He wanted to nurse at 5 something. Carly was already up so I went and got her. He went back to sleep, then was up at 6:27 and went straight to the bathroom. Nursed but didn’t go back to sleep, so they went downstairs and played the owl game and had a chocolate pancake, which he sat at the table and carefully ate, making yummy noises. He and I played the chipmunk game “Dada chipmunk, you can be the weather changing.” Then to owls. They kept throwing up owl pellets but also were getting sick. He was Pip and Pop and I was the animal doctor and inspected him. He then crawled back in the stump and was silent for a few minutes.
We watched a SciShow Kids video on owl pellets, then he changed to being shrews: “The Owl’s want to be shrew crew now.” They got sick eating bad berries: “They ate mud and shells and outlets and light switches and pans, light bulbs, mugs, plants, sinks, bathtubs, containers, baskets…”
Carly took him outside for a few minutes and they mixed food coloring, then we came back in and did more animal games. I then went up and took a shower and when I came down he was watching Wanda and the Alien and laughing a lot.
We were then waiting for Mandy and getting ready to go. She was taking us to pick up our rental car. Running late though, so we had some time. I got him some grapes and he did his “The grapes clogged my pipes.” game where I then have to unclog him. He was being cranky, a combination of being tired and nervous about what was going on. I went out to the junk in our driveway and found shelves from old kitchen cabinets that we might be able to use for our library. I had turned on Michael Jackson’s Bad to celebrate its 30th anniversary. While I was out August wouldn’t let Carly turn it off as he said he really liked it. We all went outside for a little while and he talked more about digging up the weeds. He also said “I have a little gear on me that turns me up and down and left and right…There’s a handle on it, see?”
Mandy and Jillian turned up after 11:30 and we headed over. I sat in the middle and gave August red and yellow mints. He swallowed one, dropped another. I gave him a replacement red, but when I wouldn’t replace the one he swallowed he started to melt down. We got to the Enterprise at 12 and they dropped us off.
It wasn’t the fastest service, and Carly had quite the task in getting August calmed down. Finally he did, and played some Creature Garden and Gro Forest, I think. We eventually got our car, a well-used Kia Picanto, and left about 1.
I drove the north route into Even Yehuda, getting used to the car. We gt home and Carly took August up and he was asleep just after 1:30, then awake a little after 2:30. Nursed, then played Namoo, saying “I like to show mama things that are really interesting…This game teaches you about trees, mama.”
Carly cooked mushrooms, then gave him some pilaf on the couch and dropped a little on it. He excitedly told me “I was eating on the couch…Mama foegot to set me on…Got on the orange pillow…” He ate the rest at the table, making yummy noises.
We got ready to go and left at 3:30, with Carly driving this time. We drove down to a Skoda dealership a few miles away in Ra’anana. August was talking more about getting cats, specifically “Can we buy robot cats sometime?”
Parked and went in, and pretty much decided on getting the Skoda Fabia. The size and features we want, and the diplomatic discount was impressive. August spent his time spinning in one of the chairs and loved that.
We left about 4:20 and drove over to the Ra’anana Park. It is a big park and maybe sort of our new Children’s Grand Park. Not as big, but with two big playground areas and a small zoo. We parked near the west end, paid, and walked east. Saw a couple of interesting birds on the way, and there are a lot of sculptures. We got to the first playground, a big covered one, and mainly played on a big spinny thing and Carly went on the big swinging beam. We then went up and walked around a slightly bizarre concrete maze sort of area. We found a fuzzy backpack decoration and August rubbed it on his neck.
We had been looking for a drinking fountain and looked at one sculpture. Carly commented on the artist who made it. August misheard an thought she was talking about the sculpture itself: “It’s not a person! It’s made out of metal! Not bones and skin and intestines and everything!”
Headed farther east and found the second huge playground area. Even more kids here. He climbed up stairs, along with other kids, and was amazed they were all going “All at once!” He went down the slide. He spotted a hanging capsule thing and said “It looks like an acorn rocket!” Tried out all sorts of other things, then went in the rocket thing for a good amount of time. Carly skyped with Cherie as we played around there, then walked around the big circle, playing with other things. August and I went on one of those parent/kid swing combos.
Close to 6:30 we started to leave. We got the stroller and walked around the big circle, stopping to try out the exercise equipment. Stopped at the bathrooms and left there at 6:40, walked by the zoo area, and headed back to the car.
I drove, and we got home at 7:25, just as it got dark. Inside Carly made him a pancake and he told me “Hey dada, I was just saying in the car I want to eat those pancakes every once in a while.” We all ate dinner, then played the Pip and Pop game, followed by a new yard waste game in which we put the branches in a can, then the truck came and dumped the cans, then it got chipped into mulch. He was talking about something and said “Little microbes ate it all up and pooped it out.”
We read Chicka Chicka ABC twice and Tiny Rabbit’s Big Wish, then took him up to his shower. Carly gave him his shower. In on the bed he sang his “Bee-uh bee-uh” song, which is about nursing, but added a whole dance, with his hands palm together, to it.
I thought they were both asleep about 9, but at 9:25 she sent him back down. He played Sarah and Duck Sleepover and we did Solar System together, discussing the different planets. We read Loch Mess Monster and part of Hilo, then went up and I got ready for bed and he used the bathroom, then we went in at 10:35. Still took him awhile to fall asleep, and it was after 10:45 before he was asleep.
Photos. Morning:
The rental car:
At the Skoda dealership:
The car we will order:
Ra’anana Park:
