He was up at 6:40 and asked “Mama downstairs?” He went down and I came down by 7. We read Du Is Tak? Then went out to check on his tomato seedlings. A fifth seed is now coming up. He put fresh water in the cat bowl. Back inside he said “Not much noise in here. Turn on some music.” He was hungry and requested the honey cereal. He and Carly nursed and read part of Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five. He and I read the ice cream chapter of 26-Story Treehouse. He told Carly he didn’t want egg, but changed his mind when he smelled hers. He sang a “Ketchup is my best” song to the Bluie Dance tune. We played the Pip and Pop game. He had a new machine: “It’s a machine that makes new mice out of owl pellets.” Carly was then tickling him when he said he wanted to nurse and I joined in. Finally, in the bathroom he joked “I think they’re airport Megan’s toilet paper rolls.” Don’t know where that idea came from.
We left right at 10. We first went to the community center near the school, where a man told us there were classes for August’s age Monday and Thursday and 4:45 and we could come see a class. We planned to go tomorrow.
We then headed over to the Ir Yamin Mall. We first went downstairs and to the baby store, where we tried out a couple of booster seats (August wasn’t too fond of the process) and I bought a pink-lidded snack container like our blue one. And Carly found a package of forks and spoons and we got that. We then walked down and Carly picked up her shoes. August and I looked at bikes at the toy store, then I found a balance bike for about 80 dollars. August went in the little padded play area and played around. A smaller boy came over and threw a ball back and forth with him a couple times. Before we left I also went and bought a bucket and shovel set for playing in the sand.
We headed home and were back at 12:20. We went and checked on the tomatoes. August said “Every time we leave and come back there’s more.” By the end of the day we had five sprouting up. He and I were putting together his bike and Carly was planning on going to the store. He didn’t like us talking and hit me quite hard. We took a break and Carly went to the store. Eventually he calmed down and we watched Peg + Cat. He was singing along to one of the songs. I heated up spaghetti and made the rest of the sweet potato fries for lunch. He then tried the bike out inside, then we went to recycling after 2.
As we walked he said “Dada, I made a machine that takes water to Holly’s house. It makes clean water out of dirt water and toilet water and poop water and pee water.” We first went and did cardboard. He threw away the big box from his balance bike while I held him up. When he got down down he held a finger. I asked if he had a paper cut and he said “No…Actually, yes I do.” He got sad and I picked him up. He wouldn’t show it to me, and it was a good ten or fifteen minutes before he stopped holding it. And that happened because he saw weeds in the cracks of the sidewalk. I said it was okay for him to kill the weeds. He started by just using his feet, while holding his finger, but eventually started reaching down and pulling them out.
We went in the actual playground and I sat on the circle swing and he rode his bike around. HE came over to me and we played around the swing, and he got on for awhile and I pushed him. All sorts of discussions. Out of nowhere he said: “Over time things get expensiver and expensiver…because the workers put in more money…the foods and drinks, dada…” Don’t have any idea where that came from. Maybe he’s been reading some Marx. Playing the ice cream game he said “Edward Scooperhands just scooped Dark Side of the Moon…I think it would be good because it’s rocky…” Dark Side of the Moon is actually a flavor listed in the 26-Story Treehouse book. But the rocky part would be a connection he made from the Space app.
We left at 3:10. He rode his bike home, taking a long time to get home. Mainly because he was being all sorts of machines, one of which killed weeds with power. At one point he pretended to eat mango and wanted me to be the mango tree not wanting to have my fruit eaten. He said to the mango tree: “That’s what fruit trees and carrot trees are for, picking to eat, mango tree! Then I eat it and it turns to poop and it goes to my poop machine and is made into new apple trees!” He also said “Could you be that cigarette butt about to go boom when I run over it?” Several times he said “We’re almost home!” When we weren’t, really. Finally, I suggested I push him and he pick up his feet and I showed him what it would feel like to ride faster.
We were home at 3:20. Carly had gone back to the mall and bought the booster seat we had thought about. She had then gone to the grocery store at Tel Yitzhak, which we hadn’t been to yet. She then stopped by the nursery, which is across the street from it and bought a big pot and two bunches of a pink flowering plant to put in it and a small pot and (as August called it) “interesting plant” to go inside on the big table. August told her about riding his bike: “Dada showed me how I could go fast…I picked up my feet and we goed fast.” And he told her he didn’t wear a helmet.
He said “I need to play Big Dragonbox Nimbers. Get some stone.” He remembered that well as that was his plan before we left. But he was convinced to go outside to plant the new flowers, at least for a couple minutes, then came in and played it. He then switched to the grotto and the queens game. He wanted to nurse and I was keeping him from nursing. I said it was because I loved him and he said “I love mama the most cuz she bought those flowers.” And “But mama loves me so much I think if you grab me and don’t take me to mama, she’ll cry.”
I made quiche and Carly mopped the patio. August played iPad outside, then came in and was being Pip and Pop on his own. Eventually he got me involved and they were sick. Carly got ready for a walk. August was being crazy, then was being a snail, then a slug.
They went for walk 5:45. When they got to the corner there was a sunny spot and Carly asked “Are you going to be okay without you sunglasses?” He replied “Well, still kind of sunny.” So they had to come back for them. They just walked around a couple blocks while the quiche finished cooking and were home at 6.
He had quiche for dinner and said he loved it. He went to get a drink and dramatically said “I’m thirsty and my hands are really dirty and my water is WAY on the carpet.” He thanked Carly for cutting up his quiche and she told him to thank me for the quiche: “Thank you, mama…thank you, dada.” And it said it was “WAY yummier than Cheerios.” after I said he was making yummy noises like when he eats Cheerios.
Carly let him have a treat after dinner – some of the chocolate cookies. But he got upset when he didn’t get to choose any of it. We then read 26-Story Treehouse and got to chapter 11 before switching to the sick squirrel game. He had the viruses getting in trouble and going to prison, so then he was asking what prison was really like.
We Skyped with my parents – he was being machines (water bottles and baby bottles – said they could have one) and getting crazy. Wanted to show them his new Maine shirt so we went up and he showed them both of his Maine shirts. He was focusing on sending them emojis so wasn’t really answering questions, but when he heard us talking about the Dead Sea he spoke up and said the Dead Sea was warm and the salt stinged.
After we hung up he went to the bathroom. He asked “Can you be the poop wanting to be pooped out? Can you be the toilet paper going in the toilet?” Carly gave him a bath and we got him ready for bed. He was asleep by 8:50.
Trying out carseats:
Adjusting the seat:
Not showing me his finger when he has a paper cut:
Riding home:
Helping plant:
