He was up at 7:02. Nice and happy and came down and took several minutes on the couch to wake up. Had some Cheerios on the couch and watched Puffin Rock. He got creative: “I’m sure a bird is going to put a hole in the roof and put a lot of empty garbage in here…I’m gonna get my hole machine that makes holes in our house.” “The ants can eat my stomach acid…Only if I eat them I will let them.”
He played Human Body for awhile. And “When my crumbs stay in the air gravity helps it fall to the ground so the ants can eat it.” And he had a machine that put blue circles in, like the ones in Human Body that track blood cells through the heart: “The machine is putting more of the circles in your body.”
Being owls we headed outside and found things to smell. He decided to kill some of the weeds using his rake: “It’s killing the weeds cause it’s sharp and pointy.” I found a big nail over in the dirt strip, and he used it to break up clumps of dirt. And he talked about wanting to see cats drink from the water.
We went back inside and took care of shrews with blood infections and other problems: “I ated a cloud! I drinked all the water so it not rain. The shrews didn’t want it raining so the shrews dranked all the water up in the clouds.” I prescribed vegetables for the shrews and he ended up having them eat things like celery juice. We ended up looking up what shrews actually eat, as in Puffin Rock they just eat berries. So then he had them eating worms and stuff.
He was hungry and we found the salmon. Opened a can and he proceeded to eat the whole can, chunk by chunk and the last two pieces of pancake that he had left from earlier. Shmuel called about bringing the papaya plants someday, and Carly texted to let me know she was headed to Holon to get the number for getting a car. She was successful with that and we plan on going to order a car tomorrow.
In eating the fish we talked about meat and fish and eating animals. He played Gro Recycling while I showered. Then we made banana bread. He was most excited by the brown sugar, but also helped with the mixing and pouring. He enjoyed checking on it occasionally as it got bigger in the oven. He played Music for Kids and we worked on the music challenges on it. The banana bread was ready so took it out and had some. It turned out really well and he liked it. Too much, actually, as I realized I should have had us eat lunch first. Now he just wanted banana bread. I heated up pilaf and mushrooms but he didn’t want it. I put it in a container to take with us.
Randomly, he said “When mama gives me a shower she never opens the window…If mama lets the mold grow I will kill the mold. Yeah, I will kill the mold when it grows on my clothes.” I had told him why I had opened the bathroom window after my shower, but that was a couple hours earlier.
We got ready to go, and he had the idea of doing recycling, so we walked up and did that with the four or five things we have. We then got in the car and left, about 2:10, and drove over to a park I had seen just a little north of the school. There are all sorts of new climbing things there, and he spent some time going from one thing to the next to try them out. He was a little upset that some things, like the hamster wheel kind of toy, were in the sun. He ended up on a swing and spent a long time there – his first long swing session in Israel. While on the swings he wanted me to look on my phone and figure out where we should go after he was done playing. And he talked about how he was getting bored of the bowl he broke and wanted a new one anyway.
He was then an electric post machine (like light poles he saw around us) and had me put them up. He switched to being a banana bread dough machine, then said “Now it’s an electric post machine now.” I had thought he said toast. I told him that and then he was: “Next it’s gonna be robot toast you can eat with grapes and chocolate and raspberries on it.” He was making loud machine noises and they went on and on: “The machine needs a lot more power than the one that killed you and pollutes the earth completely!” “More so any neighbors can’t live on earth!” “Now the machine barely needs any power.” Then a machine that made hard candies (that kids broke their teeth on) and that made the step things for the playground. Some machines barely needed any power (like our new light bulbs) while other barely needed any pieces (perhaps the ‘reduce’ part of RRR that I discussed with him earlier). Finally, he was a gummy worm machine.
He got off the swings at 3:20 for water, and was ready to go. We were going to go into town and to the hardware store to get a new bowl to replace the one he broke. He then asked “Can you look on your phone, see where we should go next after we buy a bowl, please?” And looking at my watch he asked “Why is your watch waterproof? Cuz normally things that are electric aren’t waterproof…How’s it get more electricity then?”
