I was up before 7. I figured he’d wake up whenever I got up so I lay in bed and read. Carly came in and woke him up at 7:45. We went downstairs and soon Glecy called. August kept wanting the phone. I distracted him first with his vitamins, then Carly went upstairs and he made art in Zen Studio. He chose random colors for the template ones, then drew pictures of his own. He didn’t want me to watch, then would show me when he was done. He made a crown, a key, and then “It’s a B and T factory.” Next was a building “It sells Valentines.” He then did some looping in Auxy Music. He requested some of my drink mix so we mixed up some of that. He was then getting a bunch of items out of the cupboards for an experiment and he did a mixing experiment with Carly. He taught her about how cocoa powder doesn’t taste good.
I took a shower, then took him up for his bath. He was playing with his bracelets and said “I’m lucky that I have four bracelets.” We were getting ready to go, and as we did we solved a bunch of mysteries, which he found really exciting: We were missing a nut that went to his toy piano. I got him a flashlight to look under the couch. He found the missing dice from the snakes and ladders game. We then found the nut as well. Next, Carly couldn’t find her water bottle. I found that in one of the shopping bags from their trip yesterday. Then, we couldn’t find her keys. August had just been wearing her other key ring around his neck, saying that he was dressed up, but we didn’t think he had had her car key. I found it in the recycling bag by the door – probably Carly dropped it there when returning from the car and moving the bags. Although a slight chance it was August’s doing.
We drove up to the Leket location in Nahalal, on the way to Nazareth. Got there at 12:15, which was a good thing as that was when all the other people from the school showed up. We had to drive a bit farther, then had to walk to get to our destination. Before we left I had started to feel a bit ill, and was really nauseous in the car. No idea why. I’d brought books for us, but August mainly played Gro Forest on the way up.
Anyway, I was feeling better by the time we got walking. We took the orange bike and walked down a few dirt roads and paths to get to the beet fields. The three of us worked a little slowly, as I didn’t want to get my cast dirty and Carly suffered from allergies. August had a lot of fun though. He found a lot of really big beets this time, unlike last time when they were rather small. He was activating his claw machines to pick up beets, and helped me dump buckets a few times. Before we left he used the outhouse, which he was pretty excited about, and we washed our hands from the big jug thing of water that they had. Also interesting. And much of the time that we picked there were fighter jets (F-15s?) and helicopters flying around overhead.
Back at the car about 2:20 I picked up a broken piece of plastic from the ground to scrape my shoe. August really, really wanted that piece of plastic. Eventually I let him scrape off his shoes. He liked that but got frustrated when he couldn’t get much.
We drove the 15 minute drive over to Bet She’arim National Park. A few minutes longer, actually, as Apple Maps hadn’t the memo on a street change. Bet She’arim National Park is a UNESCO site as well for its necropolis of 30-some caves. We got there a little after 3 and it closed at 4, but that was fine since we have a pass. We saw some donkeys wandering around, and some sort of fashion photo shoot going on. We started walking and saw a few caves up on the hill, but none we could go in. Turned into a bunch of stairs so we turned back. Down below we went into the cave that is now a museum. August got really quiet and had Carly carry him the whole time. Couldn’t quite tell what he was thinking, although he did say things like “Whoa” a couple times. And he pointed out the different colored lights that were set up and had questions about coffins.
Back outside it was after 3:40. An employee said we could stay past 4 if we moved our car outside the gate. I went and did that. When I got back Carly took August to the bathroom. I went into another cave system, the one with 130 coffins in it. But only had 5 minutes or so as then the same guy was closing that. So Carly and August didn’t get to see in there.
They got back and we decided to head home, just after 4. August listened to some of his playlist in the car. Then he was threatening to fall asleep. I surprised him with episode 3 of Wild Kratts being downloaded on his iPad. He watched it twice (a lot of giggling) and that got us home. About 5:10.
The nausea had come back so I went up and lay down for awhile. Carly took allergy medicine and let him watch Llama Llama since we were both sick. I was down at 6. He had told Carly the cave was his favorite thing of the day, even better than the beet picking. He had also eaten a lot of the noodle dish for dinner and earned some dried cheerios.
Carly went to bed and we read Dr. Seuss stories: The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga, What Was I Scared of?, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Played some Seuss Band in between. Cherie had let me know of a concer that their friend Omar was playing in Mexico and we watched the live stream of that on Facebook and played Toca Blocks. In Skybrary we read a Geoege Washington Picture Book. Finally, he requested some peanut butter crackers.
I took him up and had him go to the bathroom and put on his pajamas. I left them at 8:40. He said “I hope dada doesn’t have much work.” She brushed his teeth, then it apparently still look him quite awhile to fall asleep, as it was close to 9:30 when he did.
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