He was up at 6:40, a couple minutes after Carly left for school. He watched Smurfs, which ran a bit long past when we usually start to get ready to go (at 7:20). But when it finished he was ready to go in just a few minutes. He was singing “We all come together. We know what to do.” Which is from the not-for-children pirate song he wanted to listen to that he found yesterday. We were able to leave, with Grampa, at 7:35. I told the short version of the Robot Rules Enforcer story as we walked. He as then a Robot Rules Enforcer himself. When I reminded him that they were bad, he said he was a good enforcer, enforcing good rules like no war. He sang a short “I’m a Robo Rules Enforcer” song. About ¾ of the way, after he’d had his bar, he remembered the lollipop from last night and that I’d told him he could have the rest on the way to school. I had forgotten it, but he handled it really well. He got off the bike, but then I picked him up and he cuddled with me for a little bit, then was able to get back on the bike. No getting upset.
At the classroom he was right inside, talking to the teachers. I had to remind him to go say goodbye to Grampa. I talked to him about cleaning. He said he was the teachers helper but didn’t have to clean. So I made cleaning with the class the incentive for a treat later.
Dad and I walked home, then we took some time at home before leaving after 10. We made sandwiches to take with us for a lunch in the park in Ein Vered. We drove over to the nursery over there and had fun just looking around. I got a cool looking plant for the office upstairs, and Mom and Dad got a plant with really interesting leaves for Carly. That turned out to be a buy two, get one free deal, so they got three. I also got broccoli seeds and flower seeds to plant in August’s pot.
We then drove to Sabine, the chocolate shop/workshop. My parents got chocolate-covered coffee beans for Carly, chocolate lips for August, and chocolate-covered orange things for all of us. We then drove to the park in town and went and ate our lunch at a picnic table. Two cats came over and were begging, mainly from Mom, and she got scratched by one. We drove back to the nursery to pick up some soil and compost before heading home.
I then walked to school for library time. When I got there I had a few minutes so studied Hebrew while sitting on the bench. When I went in, August was making an art piece of out a leaf and metal brads and little bells and stuff, and wanted me to take a photo. Marion was very excited, and told me that August had a big day. They had gone over to the big field. She had Millie on one hand and August on the other as they walked the white center line across it. August hates walking on wet grass, and was grumbling and stopping the whole way, but did it. When they got to the other side she pointed out that the line goes around the edge and is like a path. He started walking around on his own, and then she saw him running all over the field having fun. Very cool. Andrea would bring it up later as well.
We went over for library time. He sat on my lap for part of it. Ilana was back and read Elmer and the Snow. Amanda had read the first Elmer book last week. He checked out a book called I Wished for a Unicorn. He had told me he wanted to show me something when we got back to the classroom, so we went back there afterwards and he showed me these magnet cube things. Kind of a paint-by-numbers with colorful cubes. He and Juhyeok played with those for a few minutes. I said goodbye to Juhyeok in Korean when he left, and August asked my why, then was saying it himself several times for the rest of the day.
One of the first things August had told me earlier was that he had hated the raisin things I had put in his lunch. They were actually yoghurt-covered blueberries. I told him that, and that I had meant them as a surprise as I thought he would really like them. But I understood if he was expecting raisins the taste was probably odd. He now asked to try them again, and knowing what they were he ate all of them. He had also eaten all of his lunch today, the full cup of carrots and lemon and all of the broccoli and shrimp and rice. So I let him have the lollipop now. Actually, I couldn’t find the one from last night, so I had brought a cherry one as replacement and he was okay with that. He then said, “Remember when I was talking like Selma. Now I’m talking like Eve.” I had forgotten about when he was doing an impression of Selma last spring.
Carly showed up and we walked home. He found snails along the way and carried one for a long time, wanting to feed it to ants, but he released it on some bushes before we got home. We were home at 4:40. Mom showed him the new plants and the chocolates. He had one of the orange ones, but then got upset when I said he could only have half of the white chocolate lips before dinner, then the other half after. I had to take him upstairs, but it didn’t last too long and we came back down and he had half.
He had soup for dinner, then half of the dark chocolate one, then asked for seconds on the soup. We sat and started Dragons Beware! from the beginning. He then asked for Corn Flakes. He cuddled with me and made me taller with a spell. He also cast one to make me “slightly smaller.” Gramma asked, “Do you want to help me play a game on the computer?” He replied, “Uh-huh! I was waiting for that!” He went over with her for quite awhile. He politely requested I refill his corn flakes at one point.
In the bathroom he invented something with the toilet paper: “toilet paper ripper.” He explained it: “tie it around your leg. Loose enough so the blood can go through…”
Carly took him upstairs for his bath. As he played, he knocked the spray bottle off with his elbow and it broke. He brought it down and asked me to fix it. It wasn’t happening, and he got mopey sad. Carly said they could do a funeral for it, and I suggested ‘funeral’ as the word of the day. He wasn’t enthused by it. He lamented, “I can never take a bath ever again.” I said he would be ‘odoriferous’ (which is used in Dragons Beware!) and also declared it word of the day. He was too sad to care about words of the day.
Carly finally got him back up and gave him his bath. I made his lunch and had to touch a pickle. He had tuna, carrot and lemon, a pickle, a couple potato tortellini things, and his lunch bar. Upstairs, he told her all about yoga. He showed her his plank pose across the chair, balloon breathing, how they say goodbye and “Namaste”, and a visualization they do where they imagine flowers that smell different ways.
He told me, “You have to come upstairs to do the most evilest game in the universe: story dice!” He had already chosen the dice, and told me he had planned the beginning of the story. He put his plastic belt on again, then made it into a necklace for Gramma and took a photo of her. He said, “You know what? There’s only one Smurfette in the whole world.”
I went up with him and we did the story, about an elf that comes from another dimension to help a wizard defeat a mechanical warrior attacking his tower. We brushed his teeth, then I suggested that it was late, and Carly would come in to go to sleep with him. He got sad at the idea that we weren’t going to do a preschool story. So we turned on the lamp and we did the one from earlier, of him destroying a rant (robotic ant) that was attacking the school. I told Carly he was ready for her, and while she took a couple minutes to get ready I sang to him and he cuddled against me, falling asleep. He was very close to sleeping when she came in.
I left them just a minute before 9 and thought he’d be right asleep. But then I heard crying. After a couple minutes I went up. He was sad because he couldn’t nurse, which he hasn’t done in months. He kept crying and sounded half asleep. He’s seemed stuffier and sick and just seemed exhausted, so we gave him some medicine to help him fall asleep. I left again and heard a few more minutes of crying. Finally, about 9:23, it went silent.
The Pirate Song:
August destroying a Rant story:
Getting chocolates:
Nursery
School creations
Looking at the new plants
His photo of Gramma