We went to the hardware store after parking in a parking lot area behind the small grocery store. August found a pink cup with unicorns on it that he really wanted, so we got that. I was showing him a different pink cup with a fairy doing magic on it, but he said he learned more from the unicorn cup. He also found a smaller cup with a knight on it. He was talking about how they would be cups to get when he got bored of his other ones and broke them. I said no, no. No need to break things. We can go ahead and get them. We got two bowls – one like the one he broke and one with a cow. And he really liked a plate with two sections to it that I showed him, so we got that.
We walked past city hall, stopping to count the cats along the way and look at a gutter, and went across to the toy store. No forks there. He saw all the toys but just said they were all things he didn’t need. He wanted to go to the health foods store. He recognized it as a place with samples, even though the one where he had samples is over at the mall. This was a different branch of the same chain. We went in and they did have cracker and spread samples at the counter. Tried all those, then found a big jar of natural peanut butter and a container of apple and strawberry juice for us to share. He also did a little “samples” song and dance while we were in the store.
Left ther about 4:05 and went to the car. Turned on the AC and we sat in the back. He ate his rice and mushrooms and we shared the juice, which was really good. He kept telling me “You can have some if you want to.” We talked about going to the school and finding the hedgehog. I mentioned it was like Spikey on Puffin Rock, so he thought it was a baby. I said probably not, and he replied “Bu I love baby cats and hedgehogs? How will I ever find baby hedgehogs?”
I had to climb over the seat to get to the front as there are child locks on the back door. We left by 4:30. As we were driving he asked “Wait, does this car use gas?” He was a little upset to find that our new car would use gas too. I assured him the next car we buy (in several years…) might be electric. He was okay with that. And he said he was happy we had a car as he is getting bored of our house.
As we got to the school he suddenly went quiet and I looked back to find him sleeping. Or pretending to. Hard to tell as he had sunglasses on.
At the school we parked on the street and walked in, him singing, and got a drink of cold water by the office. He was happy there were steps up to the drinking fountain. We went down and looked in at the preschool (it was being remodeled and surrounded by construction fence when we saw it before), and he played with the toys outside, microwaving a plastic apple in a microwave. We talked about how this is where he could go to school when he was 4.
We then went to find the hedgehog. Found the outdoor habitat, but also realized they might put it inside for the evening. We had taken enough time at the preschool, so decided to look another da
y. We went upstairs to the bathroom. On the toilet he said “I don’t think anyone knows where the pee and poop goes, dada.” He then talked about the whole process of sewage back to water.
We went to Carly’s classroom at 4:55. He wanted to play the student game. Carly was the teacher and suggested a few topics, and he said “Machines!” They did a hammer machine, then she showed him the printer and they printed things from her computer. She then taught him about capitol letters, and he wrote on a small whiteboard. When they changed topics he moved to a different seat and said it was a different classroom for learning different things. He then said that when he came to school he had a machine that made classrooms.
Finally, while Carly went to get ready to leave he played on the bean bags doing a squirrel game, gathering nuts, then sleeping on the bean bag through the winter.
We headed home about 5:30. At home I got out the new bowls and cups and August showed them to Carly. They went outside nod I joined them after a bit. He was digging in the dirt with his rake and breaking up clods of dirt so they’d make dust in the air. He saw a dog wandering across the street and talked about how it couldn’t get in the yard and that he doesn’t like dogs because they lick and bark. He had been drinking milk: “Only cats can get in here. Cuz I love cats. But, can I get back to drinking my milk?”
Back inside I made pizza and they went up and he took a shower. I made a seitan and cauliflower pizza and a salmon and mushroom one. He came back down and ate pizza, really liking both of them.
He told Carly “Remember, I go crazy really fast.” And said “I want to play blanket fight. That’s where you throw blankets at each other.” We went up on the bed. He talked about just liking people: “Things that are not people I don’t like.” “Not robots; sometimes they’re scary.” I think that was a reference to Hilo, which has some bad robots in it. He was asleep by 8.
Earlier, he had been concerned about his Zinnie bed, not liking that it doesn’t have a mattress on it. He wanted to take the mattress out of our big bed and put it back. We talked about him sleeping in his own room and he asked about coming in if he woke up during the night. So he’s thinking about it. I told him when our stuff from Korea arrives we might be able to have mattresses in both places.
Also, at some point this morning he was putting his floaties on his feet and asking if you could swim that way. He had the idea that you might walk on the water.
Bug eyes for mama:
Spatula:
Banana bread:
Thumbs up:
Student game:
Squirrel:
New bowls and cups:
