We were all awake at 5:45, then out of bed around 6. Carly set him up in his room and he watched Timmy Time. I went in and watched an episode with him. They nursed. He asked me to squeeze the bad mood out of him. Was then typing and copying and pasting on my iPad. Carly headed to work. We read Berenstain Bears Slumber Party and Bad Habit. During the latter he interrupted me and said “I was also dreaming about drinking apple cinnamon tea in my sleep….please, please, please, please…infinity pleases times infinity pleases!”
We went downstairs and he was a space probe: “I’m gonna take pictures of the solar system while you make my tea.” When I gave him his vitamins he made a pentagon out of them on his own for the first time.
We then made zucchini bread. He helped a lot and played around on his own when he wasn’t. Licked the spatula and ate some strawberries and walked around singing “There’s a Q at the bottom of the sea” and reciting Hebrew numbers. I cooked the leftover zucchini and he ate the rest of the strawberries and a few bites of zucchini. He watched that ABCKids TV video and I exercised and took a shower. I then ran down and took out the bread then went back up and and we watched to Z in the video together.
Went down and ate some bread. “I want you to mow that zucchini bread.” Not sure where that came from. We read some more of the Magic Treehouse book. He asked “Are you gonna coral reef me?” I asked “What’s that mean?” “Get me all wet.” He’s really into turning things into verbs. He was then being a shark. I then took him up for his shower. They are going okay nowadays until you touch his hair. Vacuumed the couch and rugs due to his crumbs. Then as we were getting ready to go he said “Uh-oh. I pressed 30 9s…on those buttons over there…I don’t know what they do, but you push them and they do something…uh-oh, it’s happening…the house is moving! We’re being carried up to the moon!”
We left at 11:10. He chose a radio station and Led Zeppelin’s “All My Love” was playing. He said “This is good music.” I switched to the phone and we were listening to Chemical Brothers. Said he liked that too.
We got to Planetanya and paid to play in the science playground outside – just 10 shekels. And we got a button commemorating 60 years since Sputnik, so he and I talked about that a few times. The first big section we did was the curved mirrors and optical illusions. We pretended to be zombies and monsters in the mirrors. August said “This park is really interesting.” Then to the middle part with the gravity swing thing, gyroscope, etc. We had fun with those then went inside to use the bathroom. He got pinched by the toilet seat so we had to change toilets.
When we came back out we first walked to the entrance with a sign telling you to walk up to the building to pay. I mentioned something about us going in the wrong entrance and August wanted us to walk around to the correct entrance. I told him it was okay, as we had already paid, but we walked around anyway. We played with the curved disks that let you hear someone a long way away and talked back and forth. Then the sound areas, with the xylophones and vibrating rods, and frequency table things. And then he took what may be his first video of me as I walked in a giant hamster wheel.
Finished with walking down to the Japanese Garden and looked at fish and sat and ate leftover pizza and apples for lunch. We talked about the Japanese person who donated money. “Uh-uh. There’s no Japanese guy cuz he died, right?” Don’t know why he would assume that the person had died (or was a man).
We left at 1:15. He had me push a button: “We can go home in our MAGIC CAR! It can stay in the air all day….The whole Planetanya is floating.”
He had requested the “elements” song sometime recently and I had figured out he meant the Tom Lehrer song “The Elements”, from his Year 3 playlist. We listened to that a few times along with the They Might Be Giants and Blackalicious songs. But the Lehrer is his favorite and he’d repeat elements that he recognized: “Sodium, dada!”
We drove to the Ir Yamin mall. Parked and found the back entrance we didn’t think existed. Went to Rebar (the smoothie place) and got the Creamy Cocoa smoothie – the one he gets with Carly, but left the hazelnuts in. I figured out how to do the smoothie and shopping after his meltdown last weekend waiting for the smoothie: get him the smoothie first and let him drink it while I go into shops. We did that, but I wasn’t very successful: looking for more underwear for him, but didn’t find anything the same as what we just got him, and found slippers for Carly but they were pricey. She wants them for pajama day at school.
So we left at 2:25. We ere finishing up the smoothie and August kindly volunteered to do it: “I’ll finish it now. SOMEONE has to finish it.” As we walked to the car I almost walked by it as I forgot I’d backed in the spot. August said something. When I went back he then scanned the license plate with his hand and said “Identifying” and read off the numbers. I had him recreate it for a video, but it wasn’t nearly as perfect.
We listened to more of the elements songs and went to the Drorim Mall near our house. When we got out I saw he’d been playing piano on his iPad and was figuring out Yankee Doodle. He was in the Chordana app and told me he’d played “Lightly Row” a few times and likes that song.
We went in and made a quick trip: bought two more packs of underwear for August. He was upset when I signed the electronic signature pad. Then scouted out slippers for Carly and took photos. Then into Tiv Taam. He agreed to just getting milk, but I was able to stretch it to include pita. I let him help sign the paper slip, but the reminder about the electronic pad was too much. He got really said and as we walked out of the mall he kept reaching back, telling me to go back that way and buy something. As we got close to the car I cheered him up by squeezing out he bad mood, then he was squeezing it out himself: “I squeezed it out of myself…onto you.” We left at 3:15.
We turned by the school and I realized Carly was getting off. We stopped by the private pool and called her. Then went back and picked her up when she came out.
At home he played the piano and Yankee Doodle. He was trying to get Carly to hurry, probably to nurse, and said”Hurry, quick, before I meditate you!” She had mentioned meditating, I think, and he was jokingly turning it into a different kind of verb (the kind where you perform an action on someone/something….blanking right now).
He was then sending Carly messages using my phone. When he went to the bathroom he told me “Dada, you can keep sending Carly things.” Which is funny for at least two reasons (called her Carly and she was in the room, so why would I want to send her messages…)
They skyped with Cherie, then he and I Magic Treehouse 9. There was more looking to the end of the book to make sure they survived the cracking sub before we could keep reading. Sigh. We read some Plumdog, then watched Lucy & Pogo.
Started the blasting game by saying “I blasted that caterpillar that was going to teleport us to KOREA!” Then he was blasting things on the bed. He asked for water and I said that was a job for Superdad. When I got back he said “Thank you superdada!”
He told me “I’m gonna dream about airplanes.” I left them at 7:35 and he was soon asleep. Unfortunately, we both forgot to have him go to the bathroom before bed and he had his first wetting the bed experience at 9:30. Changed the sheets and his clothes and got him back to sleep pretty quickly.
Having tea:
Planetanya:
Waiting for the smoothie:
Making faces in the car:
