He was up by 8:15. I went up, and about the first thing he said was, “What game was I going to play?” He was thinking of Infinite Arcade. Sometime during the night he had moved down on the lower bed, head towards the window. I asked if he had remembered this. He said, “Probably in my dream where one of my redstone machines wasn’t working…couldn’t get into a chest…so I moved to a farm that was working. It was in the nether.” “I also had a dream about lunch and a piece of a cookie and people falling in a chasm…and stuff like that.” He clarified that that was all in the same dream. He had also taken the container with the teeth in it out from under his pillow and put it on the headboard, and said he remembered doing it.
Downstairs he played Infinite Arcade for a few minutes, then we played in our creative world in Minecraft. When done he went and played piano. I went upstairs, and when I came down he was half naked, having just gone to the bathroom, and said, “Hey Papa” him half naked. He put on shorts we’re pretty sure he’s worn since he was 2. Carly made him a chocolate pancake for breakfast.
He remembered the money from the tooth fairy. I went up to check first, as I hadn’t actually remembered to put it under his pillow, having left it on top of the book case. He then came up and found his ten shekels. Back downstairs he played more piano, and for some reason I mentioned “Somewhere over the rainbow”. I showed him a video of Judy Garland singing it in The Wizard of Oz and then we watched a video of the Israel version.
We were then going upstairs. He went in with Carly for a few minutes, then I came back up when he was ready. We did the sleeping/waking up game, with the Family family getting in a big fight with the cats involved. That allowed us to wrestle around. He had a bit of a Myna and Minecraft game, is hen we talked about geocaches and ideas for hiding one near our house. He then had the idea to go feed the ants.
But downstairs we first got distracted with piano. We played a duet together, which was cool. He then wanted to play backgammon, so we got that out and remembered the rules and he played against himself. We ate some grapes and put some schnitzel in to cook, then went for the ant walk, feeding them bits of his pancake from breakfast.
Back at home he played with Other Mama (her shirt), then we watched the newest Grian video, then ate schnitzel. He listened to “I’m Bored”, a new story, on Stories Podcast for alone time. He then showed Carly some Infinite Arcade and then we played Minecraft in Survival. He was still hungry, so had more schnitzel. We then had a cookie and milk. We played another duet together on the piano and really impressed Carly.
Carly and I were meeting with Gabi, so we went and August got set up to watch Iskall’s videos from the beginning and had to have the proper kind of lollipop. August asked, “What’s surreal mean?” Iskall uses it at the beginning of episode 1. Carly and I met with Gabi, which went well, then I finished watching episode 2 with him.
Downstairs I played chess against the computer for him, and neutralize was a word of the day when I used it. Then we were back upstairs for a Sister game. It involved the waking up game, but had Baby Brother sleeping with her and waking her up. We ended up doing the hand snake thing, then my hand was a jumping frog that exploded when it got still. He was laughing hysterically. Then he had a game where Sister met a kitten in park. Turns out to be a homeless Millie, pretending to be a cat to get taken home (sort of an alternate back story for her). Then a version where she’s an owl in the jungle and injured.
Carly was getting him dinner and he requested coconut rice. Carly also made sparagus and broccoli. I went for a run and they played Minecraft, after which they watched a couple minutes of a documentary and had popcorn, then Cherie called and they mainly talked to her. I got home and took a shower and when I got out he came up and was asking me about having some of his iPad time from tomorrow early, today, so he could show Carly Infinite Arcade. I suggested he read one book to her and get a few minutes of iPad time that way:
Him: “You said exactly what she said.”
Me: “Wow, it’s kind of scary how we think alike. It’s like we’re perfect for each other.”
Him: “No. You’re not.”
Me: “We’re not!?”
Him: “Yeah.There’s some flaws. You get angry with each other sometimes.”
He went down and read to her, then showed her Endless Arcade. She took him up for a bath, then they played a couple of games: the shark game (from Cherie and Chuck), and then the balancing game (from Mom and Dad). Precarious was a new word. And he told her “You feel frustrated right now” when she was having trouble with the balancing.
I went up at 10. He was talking about his mistakes, I can’t remember in what, and Carly said she was impressed. He groaned and face palmed. In bed he was asking me about famine and drought and the Yemen war. Capitol was a word of the day, and he made a connection to Polytopia. He was then talking about something and said, “There’s a variable…it dissipates…I’ll call it D for Distance.”
We went and brushed our teeth, then he played his melodica and was asking about time signatures. He told me, “I’m going to test if reincarnation is real in a hundred years. I’m going to die: wait, what happens when you die?” Which then led to big discussion. We put on Rival Consoles, and he was asleep around 11:20.
End of a song:
Money from the tooth fairy:
Today’s upstairs dance:
Typing 1:
Typing 2:
Ant feeding:
Yummy cookie noises:
Lots of laughing:
His way of playing Simply Piano:
Simply Piano 2:
Simply Piano 3:
Reading to Mama:
