We were all up and out of bed a little after 7. August and Carly played a big game of ‘Where’s Carly’s phone’ while still in bed, and August was really laughing: “Maybe it’s a mystery!” After we were up, August helped me make the beds, helping to spread out the sheets. I asked him to put Carly’s pillow up on the big bed and he said “But, mama sleeps with me.” Downstairs he and I took care of Marshy, giving him a lot of shots and filling three cavities. August gave Carly a shot and she said it was her flu shot. He asked “Are there a lot of birds around‽” Bird flu has left quite an impression on the boy. He then went off and went to the bathroom on his own, which he has been doing more and more of.
Carly went outside and he played Itsy Bitsy Spider and Park Math while I made us toast. On the sorting activities he was sorting from right to left – he was also trying to read numbers from right to left the other day. We got a banana to eat and he ate one bite and said he was done. I tried it and it was another bad banana – no flavor. He ate some strawberry and earned some more toast and jam. He then played with the doctor stuff on his own – emptying it or and carrying things back and forth in the pet carrier. He made a pile of pillows and said “This is a pile of comfy things.” We were listening to our playlist of New Year songs. He then started cleaning up: “That’s not right” and he carried Carly’s water bottle to her. “That’s not right” and he returned a book to the shelves. He then walked around using his kaleidoscope to look at everything. I waltzed with him to Tom Waits’ “New Year’s Eve”.
He was hungry so I got him his leftover mushrooms and teriyaki sauce. He was still hungry, so I made him more. When he ate them all he said “You ate all those mushrooms!” he replied “I don’t need any more! Thank you!” We sat and finished Magic Treehouse #11: Lions at Lunchtime. Carly was in the kitchen making lasagne and he ‘stole’ lasagna noodles from Carly. He was then using the tongs to pick up the extra bits of lasagna noodles.
I went and took a shower, then came down to take him to his bath. He had a meltdown though when I tried to give him a bath. I let him go to Carly and a few minutes later she was able to succeed in getting him into the bath. When he came down he came and sat right next to me on the couch and said “Not so good” before I said anything.
He and I then got ready and took his orange bike up to the park. He wanted to play store. He said his web was plain and he needed things for it. And he told me he was the shopkeeper. Upstairs was the household goods, and downstairs was groceries. He bought 5 pink pillows, a pink rug, and pink juice. He asked “Is there a sweets and goodies sction?” The swinging seat thing in there was our scale for the dry goods section, and he bought things like flies and ticks. After one transaction he said “Nice doing business with you.” Back upstairs I suggested he buy art for his web. He got one piece of art and said “I want this art. It’s a picture of a child eating too much chocolate and throwing up.”
Before we left we went and were swinging in his web for a few minutes, relaxing, and he did a funny video. We were home by 12:15.
Carly got ready to go and they left at 12:40, leaving me behind to have some work time. I started by hassling the car company about the reimbursement they still haven’t deposited into our account, then sent an email to a law firm to ask questions about my work status. Then I started working on some Sabeel stuff.
They were home about an hour later, having first gone to the plant store. They mainly stayed outside and planted seeds. They planted tons of veggies: broccoli, lettuce, carrots. They planted some in pots, and a little lettuce in the corner of the kitchen planter, but mainly turned some of the empty space between the papaya plants into beds. And they got a couple of pots and flower plants. August had been cute, picking up different plants at the shop and bringing them to Carly “How about this one?” Carly picked out one of the plants and August picked out the other.
They then headed to Netanya Beach, the one right in downtown.They played down on the beach but it was quite windy. They went to the same cafe we’d gone to before, Rhythm Bar and Store, and got a ‘Summer’ smoothie and a tomato and olive pizza. They were home at 5:35.
August then Skyped with Vivian. She showed him her hula hoop and he said “Actually, we’ve done hula hoops in activity class.” August was wearing his space shirt and Vivian recognized it as one that Cherie had given him while he was in Pennsylvania. August was playing with his alien and spaceship. Vivian had some sort of spaceship as well and said “Its a real one. It’s an actual alien spaceship.” They then made competing nests out of pillows. He then had a cookie: “Look at this cookie! It’s so big! Yeah, it’s soooo good.” They were the last cookies from our Christmas batch.
He was then watching the Hebrew Color Team videos and sent the links to Vivian. I got a call back from the lawyer, basically with all good news about my Visa and being able to work and not having to worry about Amendment 27.
When I came back down he was having fun pulling books off the shelves. He went outside with Carly and did a little Zinnie house. Back inside he told me about Netanya: “We had too much fun!” I had told him before they left that they couldn’t have too much fun. He said they made a moat but “We didn’t get water for it though…We just didn’t want to.” I had hummed the Addams Family theme song at some point and he was now humming it and asking about words. So we watched a couple different versions of it on YouTube. We then took care of the zebra and other animals. He tried on my shoes at one point.
We read a few chapters of Magic Treehouse #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime . Just past 8 Carly took him up and started getting him ready. I did some clean up then headed up to say goodnight. I suggested he dream about polar bears. He said “Bad dreams…polar bears and bad dreams.” I left them at 8:15 and he fell asleep quickly.
Noodle:
On the ‘scale’:
Thumbs down:
Thumbs up:
Skyping with Vivian face:
Wearing my shoes:
