He was up at 5:55. Carly heard him in the bedroom and came in with him. They came down awhile later. He found the fridge magnets and we spent a little time with those. He then requested some music. I started a song I was listening too last night by Drab Majesty and August liked it and wanted it on his playlist. A minute later though he paused it and said “A digger was going to destroy he music so I stopped it.” He then wanted the new space app (Star Walk Kids), so while I installed it on his iPad he took over mine and played Toca Plants.
A made eggs and he watched Space Shuttle launches. We ate eggs and cauliflower and zucchini and cheese for breakfast and he had some apple. We then read The Hungry Smurfs and part of Astrosmurf. I read some poems from Prelutsky’s Something BIG Has Been Here, then he ate more apple and walked in circles in the kitchen.
He then started playing Star Walk Kids and asked for a mango smoothie. I started making it, then he needed to use the bathroom. In the bathroom he was looking at the colors of the door hooks and talking about patterns. He was actually getting it, in that he was saying a sequence of colors and repeating it. In the past he’s been able to do some pattern completion in books or with Duplos, but hasn’t successfully made patterns on his own.
Carly called me saying they needed some of our car paperwork at school. So I scanned that and he went and played with the Hebrew letter magnets. He was sorting them by color and asked about a couple of the letters. I finished the smoothie and we drank that and watched space shuttle videos. He then played Toca Blocks and did more smurf storytelling with it. And figured out a few more things in the app.
We went upstairs and he watched Care Bears and ate banana bread on his bed while I took a shower. He was then a sick giraffe. Earlier I had mentioned that he had slept 11 hours last night. He brought it up, saying “I sleeped 11?” I was talking about how that was better than the previous night and he was asking why, so I was explaining how your brain processes things from the day and how he had been worn out by dance class the previous day. He said”Your brain is putting it together?” Then he acted out the previous day, having him and me make robot sounds for the processing sound: “Can you say beep boop…Hebrew…dance class…” “Your brain puts it together?”
He then went back to being animals, and acted out variations on stories he knows: he was a whale eating me and getting sick (like in 26-Story Treehouse), then he was making my room messy looking for one of my favorite things (like Cat looking for Peg’s favorite crayon).
Back downstairs he wanted to learn Hebrew numbers, so we did some Hebrew. While he went to the bathroom I looked for some more Hebrew apps. Found a good one on numbers, another Gus one that actually does stories, and a couple more to try out. Already looking like much better apps than anything I ever found for Korean, so very promising. So we did some Hebrew, interrupted by him spotting ants carrying a big crumb of banana bread that he had dropped. We watched them carry it to the door, then dealt with the line of ants remaining. He said “A piece wanted to fall down and attract the ants.”
Finally, we got going on a walk. Carly had seen another cabinet, smaller this time, that might work for a library. It was over near Jack and Celeste’s house. When we got over to the street the yard waste truck was driving up it, picking up yard waste. We followed it up, but no cabinet. But we were entertained by that and also a digger at a construction site. We went back and went to pay Jack and the dog Nellie a visit. We stayed maybe 15 minutes. The first thing that Jack said was that he had seen a cabinet just up the street a couple days ago and thought about calling me. I told him that’s why we were actually in the area but it was gone, but that I had gotten a different one. August did okay. Threw the toy for the dog a couple times, then sat on my lap eating apple and banana bread while Jack and I sat and talk. He was cuddling next to me being a baby squirrel getting everything slimy and gross. When Jack and I talked about the Dead Sea August chimed in with his opinion about how it was really warm. When I got up he continued to play in the chair. A couple of times he started to be a bit rude, saying “Stop talking!”
We headed home. I asked if he wanted to keep walking and go to a park. He didn’t want a park, but he wanted to do recycling. I left him in the stroller and went in. We had just done recycling yesterday, but there were 6 or 7 things to do so we went up and recycled those. Home at 1:45.
He played Toca Blocks and I got lunch together. He had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I had hummus and pita. He went out and checked on his tomato plants. Back inside he hypothesized “They have interesting leaves so maybe they’ll have interesting tomatoes.” We brushed his teeth and he stated “I want to stop learning Hebrew and learn some other language.” I pointed out that was rather impractical. More re-enacting, this time re-enacting building the rocket in Astrosmurf, complete with smurfs peeking through the fence.
We went outside and he found a feather in the yard and said “It’s pretty big. Maybe it’s from an eagle.” We added it to the ‘interesting bowl’ on the outdoor table that has all the stuff we’ve found. Then outside where we found a ping pong ball in the street. He wanted to put it in the interesting bowl as well, but I’d already locked the gate. He let me throw it over the fence to do later.
We left at 2:45 and went to the school. Got to the library just before 3. He realized he was thirsty and really wanted to go to the drinking fountain with the steps. On our way out the bell rang. He said school was over and seemed to like all the kids suddenly appearing. Got a drink, then went back to the library. Ilana let me grab a few of the discard books for our little library. August and I went back to the kids section and found The Alphabet from the Sky. He was pretty good at finding the letters, and we just got through the whole book in time. Carly found us at 3:30. We ended up checking out that and Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book.
We drove to the Skoda dealership. August remembered the pipe game and spinny chairs. And the chocolate cake. We were saddened to see that that whole coffee bar area was gone. Almost a good enough reason to cancel our car order… Carly went and worked with Shmuel on the paperwork/payment. August made pipes out on the steps, then we went in and played in the spinny chairs. Then “Come on! Let’s make more pipes!” He made pipe, installed it to the waste treatment plant, then acted out the whole going to the bathroom/through the pipes/to the waste treatment plant process. Back inside he ate some PBJ and banana bread and apple. He played some Hebrew on the iPad. Then we went and looked at the car. Looking underneath the back first for the gas tank. Then I figured out how to open the gas cover (on the passenger side – the worst thing about the car so far – can’t stand it being on that side) and hood and we looked at the engine. He was very interested in all the fluids and the radiator and fuses. When we opened the hood he remembered “in Chelan the mice in the car.” Back at the spinny chairs he was walking around, counting in Hebrew. He has 1 to 4 down, I think, and we were working on 5 and 6.
We left at 5:45. On the way back Carly was talking to him about having Friday off and holidays. He said “when you have honey bread?” Earlier I had told him that honey bread was for special days.
We were home at 6:15. Carly had a food cramp as she got in the house. August went up to her and asked “Are you okay?” Then he hit here and said “don’t be hurted.” Carly made more pasta – the fun pasta that he found at the store. He said”They’re all different things so they’re hard to chew.” “Mama! Why you think these noodles is h
ard to chew?” He ate all his noodles and then said “Hey! Did somebody take my noodles?”
Watched more space shuttle videos then I took him up and gave him a shower and washed his hair. In on the bed we skyped with my parents. When dad answered August said “Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday!” over and over, and I was able to tell him happy birthday in Hebrew. Carly put him to sleep about 8 and I kept skyping with them.
After Carly went to bed I found ants on the counter and realized they had dug through behind the coffee maker. So I spent time cleaning that up and patching it. Then I checked on the sliding door area and found a big trail over to under August’s chair. At lunch I had thought he had eaten his sandwich crusts. He had not. There were two pieces of crust on the floor, swarming with ants. How we didn’t see this at dinner I have no idea. So I cleaned all of that up and did more patching under the sliding door.
Photos. Lazy time:
Hebrew magnets:
Visitng Jack and Nellie:
Cuddling with a shark:
Spinny chair:
