He started waking up at 4:30 and got up at 5:20. The first thing he said was “I want my feet cold…freezing.” and took his socks off. They went downstairs and nursed, played on the iPad, read some books, and were outside when I got up. He came in to get the tweezers. Back inside he played the My Food and My Body apps and shared some of the pasta dish with Carly for breakfast. Carly went up to the bed and August wanted to go with her. Worked for awhile but he was getting crazy while she was resting: “I was a little crazy. Not a lot crazy.” “I’m not gonna go crazy EVER AGAIN!”
We went out while she took a nap. I took the DVDs of the things that Carly had dropped off to be digitized at the end of last summer and that Cherie had been keeping in the motorhome until we picked it up this summer. I converted them on the computer. Sadly, it appears like the cassette of their August 17th presentation went missing. August played some Animal Doctor while I got that going, then we went downstairs and he finished the rest of his noodles from earlier and we had some banana yogurt, which he liked this time. We then went outside and did the raisins in soda water experiment again. We also dropped in a coin and a piece of the tree things to see what would happen. Carly came down while we were still outside.
We then got ready to go and headed off to the mall. We first went to the pharmacy but didn’t get anything. At the kids area there was some mom and kids class going on. There was music playing and they were dancing. August watched. I headed down to Kravitz, the stationary store. They caught up a couple minutes later and spent several minutes looking at all the pencil sharpeners and erasers. I got some small markers to hopefully use with the Hebrew stencil and we got a flashlight.
We then headed back outside to go to Aroma, the coffee shop and cafe. We got a fruit smoothie with date sugar for August, I got a chai latte, Carly got an iced cappuccino, and we shared an Israeli breakfast, which had a bunch of options and sides: eggs with veggies, bread, a cucumber and tomato salad, olives, tofu, and probably a couple other things.
We sat in the corner and ate – all quite good. August played a little My Foods on his iPad and I studied the Hebrew menu and my book. Carly headed to Tiv Taam and started the grocery shopping and eventually we went to find her. In the store August really liked a pot holder thing that looked like a crocodile mouth and he used it to carry around the Tic Tacs we chose. He found the candy section and a Minions thing in particular. He tried putting the crocodile thing and the Minions thing in the basket for us to buy.
He fell asleep at 1:10 on the walk home. Carly took him up to the bed and at 1:55 she went up to wake him up, which took a lot of work. They played, then came down at 2:20 and had a cookie and milk. I went outside and sprayed more dirt off the walls, a UPS guy asked if he had the right street and then for David at number 3, who I could confirm was our neighbor, and I put our number 1 up on the fence next to the gate. I went inside and found August eating more pasta and cauliflower. After that bowl I got him a second, then a third. Carly got him a bite of the soup she was making after that. He was watching some Puffin Rock.
I had also gotten new stamp pads to use with our rubber stamps and we played with those for awhile. He found an empty paper towel roll and took it upstairs with Carly again to destroy it on the bed. They came down to cut his hair while he watched Puffin Rock. I helped, trying to hold his head and keep it straight. She did well, considering he wouldn’t let her actually cut too closely.
I cleaned off the patio again, as spraying the walls had left more dirt on it. Back inside we read part of the Rocket book before he wanted to play Human Body and Carly tried a little more hair cutting. I went out and taped up the slide.
Carly went upstairs to do some work. Playing Human Body or My Body, he was putting on the bandaids and said “I think the white one is polka nuts.” He meant polka dots, and I think was confusing it with ‘coconut’.
They went upstairs for awhile, then came down to go for a walk at 6. We headed to the playground, but August said “Hey! Why are we at this playground?” He wanted to keep walking, specifically to the mall. We kept walking north, and of course he wanted some Cheerios, but I hadn’t brought the backpack. He had a couple of Carly’s mints instead. We saw a house with a bamboo fence and he said that all of the houses with bamboo were his. I asked if he was afraid the monkeys would come and eat the bamboo (which he had asked about yesterday). He said, patronizingly, “No dada, the monkeys won’t eat all the bamboo.” As we got close to home he was chanting/saying hi to weeds, playground, trees, poop, etc.
We were home after 6:30. Carly said he could have cereal and milk and he was very, very excited about it, with his hand in the air. Carly called Chuck and Cherie, then went upstairs to talk to them. He sat at the table, eating, and watched Puffin Rock. He was laughing a lot. Carly gave him a bath while I changed the light bulbs around to find a place for the one we bought so we now have a light on the landing upstairs.
He and I then read Astrosmurf. About halfway though he said he was tired and we went up to Carly. Tried for sleep a little after 8 but came back down 8:20ish. We read Sarah and Duck at the library and got two new Peppa Pig books: dentist and Peppa’s First Sleepover. Carly had some food and August ate some bread with her, then she Skyped with Glecy for awhile. He then wanted more dried Cheerios. I said no, and he went to Carly and said “Dada said I couldn’t but you said I could.” His eyes got really big when he thought of that one. She hadn’t. He settled for a couple of raisins, then we brushed his teeth again and went upstairs. He fought sleep for awhile, but was asleep at 9:45.
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