He was up a little before 8:30. He cuddled in the couch bed for a few minutes, then we went downstairs and he went out and climbed in Carly’s lap for a couple minutes. Back inside we read the first few chapters of The Last Kids in the World and the Cosmic Beyond. We were then waiting for Gilad to be ready for Minecraft, so watched the latest Grian video, where flair was a word of the day. He then had Brother and Sister games with Myna giving them IOUs and them cashing them in (often for silly things), like what happened between Stressmonster and Iskall in Hermitcraft.
We both had oatmeal for breakfast, then he did some piano practice; he’s getting down the second section of “Hacked” and we’ll probably get that learned by the end of the day. He started Minecraft with Gilad about 10:30. They had difficulty getting into one of Gilad’s worlds, and I think August ended up creating a new world. At one point I heard him say, “Gilad, do you think we should start mining? Settle down as a community?”
They played just over an hour until our lunch was ready and Gilad had to go. Good timing. We had grilled turkey and cheese sandwiches and dried mango. We went outside, and he had a whole game of Myna and Sister having a tag battle in Minecraft. We sat in the chairs and read more of The Last Kids on Earth then Shani said she had left something on our gate. It was a little fridge magnet thing where you glue pieces on to make a picture. Very nice of her.
August then had the idea that he wanted to pretend it was bedtime. I got Cheerios and we went up to his room. We listened to “Mouse Tower” on Stories Podcast, then “Living the Dream” on Peace Out and he was curled in his bed. He got bored about halfway through that and we went back downstairs where he went to the piano. He was then on Supersonics Piano when Carly came down. He went and did a really cool piano improve with a unique rhythm to it. He said, “I thought I’d take the beat from “Epic”.” Which is an advanced piece he’s listened to but can’t play.
He went outside and had some more food with Carly out there. Back inside we watched a couple Ted-Ed videos “Why Your Can’t Divide by Zero” and “Would You Move to Mars”. He had also asked something about what caves look like, so we watched a video called “Top Ten Caves” He then had Brother exploring caves and I taught him spelunker.
He then wanted to compose for each other. I composed for him first, then him for me. He never tried playing what I composed, and the piece for me kept getting longer and longer. We did go to the piano after a while so I could try to play it. From there we went to the floor and did some art on the iPad, first an activity from the art book. August sort of did it, tracing the figures, but knew from the beginning it was too hard—it looked like a writing activity, with having to draw curves and the such. We switched and did a little Brilliant, doing a little of the geometry course. He was somewhat impressed when I was able to convince him the perimeter of an irregular polygon was the same as the square that contained it.
We went outside, where Carly was gardening, and I was trying to get him on a walk. He was playing on the teeter totter and hanging upside down with his hair touching the ground. He then was saying of me trying to get him on a walk that “This is absurd…” Except it was coming out more like obscure, so we were discussing what both words meant, and both obscure and absurd were words of the day.
No walk, but good playing in yard. As he hung upside down and had me take a photo he said, “A photo is basically an infinitely long and infinitely still video.” He then showed me exercises and we did his exercises for several minutes.
Back inside I started rice, then he played Minecraft with Vivian and Colin. I went for a walk, then came back and ate. August stopped Minecraft just fine. They started story time and i went up to work. Cherie was then babysitting August over Skype. When I came down he went to the bathroom then talked languages with her and went back to showing her things on the piano. Cherie taught him the word dextrous. I went back upstairs for a couple minutes, then they came up for a bath. I heard him explain to her that even though not all numbers are prime, there are an infinite number of prime numbers. Which I’m pretty sure he figured out on his own and is pretty amazing.
We were in his room at 9:40. We listened to the Stories Podcast’s “David and Goliath”, then Peace Out’s “Living the Dream” He asked what a grandfather clock is. We listened to Glass: Solo Piano. He said “I can’t sleep” again right before falling asleep about 10:50.
“Hacked” progress:
Song with a cool new rhythm:
Hanging upside down:
His exercise:
His song based on “Hacked”:
