He was up at 7:20. We had to go to the equivalent of the DMV and renew our licenses, which we have to do every 6 months. We got going and left the house by 7:30. He and I looked at the activity book in the car, identifying differences. He spotted some dark clouds and said “I think it’s gonna rain in Jordan again.” Snacked on some of the last of the nut treats on the way.
We were meeting another teacher and her family at the office they were going to. Last night we had asked why that office, and not the one I had gone to but hadn’t gotten an answer. Traffic was heavy and we got there just after 8 and parked. They had gotten there before us and found out it was the wrong place. They gave us a new address over the phone, so we got back in the car and drove there. It was the office I had been to before.
Things went smoothly there. Their daughter is Maya, who is a year older than August and in PKA. She is also in his Hebrew class and is the one who always asked me how my hand was doing. They started playing iPad together and caught fish in Toca Nature. They then switched to Animal Hospital but just watched the intro before we were already done. We then went and spent a few minutes in a little coffee shop buried in the building. Maya got a grape juice and shared it with August. I got a cappuccino and a cheese turnover that I put in the backpack for the ride home.
We had to actually go pay for our licenses at the post office, so we drove there, having some of the turnover on the way. I told August how we used to get apple turnovers in Chelan and we used his time machine to go back and get one from the Judy Jane Bakery. He got “one of everything” they had in the store.
We parked and Carly headed to the post office and I took him to the bathroom in town. We then met her at the post office. Just took another minute, then we headed home.
We were home at 10. I had August give Carly her bracelet, then the present that was actually more for both of them; the Spirograph thing, the robot magnets, the rest of the beads, and a couple bars of chocolate. They ‘snuck’ some chocolate, then he and I did some of the Spirograph. Carly was teaching August the word “evasive” again. Despite all the presents and chocolate, a few minutes later I heard him say “I hate mother’s day. It’s not for kids.” Think he was hungry, and he had noodles and stir fry for lunch.
I vacuumed out the car while they were out in the yard, then he came and helped me wash it. He had control of the hose the whole time and we gave Skoda Mama a good wash for Mother’s Day.
Carly then took him to school with her to deliver the white table. They were gone a long, long time. They got back at 3:25. I did a lot of reading, mainly the Echo Spring book. August asked “Did you miss me?” And he told me “We goed on the new high school swing that were not supposed to swing on. And we swinged on it.” He just loves Carly’s classroom. They practiced reading. He knew cat, wall, tree, trunk, grass, and Earth. They cleaned and recycled. She did computer work while he drew. And he played with a balloon. It was his idea to put it in a bag to bring it home so it wouldn’t blow away. And he threw leaves around to confuse the students. And spent a long time in the bathroom.
We all ate some soup outside. Back inside he sat on the balloon until it popped. We got ready to walk into town and go to a coffee shop. I had the idea of making the bracelet for August at the coffee shop. August was looking at the beads and said his favorite colors are”lavender, peach, pink, and purple…and turquoise.”
On the walk up a couple stopped and asked for directions to the post office. We got to Malkin, about 4:30, and found out they were closing. They serve until 4. August was quite upset by this – he was very set on hot chocolate. But I checked the menu online and Gutale had hot chocolate. We walked over there, seeing Abigail and Daria’s mom on the way, and sat in the comfy chairs outside the front door. August got his hot chocolate and Carly and I each got a cappuccino. And we got an order of the cauliflower and mozzarella latkes with a quinoa salad to share. August and I made his bracelet. And we read some of the Home Sweet Motel book I’d bought on the iPad. He seemed to like it well enough.
We left at 5:50. I took a photo of their bracelets together on their wrists and he said “I don’t think anyone else does this for Mother’s Day.”
We stopped at the grocery store so Carly could get ingredients for an energy balls recipe she’d found. Then headed home. He wanted to stop and play so we left Carly at 6:15 at the Snakes and Ladders playground and she continued on home.
August told me “Here’s how you make energy balls…extra sugar, extra honey, extra pollen, extra petals, extra stems, extra roots, extra rectums, extra atoms…” We played a little shop, then he had me climb up on top of the structure. A girl holding a stuffed dog came and stuck her tongue out at us. She talked to me in Hebrew. I understood some things about her stuffed dog. Then she ran off, came back a minute later, and started talking in English. Her mom came over and I met her. The girl’s name is Lori and her mom is Limore.
August ended up playing with Lori, and a bit later a boy, Ben, who she knows from the gan, joined them. The three of them played hide and seek and did a lot of running around. And went in the spinning thing. At first when they started to run off a bit August told me “Stay right here.” When I was talking to Limore too much, even though he was playing, he stopped a few times and told me “You’re not giving me enough attention.”
Things they mentioned we should check out:
Book: Shark in the Park
Song Steve and Maggie English TV
Show: Gruffalo’s Child
Finally, August was open to going home and seeing if Carly was done with the energy balls and they were leaving as well. We were home at 7:30. He ate an energy ball (oats, chocolate, dates, honey, etc.) and then made monsters on the fridge. After the energy ball he said “Now I’m energetic!” Then he ate noodles and stirfry and asked me “Dada, what’s good about force?” “Like move water bottles? And close refrigerators?”
I took him up for his bath. A lot of playing, then washed his hair. A lot of whimpering. When done we blow-dried his hair and hands. we got him ready for bed and I left them at 8:50. He was asleep pretty quickly.
