We were all awake before 7 but then had a lazy Saturday morning and didn’t get out of bed until close to 7:30. August was being a baby squirrel. Carly set him up on his bed and he watched one episode of Timmy Time and ate zucchini bread. He and I then sat out in the play area and read Kiss Goodnight, some Pooh poems and the story where he gets stuck, Plant a Tree with Me, and Frog on a Log. They nursed on the Zinnie bed.
We played Math Tango, the new app from Originator (they made Endless Alphabet, etc.) on the big bed, then went downstairs. Carly was making soup. I was carrying August around and we were a concrete truck, putting concrete down for a building. He ate a whole bowl of oatmeal and said he was getting more concrete. I went and took a shower. He said “Now I have a lot of concrete in me.” Carly had made the soup from a jar mix thing she had gotten at Tiv Taam. Didn’t have a ton of flavor, so August told me he chose spices to add to the soup. Turned out well in the end and we ate some. He played with the tracing Arabic app and showed Carly how it worked, then we did Arabic and Hebrew videos. He said “Dada, we’ve watched a lot of videos. Time to do something else.”
He and I went outside and did watering and he played with sap. He found that the big mass of sap at the bottom of the tree, which we’d been watching since we got here, is now gooey. Perhaps because of the rain? He poked holes in it with his big stick.
We left for a walk before 1. As we got close to the mall he said he was running out of power but “I have enough power to make it to the coffee shop and wait.” We went to Rebar and he and Carly got the same Creamy Cocoa smoothie, but without the hazelnuts this time. Drank it at a table for a minute, then August said we could go shopping. We helped out in Tiv Taam and all went well until we were checking out.
Carly had put the smoothie in the back of the bike. While we were bagging groceries he spotted it and went and grabbed it. I’m not sure what happened – if Carly was taking it from him or he was handing it to her or he just dropped it – but it fell a few inches to the floor, landing upright. But the impact burst the bottom and it started leaking. I spirited him and the smoothie out the door and told him he could quickly drink what was left. That didn’t really happen though as he tried to come back in the store, then when Carly tried picking up the cup all the rest poured out. It wasn’t much of the overall smoothie, but it doesn’t take much smoothie to make a big mess. We felt bad leaving the messes, but had no way to clean it up and we told the checker.
At the store August had chosen some tea. I was going to choose some new tea for iced tea anyway. Turned out it was lemon and ginger tea. And it was an excellent choice, both for hot tea for August and as iced tea. Made both when we got home and he remembered it. He really liked it,but I had made him a pretty full mug and as he sat at the table he spilled it. He initially told me he wanted it to spill, but I don’t think that was the case. He refused to help clean it up though. Then when I was doing part of it he was kicking me in the back, upset. I went up to Carly, who was re-washing the mattress cover by hand and switched with her. She got him to help with clean up, then come up and give me a good apology. I talked to him and he agreed he’d help clean up next time there was a spill. They then nursed and I did some dishes.
He played more Chordana, then after 3 we all went over to see Jack and find out about walking Nellie for them tomorrow while they are in the West Bank with Carly. August didn’t really like the idea of taking care of Nellie. But we went over and took Nellie out on a short walk with Jack and it went okay. On the way back or there August and I sang our numbers at the bottom of the sea variations.
We came home and August and I loaded up the bike with all the recycling and headed up to the cages. Did cardboard, then went home for the recycling. As we walked up to the house August said he smelled popcorn. He was correct – Carly had made popcorn. We went up and did all the plastic and glass recycling. Couldn’t get him to go for a walk or play at the park though as he wanted to get back and have more popcorn.
Came home and ate some more popcorn. Then he sang a song: “There’s an aquabent at the bottom of the moon…that’s another way of saying ‘chair’.” Carly was making chocolate pancakes for August and I pointed out how nice she is. He said “Nicest EVER mama…She’s so nice I can’t even…(thinking time)… understand her.” So cute.
We ate pancakes, then read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day. He was then acting out what we had learned about taking care of Nellie: “I’m a little cat. Can your take care of me? My owner’s gone.” He was getting fur all over the house.
They read Berenstain Bears New Baby in Spanish. He was a cat again. I was feeding him and he was cuddling. I got curry, hummus, etc. for dinner and August wanted some too so we had a second dinner. He said he was ready to go upstairs and play on the bed. I said I needed a minute to finish eating and Carly said she’d go up and play with him. He said “Let’s do really little flops with mama, then really, really, really big flops with you.” Because he knows Carly doesn’t like the big flops.
I went up and we played in bed. More flops, then read some of Teddy and Co. (we just have the sample), then took blurry and burst photos. His first time doing burst photos so I was teaching him how that works and how you then choose which to keep. He was then a dog chewing pillows. I tried to get a good photo, but should have done a video. We read some Plumdog, then he ‘helped’ put on the sheets and was being crazy. He sneezed right before he started nursing. I asked “Are you going to dream about sneezes?” He said “Yeah” and gave a thumbs up. I left them at 7:40 and he was soon asleep.
Smoothie:
Tragedy:
Trying out the dog walking:
Being blurry:
