Carly woke up feeling sick so called Mandy and she came and gave her a ride to work.
He slept until 7:40. I heard the door and went up to find him coming out of the bathroom, looking for Carly. He said something like “Mama said she would nurse me.” He got upset but my suggestion of special milk calmed him right down. We went down and got some special milk for him and an iced coffee for me and he played the new Gro Forest app. At one point he took a break and said “I have a new game but you need to buy it. It’s sixteen dollars…” He ate some banana yogurt for breakfast and also played the recycling app and we quickly (for us) got ready to go and left just after 9.
We were meeting Ofer, husband of one of the teachers, and his son Liam, 4, at the school. Also, the pool was only open until 10am before closing until 3, so we wanted to get there for some swim time. We tried the new Tic Tacs that we had gotten at the store yesterday as we left the house. He was shocked to find that the orange ones aren’t actually orange, as that is just the color of the container.
I hurried and made it to the entrance of the school in exactly 15 minutes. We walked up to the pool right at 9:20. We had a good time in the pool and he did a little more swimming along the edge. I had fun talking to Ofer, who is Israeli, and August was intrigued by Liam and his snorkeling set, although he didn’t want to borrow their other set quite yet. Liam speaks English but his Hebrew is stronger, and he wouldn’t speak any English to August during our entire visit.
At 10 we got out and sat in some chairs and had a snack, then all went over to the ‘Soup’ playground. August and I decided the other playground would be called the ‘rocket’ playground. There, they started to play together more as August was putting pieces of wood in the shopping cart and taking them over to where Liam was. They also spent a lot of time playing in and on top of the car toy that has four steering wheels in it. August said they shot balls. They also climbed on top, and were fixing the car and its engine using items as tools. Liam started talking to us more, but only in Hebrew and Ofer would translate. August was starting to act a bit like he did with Vivian, wanting the same toy as Liam. Meanwhile, Liam didn’t want to share the front seat, or let August play with toys he had set down and August asked to use. Ofer said none of it was new to him as they have an almost-two year old as well.
They left a little past 11 to pick up their daughter at daycare. August and I played a little more, then he was ready to head home. We saw Ada on the way out. I had the towel over the stroller and pulled it forwards on the side so he would have more shade. He grabbed it and pulled it tighter around him so he was enclosed. After a couple of minutes I realized he was silent and when I checked he was falling asleep. I sang some songs on the way home and thought he would fall asleep but he didn’t. Had a good rest though.
He lay under the AC then played the forest app and I took a shower, then a coffee and milk for us. We did a little GarageBand and we filled a new spray bottle with vinegar and water and we sprayed the doorsteps to help keep the ants away. He played with the case for my sunglass things and said “Come on, give it a try…greedy thing.” And we watered the plant, giving it a little more as it was looking a little wilted.
Finally, at 2:45, he and I headed out, trying the rest of the 3 Tic Tac flavors we had along the way. We went over to the mall and looked around a bit at the market outside. He wanted to get closer to the speakers playing music so we did that for a bit. Not a lot of luck shopping for stuff at first. Got tape at one store and paid with 11 shekels for something that was 10.90. But he was out of coins so had to use the credit card. While I shopped in that store he chose to just sit in the stroller near the entrance, and had fun waving to me when he saw me down the aisles. We then went to the grocery store and August helped shop, carrying and pushing and hopping along the basket much of the time. At one point I started to pick up the basket and move it myself and he protested, then said “Punky dada”. August joked about picking up the big M and Ms on the statue again and when I paid I this time had to wait a long time to get all my change as she was out of coins. We have our bank cards now so once we deposit some money we can start paying with that.
He was falling asleep again on the way home again, but woke up when we followed the path the water would take in the pipes/channel from the highway towards us. He had asked where the water went on the way over. We realized it would go…into a parking lot and street, with no drains.
At home he spent a little time with Carly, then I took him downstairs while she rested. We used the shapes stencil from Meghan and drew on the paper, then he also drew on his hands. And some ended up on his face. He got out the cotton balls and poured them all out and started throwing them around, calling “Confetti! Confetti! Confetti!” I was throwing them to/at him under the table and he was putting them through the legs of table, calling “Elevator machine!” Eventually, all of the cotton balls ended up all the way over in the kitchen, where we were throwing them up and having them fall down on us. He lay on the floor and I made it rain on him.
For dinner I started by cooking the ravioli in the freezer, and Carly came down for a few minutes. He ate some of that, after I cut all of his ravioli in half, then we read Sarah and Duck Stay at the Duck Hotel a couple times. I had also cut up the cauliflower and was baking it and he had some of that when it was done. He liked it but said it was too peppery, so I had to scrape the black specks from it and he ate more after that. We read the Sarah and Duck book again. He was being silly on the couch, so when he said “My head feels right…I have a headache.” I wasn’t sure if he meant it. He also said “Could you please drink out of me? There’s something attached to my foot and it’s a straw. The machine makes juice water for you.” And “You’re the tank and the hose is attached to me. Tank, can you give spit back to me?”
At 7:45 we went upstairs. Carly was talking to Cherie. August took a shower and was asleep by 8:15.
Photos:
More shade:
Dropping cotton balls on him:
Marker on his face:
