He called to me at 6:56. I turned off my alarm, for 7, and went in with him and lay down on the lower bed and fell back to sleep until he woke up at 8:18 and asked “Can I have new pants?” He did seem to be a little damp, so we changed him and he curled back in bed until about 8:30 and we went downstairs. He saw Carly painting and said, “I didn’t know you were painting overnight!” A minute later he said, “Did you know there are an infinite amount of numbers between .0001 and zero?” I don’t remember hims learning anything new about infinity later, so it’s pretty impressive that he continues to develop this understanding of infinity.
He was impressed with her painting (she was working on another toilet paper roll) and asked, “How are you such a professional?” And he keeps asking things like “How much would people pay….?” On the couch we read The Last Kids on Earth and he did some composing. We then played Minecraft, in our creative world. He read the random message at the beginning, then when searching for the books he was practicing spelling more or all of the words. I talked to him about his reading and he said he was feeling good about it, but he isn’t ready for reading books.
It was a little tough getting him to log off when we were done, but he managed. I made us oatmeal, and he went out with Carly for a minute until he saw a bee or fly. We ate inside, and he wanted Carly to paint a picture of him, so he was taking a bunch of selfies with my camera, trying to get one that Carly would like. He then went on a walk around, talking about his strange mathematics where numbers equal different numbers. He then moved to graphing.
I went for a run. When I got back he was listening to “ Three Clever Brothers” on Circle Round. I took a shower and then they were playing Minecraft. I made hotdogs and carrots for lunch and while he ate we talked about the Minecraft AI competition that he remembered and I looked up an article about it: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/12/13/21020230/ai-minecraft-minerl-diamond-challenge-microsoft-reinforcement-learning. He then talked, as Myna, about Minecraft add-ons that make trees obey gravity, and also a bleeding one where you can be injured.
He played some piano, then I was watching a running race video and he saw it and asked questions. I showed him a 4x400m relay as well. We went on the couch and read a few chapters of The Last Kids on Earth, then the newest GoodTimeswithScar video. Carly then showed him the game about planets that high school students had made for him.
I worked for two hours. I heard more Circle Round. I came down and found them sitting out on the swing, reading. I started making dinner. They talked to Cassie and kids, and did some math involving quadrilaterals. They hung up and went outside. When august came in and saw dinner he said, “The little noodles and the big noodles, I like the contrast.” We ate outside. A much nicer day than yesterday. Until my eyes started to itch. I eventually went inside and went upstairs to lie down for awhile.
When I came back down he was playing Minecraft with Vivian and Colin. When that was over they did story time, reading the Junie B. Jones where she sees her teacher stealing grapes. Beverage was a word of the day. While they were doing that I got August seconds on dinner, and when he was done with that he requested corn. He had a bowl of just corn, then asked for oatmeal so had a small bowl of that.
After that was over Carly went upstairs. He asked me what rear meant. I gave him different examples, then he went up to Carly and asked, “Can I see your rear end?” He also told me that he had worked on the R sound with Carly today. We were upstairs at 8:40.
I gave him a bath, then Carly read to him from the science book they’ve been reading and I did a little work. We were in his bedroom at 9:35 and we listened to “The Know-It-All” on Stories Podcast. He told me that Buzz Aldrin was called “Buzz” because his little sister couldn’t say “Brother.” Philosophy was a word of the day. Capsize was another. We then listened to “A Herculean Fable” and then the “Ground Level” episode of Peace Out. Lights off at 10:05 and we listened to the Ton Koopman Bach organ album: “Sounds like an amusement park…a circus.” Seems like he took forever falling asleep and was finally asleep around 11.
Selfie time:
A song of the day:
Space game throw:
Space game:
Spinning time:
The L story, part 1:
The L story, part 2:
