He was up at 6:30 and saw me “What? Mama go to work?…I’m gonna go downstairs. You stay on the bed.” He left and closed the door behind him. They played the baby game. There was lots of talk about runny yellow poop, then he had just started watching Wanda and the Alien when I went down. We ate Cheerios and I sat next to him. He played the baby game with Carly again for a long time “Dada said it’s play time but the baby has to sleep. Sorry dada, the baby has to sleep.” The baby would also poop and he would want Carly to go bury it outside, like a cat. He and I read a couple books. We purchased Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Space Adventure, which turned out to be simply awful, as the plot was basically incoherent, and read Peg + Cat The Chicken Problem.
I then went and took a shower. I came down to August being really dramatic: “If you cut my hair I will not love you!” He was watching Puffin Rock, and eating cookies, but the hair cutting wasn’t going too well. He also said “I want to go to dada!…Dada loves me!” I sat down and tried to hold him and help, but we didn’t do much better. He would let her cut his bangs, but touching his ears or neck was too much.
About 11 we left and headed to the Ir Yamim mall in south Netanya. We parked, then went in and first looked for the shoe repair place, which was on the basement level. August and I looked at a baby/kid store while Carly found it, then Carly went to look at backpacks and water bottles at an outdoor store. He and I first went and looked down a colorful hallway that he said looked like a pipe. It was an entrance to a bowling alley. We went back and into the store with Carly. We also got a first aid kit for the car. Not sure if it was usual behavior, but when Carly then went to pay the guy first tried to sell her a different water bottle, then questioned her backpack selection.
We wandered around much of the rest of the mall to see what was there. August looked down from the second floor at a juice place we might try in the future. Our one other stop was the Fox Home store, which has reasonably priced home goods. Didn’t buy anything, but we might in a week when we come back to pick up Carly’s shoes.
From there we drove up to the nursery at Tel Yitzhak, just south of the school. August and I looked around for outdoor plants, then at the seeds. August was pointing at the seeds to tell me which he wanted to plant: “That and that and that and that…” He really wanted tomatoes though for mama, so we got those. He was disappointed that I said pumpkins weren’t an option. Carly found a wooden box to put inside under the air conditioner and chose three plants to put in it. There was a cat on the counter that inspected our stuff as we bought it, and a black kitten nearby. August was happy while we checked out and Carly went to get the car and I hauled things to the exit as he was stepping on the little bits of tile on the floor.
On the way home August was talking to himself in the car, and I figured out he was telling the Wanda and the Alien story where Alien stops the waves and they talk to the sea creatures.
We were home at 4:20. Carly planted the plants and August watched. I killed the ants and rewashed the dishes. We suddenly have a lot of ants coming in from near the sliding door. I also went and got the old metal can from the driveway area to use to plant tomatoes in later. Carly made oatmeal for August and he ate two full servings with fresh mango. They played more baby game: “I want to pretend to be a baby in your tummy, please.” Then we played squirrels, with a digger destroying his nest, like in the Bill Peet Shady Glade book: “The digger that parks across the street…It’s a mean digger.” They nursed, then went upstairs to look for dragons. I played around with him up there, growling. Dragons are a mean animal to him now, much like there are now mean robots. The robots I understand, from Hilo, but I’m not sure where the mean dragons originated. I was singing Puff the Magic Dragon on the way up, but he wasn’t convinced.
We played the Hilo game, with him destroying bad robots. At one point there were 973 Hilos. We were all getting ready to leave: I was going to drive to Ikea and they were going to the mall to do some shopping and get a smoothie. I joked that he couldn’t have fun without me, and if he did have a little fun he had to take a photo. He asked Carly at one point “Why are we leaving dada behind‽”
We all left at the same time. At Ikea I looked through the upstairs, which we had not done last time. They called while I was in the store and August said “I’m having so much fun!” I ended up scouting out things like book shelves and cushions for the swing. I got a set of sheets, a drill, a set of tools, a tape measure…think that was it.
I was home at 6:20. Drove there on the main road, then back through the Keara Netter route, without needing the map, so that felt good. When I came in August announced “I’m having so much fun!…infinity fun, never stopping!” I asked what they had done and he told me “Buyed-ed stuff and after we buyed-ed stuff I got a smoothie.” He kept thinking that Carly was making pizza but it was baked spaghetti. We ate that for dinner, then they played the Flynne game. He was Pip and Pop (funny that he is always both of them) and Carly was Flynne and he kept throwing up “Owl pellets in Flynne’s lair.” And they were picking strawberries that were ripe.
Just after 7 we skyped with my parents. August typed and talked to them a bit (we discussed the fires in Washington and dad asked what a fire needs and August did a pretty good job of remembering the three things), then played Dragonbox Big Numbers and Carly and I were able to talk to them. I took August up for his shower and washed his hair. He got the bed wet as usual, then we used the pillow as a rocket and flew to Venus. He didn’t want to stay there though as he’s afraid of the volcanos, so we had special space suits, although he was still wary of them. He really wanted to read the Mickey Mouse book again, so Carly volunteered to do it. She thought it was awful too and told me to delete it. He was asleep at 8:45.
Baby trying to sleep:
Car inspecting our purchases:
Our new plants:
Shark socks:
