He woke up at 7:15. Silently came down and lay on the floor. Sat up when he spotted two birds on the wire outside. Sat there for awhile. Went to the bathroom, and we heard the garbage truck go by. Missed it by the time we went outside. But then August wanted to take stuff up to recycling. So we got the bag and headed out. The garbage truck now went by on the east-west street and we went and watched it pick up a couple cans. We then walked up and did the recycling, and on the way back got to see the street sweeper truck doing its job up close. August picked up some caps from bottles that were left on the ground and wanted to throw them away at home, so we put them in our bag.
As we got home he speculated on where the actual garbage goes, since we don’t know where it goes here. He said “Maybe it goes to Korea where it’s turned to electricity.” At home we tried the coconut milk, then had Cheerios with a mix of milks for breakfast. He wanted to play more Music for Kids and did a few more levels. He took his shirt off because it had gotten a little wet from the milk. He wanted me to build a stump. I asked if I should turn music on and he said “I love music! New music. Every day I want you to play new music.” We then played a lot of the owl game, talking a lot about times of day, and owl pellets.
Hungry, so had some banana bread, then he was talking about his water bottles and trying to remember how many big ones and small ones we have, which led us to talk about the one we lost at Teuni Teuni class. He saw crumbs on his chair and brushed them on the floor when I told him not to. He wanted me to play, but I told him I couldn’t since I had to clean up after him. He stood by the kitchen door, quiet, for a minute while I cleaned, then he came up and gave me a hug and said “Hug…make you play with me.”
We were now being the mice, then he was a turtle hibernating. We weren’t sure about the details of turtle hibernation so we looked it up and read it. Played a little Music 4 Kids, then watched Wanda and the Alien and laughed a lot while I took a shower.
We got ready to go, and about something he was asking “Why?” When I didn’t answer all of his repeated ‘why’ questions he asked “Will you explain all my questions to me?”
We left the house at 11:25. Outside he looked at the weeds, etc. and said there were boxes all over me. Then said I was a vacuum. Then he said there was blood in the boxes. Then random batteries. He saw ants by the weeds and talked to them: “Ants there. I think they’re eating the plants. Sorry ants! We just have weeds. Of some sort.”
We left for real at 11:45. As we got in he was combining the Wanda and the Alien theme song with the Sarah and Duck one: “Wanda and the Alien. Quack.” We drove down to the big Tiv Taam by Ikea. We finally found a parking spot then went and got a cart. He put the coin in. We were shopping by 12:10. He did pretty well in the store for quite awhile, but we were there for a long time. He spotted meat, and on his own said “Meat! I don’t like meat that much! I don’t like to eat animals.” We spent a long time shopping and finding things. We found pie crusts, then went and got a pie can and discussed making quiche. He asked what quiche was, and I described it. He remembered having it in Chelan: “You had it at gramma and grampa’s?” He liked looking around the kitchen supplies area, kind of a store in a store, and made machine noises and dragged me over to look at things. I also got a clear glass mug.
We found the bathroom in one of the corners, then went and finished our shopping. He helped me unload the cart onto the conveyor belt, and after I paid I said something and he said “Oh, okay dada crane.” We had apparently been cranes putting things on the conveyor belt. We folded up the stroller, which we had left outside, then took the cart to the car and unloaded, then returned the cart.
We were both hungry, and thought about going to a cafe, but while driving I realized it was in the same complex where I saw Dunkirk, and I think we had to pay for parking. Couldn’t find street parking, and August liked the idea of going straight home.
We got home before 2:30. We made a banana, mango, plum, blackberry, yogurt smoothie that turned out quite well. I hurriedly cleaned up, then we hopped back in the car and went and picked Carly up at school at 3:30.
I drove us to the Skoda dealership in Ra’anana. There, we were led to the snack area where a guy named Jakob made us coffee drinks and August got a slice of chocolate cake. Carly then started the paperwork with Shmuel, the same guy who had helped us before. We traded off with August, with me talking to Shmuel about the exact car we wanted. August had fun spinning in the chairs. I joked that I had told him no spinning, and he told me “You joke all the time!” He was getting crazy, and at one point told me “You didn’t un-crazy me!” Carly took him out and he was a waste treatment plant out on the stairs. Back inside with me he pretended to be a broken machine that destroyed all the cars and popped the balloons.
We ended up getting the high-end Skoda Fabia in the denim blue color we liked. Pretty much exactly the car they had on display, but we got the lighter interior, which is half grey. The only thing I didn’t ask about is whether the top will be white. We also got the backing camera and they are going to check about putting on the roof racks. Not too worried about the outside appearance, as we really like the color anyway, and we got the exact interior we wanted. Well, I would have also liked the big sunroof, but those are aren’t available anytime soon. We paid 2000 shekels today, then the embassy files paperwork, etc.
We got home at 5:30. We had some dinner, then he and I played the owl games. He was Pip and Pop and they were needing blood transfusions. And “Pip and Pop saw something…something spongey and soft…a sea sponge.” Carly Skyped with Chuck and Cherie. August wasn’t a great Skype partner as we were looking for books in Skybrary and read The Ink Garden of Beother Theophane and Albert the Fix-It Man. We then read some Hilo.
Carly took him up to start his shower, then I washed his hair. After making his water rockets on the bed he wanted the Space app, so we played that together, discussing the planets. He then sat on a pillow and we pretended that was a rocket launching. He went asleep about 8:40.
Morning:
Recycling:
Smile:
Pushing (and doing a silly walk) at Tiv Taam:
Waiting for the blender:
Drinking the smoothie:
Signing the car paperwork:
