He was up at 7:30. Came down and sat on the couch for a few minutes. We then played Minecraft. He had french toast and mango, then was still hungry so had crackers and meat. He was hard to get out the door at 9 and seemed in no hurry to leave.
We did okay though. As we drove down 4, we saw a little plane flying really low and doing quick turns, flying back and forth over the highway. Impressive, but also scary. Really seemed like it was too low and too close to the highway. It got August talking though, and he talked about The “Famous glider plane…c-shaped wings…this might sound crazy…that’s why it’s famous.” It had had an accident, where smoke came into the cabin. The pilots both died (the crazy part), but it had landed on its own (why it is famous). But then he decide that it had landed in Antarctica and everyone had died and no one had seen the plane again. He made up other planes, and talked about his planes the whole way. He also saw a few other small planes flying.
We parked in the free dirt lot across from Ra’anana Park and walked across. We met Gilad and Lauren at 9:40. Elena showed up with all 4 of her kids right after we had started walking. August and Gilad were looking at an ant nest and August got one on a stick.
We first walked over to the zoo. August found a red tube that he put on his finger, then had two nut things hanging from it. He hypnotized a chicken with it, and it kept moving his head as he moved it around. He also found a big feather for writing with ink. They had fun looking at the animals,then we headed over to the big playground. August and Gilad climbed on the rope structure, then they played with acorn spaceship. August was announcing the countdowns, mostly, after he got out of it.
Elena’s kids wanted to go on the big wood structure. August hung behind on that, but we made our way around to the other side too, then they all played on the exercise equipment. August and Gilad went on an elliptical machine together. A little more climbing structure, then we all started walking across to the other end of the park, as Gilad and August wanted to do the airplane game. We walked back that way and they got all of us on the play structure for a flight. Gilad was the pilot and August was the flight attendant.
We walked out together and August was too hot to want to go to Max, and wanted to leave getting ink for another day. So we headed home.
At home he played with Legos for alone time and I exercised and made rice. We ate lunch, eating leftovers, then read more of My Little Pony #15. August asked, “What’s an egg pun?” I gave some examples, and used the phrase egg on, which he didn’t know, so that was a phrase of the day. We played some Blue Apprentice, learning about photosynthesis, and before we got going to school he wanted to put all of the Lego sings on something he had made. He did that for a few minutes, then we got going at 2:50.
At school we headed to the big playground. We found Corinne and Elise there. They played around, but it was interesting to see the different dynamics: with Gilad they just start doing imagining games, whereas with Corinne and Elise they do best together when they’ve had something to play with, like the straw kit or whatever. At the playground they didn’t know what to do together, and all of them would go off and swing for a minute, or climb for a minute, then would be back talking to us, etc.
I had August on the swing for a few minutes, and he thought Rayan was Reia, but it is actually her big sister. He got bored and wanted to head home, but I suggested the library instead. It turned out that Corinne and Elise were really excited about the library, and they didn’t know that there were Legos there. Then, as we all walked towards the library, we ran into Cassie and Taya, who also didn’t know there were Legos in the library. So August got to lead everyone up and show them where the Legos were. We got those out, and Cassie and Natalie worked on a puzzle.
We built with Legos for a bit, then August lined up all the Lego card game cards. We looked around at books, and I reminded him of the Nick and Tesla books. He wanted to read one, but it turned out he was thinking of Mighty Jack. The library didn’t have either of them in stock, but I found out that the newest book, Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl is out and I bought it on Apple Books to read later. Elise got Lumberjanes out, and I showed them Monsters Beware and the Hilda books.
August helped with the puzzle for a couple minutes, and he smelled Cassie’s arm: “You kind of smell like Kai…That kind of makes me want you to me my mama…oh no no no no no…you don’t like balloons…” Taya and Reia had built a sort of hangout in the corner and Taya came and got August and took him over. They were near the poetry section, and I found I’m Just No Good at Rhyming by Chris Harris. I took it out to check it out. Liz saw me and said that her daughter Eve would be excited to check it out for me, as she loves that book. She told me her favorite poems in it as she checked it out.
Another ten minutes or so then we all cleaned up and left after 5. August and I got to the car, then I called Carly, and we picked her up at the entrance and drove home.
At home August wanted his evening iPad time right away, but we talked it through and he waited until after dinner. He had Pad Thai, then meat and crackers for dinner. He said something about burgarling, then “I don’t even know what burglaring means…okay, I stole your head.” Burglar was a word of the day.
We did his evening time, playing Minecraft. Then at 7 I walked over to the Shapells’ house. I bought the two sets of Lego Brainstorms from them for 400 shekels. August and Carly had built with Legos, and were reading when I got back. He kept repeating the line, which he found very funny, “I was talking about my ulcer, kid” from one of the books they’ve read. He had also asked about offense (as in offend) and another word she couldn’t remember.
We built with the Mindstorms legos. August was very intrigued by them, but also a bit stumped on how to build with them. Carly cut up fresh mango and he ate it. He said, “I’m hungry enough to eat the scenery.” Carly measured him for a Halloween costume: 109cm and 17.8kg. We took him up and I washed his hair.
We read My Little Pony. He asked about the phrase “At the mercy of.” I left them 9:15 as they were brushing teeth. He was telling her “Water is better than soap…it helps plants grow…you drink it to survive…Surviving is the most goodest thing ever…even better than treats. EVEN better than dadas favorite pie.” I went for a walk, as my ankle had been sore today. Not too bad, but a good idea to rest it.
Ant on a stick:
Teasing a chicken:
Exercise equipment:
On the playground:
Getting the new Legos:
