He came down just after 7. They nursed, then he sat next to me and I noted how he looks older with short hair. He spotted the “tortoise milk” out on the counter and ran over to see it. He He did some math in Excel and I went upstairs to take a shower. He watched a couple episodes of Peg + Cat and I left just before 9 to walk to the rental car company. I reversed my path that I walked last time when I returned the car. 3.7 miles in just less than an hour. Got attacked by a couple little dogs as I took the little road that led to the dirt road through the fields. One bit onto my shorts and hung there for a few seconds. I grabbed rocks and threw a couple and managed to get by them.
Got to the rental car dealership just before 10 and, unlike last time, they took my documents and started everything right away. Just had to wait a couple minutes, during which August started texting me messages from Carly’s phone. He can type ‘one’ and sent a bunch of random autosuggest messages. The car is a black Mitsubishi. Got home by 10:30.
They were putting new sheets on the bed and he showed me the “underground” – the inside of the duvet cover. I helped him play in that for awhile (he hibernated with Smokey and took Peter Rabbit on a tour, showing him the underground pipes). I went downstairs to get some water and food and we went back up to play for a bit. He also spent quite awhile sending text messages back and forth from my phone and Carly’s phone.
We then took the car out for our first drive in awhile. We headed to the mall in Kfer Sava. Carly needed to get her photo taken for her Israeli driver’s license. I need to do it too, but first need to also get an ID number, which I’ll do next Sunday. August did fine in the car. As we got close to the mall and he was looking out the window he said “That tree is unpredictable.” We got to the mall a little before 12.
You get your photo taken at an eye place, although we don’t need eye exams. While Carly waited August tried on glasses and sunglasses. He had said he wanted to help Carly, but there was no paperwork for him to help with. We then went out and played on the playground in the park area south of the mall. They first went on a little climbing thing, then August played briefly in a little mushroom house. Went on a round swing with Carly, then we played the big whack-a-mole type game using red and green lights a few times. August helped a little, but mainly liked watching us or another kid do it, and seeing the numbers on the scores increase.
We then found a bathroom, then walked across the rest of the park to a street with shops along it. Found a falafel place and got two sandwiches, some friends, and lemonades. Carly finally had a falafel sandwich here. Sat at a table on the sidewalk and ate. August really liked the falafel, so we’re making progress.
We walked back to our car and headed to the Drorim Mall to do grocery shopping at Tiv Taam. Carly went in to start shopping and August and I sstayed in the car. He got in the driver’s seat with me and played with the electric mirrors and sent Carly a lot of messages and monster stickers on her phone. He and I got out of the car and went and played in the outside play area for 5 or 10 minutes. Climbed in the train and asked me to join him. He went on one of the cars and got his shoe wet, so he took that off and played with one shoe on, jumping on the dots on the ground.
We then went to Tiv Taam and found Carly. I carried him part of the way there. He helped bag groceries, then we made him walk back to the car, no carrying, as we had too many bags.
We got home at 3:20. ُTo encourage him to walk to the car we had called the covered area a portal to another world and he ran through it. That also reminded him of Toca Blocks and exploring the “Other worlds”. So when we got home he wanted to play that. Did that, and then Carly skyped with Cherie. More of the “I love you impossible infinity” routine at the end.
He and I went upstairs to play more in the underground and read The 39-Story Treehouse. Then went downstairs and read part of Mummies in the Morning. I remembered I had a bookmark in one of my books and gave it to him so he could put a bookmark in the mummy book. We then watched Hebrew videos: the numbers video, the colors song, then a couple other color ones. He was then singing the colors song to himself.
He ate some of the tomato soup that Carly had made, then had me typing stuff that he could then copy and paste over and over again. He did some Excel math, then I was typing words for him to read. We headed up to bed and got his pajamas on, but it went downhill from there, with him making “I’ll kill you” jokes. He didn’t like our negative response to those jokes, then he refused to go to the bathroom. After a lot of screaming and “I won’t!” Carly put a diaper on him for the first time in about three months. I left them at 8:30 and he was soon asleep.
Wrapped in a blanket while he slept:
Trying on glasses:
Lunch:
Waiting for us to finish eating:
