He called to me twice and I went in to pull the blanket over him. Then just a bit after the first time, around 6, he got up and said his pants smelled like pee. I think he had just had a dream, but he went to the bathroom and changed his pants and went back to sleep. But then right after Carly left he called out to me. I went upstairs and he was asking, “What are you doing downstairs?” I went in the room to find him walking around the bed and looking out the window. He said he’d been awake “for like two hours” and had been playing with the laser pointer. I asked what he wanted to do about getting up and he eventually got back under his blanket for several minutes. He was under the blanket, albeit moving all around the bed, until he got up at 6:50 and we went downstairs, where he declared “I’m bored” as he kept playing the piano.
We finished “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, then played Minecraft. He was grumpy at the end and needed food. He ate a little toast and yogurt, then ended up doing lots and lots of music, before doing some Rezzoch the ancient games in the Brother and Sister stories, where Rezzoch (called by the new teacher) kept getting defeated by the ugly goose. He finally had some cereal, then some Mac and cheese.
I took a video of him being silly on the couch: “I’m pretty jazzy, right?” He had us do arm wrestling, and said the secret was “leverage” — a line from Lumberjanes.
We got ready and took my bike over to the mall. We parked at the bike rack and walked in. We bought three packs of tape at Kravitz, then he did some of his spinning in the mall. I realized the little music store booth is now gone. I feel a little guilty, as we never bought anything from there, buying the melodica from Amazon instead, and ordering the kid guitar for his birthday instead of getting a ukulele. We went to Tiv Taam and got ingredients for banana bread and a few other things. When I went to check out I couldn’t find my Tiv Taam card (it broke off my key ring months ago and I’ve been carrying it in my little wallet, but was always afraid it would fall out). It would apparently save me close to 40 shekels today, so she helped me sign up for a new one. August was quite patient while I did that.
We went out to the playground, and he asked, “Why did humans end up with ten fingers?” We read https://www.seeker.com/amphtml/why-do-we-have-10-fingers-and-10-toes-1799948737.html
We rode home, where I got us chocolate milk. He did alone time, and listened to Circle Round’s “Twelve Loaves of Bread”. We then played Minecraft, then made banana bread. Well, he was mainly talking constantly, although he helped a little. He very, very randomly said: “I discovered a new way to make really efficient waterproof doors: use tons of whale lips.”
In a Brother and Sister game (Mayne I should just call them Imagining Games, as the cast of characters keeps growing and doesn’t always include one of them) he was being a tiger attacking me when I spilled coffee on him (as the General). I remembering ‘passing out’ because of a lack of blood, and said something about Bar needing to save me. I remember resting my head on the couch, waiting for him to attack me again or something. Next thing I knew it was maybe ten minutes later. He had fallen asleep on the couch too, putting his head down in the corner. I woke him up right away, and he woke up very confused. First he walked towards the bathroom and realized he didn’t need to go to the bathroom. I picked him up, and he kept pointing towards the door. I asked why he wanted to go outside and he said because we were picking up Eve now, right? I told him we had another half hour before we had to leave.
He woke up, and we decided to watch an educational video. We watched an Odd Quartet video on a project where he uses a laser to visualize music. August loved that. We then watched the Odd Quartet video on how chords work. Triad was a word of the day. August tried major and minor chords and found a progression he really liked that I took a video of.
My timing was perfect; the banana bread was done so I turned off the oven and then we went to “Jump in the car”. August thought that was a funny phrase and was a little confused; apparently he didn’t know it and thought I was making a joke or literally wanted him to jump in, so a phrase of the day.
We got to school and picked up Eve. We went up and checked in with her mom, and August told Heather some fact. He was then telling Eve a series of facts as they walked to the car. Eve talked about how smart August is, saying her dad said that August is really smart, and also said he was smarter than anyone in the class.
In the car Eve looked at our animal pamphlets thing. August told Eve about the big snake we saw while geocaching in Pennsylvania. Which was two summers ago. Also, he says ‘Pennsylvania’ very properly and clearly.
I remembered we needed to get strawberries so drove down to the strawberry place. August and Eve got out while I went in and got the strawberries. They were playing in the dirt and grass, and kept playing and playing. I stood by the car and studied. They used plastic hose pieces to break dirt and dig, and explored the empty field a bit. They ate a few strawberries, and I finally had to urge them to leave at 4.
Heather was planning to pick her up at 5, but ended up being 5:30 as usual. They spent some time trying to play music together. Eve pulled the bottom of the couch out so they could jump off of it. They went outside together, taking the melodica and keyboard and played music together for quite a while.
They came back in and spent some time apart: she made him strawberry pancakes out of play dough, and he did music on his own. He showed her elytraing in Minecraft, then they ended up doing potions together. I was trying to limit the damage to our spices and soap supply. They ended up using every drop of food coloring, which is at least cheap.
Heather got here at 5:30 and we said good bye. He wanted a Circle Round for alone time. He ended up playing keyboard instead. He played Minecraft with Carly and I went up to work. He came up to tell me he was arguing with Mama for fun. The current topic was that she should go for a run. I gave him some science argument for him to take back to her. He came up again a bit later to ask if I wanted smoothie. I said yes, and Carly delivered a strawberry smoothie a bit later.
When I came down he was talking like crazy about a Mars base and all sorts of other stuff. Carly gave him a bath, and he was then rhyming, like “You’re hairy…don’t forget to give your money to a charity.” We said good night at 8:40 and he kept rhyming. We Listened to “The Most Powerful of All” on Circle Round. He rejected reading first. “Calling all the shots” was another phrase of the day.
He went to the bathroom, then we had the lights of and listened to “The Greatest Game”. I put on the sax quartet album and he was asleep at 9:30.
Changing the arpeggio of his sound:
Zinnie cam: looking at the sound waves:
Zinnie cam: playing the synth:
Zinnie cam: sound wave close up:
Spinning at Tiv Taam:
A full spin:
Zinnie cam: shopping for bananas:
His chord progression:
Walking with Eve:
Playing in the dirt by the strawberries stand:
Playing in the dirt 2:
Playing music together outside:
