Him sleeping with Carly went fine last night. She said she definitely fell asleep before him, as a couple of times she remembers him saying “I can’t fall asleep.” He was up at 7:50. He lay down on top of the couch bed. I wrapped him in the blankets and he lay there a couple minutes. Downstairs we played in our main survival world in Minecraft. He was talking about one of the animals or something and said, “I just want to keep my baby safe.” I recognized it as something Carly says, and he admitted it. He complained, “It’s just an excuse…to keep me from getting hurt.”
He went and played piano, and played a tune on the piano that he used to play on the toy piano. He ate oatmeal, then did the Bullies-being-chased-away-by-the-piano-music game. We got going, and listened to music on the way down to Ra’anana Park.
We were there right at 9:30. At the entrance he started riding around the left side of the lake. I got a text saying that Lauren and Gilad were at the covered playground, so he rode back over the bridge and we headed over there. The park was full of school groups today. Apparently it is the end of the semester, so there are park outings. This playground was pretty empty at first. August wanted to show them some math, so used the calculator for a few minutes. I then got him off of it and he wanted to play the airplane game. They did that for maybe ten minutes, but then school groups showed up.
We decided to head over to the musical instruments area. They rode over there. Well, August did half way, then decided to walk. But we found a work crew there. They had taken out several of the musical instrument things, like the broken thing you run around and the wooden frog, and seemed to be digging holes for posts for a covered area. Hopefully it will be an improvement. They haven’t taken out all the instruments, so I hope they’ll be fixing things or adding new stuff.
We then continued on to the tractor. They spent most of their time there. It was a spaceship, and they were traveling to different universes, running out of fuel, etc. August asked for the calculator again, and I suggested he work it into the game, so he was calculating distances to other universes and things. Worked well.
We all walked out together a little after 11. We drove back to Even Yehuda and stopped at the strawberry stand. We had listened to an Andy Bell song that he likes on repeat a few times. He came in with me. Strawberries are now 4 packs for 40 shekels. Back in the car we had a big discussion of supply and demand, and why lower prices might be bad for a farmer, and why they might diversify their crops to avoid risk, which led to a discussion of stocks and how we own some and diversification. Stock was a word of the day.
That took us up into town, where we parked in the paved lot. We walked to the small grocery store. Got most of our stuff there, except for veggies and honey. He got a pudding thing and was hungry. We walked to the picnic table near our car and he ate it with a small fork as I didn’t have a spoon. He asked about missions to Jupiter and we read about the Juno mission and how it is lasting longer than they calculated it to last. He said, “It’s great when your calculations is wrong in a good way.”
We then walked over to Stop City! and got more groceries. He picked out the eggplants and sweet potatoes and yellow pepper. And wanted avocados.
We were home around 1. I suggested doing tuna sandwiches instead, as it was getting late for lunch, but he really wanted the salmon and waited. So I started making that, and he copied some complex graphs, retyping them on his Desmos from my iPad. He said, “I’m getting to advanced trigonometry. Nice.” We ate our salmon and whole grains for lunch, then he did alone time. He had a cool tune/progression. He told me, “It’s all minor.” For Minecraft we played in the flat bees world. Which is pretty dull. He had talked Carly into playing in it last night.
When he went to the bathroom he was thinking up a bunch of equations that all equal 27. We got going and headed to school. It was about 2:50, but turned into a parking adventure. A car was stopped in a red zone, driver still in, and blocking a bus. Then had to drive around the big traffic circle again, deal with parking busses and impatient drivers, and finally parked.
We went and got Eve. Heather was at the dentist, so we didn’t check in with her. We saw Corinne and Elise and their mom and talked to them on the stairs, then ran into them again as we walked out of the parking lot. They were talking about having enough pillows for a sleepover, and August weighed in, suggesting they buy more.
August and Eve ran down the sidewalk. I caught up to them, but then August started to walk out into the street without looking well. I missed his hand at first. Never really in danger of being hit, but we were out in the parking area, not on the sidewalk, and there was plenty of line of sight, and not one but two cars didn’t even bother to slow down as they drove by us. Almost certainly cars from the school as well. Ridiculous.
When we got home they got right to playing outside. I made strawberries and chocolate milk for a snack. They played outside until 4:10. They were spraying the hose from the top of the slide and making a rainbow effect. When they came inside they went upstairs and Eve got the baby. Eve said their baby was sick. August: “Eh. She’ll get better in a few days…it’s just a minor cold…” It turned into the doctor game. August was mainly the one that was sick, although he took care of Eve a bit, and she bandaged up her foot at one point. They called me up to help, and August wanted me to draw charts. He liked being sick, getting under the cover and then being taken care of. At one point he said he had ebola, then HIV. When Carly got home I told her she couldn’t go up as he had ebola.
Heather was a bit late, and arrived at 5:40 or so. They had come down, and August was playing a little piano while Eve was drawing something. It was the first time they’d played apart the whole time.
August played some piano for Carly, then ate some crackers and meat. He asked me, “Why does x^2 make a parabola?” I explained, no picture, and he seemed to understand pretty well. He then had a Brother game involving arguing about numbers and doing riddles. He did alone time and then played Minecraft with Carly. He was being rather demanding with her. For his educational videos he watched Kurzgesagt’s videos on “All the Bombs” and “Consciousness”. I then read more of Where the Sidewalk Ends. Dwell was a word of the day.
I got him upstairs and Carly washed him. I heard him say, “Now that’s what you call overkill.” Which is a line from “All the Bombs” I also heard him explain Astronomical Units to her. They read the Comic Science: Solar System book and I took over at 9:10. He had Cheerios and I read What If? On the Stories Podcast we listened to “ The Firefly Queen”. We listened to two meditation tracks, then he was asleep by 10:10.
Toy piano piece on the piano for the first time:
Steering the tractor:
Piano progression:
Playing in the yard with Eve:
Making a rainbow:
Being a sick patient:
