August got up about midnight to go to the bathroom. He walked into the bathroom and started washing his hands. I followed and asked why he was washing his hands. I thought he might be sleepwalking, but he laughed at himself and went and used the toilet first. Got him back in bed when he was done, although he first tried to put his head at the wrong end.
I was up getting ready to head to Jerusalem for a meeting at Sabeel when August got up about 7:20. I got going about 7:40. No traffic this time as it was election day #3, and almost as good as the one time I didn’t see any cars for several minutes.
While I was gone he put her to sleep again, this time for a nap. He eventually told me he thought she was a sleep for a half hour and he told me he did the graphing calculator while she slept. They also walked over to the mall for a treat. That was an adventure, as there are lots of bees on and around the flowering bushes on the way over there and he’s really afraid of bees now. Don’t really know why now, in particular—maybe too many Brave Wilderness episodes about bees.
My meeting went fine, although Omar continues to want to change things, and quickly, while at the same time rethinking/changing fundamental structural things he had decided long ago.
On the way home I initially was going to take a route that took me east and north of Ramallah, but Google Maps changed that on me. I took a few kilometers of new road to me, but ended up on the main settler highway. But then I turned off at a park area and drove through a nice wooded space. Saw an old rundown synagogue, lots of families out barbecuing on election day, and a good amount of flowers. I made a second stop at the Brazil Forest entrance and walked around, then drove the rest of the way home, getting here at 4:15.
When I came in August had started to just listen to “The Gloomy Pine Tree” on Circle Round. I made us both some chocolate milk and he finished the story. Carly had just started making stir fry and when it was done we all had some. He had us rhyming words like addition.
We practiced his piano piece, “Skip to My Lou”, together then he played with the electric guitar. He was detuning it and finding octaves. He then was having a graphing competition with braggy teens. He never actually gave me the graphing calculator so the teens could graph anything, but they just had to admit they couldn’t make graphs that were as good.
We listened to a Wow in the World about animals and mutualism was a word of the day. Carly had gone for a walk, and when she got back he hid under the blanket. He was talking about hexadecimal and converting it and we figured out that 1000 is 16 cubed in hexadecimal. We’re starting to realize the patterns of any number system.
We watched a few educational videos I had saved for him then GoodTimewithScar’s first Hermitcraft 7 video. August found it very funny. We played piano some more and got through most of the melody of “Skip to My Lou” and he showed it off to Carly and how his thumb gets to “cheat”. He then listened to “The Hare’s Tug of War” and “The Road to Camelot” on Stories Podcast. I got him some toast when I had some. Carly got him some oatmeal, then frozen strawberries.
He went to the bathroom and was excited about his big poop. I, luckily, didn’t have to go see it. We went upstairs. He kept singing “Cats, cats, sit on you. Sometimes they take over the school.” in the bathroom. That’s another song from Story Pirates.
In bed we read a little How To and listened to “The Giant’s Daughter” on Stories Podcast then “Owl” from Bedtime Explorer. He was asleep at 10:20.
Guitar time:
Showing off Skip to My Lou: