He started waking up around 6:30. I was already downstairs and heard them playing. He was being a cold virus, then making mucus, etc. in bed. They then came out and put together his name train and the letters argued about the order they to in. They came down and August watched the rest of Formula 1 qualifying with me. Pretty stuffy this morning.
I made French toast for breakfast for us all and he had a pretty bad bite on his tongue. He then watched videos on the immune system and was calling out “C cells!…M cells!” I went and took a shower, and Carly cleaned out the car. We got going and left at 9:20, Carly driving.
In the car he sang a numbers in Hebrew that he made up, going up to six. Looking out the window: “I see a crane off in the distance.” When we stopped at a light off the highway he asked if he could open his window. I said yes and he asked “Cuz were going zero kilometers an hour?”
Our first stop was ACE. This time, I found the smoke detectors. August watched a show on coral reefs on all the TVs, and we also got an Allen wrench set and a can opener, which we had somehow overlooked purchasing until Carly needed to open a can of beans for the soup yesterday.
We then drove over to the big Tiv Taam. But first we walked around the rest of that little complex and went in the art store that August and I had spotted but never been in. It turned out to be a really cool store, with all sorts of stuff for kids. We got a pack of glow-in-the-dark stars and planets for August’s room, a volcano thing, a crystal growing thing, and a Hebrew workbook. There was a pink cup with flamingos on it that he really wanted. I said no to that, but when he saw pink glitter glue I let him get that. He played a game of finding me in the store.
We then headed to Tiv Taam and concluded that Sunday mornings are definitely the time to go. The emptiest we have seen it. We got a good load of groceries, then headed out. Finally, we stopped at the nursery. August chose a rectangular pot for painting pink and Carly got another pot and a couple plants to put in it. We got home at 11:30.
As we were unloading August was playing hide and seek, sort of, hiding right out in the open. I asked if he was in a bag and he said “I’m not in that bag cus I’m not a grocery.” We had some lunch and he played Dragonbox Numbers. They were outside planting plants when I left at 12:30 to drop off the car.
Dropping it off was much easier than getting it in the first place. Dropped it off and then started walking home, right at 1. Took exactly one hour and was 3.8 miles. Listened to much of a Billy Bragg live album along the way. Stopped and looked in a little grocery store we’ve only drive by, and realized the doors in small concrete structures are entries to underground shelters. I was able to cut across one field on a dirt road, which was nice; the rest was on regular roads.
I was home at 2. They had planted plants, watched more germ videos, and nursed and read some books. They had also opened the stars and planets and looked at them. And Carly had put out some of the ant poison that Cherie had sent.
When I got home they did the little volcano with baking soda and vinegar and had a lot of fun with that. We then read Peg + Cat, which led to him wanting to watch the show. He did that, and I started making a pasta and veggies dish for dinner. They went for a short walk, basically their walk yesterday, and were back at 4:15. He was shocked that dinner wasn’t done yet.
I finished dinner and Carly did some grading while he played Toca Blocks on the floor. Carly asked if he was ready for dinner and did a thumb in the middle, something he had developed with Carly earlier: “Thumb in the middle means almost ready.” We ate dinner outside, something we can now do as we have three chairs. The black cat came and visited. The water was out so I went and filled it. The cat retreated behind the little house but then came and drank.
August checked the spots of ant poison several times, and he questioned why there was a pile of borax on the patio. He helped Carly sweep it up, then wanted to vacuum what he couldn’t sweep and he actually did some vacuuming when I got it for him.
We were going to go get a branch of bougainvillea from Jack and Celeste but we didn’t end up doing that today. He watched more health videos. Appropriately, the last one he watched was on brushing his teeth, so he did a great job letting me brush his teeth.
He got upset though with the idea of a shower. I got him upstairs, but Carly gave him a shower. When he wanted to nurse he said “I’m air beuh-being”, which is better than grabbing her. Said goodnight and he was asleep before 8.
A couple times now he has gone into the bathroom on his own, turning on the light and everything. In the past he would want me to turn on the light. Still needs one of us in when he is done though.
Watching sharks at the hardware store:
Pink paint:
Cheese:
Eating outside:
