He woke up about 6, stuffy. I took a blanket and went in and fell asleep on the lower bed. He must have fallen back to sleep pretty quickly as well. I then woke him up at 8:05. He was surprised to find out it was still the weekend. Downstairs Carly read a little Astrophysics. She and I talked about podcasts, which got me finding even more. August started graphing, and Carly also did some programming thing with him.
In Minecraft we worked on our terraforming in the flat world. For breakfast he actually requested one of my tuna sandwiches, so I made him one and gave chocolate milk as well. He ate that outside.
When he came back in we looked at the pond scum from yesterday under the microscope. Saw several different little things swimming around. We also worked on different scales on the piano. I then made a strawberry smoothie. More microscope time, then they left at 12:30.
They went to Gabi’s. Don’t really know what they did. Then went to Tiv Taam to do some shopping. August said he did graphing while she shopped. They went to VIPizza and got a slice, and also went to the bakery for something. Probably ate it in the park. He wouldn’t tell me anything though, saying it was all secret.
They were home at 4. He was graphing when I came down. Carly was cooking. For alone time he offered to give me a massage. He did that for a bit, then played piano. He asked Siri to turn on sleepy music, wanting me to fall asleep. He did a little more graphing, then we played on the flat world.
Carly didn’t know what to do about the bacon, so I made August some packaged split pea soup, adding corn and pasta to it. Turned out okay. August kept graphing and came and showed me some of his graphs. Whatever playlist August had managed to get Siri to play was still going and we listened to Aphex Twins. I figured out how to ask, and he had gotten the “Meditation Station” according to Siri.
He had a second bowl of soup. I read him a few science articles I had saved to read to him from Apple News. One about a massive planet found around another star, one about the naming of Gonggong, and one about the JAXA probe to land on Phobos. We then watched a few YouTube videos I had saved: This one about kinetic sculptures was really cool:https://youtu.be/ROP45rjvOHg
and we watched others about the movement of Neptune’s moons, February skywatching tips, a NASA Avideo about what the Spitzer mission has done, and SciShow’s “The Tree of Life is Messed Up” (https://youtu.be/TJKAPiEndCI). That was all pretty new to him and taxonomy was a word of the day (and he had also asked about the word dwarf).
He had a Baby Sister game where she was in the ISS being de orbited, then he did some graphing and was showing me his process of how he can copy another set of equations, flipping back and forth between the original and then his new set. I said he had a lot of dedication. Dedication was another word of the day.
He was still hungry. Whiney at first, then I got him crackers and peanut butter. I went upstairs. They spent some time doing math, then she brought him up and gave him a bath. He came in to me at 9:10
I read https://apple.news/A0ZrF6MC-R_GPaGe3pKKdlg about the discovery of molecular oxygen in another galaxy. Pretty amazing, both for what it means and how they did it. I got him Cheerios.
We listened to “Skylark” and “The Song of Knockgrafton” on Stories Podcast, then “Dolphin” on Bedtime Explorers. He was doing a lot of talking about Minecraft and other things: He said he printed Wikipedia and called it “Basically a giant cube of knowledge.” We listened to piano music and he was asleep around 10:30.
Pond scum 1:
Pond scum 2:
Song of the day:
Explaining a graph:
Crazy lines graph:
