He was up at 6:10. When he and I came down, Carly had two cups covering something on the floor in the kitchen. Carly had stepped on a lizard on the way to make coffee a few minutes later. They nursed and he did Google Earth and Excel on Carlys computer, and at some point I helped dispose of the parts of the lizard, taking them outside.
He watched two episodes of Wanda and the Alien and Carly headed to work. Cheerios and apples as he watched. We then went and played with the Legos, primarily making cars today using on the wheel pieces. We put a tree on the back of one of them and he said it was a farmer and he played with that one throughout the morning. He kept asking “Why babies can’t do Legos?” and I would explain about fine motor control and choking hazards. We then moved to the paper and added to his plane picture from yesterday.
Up on the couch he practiced going to sleep, setting the stopwatch and pretending to sleep. He was then driving his farmer on me. I asked “Where’s he taking the tree?” August answered “To Ra’anana Park.” We then read the Ancient Egypt chapter of 65-Story Treehouse, then stopped so I could find him a video of a snake charmer playing a punji. But mainly we found videos of snake trainers treating snakes badly.
Did more Legos and then he drew lines of symmetry on an oval he drew before dividing it smaller and smaller. Then another shape: “That’s a man-eating number line.” Back to the Legos, he figured out that a couple rectangular pieces had lines of 10 bumps and was counting them by 10s, up to 120.
We then did some Hebrew cursive on the paper. Then upstairs where he did TodoMath on his bed as I started laundry “Dada. I think it says ‘What number is 2 less than 71.’” I took a shower, then we went downstairs and prepared snacks. He played with his farmer more and said “The driver’s called Albajour…It’s in French.” The car kept coming apart and he would need help to put it back together.
We left at 11:15. He did a lot of asking for water and food along the way until I told him he could just wait a few minutes.We got to the Even Yehuda library at 11:40. At first he didn’t want to go in and was frustrated with me. But then I showed him the kids area and he started playing with the stuffed animals. We went in the little sitting room and got some Hebrew books. We spent a good amount of time starting to learn how to tell time on an analog clock in a book as he can count by 5s. There was another book whose title translated as Billy Saves Nature and the pictures were clear enough with that one and we looked through it a few times. Later, he would pretend to be animals affected by pollution.
We left at 12:30 when the library was closing and went to Ishimoto Sushi for lunch. This time we got the pad thai with shrimp. August asked if mama and I liked shrimp and fish, but then decided he would want to get shrimp even if mama was there.
He really liked the pad thai and the shrimp in it and we took a good amount of time eating. He then played Dragonbox Little Numbers and I helped and read for awhile.
From there we walked over to the park by the library. We went on the merry-go-round. There was a big spill of what looked like blueberry yogurt on the ground by a nearby tree and he talked about playing with it. When he got off he went and was playing with it with sticks and setting leaves in it. After awhile he accidentally touched it with a finger. I went and got his water bottle, but he got upset about it, thinking he had touched something he wasn’t supposed to touch.
When he calmed down he wanted to play a game on the play structure. He told me he didn’t want me tickling him or scaring him though, but I should bang on the tube. But when I did that he decided that was too scary as well and decided to go over on the swing.
On the swing we discussed what sort of toppings to get on the pizza we were going to take home. I suggested mangoes and he said no and explained: “Mangos are fruits and fruits are soggy things and that would make the pizza soggy…ducks eat soggy things.” Off the swing he went and was playing with some big piles of pine needles. When I pointed out that they were swept up like that he picked them all back up and put them back up in the pile. After pulling a few weeds he was then Hilo and was drawing portals in the dirt and pushing a button to suck me into the portal to trap me (Razorwark) in the void.
At 2:30 we got going. The plan was to go to VIPizza and get a pizza to take home for dinner. It had been open when we walked by before 2, and their hours on Facebook said they were open until 3 – and they were open at 3 last week when we walked by on Friday. But now it was closed.
We kept walking, and decided to go into the grocery store in the mall. We have pizza dough mix at home. Got a few veggies for pizza, then realized they had frozen pizza as well and got a couple of those. We also got two small bottles of orange juice.
We continued on and stopped at Citrus Garden park to drink the orange juice. I then wanted to get going, as there was a group of 5th/6th grade kids that were having a fruit fight. It was getting a bit out of hand and I didn’t want either of us to get hit by a flying orange. Also, I didn’t want August to think making a mess like that was okay. So we got going, but August saw an orange on the ground and wanted to take it. He figured out what was going on and got upset – first because he wanted to go back, but mainly, I think, because he wanted to clean up the mess and didn’t want the park ruined.
Eventually I convinced him we could go to Motek Garden and step on and collect oranges from the orange trees there. On the way, I noticed that a house had a koi pond in the yard and we stopped to look. He asked “Is this the Kerns’ house?” Apparently they have fish, although it wasn’t clear if they were big fish like this.
We stopped at the park for about 20 minutes. Collected about 8 oranges, and he stepped on several, and broke them open on rocks. There were a couple of guys practicing their rapping on a bench in the corner of the park. That as kind of cool.
We headed home as he needed to use the bathroom. We were home at 3:45 and rushed inside. He was struggling to get his shoes off and I told him that when he really needed to go he could go straight to the toilet and worry about taking his shoes of later. So he ran in wearing just one shoe. He made it, but managed to pee a bit through the crack between the lid and bowl – something that has surprisingly not happened to him before. He thought it was pretty funny, actually.
He was asking about big numbers and how many zeros they have after them: “Sept means seven…Oct means eight…I know nonillion. Non means nine and it has 30 zeroes!”
He was some sick animals and we played a little Legos, then we called Carly to see when she planned on coming home. August did most of the calling. We went upstairs to put clothes in the dryer and read Picasso’s Trousers on his bed. We came back down to start pizza and he was playing on the couch. At 4:45 the guy downstairs started knocking on the window with a broom, startling both of us. We ignored it and didn’t answer him.
We then read 65-Story Treehouse on the floor while August drank orange juice. Carly got home and I sliced pieces of pizza for us all. We read more Treehouse, then he went outside with Carly picking up stick things as a lot had fallen due to the wind. At one point he was trying to tell her about something and she didn’t understand what he was talking about. He clarified what word he was saying, saying “‘Here’ as in the place, not ‘hear’ when you hear something” or something along those lines, and providing some more examples. He then came in on his own and was writing the alphabet on the chalkboard. Not something he’s done before. He asked for my help at a couple points, but did most of it on his own.
It was time for a shower and Carly su
ggested Beethoven during his shower. He watched the fourth movement of the 9th while he was on the toilet, then continued to listen as I gave him a shower. We then went in on the bed and he watched more. While he was watching he had a magic car: “will go past the moon, past Neptune, and all the way back to Earth! Where it will break EVERYTHING!” And “I have a triplet making reflecting sounding machine!”
We went down to get his water and Carly. As we went back up he volunteered “I’m gonna dream about magma plumes.” As Carly put on his pajamas the shirt sleeve was messed up and he said “There’s a glitch in it.” He was asleep at 7:40.
Pretending to sleep:
Pad Thai:
Oranges:
