He came out at 7:40. I was going to wake him up if he wasn’t up by 7:45. He wasn’t bothered by Carly being gone. Cary had asked him last night, when he was late going to sleep, if it would be okay if she didn’t wake him and he said yes. Been a long time since she wasn’t here in the morning and we didn’t know how he would respond. He rested on the couch and then watched Juliue Jr. Two episodes. When I took a good morning photo for Carly he stuck his tongue out. When he was done watching he took Duplos under the table to his inventing space, listened to the Julius Jr. Theme song on repeat, and made a machine: “The horn waker-upper…you tip it over a little bit and it honks that horn.” “You can destroy it if you want…And besides; it’s a very cheap machine. And fragile.”
He was picking at his favorite old pillow to destroy. He said “I just make it worse over time. Not very fast.” He watched the latest Marble Machine update video and the Marble Machine of course and ate some peanut butter crackers. I suggested a peanut butter and banana smoothie. He said “Im excited about the new smoothie!” He drank a lot of smoothie and then danced to the new Matt and Kim song “Like I Used to Be”. He found the spring that he’s been playing with and rolled it across the floor and said it was an optical illusion as it looked like it was spirally one way or the other. He then had me pretend to invent a hydroelectric generator. He asked me “What’s your hypothesis? Mama says that scientists make hypothesis.” And “Could you be a scientist trying to figure out why light is so fast?” So we watched video on that one, which basically came down to ‘because it doesn’t have mass’. Then watched a SciShow Kids episode on ‘why does your leg fall asleep?’
We went upstairs and he played with Carly’s brush and comb: “I’m designing something…it affects the marbles. This makes it go straight and this makes it go up.” I took a shower and he watched Llama Llama. He looked at my ear and asked “Next time you’re a grown up could you wear earrings for a long time?” He had asked Carly about the closed-up holes on her ears a few days ago.
Gave him a bath and we talked about center of gravity as he was practicing standing on one foot. Said that was the word of the day, then he also said that ‘spring’ and ‘force’ were words of the day. And he asked “Why do optical illusion happen?” Went downstairs and he asked Siri questions on my iPad: “What is a Ferris wheel? What is a tricycle?” Then played with a couple of music apps and then Piano Maestro. Rather hard to get him going as there was always something else to do. Back to his machine: “Waker upper machine. Is that the word of the day?”
We left at noon. Started with the new Story Pirates (13) but then he wanted the Elements song. We got to Gimel Gimel Gimel, which is right across the street from the Skoda dealership. We went in and soon were in back where they were taking our roof racks out of the box. August and I watched the cars on lifts for a couple minutes, then went in and sat in the waiting room. He saw news on the TV and said he didn’t like that, but enjoyed playing with the spinny chairs. We then found the guy who had helped us and he said they’d install them. So we went across the street to Landwer Cafe and had lunch. August chose the pasta with cream sauce and I had the shakshuka sandwich. August had a mango smoothie with an orange juice base and I had a latte. August kind of learned to not order off the kids’ menu. He liked the noodles but the cream sauce was basically milk. We twice read the little Thumbelina book I’d grabbed from the box by the playground yesterday.
We could see from the restaurant that the car was done so we headed back. A guy demonstrated how to take the racks off and put them back on. And I saw Shay, who was one of the guys who had sold us the car. He started talking to me about how he has a niece and nephew at WBAIS. I had already put August in his car seat. He could see me, but it’s as too long and he got upset. So I got him out of his seat and we played in the front of the car. I tried to call the Herzliya Medical Center but couldn’t get through. Holding and more holding. My dream was that we’d be able to head over there in the afternoon and get my cast shortened. But August liked learning and saying the word ‘medical center’ and called it the word of the day as well.
So we headed to Herzliya Park. He told me before we left that he didn’t want to go to the snake area though. We got to the park at 3:10. Tried to pay at two pay stations, but neither worked. He went to the bathroom and I grabbed a book of F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories from the free library. He was a baby in a pram on the merry-go-round, then we went on the big structure for a minute, but then he wanted the little kid playground. We played around there, going from thing to thing. I found a little scoop on the group and he took it over to the sand area and pretended to be a baby playing in the sand. He then had fun twisting it to break it. He had it twisted and said “That’s like a winding inclined plane, right?” Had it pretty broken but then he pinched his finger in it.
Then we headed to the big structure, riding the bike around on the paths before parking up on it and walking around in the tunnel parts. Then up to the big slide. Watched a few other kids go down, and he considered going down on his own, but wanted to go with me. We went down and he wanted to go again. We filmed the second time down. He said he wanted to go down a third time, but then right after us a boy came flying out, head first, and landed head/shoulders first on the ground and started crying. A big sister and dad came right down after. Don’t know how that happened.
We got going, stopping by the drinking fountain and refilling his water bottle. He then wanted to play on the exercise equipment, which was near the car. Stopped there for 15 minutes or so and tried out all the exercise equipment. Watched a guy that was sort of climbing up and swinging around on a high bar and he sort of tried to do the same thing on a lower bar.
We left right about 5. Listened to all of the Story Pirates on the way home, then some music. Waze took us up 2, then on a side street and across a new route that took us to 551 and then up 4. A nice drive, and we saw an interesting looking sun before it set, had to stop at a train crossing, and August spotted the gibbous moon. He said he was tired at one point but stayed awake.
We were home just before 6. Played Seuss Band and one of the geometry app. He took a long time in the bathroom, then drank a lot of the leftover smoothie from the morning. Carly said something about someone being selfish and he asked what that meant. He said “I like doing that, by I haven’t done it much though.” Had more smoothie: “I’m having a lot of liquid before night time.”
I went up to do some work and they played Musyc. He didn’t eat noodles, but ate a little persimmon. They played Duplos and he did the waking up machine for her. And they read What Do You Do with an Idea? I came down at 8:30. He acted like a baby in a pram and Carly wondered how he knew the word ‘pram’. They nursed, and Carly mentioned he was going to try going to sleep with me. He said “But I’m a baby; I need my nutrients.”
She took him up and brushed his teeth and I went up about 8:45. I turned off the light and right away he pulled covers up and tried to go to sleep. He was quiet with his eyes closed for a few minutes, then said “Dada, can you sing a sleepy song?” I sang “Imaginary Bars” and “Idaho”. He said “Uhh, I don’t like this.” I told him to try two minutes of silence and I’d tell him when the timer was up. He turned back towards me and closed his eyes and fell right asleep at 9:05.