Started waking him up at what felt like, or was, 7:10 for us. He was really slow to wake up, and I finally used a lollipop. Still, he sat there licking it with his eyes still closed for a couple minutes. He ate a little of the rather disappointing breakfast they had brought, then watched more Home. I had gotten an okay amount of sleep, but Carly and I agreed that the seats seemed even more cramped than usual. And the family in front of us put their seats back right away and kept them back almost the entire flight. I had thought of doing some work, but there was literally no way the laptop would have worked for me.
Carly took him to the bathroom, and we landed just before 3:50, local time. August seemed to have a little claustrophobia, stuck in his seat when it stopped, but we let him stand in the aisle as soon as that was possible and he was fine.
We made it out, got the stroller, then our bags right away, and immigration was quick. We got a taxi in the queue and were on our way. Traffic was the slow part, and it took more than an hour and a half. We were in Even Yehuda, on the way to the house, when Carly remembered our car was at the school. The driver turned around and took us there.
The guards at the school couldn’t find the second set of keys we had left with them. We were home by 6:20. We looked at the plants, which had all not only stayed alive, but grown really well. Our biggest papaya is an actual tree now. August got right to taking things apart on the floor. Then he went to the couch and said “This is the couch of beauty. I love this couch.” Later he would decide it was the “safety couch” as it protects you from monsters.
He asked “What’s ‘reduce’?” Not sure where he got it. Carly headed to the store. We went upstairs and played a Brother game—the one where his whole family is on the beach and there is a big storm and they are in denial about it until the grandparents, etc. start getting blown away by the wind and washed away by the waves, then they are all saved by the Coast Guard. He was Bar, playing with a holgraphic machine (the wrist strap thing and circuit board), and not helping when they were in trouble.
Carly got home, and he had oatmeal and frozen strawberries. They went out and did some yard work (there are a lot of tree things to pick up) and I took a shower. We switched, and Carly took a shower.
He and I played a little Minecraft, then when I asked if he was tired he said “I’m tired on the inside but happy on the outside.” I read a chapter of Bodie the Troll and we had crackers and meat. I was falling asleep as I read to him, and I went to bed at 10:50, as I needed to get up to go to Jerusalem in the morning.
They were reading Captain Underpants or Dog Man when I went to bed. They came in at 12:45. Carly recommended I move to the other room, and I was half asleep as I did so. I remember hearing her tell him about a stuck contact, and something about anesthesia. She asked if he knew something, and he said “Dada told me. Dada teaches me everything.” As I left she was telling him about the air conditioner not working on a family trip.
Waking up with a lollipop:

