He was laughing in his sleep during the night. He was then awake at 6:55. He walked into the office and looked at Carly’s clothes. He pointed to her shorts and said “I don’t like that dark color.” At a bra: “That goes around mama’s nursing.” Then had fun throwing all of his clean clothes downstairs, then started taking his pajamas off and throwing them down until he was naked. We walked downstairs and he asked “Whys it so quiet in here?” It is quiet when the AC is off, and really quiet when the refrigerator is also off (I’m a little concerned by how much the fridge runs – it seems like it should be off more often). Anyway, he went went and turned on the air conditioner. He wanted to listen to music. He requested new music, but I put on my playlist of favorite songs. We listened to the Los Gossos song and he liked it and wanted it added to his playlist. I had seen a National Geographic video of a crew removing fat, oil, and grease from a clogged sewer system and showed it to him. He watched it again and again and again.
We then went and read Hilo, starting from the beginning. We paused for grapes and more Cheerios. He said “But grapes clog my pipe.” Some more Hilo, then he watched Care Bears and told me “My pipe is clogged…See all the gross poop? The gross fat?” I took a shower, and after that he was talking about a “Pipe that goes down to a music tree…”
We then moved to playing with the pillows. He said “I want to pretend to be a leaf machine.” So we set up the machine and did what we did yesterday. But instead of batteries being boxed and going to the store it was leaves being cut out, painted green on each side, put into bags, and being taken to the assembly area where we’d build apple trees and plant them. That went on until he got destructive (after I was worn out and needed a break): “I cut it with my very strong cutter. If you touch it when I turn it on it will break all your bones.” More leaf machine, then birds were dropping plastic parts into him, then he was a blender. Brushed his teeth, then it was a toothpaste machine, making mango toothpaste. Once I was worn out again we did some Flynne game, as that lets me lie down for at least a few seconds at a time.
He wanted a cracker and I told him to try not to get crumbs on the ground. He said “But gravity’s going to pull the crumbs down.” I made him eat outside. We had been listening to music and Radiohead’s “15 Steps” came on. He said “I really like this music! Could you add it to my playlist?”
We played factory again, this time making smoothies, then switched to playing Robot Factory at 10:35. The dryer was supposed to come between 9 and 11, and when I hadn’t heard anything by 11 I started texting the number from yesterday. We had peanut butter and jelly for lunch, then read Jumpy Jack and Googily.
Around 12:15 a guy called. He only spoke Hebrew, although confused me when I asked in English if they were delivering a driver and he said ‘No’. And when I asked if he spoke English he said “British”. Anyway, he kept talking really fast, but he kept repeating “Ata ba bye-it”. Which I then realized was “You at home?” I said yes, and they showed up about 12:30. They hauled the dryer up the stairs in about 10 seconds, then asked for a tip because of the stairs. I tipped them, and decently, but then realized after they darted off that it was still in the box. Also, I should have asked them to move the couch up and the bed out to the curb and tipped them a bit more.
I got the dryer out of the box and in trying to get it off the styrofoam bottom I realized I could just set it up on the washer. August played with the dryer vent, which actually makes a good toy. So I got it set up, although after attaching the vent I realized it could also be attached to the side, so might change that later. We tested it to make sure it worked.
August played Human Body and then the Weather app. He was hungry and I told him I was having difficulty finding things to feed him: “I eat different things. I don’t want the same kind of something. I want different kinds of something.” We ended up with toast and banana and he ate almost the whole banana. We read more Hilo and Sleepy Dog, Wake Up.
We had looked at the library books and he said he didn’t want to return any today, and we were running out of time. I was talking about going to school and how we needed to get there before the bell rang and I mentioned when we saw all the big and little kids coming out of the gate. Confused, he said “But, little kids can’t go to school‽” He assured me it was okay if we had to watch the people coming out as “I have my people machine and log machines with me…in case there’s a bunch of people walking by us.”
We finally left at 2:45, but when we got over to Vatikim, about 8 minutes, I realized we had forgotten the floaties. Went back and got them. When I came out with them he said “No! No floaties!” We got to the school and changed and got in the water. I was just up to my waist when he needed to go to the bathroom. We went and it took a long time. Carly came and was in the pool before us. There was another teacher family there with a 2 and 4 year old (Ben and Maya). August watched them, but was shy. When we got in we mainly went and stayed in the deep end. He kept putting his foot up on the edge to feel the breeze on it. It was 5 by the time we got out and got going, and were home about 5:30.
Rice was running out, so he ate a little food with Carly, and I made eggs with mushrooms, seitan, cauliflower, and cheese. He was impatient for them to be done as they were cooking and I kept telling him I just had to put a few more ingredients in: spider legs, etc. He said “Oh. I like bat eyes in my eggs.” He ate a good amount of eggs, then went with Carly on the couch. He told her “Say ‘I’m not going to give you any space.’”
We started reading Hilo. Carly went outside and swept and cleaned the slide, then went up and took a shower. We paused reading to eat grapes and Cheerios. He asked me to count the grapes, then I arranged them in a shape in the bowl. As he ate them we did subtraction and named the other shapes. When it got down to 2 and 1 I told him not to eat more as then we wouldn’t have shapes. He told me “We can always get more grapes.” While he finished eating them I responded to an email. He didn’t like that though and hit my leg with his head. I told him not to do it, and he did it again, really hard. I got up and Carly took him up to his shower.
I went up after they were done. He had some crazy time on the bed but mainly cooperated with getting his pajamas on as he was ready to nurse. He was asleep just after 8.