He slept on the bed between us the whole night. He’s still a crazy sleeper sometimes, but has calmed down when there’s a limited space.
He woke up 5 something. Back to sleep when I got Carly. Up again a little before 7. They were outside all morning.
When I went down awhile later they were sitting at the table outside and Carly was teaching him about cacti. He had to store more: “Well I can store 9000 gallons!” He was then a cactus that got more and more amazing. I heard him talking about stabilizers at one point. I was inside making scrambled eggs.
“I’m a magic broccoli plant. I just grew that way. Everyone expected me to be normal but I turned out magical.” Pipe made out of magic steel that gives him air when he goes out to space. No nutrients, no water, no dirt. Just air. Spikes all over.
He spotted a spider with black and white stripes on it in the kitchen and we trapped it. He took it outside and studied it. We later let it go.
We ate our eggs with cauliflower outside. He told me “I learned there’s a zoo up that way and the animals escaped and ran down the street to the recycling.” I taught him the word ‘skeptical’. He told me again “I just learned there’s bad things in all the countries of the world except Jordan.” He hasn’t mentioned that for a couple weeks. Still can’t explain why there was nothing to blast in Jordan; there just wasn’t. He kept going after that but I lost the train of thought.
He then sat outside and watched some How the Body Works videos. I went up and took a shower. When I came back down they were building a pyramid. I took over from Carly. We talked a lot about ant nests and whether they could flood. Continued with the Duplos and the bladder game, mainly. Carly and I worked on a shopping list. When August found out what the plans were and that they didn’t involve school he said “Does that mean I won’t be by myself in preschool? Pretty special day!” We left at 10:10.
August spotted one of Carly’s granola bars in the car and wa rather whiney about it. Carly gave him some and he very sweetly said he wanted to help out in the stores. Didn’t exactly work out ideally. We went to Ace first, and just ended up getting a screen to install in the bathroom window. Then to Tiv Taam. A big load today, mainly focused on possibilities for August’s lunches. Got all sorts of things (dried apples and apricots, peach apple sauce, couscous and rice things, rice cake things), and also bought him a new lunch bag of his own (with monsters on it) and a pink container that fits right in it. We also saw Mike, the head of school.
We were back before 12. I started putting the groceries away and they played school. I made him a “preschool practice lunch”, using his new stuff. A couscous and veggies dish in the main container, with dried apricots next to it and his honey granol mix in a separate container and a container of the peach apple sauce. I gave it to him in the lunch box and he was able to open all of it on his own, except for the peach apple sauce. I’ll probably repackage that in a container he can open so we can also save it when he doesn’t eat it all.
We also watched a lizard out on our kitchen planter boxes, chasing after bugs and jumping around on the plants. August played with the salad spinner. He eventually put the colander on it and poured water in. After a couple pours I realized he had put it on the wrong part of the salad spinner and the water was going right through to the rug. He took it outside after that and used the hose to play with them. He was filling it up and calling it a bladder, then pouring it out on the fake grass.
Carly cooked an artichoke and they ate it together. I then got him to head to recycling with me at 1:45. Three very full bags of recycling to do. We saw David on the way and talked to him. August kept saying something like “You keep chewing gum in our house!” Luckily, David didn’t understand what he was saying.
We went up and did recycling. August actually did a lot, and there were a couple bags of glass that other people left that he was able to do. He was then using a yogurt cup to collect pollen from some flowers. He poured the pollen in the plastic recycling and then said “I feel bad.”
We then went to the playground. He said “Only a few kids. Good. I can handle a few kids.”…”What should we spend our time with?” A woman borrowed our phone so a girl could call her mom. We then went over to the exercise equipment. There was a girl August’s age there. August kind of walked up to her and made some funny noises. I told him to say hi instead. When my back was turned I heard one of them saying “hello”. August later told me he was the one that started talking first. When I turned back around she was motioning August to follow her. He ended up running after her all the way across the park to the play structure.
I soon met the girl’s mom. The girl is named Ella, and her mom is Sara. She has another child, Raum, who is 9 and was riding around on his bike. Sara is a single mom and finishing up 26 years in the military, where she works in cyber operations. She’s thinking of helping do tours for people coming to Israel for their bar/bat mitzfahs, etc. when she is done (in June).
August and Ella did a lot of running around, played on the teeter totter thing a couple times, and had orange drink. August had two cups, and didn’t use a straw. August also pretended to turn into Ella. That was about as big of news as making a new friend. They ended up in the swings. They were trying to touch and hold hands while the were swinging. So cute. They managed to do it while they were “in sync”, a phrase I taught him. We talked about inviting them over sometime, and settled on next weekend, since Ella would be in school tomorrow.
They then had to leave, so we got going as well. Sara said Ella wanted to Sahel his hand or hug hm and August gave Ella a full, real hug. Also so cute.
As we walked home he said “I played with someone for the first time at this park, right?” We were home at 3:10. He and I put out some of the ant killer out outside the sliding windows, where they’ve started to find their way into the house. Carly had made lemon chicken, so he had some of that. I then made a mango, strawberry, and banana smoothie and he drank that outside. We discussed floods and water seepage.
We then got in the car and drove over to Brenda’s house. She had some surgery and Carly took her the lemon chicken. August and I looked around the house a bit while they talked, then outside she showed August the fountain and the fish in the pond. We were home at 5:10.
“Mama, can you teach me something?…fractions.” They did that with the blueberries. I got him and I some lemon chicken for dinner. He was then putting objects in his blue clay and was an archeologist. He would then dig an object out and line it up on a pillow in his museum display and we’d speculate when it was from and who used it.
He and I left for walk a walk at 6:30. Cherie had asked about skyping right as we left and August wanted to Skype when we got back. We walked around the Holly block. We got wet by a sprinkler right across the street and August liked it, so we walked by a second time. We then walked the path down to the old highway, along it a bit, then circled back to home. Back by 7.
Carly was on Skype with Chuck and Cherie. He had the last cookie, then some milk. He kept saying “Oh, snapdragon!” as he admired his bubbles. He then made a mess with milk then was upset when I cleaned it up. Carly convinced him to head upstairs with the idea of experimenting with the balloon.
He sang a “Boopa boopa boo, won’t you be my friend?” Song as they went up the stairs.
I took over the bath after awhile. Got that finished, then him into his pajamas. Carly came up and brushed his teeth. He remembered the garbage-powered power plant in Korea and he was creating garbage for my pow
er plant. He said “Through the night and even at preschool I’ll keep producing garbage…it will go through the air to your powerplant…Remember, I’ll produce extra garbage pills!” I left them at 8:30.
But then he was down before 9. He ate crackers and watched the start of the 6 Hours of Spa with me. He told me he would sleep with me on the big bed and Carly would be down below. We went up and he used the bathroom and I got ready for bed. He made up a machine called the “Gearamakeraton”. It makes gears. We opened the back of the toilet so he could see it flush.
We got in bed at 9:30. He went up and down between the beds before finally falling asleep with Carly about 9:45.