A topsy turvy day as we were at school in the morning, which seemed to kind of confuse August, and I managed to break a little finger, which led to hours of waiting and not much else in the evening.
He was up at 6:25. In a science mood in the morning as we played Human Body, Classify It!, and Math Tango. I made us French toast. When it was ready he said “Podtastic!”, which is from the narwhal book.
Another day of getting moving quickly in the morning. But first he made up a song on the piano and wanted to record it for the blog. After the video he said “lovely!”
I took a shower. He came up and waited for me. There is some water damage of the trim around the door, right at the bottom, which he likes to pick at but I’ve told him not to. He picked at it again and I told him not to. He replied, lawyer-like, “But you said I could destroy it faster than the water!” I had to clarify the meanings of ‘could’.
I was hurrying arønd tø get ready to gø and he said “You’re so fast! I could miss you everywhere!” He was playing with Duplos as I put on his clothes and I accidentally knocked over part of what he was building. When we were done he politely asked “Dada, next time could you not destroy something I’m making?”
We headed to school. On the way we listened to a New Order song and he talked about it sounding animated – like the Animusic videos, I think he means electronic, and that it was fast. He called it “super music”: “I’ve been playing super music.”
We were originally supposed to meet Carly and then Cassie at 8:45, but both Cassie and Mayan, who runs the preschool, were running late. Then the registrar suggested that August should go as well. So we went to do our preschool tour. August lasted a couple minutes inside, mainly covering his eyes to hide from people, and we saw Bar, but then Carly had to take him outside. We continued with the tour, and ended up outside by the playground. Carly had to go teach, so she brought August to me. I held him for a couple more minutes and we tried to ask him if he had any questions. He said “I just don’t like it.” to Maayan.
We left and walked to the library. August looked down towards Bat-Hen’s classroom and asked “Are you a little sad she got in a car accident?” I don’t know if I mentioned that, but that’s why August didn’t have a Hebrew lesson this week, and won’t next week.
In the library we got to play with the Makey Makey kit and the fruit piano that had been built with it. He loved it. We saw Jill, the youngest of the sisters and he said “We haven’t seen them in awhile.” We also played with circuits – a couple different types of toys. But he kept going back to the piano made out of bananas, a potato, and playdough. He also liked making molecules with a kit and asked “How strong are the bonds?” He reluctantly went with me about 10:30 to go home. We needed lunch eventually and I had a headache. We planned to come back in the afternoon and play a lot more before his activity class. Things didn’t quite go as planned.
He got upset before we left the school, and continued in the car, and then in the house. I thought he might be ready for a nap give his short nights of sleep. At home then I hurried up the stairs to get my Tylenol. Near the top one of my feet slipped a little. I didn’t fall, but struck my arm out to grab the railing and instead punched a post. It did not feel good.
Got my Tylenol and went downstairs. He watched Llama Llama and I lay down for awhile and felt a little faint. I was able to pick him up a bit later and he said “It’s good you can still pick me up.” He played with the bottle brush from the sink. Then we did some Seuss Band. He said that oh the places you’ll go, the cat in the hat and Dr. Seuss’s ABCs are his favorite songs on the game.
Carly had made me an appointment for 3 down at the Herzelia Medical Center. We went back to school. Listened to the Dr. Seuss Songbook on the way but he said he didnt like them: “Not the real Dr. Seuss songs.”
Played more with the piano and stuff in the library. We looked at an Ispy book and read a little of the Alexander book where he doesn’t want to move. But August said “No, it’s to black and whitish.”
Then Carly came a little after 2 (she was done teaching at 1:30) and drove us down. I went in and they headed to town on his bike. They went to a coffee shop and had a sandwich and hot chocolate. They then walked down to the beach. There was a sculpture of an angel riding a bike and August wanted to take a photo for me. They played on the beach with the sand toys and made a big pile of sand.
Meanwhile, I was stuck in slow hospital hell. Took about 20 minutes to do all the new-patient paperwork, then I walked down the street to Dr. Shaun’s office. Waited until my appointment at 3, then found out he was running 15 minutes late getting to the office. He showed up and that went fine. He said he suspected a fracture and wanted an x-ray. Then I might go back to him to him to get it taped. So back to the international clinic office with some paperwork, where another woman photocopied my insurance card. Again. Then down to x-ray, where I had to get a number, wait to talk to the desk, then wait for my name to be called. Got the x-ray and could see it was broken. Then I was supposed to wait for a disk with the x-rays. I waited, and waited. Then caught the technician, and he looked for it and told me a couple minutes. Asked another woman about it. Eventually the doctor came over on his own and he got involved. Had to leave, then come back. He got to look at them and said it was broken at the end so I should see an orthopedist, But I still had to wait for the disk. And they’d set up an appointment for me. Waited some more. Finally, a disk. But they told me to wait.
Carly and August had come down while I waited four the disk. They then went at 5:20 to see about getting my prescription for me, then got involved up at the international office. August had fun scratching a candle. Finally, Carly succeeded and got me an appointment at 7:30.
We left, first having trouble figuring out where to pay for parking, then stopped at the pharmacist where I met my new favorite person in Israel: he snapped to attention and did everything quickly and efficiently.
We headed home and had just enough time to get some food. August bit his tongue and was ready for bed. Before I left them he talked about the candle that Carly wouldn’t let him scrape: “That was the worst bit ever.” “I really wanted it to be scraped.” I left them at 6:45.
Green french toast:
With mama while I had my appointment:
Sculpture he knew I would like:
