He was up at 8:05. I went up, and he was on the couch and instantly crawled under the covers. I got in with him, and he fell right asleep. I hadn’t expected that to happen.
He was then up by 8:55. I went up, and we talked about May Day, and then Buddha’s Birthday. Back downstairs he played and played piano.
He went to the bathroom and asked about Buddhism again and reincarnation. He started arguing about god not existing and I told him about how science needs testable hypotheses. I meant this as a reason to not actually argue against them, but he took it as a good argument in and of itself and went out to tell Carly: “The hypothesis can’t be tested.” “Buddhism, that’s the same problem…”
We then watched videos to learn about May Day and Buddha’s Birthday and watched a reading of a book called May Day Around the World, which focused on the spring celebrations of it. Lei was a new word. We then watched two videos of trapeze performers, since it had come up in a Peace Out a couple days ago and he didn’t know what it was. August liked the symmetry of it.
That led to a Brother and Sister game with trapeze artists in forest. Carly came in and he played piano. Then he asked for more kinds of performance, then specifically something that would scare Brother. I came up with a motorcycle cage (something we saw once or twice in, I think, Spokane at car shows):https://youtu.be/TM_jORDiEz8
Syncronized was a new wotd.
We played some Minecraft, finding our old dirt house in the survival world, until Gilad called and August played with him in his new Survival Island world, which he had seen listed last night when August played with Vivian. He ate oatmeal, then crackers and meat, while he played.
They played for about an hour, then we did a Brother game of them going to the beach and getting stuck in the traffic jam. He wanted another performance thing to scare brother and I came up with sword swallowing and we watched a video (https://youtu.be/q6bLxt3_9pA – exquisite was a new word). We next watched the latest Grian video. Allocated, backtrack, P.S., and asthetic were new words.
I made him a quesadilla. He talked about cutting down a forest in Minecraft and making a desert in Minecraft: “So it can metasophically…” mixing metaphorically and philosophically. He was then going on about Myna digging a billion blocks. Sister had a business now, landscaping, and Brother is her secretary. He ate outside and kept talking. He watered his weeds, then most of the other plants. He spotted a spider and we took photos of it.
We played a Ms. Safe game with a new student, Arthur, who had amnesia. Then read The Boxcar Children. Ought to was an interesting phrase for him, and he was using it later. Carly came out, and we went inside a few minutes later. He wanted another medical condition for a student, and we came up with Allie in a wheelchair. He was asking for more, so I thought of narcolepsy. We watched a video about narcolepsy and learned the words narcolepsy, cataplexy, paychological, and impaired (https://youtu.be/f6C6o4SLbTA). The Osmosis channel looks promising for future videos. There was then a new student, with narcolepsy, named Tal. purchase was a new word, and we played a game with Tal being a new student.
Downstairs he listened to the camels story in Circle Round, then we read through and watched the video for Ted Ed Earth School day 3, learning about what our smartphones are made of. Irreparable was a new word. We also watched their elements song from that. He then spotted an Extra History video on the 1918 flu pandemic. We watched it, and it turned out to be a 4-part series. We watched two and a half of them. He learned words like trachea, riot, and pneumonia. He was really liking them, and only stopped because he was talking about them: “This is the first time and epidemic helped civilization…the war ground to a halt.”
I got him out on a chocolate bar walk. He headed to the back path as the black dog was out. We walked up through the park, got almost all the way home around the block, and he spotted the dog again, so we walked back the way we had come. Worked well, as it doubled our length. Along the way he asked, “What’s vital mean?” He ate his bar as we walked, and said, “I gobble up cookies faster than a spinning black hole gobbles up planets.”
We were back at 5:30. He stayed outside with Carly and I went for a walk. It was the furthest I’ve walked since they first implemented the 100 meter rule. The night before that had gone into effect I had gone on a run over to Bnei Dror and taken a photo from the other side of the park. I walked over there this time and took a photo from the same location. I got back and took a shower, and August, Vivian, and Colin did Minecraft.
At the end August suddenly had the idea that they needed to do reading with Vivian again and got upset when Carly woudn’t say yes right away. She needed to ask Vivian first, and Vivian hasn’t been wanting to do it. He got upset and was hitting her, but it didn’t last as long, and after she agreed to come out of the bedroom he went into his own room, turned on the air conditioner, and started listening to Stories Podcast: “The King’s Figs”, “The Hat, the Horn, and the Purse”, and “Anasazi and the Magic Bowl”. Carly brought him a fruit plate, then I got him some peanut butter crackers.
We skipped a bath again. He went in the bedroom with Carly and was helping her
Helping Carly with her movie:
“Why are you doing iMovies of your work? It sounds like a waste of time.” He asked what foothills were. Not sure where he heard that. He also asked her, “Do you ever hear my music while you’re working?”
We went in and read some of The Boxcar Children. Talking about fruit August said, “Cherries…scrumptious…nothing like a meal of raspberries, blackberries, and cherries.”
We listened to Peace Out, then we listened to an album called Persona, by Rival Consoles—another album Paul has been listening to. August liked it right away. He was finally asleep by 11:15.
Exploring rhythms:
Exploring rhythms 2:
Watering:
Going upstairs song and dance:
Teeth brushing and laughing:
