We were all slow to get up after 7. Downstairs I got him his vitamins and allergy medicine and he asked me about bonds and played with the Duplos and Lego chain, humming. He and Carly then did school. They made the word ‘Amazon’ out of Duplos, there she used the globe to show him the river on it. She made him oatmeal and he made that, then he and I did more globe study: hemispheres, the time zone thing, degrees of latitude. He then wanted Piano Maestro so we set up the keyboard and he watched me play Piano Maestro. He then ate some of the potato and eggs that Chuck had made for him. Carly was grading, but he wanted her to teach her more. They did more globe learning and he wanted to learn how to spell words like ‘globe’. He asked why we have silent letters like ‘k’.
He played Coral Reef, then we did Robot Lab together. I went up and took a shower. I heard him ask Carly “How do you get the honey IF the bees sting you?” And he and Cherie discussed the difference between Omazon versus Amazon. Cherie used the brush from Chuck to successfully brush his hair.
They were headed to Jaffa and I was going to stay home and work on the big-picture analysis of the project for Sabeel. He was a little concerned about not having me sitting next to him in the car, but of course it went really well.
They left at 10:40. They went to the Jaffa Market and found a cool metalworks shop, then walked the back streets and hills of Jaffa and found an artist’s shop called Studio of Julien Roux. They went someplace for lunc hand had chicken kebabs and salad for lunch. They used the stroller on their walks. They stopped to get coffee, but realized they didn’t have the ipad for August and he wanted something to do. The shop was being slow to take their order so they left. Finally, they found a playground and played with a feather.
They were back after 3:30. We played duplos, then he destroyed the whole thing and broke all the bonds. He talked about a “Funky monkey wrench” and where he had heard of that “Oh, I remember. (whispers) Julius Jr.”
Outside Carly hid the eggs for him. He told her she wasn’t supposed to give hints, even if he asked for them. He tried out his balance bike, and he suggested I take the big bike out for a ride so I did that.
He and I then went out for a little walk at 5:20. On the way towards Vatikim I smelled barbecue, but he said he had smelled a mint smell. We got to the park over ther at 5:30. There was a barking dog and August had a potion that kept the dog away from us. Played on one of the rocking things and down the slide a few times. We headed home and August smelled the barbecue this time. He was excited by the smells, and at the house he said he smelled cauliflower and was excited by that as well.
We were home at 5:50. He went in and washed his hands and then came right out to the table and we ate the yummy baked pasta and cheese and vegetables they had made. August asked for more and more cabbage. Chuck asked him “What do you think of it?” August said “Opa’s making fun of me.” August then said he didn’t like being called a rugrat, but he wanted Carly to tell Opa not to call him that. Carly asked if he could tell him himself (he was right there0. August: “No. Cuz he’ll eat me.” And “I need more cabbage.”
The neighbor had come home from work while we were on our walk. As we were sitting outside I got a complaint. Before 6pm. He proceeded to complain that we had woken him up. He invited me down for coffee, but kept insulting me and there was no way I was going down.
Chuck and Cherie walked over to the mall again. August said he was still hungry and Carly made pita and peanut butter for him and he ate it all. Serious eating. We read 5 chapters of The 13-Story Treehouse on the ipad. Carly took him up and Chuck and Cherie were back just as he was going to bed. He was asleep soon after 8.