He was up a little before 7. I couldn’t get him back to sleep. Carly got his iPad and he started watching Minecraft videos. I went down, and he wanted to do stuff, like fishing, that he saw the guy doing, but then didn’t want to stop just flying around, etc. So instead he went back to watching the videos again.
He went to the bathroom, then while putting clothes back on sang “Squirt guns in the garbage, squirt guns in the garbage…baby hits everyone in the pool, baby hits everyone in the school…astronauts…”
He played with Street View on Carly’s computer, then moved back to the couch with it. He found an elementary school in Austria that you can do Street View through (German Czeck understanding or something like that). He said “There’s really cool pictures…they’re amazing” as he looked at kid art in the school.
We got some cleaning done, and he did a little vacuuming. He as trying to earn more watching time, but initially didn’t want to do more, and he curled up on the couch while Carly did more. The hose to our showerhead has started leaking, and I investigated. Turns out we need a new hose.
August got his extra iPad time somehow, and I went to do some work. They then went to the pool, and got back after 12:15. He quickly ate a fried egg and frozen mango, then I drove us to Gabi’s office. Had to drive around block to get to the parking lot as there is some street work going on. Still made it in time though.
As we walked in I asked him about swimming. He said there wasn’t anyone he knew there, but he had Carly introduce him to a woman who had a baby who was almost a toddler. There was a brother who he thought was in fifth grade (Carly later said fourth) and is named Shark. The other boy was older than August but younger than Shark. He didn’t remember his name.
I initially went in with him to Gabi’s, but was quickly able to leave. August gave me one of two stone pyramids to use as telephones so he could call me if he needed me. He then tried it out and I yelled back that I could hear him. I then heard them having fun, first with the swords. He spent the entire time with Gabi. I got to study Hebrew. I heard them having fun with the swords, then at the end August called me in to show me what he had made. He had used a variety of items to make a sort of sculpture. A red string went from Gabi’s wrist over to the main structure. He said it was a tourniquet. August had also made some sort of magical creature, I think it was, out of popsicle sticks and clay and stickers and stuff. August helped clean up after I suggested a robot clean up. He then continued to clean up on his own as a robot, breaking down at one point, but then when I repaired him he did a super fast cleanup as a robot.
We headed back to the car, then drove to Ace Hardware in Netanya. We spent some time looking at the fans, microwaves, garbage cans, and kitchen gadets. I was looking at coffee grinders, but August was most interested in a juicer. We found the hose part we needed for the shower, and went for the 8 year fancy one with the smooth aluminum hose. On our way out August spotted sets of small grinder tools and suggested it as a present for Grampa. I reminded him that Grampa already had a set like it on his upstairs workbench.
We then walked over to the iDigital store. I told August we were just getting a plug adapter and headphone adapters, but then found that they had watch bands (mine started to break) and reasonably-ish priced wireless headphones (mine did break a couple days ago). August reminded me I promised it would be quick. I couldn’t decide on things, there were a lot of people waiting, and they didn’t have the plug adapter anyway, so we left.
We drove home the north way through Even Yehuda, which threw August off as he didn’t recognize things. As we got to parts he recognized, he was being a robot saying “100 percent recognized, 90 percent recognized…” He broke a couple times and was saying “0 percent recognized, 0 percent recognized” when we were close to home.
We got home and Carly read to him. The internet had gone out right after they had left earlier. Still not working. I fixed it by plugging a cord back in. Weird thing to have happen. I also put the new hose on the shower.
August realized that the tape on the floor for the degrees of a circle was missing. He asked to have it put back, as he couldn’t do his jumping game between the lines anymore.
Carly headed to the store. I read some My Little Pony, then started setting up Minecraft so we could both play together. This was a long process which required setting up a Microsoft account for him, then linking it to mine in a family account because of his age, then giving him permission to play in a shared world, then having Minecraft on his iPad glitch in a way that finally required us to remove it from his iPad and reinstall. Sheesh.
But at the end of it, after Carly got back, we were ready, and we generated a world in Minecraft based on his initials (AZAN) and started playing together, each on our iPads, sitting next to each other. We started on building a house. We had a lot of fun, and I think there will be a lot for us to do. August learned the word ‘username’ in the process, and his is ‘AugustinoMaster’ in Minecraft.
We had the leftover pasta that Natalie sent back with us for dinner. I went up and worked. They FaceTimed with Cherie, who was teaching August how to do a stand with his head on the floor and back against the couch, then read The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cvemen from the Future. She took him up for his bath, and August came into the office to show me his foam machine.
I got him dressed and teeth brushed, and he made a yarn zip line for his scissors. He wants to learn signing words like ‘Space time continuum’, ‘Waxing crescent’, and ‘Waning gibbous’. I was trying to remind him of Hadera science center as we were discussing future field trip plans. He was trying to remember by himself and said, “I don’t need any outside information.” I left them at 9:30 and went for a run.
Using his new walking sticks:
First crafting in Minecraft:
Instructions from Oma:
