Around 4:30 there were a few peels of the craziest, loudest thunder we’ve heard here, along with a heavy downpour. I got up and watched it out the window. I have no idea how it didn’t wake August up. Later he was laughing in his sleep. He was then up at 8. He did some graphing calculator with Carly, then played Polytopia and the Bricks app since Minecraft is still down.
Carly got him egg and toast for breakfast and they left, headed to the bowling alley at the Poleg mall, at 9:40. He had take the keyboard to play in the car. At the party he went in a bouncy thing that was really fun, then they played bowling. He had fun with bowling, but the excitement wore off. He told her, “This is boring and repetitive.” He wanted to do the bouncy thing again, but it turned it was closed and/or would have cost a fair amount more of money. He started to get upset about it and they left. He kept it together pretty well, but was upset the whole way home. They got here at 12:30 and he had a meltdown. Carly asked if we should cancel Gabi at 1. I thought the whole meltdown had been happening since the party (he got really upset when Carly tried to tell me what happened, so I didn’t hear details until the evening) so agreed right away to let him know that we were cancelling. It turned out he had really only started to meltdown right then. In hindsight I think we could have turned it around in time. Oh well.
Carly let me go back upstairs to work some more and they worked it out. When I came down they were doing some math, trying to figure out how often airplanes had to leave a runway if there were a thousand flights a day. We did some Apples to Apples, then he played piano. I looked up the videos and photos of when we first found it, then went back and bought it and took it home and we watched those. August saw little him playing it and tried to play the same notes. That was really cool.
We cleaned up, then Carly left for a run at 3:10. August made a new sound he called “Bolts and Screws”. He took photos after using my phone to see the sound waves up close. Carly got home, then went to do recycling. He watched a Kurzgesagt video on “Prison Earth” (one of his favorites) and I started making dinner (a sweet potato and chickpea and kale dish with ginger and coconut). He told me all about machines he made to capture space junk (in the form of a Bar and Sister game) but wouldn’t let me film him.
He then watched a few Life Noggin videos. Carly Skyped with her parents. He watched the Life Noggin video about going to bed hungry with Cherie. Pangs was a word of the day from that.
August made a structure in the kitchen for alone time. It was for communicating with his website. When I told him about the dinner he exclaimed, jokingly, “Chickpeas? There’s chickpeas in there‽ There’s NO WAY I’m drinking the pee of a chick.” He spent a long time on his structure. Carly was commenting on student papers. Minecraft was working again, so we played in the Greek mythology world.
We worked on a musical composition, using a tune he had just made up. It was a tricky rhythm I was trying to get down. He ate a plate of the sweet potato dish. Not as addictive as he hoped, he said. He wanted to play fake Apples to Apples but I told him it’s not fun when he always wins, and won’t even allow the occasional tie. He did a little with Carly.
I then started to read Lumberjanes #2. Carly wanted me to submit our insurance claims though so I switched with Carly and went up to do that. He was upset when I went up, but eventually let her read something to him.
She gave him a bath. He then had a rather dangerous pose on the stairs that he insisted on showing me. He was still hungry so had strawberries and Cheerios before we brushed his teeth. He talked about moving objects and said, “Things don’t want to move or change their speed. But we have to convince them to.” He described it as “Paying the debt.” “I’m paying the gravity debt,” he said, as he pushed something on the floor. I think this was from the Kurzgesagt video.
I talked about something “Sans leaves.” He asked what that meant, so sans was another word of the day. We discussed the attic and rain and possible leaking, but agreed it wasn’t a big concern.
In bed we read several pages of an adult book called The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. We listened to Circle Round’s “The Golden Flask”, then tried a meditation on Headspace. We listened to the Bach Sinfonias and he was asleep at 10:20.
Chromatic scale:
Zinnie cam: at bowling:
Zinnie cam: lights on the floor:
Stop videotaping me!:
Kitchen creation:
Another new song:
