I woke him up at 9:20. Finally, when I mentioned Gilad was ready for Minecraft he popped up and said, “Gilad? Thanks for telling me!” We went downstairs and he went to the bathroom. As he logged on to Minecraft he said, “I should grow up to be a coronabully…because I don’t like Coronavirus…I should grow up to be mean to Coronavirus.” They played in the Survival Trival world. Then switched to Gilad’s. When Gilad has to go, after not a lot of time, August and I played in the sky block world. We had pet donkeys that wouldn’t stay in their fenced area.
He had a scone for breakfast, then after Minecraft had a plate of cantaloupe and played with Sound Rebound. We went upstairs and wrestled, where we invented the everything shot (that caused him to alternate between asleep, hyper, paralyzed, etc.) and the ugly goose shot, which made him imagine ugly geese were everywhere. When I got a text message with the substitutions for our Tiv Taam order we went downstairs so Carly could see it. She had gone in to work, but came home around noon, before the staff party.
He played chess with her, then we ate lunch outside. Rice with teriyaki sauce, cantaloupe, and cucumber. We ended up discussing bell curves and standard deviation. Examples we came up with included flowers opening and closing, birds migrating, and winter and summer (solstice and equinox). It started when he asked why there are just a few mangos at first and we discussed how the seasons starts slow and then tapers off at the end.
He then started walking around as Myna, discussing Minecraft. She has a redstone shop and also a weekly sale thing, including bells. Myna and Sister were then playing pranks on each other. He was also talking about updates he’d like to make to Minecraft: a bathroom update, a stomach texture pack (to change the symbol for hunger), a rain and flood update, and ice melting, based on research he did in Alaska.
Inside we looked at the two boxes of chemistry experiments that have come recently. But one box, cyanotype, seemed better to do when it was darling, and he didn’t want to do either of the experiments in the other set because he didn’t like the idea of making gasses, even though they would be in bottles.
He played piano instead. He told me his favorite scale is A sharp minor, specifically in octave 5. He also has a 4 note that he really likes. He then read the rest of the Dirk Bones book to me and earned a star, then played more piano. He then politely asked me to let him do his Minecraft time first, before doing the alone time, saying we’d agreed to do it every few weeks. I also thought it would be a good way to make it so that he’d do the alone time part with Carly while I worked, so I said yes. We played in our survival world and I found the spawners and he took down his random cobblestone structure.
We then went out to play our ball game. The Tiv Taam order arrived, and Carly cleaned everything off and he offered to help carry things in. That worked really well. He then did his alone time, listening to “The Druid’s Harp of Ireland”, then a story called “Runaway Cats”.
I was working, and he cashed in 5 stars to play with Carly. I think they also did some reading, and had some dinner. He then played Minecraft with Vivian and Colin. Some conflict at first over which world to be in, but then they solved that and he and Vivian really worked together well on a big build. Lots of creativity too, using item frames with flowers in them, and planting flowers and things.
I went for a run and he played chess with Carly. When I came down he played by himself and ate a mango that Carly cut up. He then had me play chess. He randomly said, “Sustain a metabolism for over three years.” No idea.
We went up and wrestled, then he took a long time on the toilet. Carly took over, but he started to be kind of grumpy. Not sure where that came from. She got him to take a bath, then in bed we watched a video about how sunflowers follow the sun (a topic that came up earlier) and he requested to watch more running of the bulls, so we did that. We brushed our teeth, and he asked, “What’s cobble mean?” We discussed the various meanings.
We listened to Beethoven’s Ninth and discussed how dog catchers work and pet licenses and everything. He complained about not being able to get to sleep, but he was asleep at 11:15, the earliest in a long.
Everything shot:
Song of the day:
Water bottle on the swing:
Dizzy with the broom:
Big build with Vivian and Colin:
Some piano:
A message:
