We’re in a pattern of when I’m getting up in the morning he gets up before I can get downstairs. Today he was up at 7:30. Carly was still sleeping so we went down and read a couple chapters of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He was eager to get to the piano, so when we heard Carly up he went and started playing. He switched to Notion after 15 minutes. He wanted the keyboard hooked up, but Notion was quitting when we did that. He played in GarageBand for a bit, then found the Suggester app that we hadn’t used yet. It helps you put chords together for a song, and he played around with that for a while, before wanting to switch to Minecraft. We played the Spring game. There was a good word of the day that meant something like harassed.
We then watched educational videos, the skyhook video from Kurzgesatz and “How Polynesian Sailors…” from Ted-Ed. rooted was a word of the day. We played piano and learned a few notes of “Hacked”. He then listened to the Two Whats and a Wow episodes of Wow in the World and I went for a run. When I got back he started Minecraft with Gilad. I took a shower, and they found an airport in D.C. and did things like fly helicopters and planes, and spawn Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln statues. At one point he said, “I’m traveling across the vast abyss of town.”
Played more piano, then we watched the newest Grian video. I taught him the word stonks. His water bottle spilled, making the couch wet. August kept watching by climbing on the back of the couch and lying down. The groceries delivery arrived and Carly started wiping them off, then I put them away. We listened to Story Pirates (he had listened up to “Jumping Bean Jack and Bouncing Bailey”) and had rice and soup for lunch and he graphed in Desmos. Grand slam and home run were words of the day as it was a baseball story. . Then census when there was a story about the census. August practiced some typing, and made a code where Q was 1, W was 2, etc. At one point he told me, “I’m animating synesthesia.” Carly was making face masks out of pillow cases and other things.
I got him outside. He talked about his code and we did some kicking around of the soccer ball. Carly brought him some grapefruit. He had (after some initial whining) been waiting patiently for ice cream. Since I decided to do the pie tomorrow I suggested we have a little ice cream now. We ate that outside, then I noticed our plants swaying in the breeze. I took short clips of several of the plants and flowers and put together a short film of our yard. August helped out by being quiet for each shot. He has three small bit in the film though: He is whispering something in the first clip, in another you can hear him playing piano, and near the end he walks through the background.
Back inside we edited together the film and he played with transitions on the phone. We then started watching Jane Eyre. We watched the first 40 minutes. “I don’t think you should fear gods…if there are gods they should all be nice.” He talked again about “The Search for Sun”. He took a break to go play some more piano. “What’s _poco a poco crescendo _?” We watched another 20 minutes. I got him to stop after one of the characters said “fuck” a couple times. He didn’t pick up on it, thankfully, but I should probably preview the rest of it before we watch more.
In the evening I went up to work and he played Minecraft with Vivian and Colin. I came down at one point to help him make an end portal so he could show Vivian the End. I went back up. They finished reading Nate the Great and started Completely Clementine. Hung up before 8:30. He came up to tell me my coffee was cold. When I came downstairs a couple minutes later he announced, “And now for the grand opening of Dada the Ancient!” and played a little song for me.
We got him upstairs and Carly gave him a bath. He said, “I love pie. It warms my heart.” We were in bed at 9:15. We listened to “Songs for Lions” on Stories Podcast. Then “The Little Rescue”. We then listened to “Check it Out” on Peace Out. He looked at his feelings poster and again said that you could be both confused and frustrated at the same time.
We had lights out at 10. We listened to T-Bone Burnett’s The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space (Instrumentals). He commented on Jefferson being both good and bad again, calling him both funny and confusing. Asleep by 10:25. He said “Dada, Dada” a couple times as he was falling asleep, but softly, and didn’t follow them up with anything.
Improv time 1:
Improv time 2:
Garden in the breeze:
Watching the rain:
Satisfying rain cover:
Catching rain:
