He called to me at 6:20. I went in and went back to sleep on the lower bed. He then got up at 7:45. He was grumpy about having to read in the morning. We went out to see all the downed tree bits in the yard. He eventually went and played some beautiful piano improvs. For his Minecraft time he decided to watch a video instead and we watched GoodTimeswithScar’s latest Hermitcraft video. A while after that Gilad was ready to play Minecraft so they started playing. I drove up to town for a few things.
On the way I drove around the block and found where the chainsawing had come from: just a half block up Kibuts Galyut two of the big trees by the parking lot area had fallen over. Oddly, it was the ones at the ends. They mainly fell on empty lots and the street, but one crush a car port with a car in it. I continued on up into town. Town was a zoo. Probably a little busier because of current events, but mainly because it was a normal pre-Shabbat Friday. Went to the pharmacy, then to the grocery store by VIPizza (pita and hummus).
I returned home, and August and Gilad finished a few minutes later. He watched some Kurzgesagt videos. Carly went for a walk. He requested Brilliant and Mac and cheese. Didn’t eat it and took off his clothes.
I got him dressed, and he kept jumping from thing to thing and couldn’t focus (multiple Sister games, different things in Brilliant, etc.), but then did piano and Piano Maestro. I watched a Vihart video on spirals an Fibonacci sequences.
I then got him outside and made him chocolate milk to drink out there. He had a Sister game about her joining a server for the first time. A little later, back inside, the power went off. August was fine for a minute, but when I confirmed the power was actually out to the whole house he freaked out and was rolling around on the couch. Carly comforted him, and after a few minutes I went for a walk around the block to see if they were doing some work somewhere. Didn’t see anything.
He was more calm now. Carly suggested Pictionary. He didn’t like the idea at first, but then got into it. When he was drawing things for us he was doing things like “Negative exponential growth…multiplication…a kid’s artwork…” Eventually the power came back on. He kept drawing things for us, like “Pi MINUS zero point zero one…” And he drew a zero and infinity to shop us “opposites.”
He and Carly did Khan Academy. He did alone time, during which he asked me to fix the ‘augmented’ chord chart as I’d never written down numbers on it. Carly paused his alone time to read him part of Math with Bad Drawings (dull was a word of the day) and then they did some sort of tic tac toe sort of game from the book.
For a second alone time he listened to “A Dozen Loaves of Bread”. He started watching videos, but decided to play Minecraft instead.
I went up to work from 4 to 6. They read the kid version of Hidden Figures. He called me on the phone to ask how to find the Supersonics Piano app so he could look at pieces of music. I came down a little after 6. They were Skyping with Derek and family and August was playing piano. She had made him grilled cheese. We all ate. He was holding a grape in his cheek and we joked about it looking like a bee sting. He was later looking up pictures of bee stings on Google.
We did more piano, then read some _Ben Braver. Hobo was a word of the day. He was then looking at Minecraft photos. He asked, “What’s scarred for life mean?” Which is part of GoodTimeswithScar’s catchphrase. We then watched the first episode of Cosmos and ate two bags of popcorn. Cosmos was really good, and we’ll be watching more episodes.
I got him upstairs and Carly gave him a bath. He was telling her about Minecraft. He was then talking about old computers, first with her, then me. In bed we listened to a KidNuz, then the Circle Round story with the Story Pirates. We skipped the Bedtime Explorers and listened to Philip Glass’s Etudes for Piano I know it took him some time to fall asleep as he told me he was struggling at one point. I fell asleep to, and he was asleep some time between 10:30 and 11.
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