I slept on the lower bed today, as I was wanting to go straight to sleep and not have to get up to move beds. Worked pretty well, but I was reminded how uncomfortable that lower bed is. Don’t know if I’ll be trying that again. August got up soon after me, at 7:50, while I was still upstairs. He went to the bathroom and we gathered up our stuff to head downstairs. Carly tried to get him to go outside to do some exercises, but he didn’t want to do that, so they went upstairs instead.
When he came down he reminded me about wanting to learn how to type, as it seemed to be like playing piano, but easier. I taught him the home row, and he was instantly asking questions about how to type things like tildes and keyboard commands. I answered those and got him started typing. He was then typing math problems while I looked for typing apps. We eventually tried one for a bit, Typesy, but after a couple lessons he wanted to go back to typing on his own.
He saw me typing fast, and said I typed really fast. I said it was because of practice. He then said, “Practice makes perfect!” I said, well, it makes you better. And he revised the saying to “Practice makes progress!” Which we agreed was better.
Carly then showed him a video about Passover. He watched a bit before coming back to do more typing. He showed Carly his typing and was then showing how he knows keyboard commands for moving the cursor. I taught him a few more and said that keyboard commands were pretty cool. He said, “Yep, you convinced me.”
I went for a run and they played Minecraft. She got him oatmeal. He was then watching Kurzgesagt videos when I came down and Carly was meeting with Alex to discuss their film festival. August and I read The Last Kids on Earth, then we watched some of the Seattle Symphony morning videos: bassoon, oboe, and flute. We then watched Stressmonster’s newest video. OTT was a word of the day and he made good use of it.
He played piano and looked at Supersonic Piano. We ate the rest of a tuna melt sandwich and I made fishsticks for lunch. We took those outside to eat and he had an ongoing story where Myna accepted invites to the servers of braggy people and makes them not braggy: “Agent Not-Braggy.”
Back inside Carly was painting. We read a bunch more of Last Kids on Earth. Carly then got us involved in her film festival, doing a film called “Shadow”.
We discussed ideas for that, and started shooting: It involved Carly moving a chair into the chair and then trying to read. August was then doing different things to bother her. It ended with him spraying her with a hose. Back inside I was watching some of “One Man, Two Guvnors” and let August watch the funny part about a sandwich. We played piano together.
He then had his meeting with Gabi. He started on Carly’s computer so he could show him some of the video effects, then switched to my iPad. They did some drawing together, played a tank game, and then spent most of the time playing checkers, but coming up with different goals, like trying to be the first to lose. At the end August joked about cleaning up the soldiers etc. “That’s a benefit…” of meeting virtually, he told me, as there was nothing to clean up.
Once he was off he asked me about the Internet Archive. He’d heard Carly talk about it. Archive was a word of the day. We played astronaut and Brother in on the bed with a pillow fight. Downstairs we had dinner. August was graphing. Carly got informations about all of the magazines and newspaper subsriptions the school has, and I set those up on my phone. I’ve been wanting Haaretz access the whole time we’ve been here, and now have it. They called Vivian and Colin. Talked for a while, then played Minecraft. Think they did story time afterwards. I was upstairs working.
He was listening to “The Lute Player” at one point when I went down. When I came down again he was playing music for Cherie. Carly took him up for a bath. He then ate his cracker and honey, then brushed our teeth. He asked, “What’s psychological screening?” It is from the Mars Base video.
In bed we listened to “The Sparrow and the Pine” and “The Big Scary Cave”. Then the Peace Out’s “Try, Try, and Try Again.” We put Benge on and he was asleep by 10:55. Finally.
Learning to type:
Piano hand:
Soundtrack composing 1:
Soundtrack composing 2:
Soundtrack composing 3:
Drawing with Gabi:
Playing for Oma:
Song for Oma:
