He was up a little past 10. We found ants in the kitchen and he helped kill some that were near the door. While he was in the bathroom he found a little piece of plastic on his foot, and asked “Can we please go plastic shopping when I run out of plastic?” To distract him from nursing, Carly gave him some warm milk with a little sugar in it. He drank it all and asked me “Fill it up and put a little something something in it…Some crunchy crunch in there…” The crunchy crunch was sugar at the bottom that apparently Carly hadn’t fully mixed in. I managed to get his clothes off him, but he was then naked for quite awhile. Carly asked if he wanted clothes and he said “I’m enjoying naked time.” I took a shower, and when I came back he was watching Puffin Rock and eating toast with jam. I then made him toast with cheese while Carly finished cooking the cauliflower and carrots. He ate some cauliflower when it was done but rejected the carrot.
Carly left around 11:30 and walked to work today. They had a tour of the medical center. While she was gone, August and I put out some jam for the ants, which they really liked, found sap on one of the trees, and we swept out the playhouse. He found a little yellow square bead that he liked and put it in water to clean it.
We then left at 11:45 to walk into town to the grocery store. There, he got to put a coin in to get a shopping cart, then played with a coin for much of the trip through the store. Got a full load (backpack plus a full bag) and headed out. He got to get the coin back out of the cart when we left. On the way back he sang a nice song about the shade and where dogs like to poop. And he almost lost the coin. He dropped it, we went back a little ways, then I realized it was under him in the stroller. We stopped at the pharmacy to get some allergy medicine for Carly and August remembered the cotton balls that he had seen last time so we got those.
We got home and he mixed water with some cotton balls, then added salt and pepper. Made a mess on the table. Then finished with a tea bag, which broke open while he was playing with it, adding the “crunchy”. I made a veggie sandwich and hot dog, which he promptly ignored. He then also decided to take a fair amount of time going to the bathroom. This was just as Mandy was supposed to be arriving. Carly had initially planned to meet her at the school, but Carly was dropped off at home, so Mandy came straight here.
She picked us all up a little after 2:30 and we headed out for car shopping and a trip to Ikea. Car shopping went okay. She drove us north of Even Yehuda to where I had found Kia and Chevy dealerships. She sat with August and watched Sarah and Duck as we looked. Kia apparently doesn’t have the hatchback version of the Forte in Israel, and Chevy has stopped shipping the Sonic here. Those were our first two choices. We have the Chevy Spark as a fallback small car, but in the evening I went back to the research and came up with three other cars that are the same size as what we want and appear to be available here.
From there we went to Ikea. Mandy went and got a coffee and we got shopping. August got through it eating about 20 mints and several crackers. He did okay, but got impatient and cranky. Probably in large part because he hadn’t eaten much. He also wanted to see how the big shopping cart machine worked at the end was upset when we didn’t spend time on that. We did pretty well shopping, though: two rugs, an easel for him like Vivian’s, a stool for the kitchen, small rugs for the kitchen, a dish drainer, welcome mats, a new pillow for me, some sheets, a pot and soil for our plant, a couple of light covers, a cutting board, and probably a few things I’m forgetting. We guesstimated just right as we got it all in Mandy’s car with very little room to spare.
We got home at 6:45. He went on the teeter totter, climbing on on his own (having always asked for help getting on before), then inside he said “I’m going ant exploring.” Luckily, I don’t think he found any in the kitchen. While I had checked out at Ikea, he and Carly had gone to the cafe area and gotten falafel sandwiches and an orange juice for him. He had been sitting in the middle of the floor, drinking his juice.
At home we started to unpack everything and also eat our sandwiches. Carly put hummus on her sandwich and August said “I don’t like hummus at all. I’m never going to like hummus.” August had fun playing with the new rugs and all the plastic. And he watched a little Puffin Rock. Carly cut up the watermelon we had got at the store earlier and he ate some falafel. We are pretty happy with the downstairs for now. I sat on the couch with August and asked how he liked the house now. He said he still doesn’t really like it, but that he might “When the toys are here and the books.” We read Dinos Love Underpants and Carly took him up to the shower where he played for quite awhile and I managed to give him a good hairwashing. He then went in and fell right asleep at 9:30.
Sleepy wakeup:
Sweeping:
Pretending to drink his experiment:
Car shopping:
Ikea:
Easel:
