Sunday, October 14: Tiv Taam and other errands

I slowly woke him up at 7:30. He did a lot of rolling over and closing his eye and rolling around on pillows before we went downstairs. He got his shoes and went out to Carly. Came back in a few minutes later and got his iPad and took it outside. They came in after a bit and he got on the couch next to me and listened to Medly with his headphones on for a few minutes. Then did some of a math app. He used the bathroom and got a treat, then went upstairs to Carly to get clothes. He was up there for awhile, not sure what he was doing, until they came down at 8:30. He played a music app and I got his vitamins.

I made fried eggs and toast for breakfast. We ate outside. He finished his egg, but August has refused to eat grapes this year, so I had put some on his plate. It turned out he doesn’t like the stem part. I got him to eat most of one, but he wouldn’t eat the tip. We went inside and thawed some mango and he ate a good amount of that so I made him the peanut butter and maple syrup toast he wanted.

He ate that, then played on Excel with Carly, doing different big numbers and having it do addition. I took a shower. While I did that he made a spicy soup that was cooking on the stove when I came down and he was on the couch listening to Medly with his headphones.

We got ready and left at 10:50. In the car her asked,”How many kilometers in a light year?” So we looked it up. He told me “There’s other universes but they’re trillions of light years away from us.”

We went first to the complex with Ace Hardware. We first went to the iDigital store to see about getting Carly’s laptop fixed. Turns out they would send it to another store. The guy who was there told us to come back and talk to his manager in a few minutes. So we walked over to the pharmacy and Carly got a gift certificate for the guy that watered the plants in her classroom over the summer and we went to a home goods store and got some hand towels. We went back to the iDigital store and he told us we could just take it to a branch down in Tel Aviv that has the repair shop onsite.

We drove over to the Tiv Taam complex and had a hard time finding a parking spot. Don’t know why though, because it turned out Tiv Taam was pretty empty. August and I walked to the art store and ended up buying a plain black shirt for his Halloween costume and a sparkly pink water bottle for downstairs at home so we don’t have to keep taking the adventure water bottle in and out of the backpack. We then went and found Carly in Tiv Taam. He spotted her through the windows as we walked up. He stayed with her and got his second errands treat (earlier, Carly had totally played her hand when she first told him we were going on errands and he could have lots of treats and screen time—although he didn’t end up watching anything) and I ran and found a few more things. At the checkout the woman showed us that if we spent 60 shekels more we’d save an extra 50 shekels. I ran and grabbed 3 more bottles of wine, which should have been 70 more. She then said we were still short, so we added yet another bottle. We are now well stocked for wine. Also, he had heard me talking about how I had a book club meeting this coming week and he asked a bit later “What’s your book club port?” And as we were putting groceries on the conveyor belt he said he had a “Beer sensor.”

We put the groceries in and Carly took back the cart. I put August in the car and someone was waiting for our spot so I drove and we picked up Carly. We stopped to get gas, and Carly read much of chapter 6 of Beezus and Ramona to him on the drive back. Impressive, as she gets carsick reading. We stopped at the school and she took some journals into her classroom. While we waited, I looked up some ones to tell him. He particularly liked “Why are pirates called pirates? They just aaargh.” And “What do you call a donkey with three legs? A wonkey.” He made ‘wonkey’ a word of the day. And “How do all the oceans say hello to each other? They wave!” And “Where does the queen keep her armies? Up her sleevies.” He told Carly this one and kept repeating it. As well as “What do you call a train that sneezes? Achoo-choo train.”

He was telling nonsense jokes in the car on the way home, then I told the Marshy-like joke “Why didn’t the flower bloom? Climate change” August laughed, then said “That kind of makes sense actually.” He then said one like “Why did the horse eat the horse?” And I said something about it being a cannibal. He sang, “Cannibal? Word of the day!”

At home I started trying one more thing with Carly’s computer, then we had some lunch. He had Raisin Bran and milk. They had seen the cereal at the store. He dripped on his shorts and wanted dry ones so we went upstairs and changed those. He noticed his shirt was wet as well so we changed that too.

We then sat and finished Beezus and Ramona. We then went back to the finding-a-cat-in-the-park game. As the cat we went upstairs to the bedroom for bed time. I asked him about rest time at school. He says he doesn’t use a mat: “I like the cold floor. I use my hat as a pillow.” And he volunteered that he rests at snack and lunch: “I just lean against the table during snack and lunch.”

Downstairs we made pyramids out of Duplos. Or rather, I made the pyramids and he put things like coins in them and was then the archeologist discovering them. He told me that he had actually fallen asleep at lunch time once, sitting in a chair, and the teachers didn’t wake him at rest time. I’d say he was making it up, but it was quite specific. I need to ask his teachers about it.

We got out the keyboard and were playing with GarageBand, then he was playing with the sampler. He kept doing that on his own and I went and was making a list of possible places to visit when my parents are here.

He switched to Maps and was finding places and marking them and taking photos and screenshots of them. I went upstairs to do more computer work, and he came up to show me something. He was looking at maps and taking photos and particularly liked the island of Annoban, which is part of Equitorial Guinea: Annobón Natural Reserve: https://goo.gl/maps/hcS1vggrbvT2

He went to the bathroom, then we went downstairs and he wanted oatmeal. Carly made him mango and oatmeal. When she suggested he eat outside he exclaimed, “That’s a great idea!” He then had chocolate milk, which he likes hot. He explained, “I like to savor it. I’m turning into mama.” He’s also been saying “Sorry” a lot, even when he doesn’t need to, which is a Carly thing as well. He told us “I like to say sorry.” He was quoting Hilo a lot today: “It’s my book report.” And “Neat…Not neat!”

Carly had been making stew much of this time. August and I sat on the couch and read chapter 1 of Ramona the Pest on the iPad. He then was wanting to play imagining games: him killing pirates, etc. After the pirate one I said I wouldn’t play anymore of them. We went upstairs, and he played with Tabletop on the couch.

I went on a run, and Carly was going to give him a bath. But Chuck and Cherie called on FaceTime and they were still talking when I got back. He was doing rat, and drew molecules of his hair and a crystal for them. I took a shower, then she gave him a shower. He and I read Izzy Impala’s Imaginary Illnesses and Perimeter, Area, and Volume on Skybrary, then we got ready for bed. I left him and Carly at 8:40, and he was asleep about 9.

Time lapse August: