I think they went to sleep about 10:30. I was up a couple times during the night, but slept okay. I got up at 5:20, feeling good. A little before that, August had started to get up, and I think said “Switch shoes”. Carly told him it was a dream and got him back to sleep. They then slept and slept. So no up in the middle of the night craziness this year. Carly was down about 7:25. She said he had actually woken up twice talking about his shoes.
Kayla and Thatcher were out about 7:30 and I heard them say something about August. Then I heard “Dada!” I took off running upstairs. Met him at the top of the stairs. I picked him up and said “Good morning, ZZ.” Kayla said “That’s not ZZ, that’s August.” Downstairs he started playing with the nesting dolls. Thatcher came and played with them too, then Kayla showed up too and they played around the coffee table. As part of a discussion carly reminded him “We don’t like competitions.” To which August honestly responded with “Well I do if I win in the end.”
They had breakfast and August and Kayla developed a full Abbott and Costello sort of routine:
Kayla: “Stop copying me, August.”
August: “Stop copying me, mama.”
Kayla: “That’s MY mama.”
Repeat. They did all of the people, then random things that Kayla struggled to pronounce: Scotland, flubong, escalator, Shmorgadeboop. They were also repeating things like “what the heck?” “oh my gosh” “oh my God” The first of which I think Kayla learned from Thatcher.
They left and took Thatcher to school and August played up in the play room with Cherie. I did some Sabeel work down at the table. They came back with Kayla, and then I left on my cell phone adventure. The plan was to try Verizon this summer. I drove the car Chuck and Cherie were using (actually Claremay and Steve’s) over to Northgate. I’d forgotten that the iPhone 5 was T-mobile/ATT only, so I left the Verizon store and headed to AT&T. Along the way I got on the free wi-fi though and realized I could do one phone on each just as cheaply as two phones on AT&T or Verizon. So I got Carly’s phone set up, then went back and did mine. Got back in the car and realized that data wasn’t working. On either. Went back to Verizon and they went to work on my phone. The only thing the phones had in common though was that they had both been used in Israel. No thanks to them (they were stuck on an error message in switching SIM cards at their end) I realized that there was a ‘Profile’ still on the phone for Golan, our Israeli company. Removed that, and each phone worked.
Got back at noon. While I was gone August and Kayla played together the whole time. August took a bath and she played with him from outside the bath. They ate tamales for lunch. August liked the pork or chicken one. When I got back they were playing in the play room. I got some lunch. At one point Carly and I walked up and August ran to us and said “Mama Dada! We’re playing in here.” And ran back. A little later the two of them were playing in Kayla’s room on what had been our bed with one of those basic wooden ramp and ball things.
Everyone got all ready to go and said goodbye. I heard some very sweet goodbyes between August and Kayla, who was holding a couple of her stuffed animals (a giraffe and something else). We left about a quarter to 1.
August sat in the back in the middle between Carly and Cherie. He was wired for the first hour or so, singing his “Eaten by a consequence…” song. he was also having difficulty controlling the spitting noises and with squeezing Cherie’s arm. Carly and I switched in Monroe when we stopped for gas. He and Cherie played a game on her tablet that involved saving cats. He had fun with that, but got a bit obsessed with it.
We stopped at the rest area at 3. He asked me to teach him how to use the water fountain, then was really excited about it, and said that it was the easiest water fountain he’s ever used. In the car there was more of the saving cats game. At one point Cherie said We’re not very good at the game yet. August suggested “We should go to coding class to do it.”
We got to Chelan at 4:40. He immediately said “We can see how big my maple tree getted.” I walked around the side of the house with him and he told me “Watch out for the sprinklers. Remember the sprinklers?” The tree was almost as tall as him, but not quite. Mom got Dad and they joined us at the tree. August wasn’t entirely sure they were who they said they were at first.
We saw Cindy outside, and inside he told Carly he’d just seen one of the cats. He played with a cat toy and then was rubbing his eyes. He said he was both tired and they were itchy. Washed them a couple times but no major reactions today. When he was asking about the layout of the house I mentioned the upstairs and the downstairs. He asked “What about middle stairs?” Pretty sure he was being funny, but there is the landing that goes outside there, so that ended up being the middle stairs.
I checked out the shoes I had ordered. We have a nice stack of boxes waiting for us. Chuck and Cherie had gone tand checked in to their hotel, then walked back. We then all walked to Local Myth, except for Carly, who drove. She was tired.
We saw Paul and got a table in back. August had fun playing with the Mr. Potato Head toys. He also liked seeing Paul a few times. On the way there he had pointed out he has three uncles and was chanting their names. While we waited, he ended up getting 4 straws and using them simultaneously to drink his water. I took him up to the counter and he stood there watching them throw pizza dough around. When a finished pizza came up, he said “Thank you, Uncle Paul” although he was in back the moment.
Paul brought out the appetizer plate. August ate the whole pickled asparagus, some bread, and tried one of the slightly-spicy olives. When pizza cme he had parts of two pieces. He was then done and tired and ready to head home. Carly took him home in the car. The rest of us stayed and finished off the second pitcher of beer (I’d also had a Boot Strap IPA). Lot’s of talk of upcoming trips to the Mediterranean, etc. Nice idea of all of us meeting in Mexico for winter break some year. I looked at flights though and that is a lot of travelling from Israel to there. Maybe with a stopover it would be doable. Or two.