He was up at 6:50. He went downstairs and almost immediately started humming tunes he made up. He requested Corn Flakes for breakfast. Had those mixed with Cheerios and with milk. They went upstairs to wrestle for a few minutes, then Carly came down to the kitchen. August asked, “Why do I have to follow you everywhere you go?” Good question.
He and I read and finished Fing. He was then bothering Carly and I took him for a timeout. Back downstairs he wanted to do a playing by himself session. He told Carly he didn’t know what to do. She helped him think of some options and he settled on playing with the circuits. I had headphones on, so didn’t exactly hear what happened, but he came over and hit her when he was frustrated. She took him over to the calm space, and they ended up revising it, taking out the table so they could make it bigger and redoing the posters. He eventually got his Oreo from the alone time.
He found the spaghetti noodles as I was planning meals for the week. He made a bridge out of noodles and tape. Carly made scrambled eggs. He ate all of his, and I made him another egg. He went back to his pasta bridge and was frustrated when the scotch tape wasn’t sticking well. He switched to packing tape, and figured it all out and got over his frustration. He said, “Isn’t it funny that they don’t have pasta at the art store?…Maybe they haven’t thought about using pasta…”
Carly left a little after 11 to go to the store. We finished watching the Formula E race. He dressed himself entirely by himself, including his shirt, although it was backwards. He spilled water on himself after he put spaghetti noodles in his water bottle and tried to drink from it.
We then walked across the street and got insects and put them in with the lizard. Carly got home and went upstairs to rest. He and I put the groceries away and listened to the new Strand of Oaks album. He described a pneumatic system to deliver things “even people want to use that pipe…but they don’t let anyone poop in there.”
Carly came down and August asked her when we were going to Sushi Ishimoto to eat. He’s been asking for a couple weeks now to actually eat in the new restaurant. So we got ready to go. After I watered the plants upstairs we got going at 1:20.
On the walk up he had me pushing as fast as I could (“the speed limit”) and then we’d wait for Carly to catch up. At Sushi Ishimoto he chose the table right in the center. He wanted the pad thai with shrimp and I chose the chicken Chong, with Carly’s approval. August mainly ate the chicken Chong, liking the chunks of chicken in tempura, the peanut sauce, and the white rice.
While we had waited for our food, and after we were done eating, we read A to Z Mysteries: The Falcon’s Feathers. He was confused by the phrase ‘spill the beans’ so that was a word of the day. He also asked, “What’s ballroom?” I didn’t understand what he was saying at first, then when I did asked what it was from. It is from The Witches and where the witches have their big meeting.
Carly left to head to the pharmacy to get head lice prevention stuff and a few packs of tea at the coffee shop. We paid and went to meet her by the post office. We beat her there, and when he saw her walking from up the street he got off the bike and ran to her. We were then in front of the post office, and when he looked inside he saw her again, and said, “Another mama!”
We walked home. I made a rice noodle and veggies dish, and he pulled weeds for 2 shekels. He’s been talking about an allowance and wanting to buy stuff himself. They considered how to make a lock for the Zinnie house to keep out the cats. One had gotten in and left cat hair on the pillows. Inside, they skyped with Cherie and Chuck.
August made up something called the “P O 8 transmitter”, but then said, “Actually, you’re saying it wrong. It’s called the PO8TransMINTer. It makes mint smoothies for you.” Which was pretty funny. He put a nail in the drill and used it on one of the exposed pieces of concrete. I stopped him, but he was excited about his experiment: “Dada said our drill from Ikea isn’t very powerful BUT it drilled concrete…”
Just before 6 we drove up to buy a compost bin from someone who works at the school. They had a little dog that August was afraid of, but be loved the composter, and the fact that you could spin it. They explained how to use it, and she showed August how it spins and locks. We drove home and started our compost, then inside I finished the food and we ate dinner. Carly had bought a pad thai sauce and put it on her food and August’s. It turned out to be really spicy. August was upset about this, but liked the noodles when we got him another bowl. He wasn’t letting it go though, and was threatening to kill the sauce company for not making it clear on the bottle that the sauce was spicy.
Carly went up for a shower. She came down with the essential oils in her hair and then put some on August. He used the lice brush to brush our hair, and asked, “Aren’t I a great hairdresser?” When he was brushing Carly’s hair she asked, “Can I give you a tip?” He asked, “What’s a tip?”
I took him up for his bath. He played with the comb. In bed he requesedt the Nick and Tesla book. We read some of it and Carly brushed his hair with the lice comb. I left them at 8:30.
Pasta bridge:
Insects for the lizard:
Running to mama:
Listening to the new Josh Ritter album:
Learning about the composter:
Spinning the composter:
