He woke up sometime after 6, but then fell back to sleep until 7:10. He watched Julius Jr. When Carly said he’d stop after an episode and then they’d reada book and play outside he agreed, but then turned and said “Dada, what do you think of that?” He sneakily started to watch another episode, then reluctantly agreed to play with Carly before she headed to school for the MUN/Conflict Resolution thing: “Okay.” They went and played Duplos: “That part’s pretty amazing, right?” He was doing some good humming/singing while they played.
I went upstairs and did a little work, then came back down before 9. They were still playing Duplos and had made a treehouse. She headed to school for the MUN/Conflict Resolution thing. We did a little more Duplos, then read some Smurfs, including the Clockwork Smurf story. He said he liked the other version, so then we watched the episode with Clockwork in it. I exercised. He picked up on a line in the Smurfs and said “They’re going to give him a taste of his own medicine.”
He went in the bathroom and asked me “Can you pee in garbage cans or not?” When I said no, and why would you be able to he replied “Because gross things go in garbage cans.” We went upstairs and he played some Sound Rebound and I took a shower. He came and hung out in the bathroom. He was playing with the fold-up stool and said “When they didn’t have drawbridges and doors they used this kind of door.” as he rotated the stool back and forth.
We did his bath, then went downstairs and he had some naked time. We had bought some of the meatballs at Ikea and I’d started those before his bath. He liked the meatballs, but then I set them in a bowl of broccoli and cheese. Carly had come home for lunch. He then got picky, and wanted the stir fry instead, but didn’t like the little cheese that had stuck to his meatballs. I think Carly traded some out for him and he ate some meatball, but nothing else.
I headed upstairs and worked, coming down at 12:55. They had been outside, and were now back at the Duplos. He had made a plant growing machine. August had wanted to play the alien and gas station game this morning and they didn’t have time. He asked for it again and she played it with him before she left. First time I’d seen it, and he was doing a lot of laughing as the gas sprayed everywhere, etc.
She headed back to school. He asked “Why did mama tell us we should go outside…she wants everyone to be outside when it’s sunny?” he was then a sticker finding machine, and I carried him around to find stickers. He was then the trapinator machine and we used treasure maps we got different places (eBay, etc.) to find treasure and he would detect traps. Ended up in the bedroom and we played with kaleidoscope cards.
Carly hadn’t been clear on her afternoon/evening plans and we hadn’t heard an update, so we were trying to figure out what to do. We were planning on walking up to town and trying to get my hair cut. We talked about picking up a pizza to bring home and we talked about noodle pizza and things I missed from Korea. Made a list. He says he didn’t miss anything. But he got kind of excited about noodle pizza.
He found Auxy on my iPad and we made another song. The program suggested the name ‘Jealous Wombat’ and he really liked that. We exported it as a video, and then he played with the settings a lot, figuring out how to change tempos and keys and scales on the fly. He was a machine changing with the tempo.
We got ready to go, and as we were going outside Shmuel was here. He said he needed to take a photo of the power meters. We talked a little and he said he wasn’t doing very well, but didn’t elaborate on why, and August wanted me to “make it up”. He also talked more about his missing purple bag.
We walked to town and stopped at the mall. Sadly the hair place was closed. We looked at a little toy/stationary store we hadn’t looked at before. August found a pink squishy ball kind of like the one he got from Bar. He played with it in the store and found out that it lit up. He wanted to buy it, but was then fine with putting it away when he was done.
We then stopped at the hardware store to see if they had keychains, as two of the metal loops on mine were all bent and the keys were falling out. The owner just happened to have two metal rings in his hand from something he had just stocked and gave them to me. Perfect.
We continued on to the pizza place. Took a few minutes translating the menu for fun and ordered a large pizza with mushrooms and Bulgarian cheese on half. While we were there we read There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, The Bippolo Seed, and Oh the Places You’ll Go! August ate a whole piece of pizza. I held the slice at first for him, then he was able to hold it by himself. We also had our usual juice packs.
Carly left school about 4:30 and came and picked up us and the pizza. We were home before 5. Carly and I had more pizza. She ate outside. August tried bringing the broom inside at one point, then was scraping the “gross stuff” on the ceiling outside the kitchen door. I had gone upstairs and when I came down he told me how Carly had changed her mind: first telling him he couldn’t do it, then saying it was okay.
We played with Duplos and he made machines: the tall-vi-nator 3000, which made things tall, and the “The Low-fat 3000…the name doesn’t mean anything.” Then a cookie shooting machine, and a gumball machine. He kept asking “Do you want to build a machine with me? I’m the greatest inventor ever!”
We talked about how he doesn’t miss anything about Korea. Said he remembers Logan. Debated whether August was a quiet kid. When I said he knew a lot of words so probably did more talking than a lot of kids his age. He then stopped talking to show how quiet he was. He also told us he didn’t want us to keep talking about Korea.
Carly was talking about what she did today and asked how much I knew about Hamas. August interjected, saying “I know a lot about Hamas…Do you want me to teach you?…They fight on the stove…and they EAT people!” Carly told me that he he hadn’t nursed during the night, but she still had a restless night due to bad dreams. He said “I had so many bad dreams too! It’s just that I didn’t tell you them.” August said to Carly “Can I ask you a question? Tell me about when you were a kid.” Apparently she often tells him stories about when she was a kid before he goes to sleep.
They did some colored pencils, drawing parts of a cell. We then did blocks, and he made a machine that makes amphibians. He sang a short “zolta zebra flew away” song. Carly took him upstairs and he took a long time in the bathroom. I had set up the book display boards this morning, and he took all the books off of it, saying those were were the ones dada said he could read before bed. They read Ameli Bedelia Under Construction. I left them at 7:40.