He woke up around 5:40. At 6 he told Carly “I have to call someone on your phone.” Downstairs he played some Dragonbox Big Numbers then they read part of Berenstain Bears Trouble with Pets. I let him play Toca Robot Lab on my iPad as Carly left. We Skyped with my parents. They asked about his Cars shirt and I told them that a few nights ago, when Carly put it on him, he said “But. I’m not Colin. I don’t like cars.”
We then watched the “What’s the Name of that Song?” Sesame Street video as we’ve been trying to remember all the words. That led to watching other Sesame Street songs. YouTube then switched to an Ants Go Marching video. He was surprised it stopped at 10 and had forgotten that we made up our 11 to 20 verses. It was raining outside this morning and we had a good downpour for a few minutes.
We finished reading Trouble with Pets, then he was a puppy panting on the floor. We next read Bad Habit. Then we acted out, several times, him being a puppy and tearing up the house while I went shopping. He also needed a shot. We read 3 chapters of Magic Treehouse #8: Midnight on the Moon book. Then pulled up a video of astronauts walking on the moon. We’d watched a video of astronauts falling down before, but he didn’t want that one – he didn’t want to see them fall down. We then watched several Arabic alphabet songs videos, finding a couple with the same song that we liked.
He then spotted the collection of songs from ABCKidsTV that he used to watch: https://youtu.be/_UR-l3QI2nE He watched that while I exercised and showered. We then finished the video. Went downstairs and heated up the leftover salmon sandwich from yesterday and made a grilled cheese sandwich and cut up strawberries for lunch. We watched and sang along to Sesame Street songs, and found some new ones: He quite liked ones from Adam Sandler and Norah Jones. Then gave him a shower.
Shmuel called while I was giving August his shower, then again as we were leaving. He asked if he had left his purple bag with papers in it here. An odd conversation as that was weeks ago, and he instantly rejected my suggestion he might have left it in the locked garage.
August and I drove to Ra’anana Park. We parked at the east end at 1 and paid for parking until 3:10. We took the stroller and walked to the west end of the park and around the pond. On the far side of the pond we came across the musical sculptures garden: different xylophones, harps, etc. in varying states of working order. But his favorite was a big yellow sphere with a handle out of the top. You walked (or ran) around in circles and it played Hebrew children’s songs. We played with that for a long time. He asked me to turn it and said “I’m gonna play my strumming instrument. It has all the notes in the world!”
We took a break to read Berenstain Bears Bad Habit, then to have fun taking some photos. We then read another chapter of Magic Treehouse #9. He’s kind of scared of this one, afraid that they’re going to get a leak in their spacesuits on the moon. We also had a snack. A smell wafted past and he said “Dada. I smell something good. It smells like oatmeal.”
He was worried about parking time, and would continue to be, asking repeatedly what would happen if we stayed too long or left early. As we left that spot at 2:35 I said we could call it the music spot at Ra’anana Park. He added “And this is my favorite place!” We continued the walk around the pond, then headed back to the east end. As we went he was having us fight all sorts of dragons, etc. He had freezing power.
We looked at the zoo for a few minutes. He wasn’t really into it though, saying he didn’t like deer. But of the emu he said “Huge, giant, enormous!” We stopped at the bathroom, then walked to the car, getting there a little after 3. But that took us by the playground and he decided he wanted to stay longer. So we put more time in the meter, until just after 4 and headed back. At first he changed his mind right away: “Let’s go home now.” But we ended up playing on the exercise equipment for quite awhile. He’d use one piece of equipment, say he was ready to go, but then see another machine he’d want to use.
He saw a spider web under one chair and asked “What will happen if I touch it?” I said “Maybe a spider will come and wrap you in a thread and save you to eat you later.” He replied “No! It won’t….Could you joke about that?” Me: “I just did.” Him: “Could you joke about it again?”
We then went over and played at the acorn spaceship. He said he was going to a “A tree planet with air.” He then found the fake hollow log and decided we were termites: “Dada termite! Eat the log!” “Can we go to our termite car?”
We left after 3:50. We drove over to Wiz Kids, which is an English book/game store nearby. August wasn’t very excited about it, so didn’t get a long look around. Ended up buying a couple sets of Hebrew flash cards and a couple of games – one storytelling game and one about nursery rhymes – out of their sale area.
Lots of traffic and we got home just before 5. As we got out of the car he spotted Carly walking down the street towards home.
They nursed and I got stuff out for dinner. I asked if Carly wanted tea and she said yes, and August said he wanted tea as well. I asked if he wanted apple cinnamon tea and he said yes. He was then surprised and very excited about the apple cinnamon tea I made for him and that it was just his. He drank the whole cup.
We read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, then looked at the fairy tale game. He threw his empty water bottle at me, so I took him up to the bed. We ended up doing flops on the bed and he wanted mama to come up to go ballistic. He was then a baby squirrel curling up in my arms so I thought he was getting tired. I went down to get books. He came down, carrying Marshy, and slipped and fell on the floor. I distracted him by taking care of Marshy, who had slid into the chair leg. August was then being a syringe, hopping as he didn’t have feet. He then wanted us to take care of Green Monster, operating for a broken humerus.
He played with the calculator on Carly’s computer – billions, etc. then wanted to Skype with someone. They called Glecy but he was upset that Carly wouldn’t let him play the little video emojis.
We took him back upstairs and he was plenty hyper for awhile. Brushed his teeth, then he and Carly had a came passing things in a circle under the cover and out from under the cover. He was doing a ton of laughing. As we put him to sleep I said “Have a good sleep.” He responded “Okay, I’ll dream about air conditioners.” I left them just before 7.
He walked downstairs at 8:50 as Carly was skyping with Glecy. Shocked us as he hasn’t done that for a long time.
Being a dog chewing everything:
Perched on the stool from Nazareth:
Ra’anana Park. Posing for a photo:
We talked about how we used to use changing tables all the time. He remember not liking them for awhile:
Exercising:
Acorn rocket:
Being termites:
In Wiz Kids:
