He woke up at 6:10. They nursed, then came down and read the Look After Your Planet Charlie and Lola book while I installed the Space app on his iPad. He and I then read it as Carly headed to work. We opened the windows as it was slightly cooler this morning, then played some owls and shrews before he went to the bathroom. Played the Space app on my iPad, then Simple Machines. Then we played the Pip and Pop owl game, hunting for mice, etc. Then we had some banana bread for breakfast. After that we went out to fill the cat water and pick up the tree things. Then back inside and more owls. Somehow that changed into a robot game and he was breaking me. He watched Wanda and the Alien and I exercised then took a shower, after which we had more banana bread. He was then a bad robot: “It’s painting your eyes and feeding you paint.” Pip and Pop were sick, and he did a lot of talking about white blood cells.
We talked about our plans and goals for the day, and for some reason he started talking about chocolate. I mentioned that I don’t love chocolate like he and mama do, and he asked “You don’t love chocolate?” He seemed incredulous, although this isn’t news to him. He lay on the floor, quiet, and I went to get things ready to go. After a minute I noticed that he was still silent, and curled up on the floor. I went over and asked if he was okay. He whispered something into the floor, and when I asked him what he said he said more loudly “You don’t love chocolate!” And then he started crying. I picked him up and we ended up sitting together on the couch. He calmed down once, but started crying again. Eventually, he was okay and played the Space app while I made lunch.
Packed lunch for at the park, then we looked at our library books. He went back and forth between wanting to return them all to the library and wanting to keep all of them forever. We read That’s NOT a Hippopotamus, then got outside at 11:50. A few minutes outside playing on the teeter totter, then left right at noon. He asked if we could go to a gas station in case we ran out of gas.
In the car he played the Airplane app and said that the characters wanted to go to another country. When I asked which country, he said “all the countries”. We parked and were in Ra’anana Park at 12:30. That was pretty much the limit of his comfortable driving for now, I think. He spent the last couple minutes wanting to be unbuckled.
He got to put coins in the parking meter, then we went in and found a bench and ate some lunch. Or at least I did, as he only ate a couple bites of peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He didn’t have much of an appetite today. Then playing with the leaves and dirt, before going on a swing for quite awhile, doing more machines, like an electric swing machine. We eventually went over to the acorn spaceship. He complained he didn’t have a spacesuit though as “Any store doesn’t sell spacesuits.” He played with the tunnel thing while we waited for a baby, but then only spent a minute in the acorn rocket.
We spent a few minutes discussing the concept of ‘space’ and trying to understand it, then I suggested we head over to the zoo. He asked “Cuz flamingoes is my best?”
We went to the zoo and watched the chlorocebus monkeys, then he needed to go to the bathroom. Did that, and were talking about why people need wheelchairs and how limbs can’t grow back (“Why?”). He started playing with the dried grass, etc. and said he was making grass smoothies. While he did that I took photos of the emu and sika deer. We then walked over and saw the caspian turtle and tried to find the mara. There were a few water birds (said they had pelicans, but didn’t see any) and he started crushing up feathers and leaves on the ground and making feather and leaves smoothies.
About 2 we got going, and went to a water fountain where we got a drink and washed off his hands. He then promptly grabbed a handful of dirt and got muddy hands which required a re-washing. Got driving at 2:13, headed towards WBAIS.
He fell asleep right as we got to the school. Carried him in, still mostly asleep, and he started to wake up for the big stuffed animals and Amanda, who greeted us. We went and got two Tomie dePaola books, Tom and Pancakes for Breakfast, which we read in his nest of stuffed animals. Weren’t all that impressed with either, and decided at the end not to check out any new books (since he couldn’t decide we had just brought all of them, in case). We also met Marina, who had previously taken our photo while we read in the library and who is working with Carly on student research projects.
Before we left we went and looked at books a bit and August discovered that in a corner of the library they have a big container full of hand puppets and stuffed animals, and other toys. More reason for us to spend more time here in the future. We left at 3:15 and then went to the cold drinking fountain, with steps, then on the way back towards the hedgehog the guy who is running the trip next week started talking to me. August started picking up leaves and dropping them through the railing to the ground below (when the wind didn’t blow them back), and that was where we still were when Carly found us at 3:30.
Almost went back to Carly’s room to play the student and teacher game, but decided on home instead, and got here at 3:45. Carly cooked the new veggie patties we had found, then we realized there were a bunch of new ants in the kitchen – they had found a gap in the patch job on the wall behind the sink. At first it wasn’t clear where they were coming from though, so I looked under the sink with the flashlight. August liked this and helped out. Patched the hole.
They nursed, and at one point August said “Don’t mind if I do.” Which was pretty funny. I think I finally figured out that it is something that Mossy the shrew says on Puffin Rock. Talking about the ants, August very politely said “I don’t mind if they get my food from the ground…Can they get the food from the floor?” We then played the animal game, taking care of sick shrews, etc. He and I were then sort of cuddling on the couch while Carly got ready to go on a walk. She joined us for a bit when we were too lazy to get up.
We finally left at 5:40, Carly driving, and went to a parking lot by the community center in northern Even Yehuda. August liked all the branches and pieces of bark in the windy parking lot. We got walking and walked around several blocks. Almost convinced Carly to take a painting by a garbage can and turn it into a zombie for her friend Paul, and we almost took an old wooden chair we saw elsewhere. Turned around at one point because of a dog wandering the street. As we went August would want leaves and branches from the ground and would rip them apart.
We got home at 6:45. He asked “Can I play the planets game? Learn all about the solar systems?” So he played Space for awhile. Carly took a shower and we played the chipmunk game, talking about the seasons. Carly took him up and gave him a shower, then he was hyper on the bed. I stayed with him and he was crazy for a minute, then I got my iPad. We read Peppa Big Ballet Lesson and The Curious Garden, and then bought Peg + Cat The Chicken Problem. He talked about how if he loved it he’d want to read it over and over and over again, never stopping. We read it twice, but I decided that was enough. Carly came up, and August made sure he got a kiss from me. He was asleep about 8:40.
Spaceship:
Sika deer:
Playing in the library. He has a sore tummy:
Crry branches on our evening walk:
Peeking out:
