He woke up a little before 6 and lay in bed, talking about his head screws being loose. Got up with Carly at 6 and she got him some banana bread. I was up a few minutes later. He asked to play Space as he says it is a nighttime app. He has started counting backwards from 10 on his own now. Carly went to work and he wanted some Cheerios on the couch. I gave him the multigrain kind, which Carly had gotten as we suddenly can’t find regular Cheerios. He said “Sugar Cheerios…Why’d she even get those kind? Silly mama!” He played a lot of Big Dragonbox Numbers, then he went to the bathroom and I took a shower – a lot of Big Dragonbox Numbers talk going on as we did so.
He was then being machines. They were going up to the attic and checking on the hot pipes, which were getting ants on them. Back downstairs the machines morphed into an elevator going up to the attic, then he said I dropped my phone down the crack (something I had mentioned at the mall as happening to someone I knew). There was then a baby that kept dropping things down and the elevator had a tube that would give them right back. At one point he said to Bluie “You’re my best friend. Let’s get away from this elevator.” And he had a machine:”It needs a lot of bad chemicals and sprays out lots of oxygen!”
Our shipment from Korea was supposed to arrive between 10 and 1. A little before noon they called to say they’d be here in about an hour. After the call August asked “Were you taking to Steve?…And is IHerb coming tomorrow?” By ‘Steve’ he means ‘Eve’, the maintenance guy for the school. We read the book Tacky, about a penguin, twice, then watched some Peg + Cat. We found some ants and took care of them with him spraying cleaner for me. He was then a baby squirrel that I was taking care of. I used a funny doctor voice or something and he didn’t like it; he wanted the “dada voice” instead. He was then drinking his water, and wanted gravity upset that he was drinking the water up. He told gravity “Gravity! Suction pulls things up!”
Then, a slightly disturbing game in which he wanted pain (kind of like germs or viruses) to be put in the baby squirrel. And gravity was pulling him down. We found ants by the sliding door, then read part of 26-Story Treehouse. Getting closer to the end, although he keeps wanting to go back and read chapter 6 about Edward Scooperhands.
We then did the baby dropping things down the elevator crack again, and I was pretending I couldn’t see him in the dark and thought he was other people: Kayla, Vivian, Colin, Thatcher, etc. Talking about our stuff that was supposed to arrive, I mentioned Peter Rabbit. He said “And puzzles? We put the puzzle together with Peter Rabbit?” Cool that he remembers that. He was then Peter Rabbit taking my carrots when I planted them. He then pretended to be a rabbit with pets of its own:”The rabbit’s Guinean pigs. They pooped in my burrow. Yeah. They do that when they have to poop and pee…” And “My poop machine is making more mice. Yep. That’s what a poop machine does. It makes mice out of poop…snails out of bricks…”
Our stuff arrived about 1:15. They were quick and efficient, getting all 26 boxes inside in 15 minutes or so, then leaving quickly. We started opening a few boxes up. I took a few things upstairs but he poured on the charm to keep me downstairs: “But I love you so much. Just stay downstairs forever. With me.”
About 2:30 we headed to school. Carly had found out about a dance class he could go to, a few minutes north of school, and it was today at 4:30. So August and I first sat in the couches by the ping pong table and had a snack, then we went swimming. It has cooled off to the mid-80s, and suddenly the water seemed quite chilly to both August and I as we got in. August liked watching the swim lessons that were going on. We swam until close to 4, then changed and met Carly at the gate just after 4:10. The iHerb order had arrived, so we had that big box as well.
We drove up to the house that had a dance studio in the basement. A nice setup. On the way he had some of the sugar Cheerios and told her “Sugar Cheerios are sweet, seeet, sweet. And I love sweet things!”
This was the first dance class of the session, and parents could sit to the side. Next time we are supposed to wait outside. August did quite well, although after 15 or 20 minutes he did start going to Carly a few times. The teacher knows English, and would occasionally say thing for August’s benefit in English, but much was in Hebrew. I think that makes it a little difficult for him to pay attention, although he generally tries to copy what the teacher does. They did a flower thing where they were flowers that he really liked. And they got scarves that they got to scoot around on, then use as beds/blankets as they did a nighttime/daytime sleep/wakeup thing. She turned the lights off for nighttime, but still had colored lights on. He was confused though: “But, when it’s night it’s black.” He interjected some of our games into it, being the earth turning around when it was nighttime.
After class he said he wanted to go again. Have to get confirmation on cost, but assuming it is reasonable we will sign him up. Happy that we found a place that accepts boys. Both the community center and another place I found say that the 3/4 year old dance classes are just for girls. There are English ballet classes in north Tel Aviv but they don’t have classes until 4 years old.
We were home at 5:30. He plated on the Teeter totter and looked at plants. The mystery seed didn’t grow, and he kept saying “I give up.” He also did a “I give up” song earlier today when he gave up on a math problem, I think.
We had some dinner, him the last of the quiche, then he nursed and they read Suddenly! He read more of it with me. Then I took him up and gave him a shower, washing his hair. Back downstairs he wanted me to play a new song on the piano, and I pulled up “Sentimental Wars” on the iPhone and figured it out, with him sitting in my lap. We listened to it on repeat many times. We also listened to OMD’s “Electricity” and he banged away on the piano to it. Next was Tori Amos’s “Breakaway”: “I think we can learn this song cuz it’s so slow.”
With Carly on the couch he said “I love you so much.” “I love you a ton of Qs…cupcakes…honeycombs…punches…” Those are all things from Dragonbox Big Numbers. He was feeling a bit itchy, so Carly suggested he try sleeping without a diaper for the first time. He was asleep at 8:15.
Cuddling with me as a baby squirrel:
Bluie and Green Monster:
All our boxes:
A snack:
Pool:
Dance class:
Piano:
