He was up at 6. Carly made them oatmeal for breakfast and they read part of A Busy Year. I came down a little later as he sat down to eat. Carly had hung Peter’s photos on the wall and he looked up and said “That’s mama and Dada” As the photo of me and Carly at a Mexican restaurant in Portland was in front of him. As he ate he said “Can you be the stomach acid…The food ‘It hurts! It hurts! when you eat me!”
We read half of Welcome to the Symphony before he turned into a spider jumping around on the floor and getting dead ants. That didn’t come from nowhere: the other day we found a small spider living in the roll of paper and below it were about ten dead ants. Nursed and finished Welfome to the Symphony. He was really curious as to why you don’t clap between movements. We then read part off Go Dog Go! He kept wanting to go back to the engine part where a dog is fixing a car. I asked how his mouth is doing and he said it was a secret. He appears to have a bruise on his left cheek.
“Can you count how many pillows are on the couch counting by 160s?” He then chatted about pillows here and what was in Korea. He was then feeling the inside of Carly’s computer case and taking about the texture of his hand and feel backwards and bonked his head a bit on the table again. “I want honey bear to make the head feel better…I likes honey bear when I bonk my head.”
He went on a short walk with Carly to recycling. She said he whined on the way there and she had to carry him back. Watched one episode of Puffin Rock, then nursed. He kept talking about nectars and flowers. The ants have returned to the house, so we dealt with them a couple times. Carly tried a lot more of the borax outside. We had some quiche, then he wanted to play the “Is this Kayla?” game. Then there was an animal pooping everywhere, and a machine going fast. And at one point he told me “You ring a bell and say ‘Time for an adventure!’” Don’t know where that came from.
He played with Peter Rabbit and wanted to do the puzzle, but we were trying to leave. I taught him 1, 2, 3 in Hebrew, which he picked up pretty quickly. I suggested he take Peter Rabbit to show him Israel. He started showing him around: “bamboo house…Circles…” That refers to our house, which he calls the bamboo house, and the metal circles on the walls, which he likes. And he asked “Peter Rabbit, why were you locked in the dark?” Referring to his time in the boxes, which I had mentioned earlier. He was also pretending to dig and said”Out house is getting damaged with storms so we’re making a new house here.”
We left by 11:30 and headed up 4 to Park Italia on Alexander Stream. We parked and found a path along the stream and followed it west. It went under a bridge with some interesting art, through a grass field where there were a lot of dragonflies, then across a bridge, where it stopped at a closed park. The trail continues on west on the north side, and we’ll head back sometime when it isn’t so hot. We walked back and stopped where the trail goes under the bridge. August played there for quite awhile: pulling seeds of of weeds and making them dirty, pulling up the weeds, finding interesting things on the ground, etc. Also had some snack. We were there for over half an hour, then at 12:50 Carly mentioned going home. Another family had just started to walk under the bridge from the other direction and August said “Lets get going. There’s those kids trying to steal our food.”
We decided to go check on the Technoda science center since its Facebook page said it was open today. As we got driving August spotted another big flock of big birds out the window. He said “A whole dance together before bedtime” remembering the starlings in Puffin Rock. The science center was closed, so we went to the Habanim Garden park nearby with a really big playground.
On our walk from the car there was a someone playing a shofar horn across the street. Played there awhile, with him going down a green slide a couple times, and asking Carly to come up and play with him on the structure. Also went on a couple of teeter totter sort of things.
We left about 2:00. August said “Let’s just head home and dip apples in honey. Mama says there’s two more apples left.” Carly and I had been talking about the apples and honey but August was playing and I was surprised that he had been listening to all of it.
Carly drove, and on the way August looked at Waze with me, trying to understand the map and directions, but also excited every time it looked like our little blue car ran over one of the little characters representing other drivers. Getting into Kfer Netter, I spotted a big animal like a ferret on a rock. Carly drove back and it turned out it was dead.
At home, August and I worked on the Peter Rabbit puzzle with Peter Rabbit. We paused with 8 pieces left as he wanted apple and honey. He did a little honey dance, then enjoyed dipping apples in honey. He ate all his pieces, then left the last bite. Then, I was making a late lunch and did a small pizza and again he left the very last bite. I also made onion rings and roasted cauliflower. He played Big Dragonbox Numbers. We were acting out being the rocks and pieces of gold in the game, not wanting to be found and put in a bag. He said “I don’t know the buzz dance.” Upstairs, he started singing a “You can do Orchard” song to Carly, meaning he wanted to play the Orchard game on his iPad. But it was interesting because it was a kind of slow, high voice and tune, different from his usual. I worked on boxes and stuff upstairs, and they painted for quite awhile using one of the boxes as their canvas.
We went for a walk at 6. He was on the tricycle. Up past recycling Carly asked if he wanted to go right or left and he chose left so he could run over the berries on the ground. We saw people out and about for Rosh Hashana, including a man carrying a horn. He saw a pomegranate on the ground and sang a pomegranate song. He was also talking like the voice on Waze, which he has heard a lot in the car: “In 260 meters turn left. You’re home.”
We were home at 6:20. He stayed outside and killed some weeds. When he came in he asked “I got my hands dirty from the weed killing, so can I go on the carpet?” We read 26-Story Treehouse. After the part about the boy stealing food from the restaurant, August started a game of catching his friend or neighbor stealing from that restaurant. I gave him a shower. He said he was hungry, so downstairs he ate a little quiche, but not much. Took him up and Carly put him to sleep at 7:20.
Along the stream:
Under the bridge:
Park:
Home:
At the stream:
Dead animal:
Home:
Peter Rabbit puzzle:
Apple and honey:
Evening walk:
