as six months ago. This time he changed the address to the P.O. Box. We’ll see what happens.
I also had had time to stop and get gas on the way up and was home by 10. We got ready to go. We did a Brother game where Bar offers him a chance to get a lifetime supply of candy if he kills an ocelot. Brother then can’t decide between his competing beliefs: “I’d do anything for candy” and “I’d never hurt an animal.” Conundrum and paradox were words of the day.
We left at 10:20. He sang a special going to Gilad’s house. He made his music quiet and loud and we complimented him on his use of dynamics. He also sang “We’re going to Gilad’s house.” As Carly went to parallel park she said, “Get comfortable.” August was confused: “Get comforrable? I’m super comfortable.”
We went up to Gilad’s house.With four kids they have a lot of stuff. And tons and tons of Legos. August looked at them a lot, then looked at the parakeet and he and Gilad went out on the porch swing for a few minutes. Back inside they got out a tub of Legos and played with those for quite a while. August then wanted to play on the piano. He talked bout how this is his favorite kind of piano. He played for several minutes, then Gilad and Lauren played a duet they are working on.
We then had a snack of our gluten-free zucchini cornbread and the cucumber, carrots, and hummus that we brought.
August and Gilad then got a bunch of cars and trucks out. August commented on how Colin would really like one of them. They also tried figuring out an old electronics kit from when Abraham (Lauren’s husband, who we met for the first time) was a kid. Lauren couldn’t get it to work. August was kind of like the supervisor, and told them they couldn’t give up. They tried a couple more times before giving up.
We headed home. They made popcorn and painted outside and I went up to work. He then did alone time and Minecraft.
They headed to the plant store for about an hour. When I came down he was finishing up alone time. I then played Minecraft with him.
We had a dinner of quinoa, broccoli, and sweet potatoes. He and I then watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. He really laughed at Snoopy fighting the chair, and laughed too hard at the toast part and spit water and had to change his pants. Referring to Snoopy, he said “I’ll call that the funny dog.”
He had a Brother game of him bursting from eating too many sweet potatoes. He then did more painting with Carly. He talked about decorations for Christmas. Then got sad she wouldn’t let him paint on her painting: “You are keeping it yours too much.” He ended up getting pretty upset about it.
Reading I’m Just No Good at Rhyming helped calm him down. Then Cherie called with Vivian and Colin, who are in Mexico now. August went out and got mint and made tea for himself. Vivian has started listening to music (the free U2 album) and Carly suggested August could share some of his music with Vivian. He had the HomePod play “Galvanize” for her.
He told me about the colors he had mixed earlier: puke green two, cherry red, house white, and sky blue.
We got him ready for bed and he said good night. We looked up world records for breath holding and pain. Then he had Brother games where he was getting hurt. He also told me, “In my planet everything has a calculation… What’s 45.00003451elephant…”
He talked about wanting a carniverous plant. Apparently he and Carly had looked for one at the plant store. I remembered that we had talked about sending a message to Glecy, so August agreed and sent a “Happy Thanksgiving” video to her. He didn’t want to send any to anyone else. But it was clear he was really tired. We listened to the Max Reger cello suites and he was asleep by 9:50.
A dramatic ending: https://youtu.be/l2ZS9Ii82Z8
In the porch swing:
Gilad’s piano:
Laughing at Snoopy on Thanksgiving:
Entertaining Colin with a song:
A message for Glecy:
