I started waking him up before 8. At one point he rolled away from me. I finally got him up at 8:13. He groggily sat up and said, “Let’s go.” I don’t know why he sleeps in every Thursday. Makes getting to Ra’anana Park on time difficult.
We played Minecraft. I stopped early and got things ready. He ate oatmeal, and told me of his beliefs in God: “What I mean by God is that we live in some crazy space and God is someone in the real world in Minecraft…if you keep going out it gets crazier and crazier until you get out of the computer…” And then you’d find that you were tiny compared to the kid who had been playing Minecraft.
We read an issue of My Little Pony: Friends Forever about Twilight and Pinkie Pie, then left at 9:30. He told me about a girl whose power was accuracy with anything she threw, etc. We got to the park at 9:50, and I parked in the pay lot right by the covered playground, since we had his bike and they were already there.
Since Israeli schools are on holiday this week Gilad’s older sister, Colinette, was there, practicing on her rollerblades. August rode in circles around the playground a couple times. Then he got off, and he and Gilad went off to the small spinny thing at the other end of the playground on their own, him still wearing his helmet.
Eventually we made our way over to the big playground. Busier there. August rode his bike around the center area, and we all sat on the steps for a snack. August shared one of the chocolate snack bars with Gilad. August asked them if they believed in God, and told them he does as well, although he didn’t go into what those views are.
They walked up to the nearest parking lot to get picked up, and August and I headed back to where our car was. August was riding quite fast on the flats and downhills and I had to run to keep up.
We drove to the big Tiv Taam and did some grocery shopping. He picked out a Russian treat. We got a new broom handle, as the covering has come off of the one we have. Kind of like with my watch band he wants Carly to keep using the one we have, but he was okay when we could get the exact same handle we already have (blue).
He ate his apple candy, then we drove home. At one point he asked me to change the music because he didn’t want a Yacht song (“Psychic City”), but he liked a Yaz song he wanted added to his playlist. I took the north route home back to Even Yehuda and he immediately realized I wasn’t going the usual way.
We parked in the dirt lot and went to Gutale to see if they sold coffee beans. They do, but it is just one kilogram bags of a single Mauro roast. So no grinding for us or anything special. We bought that and headed home.
We got here ate 1. I felt like having chocolate milk, which I don’t usually, so we had that. Then played Minecraft, waiting for a response from Lauren about Gilad getting on. I made fish sticks for lunch, which August said was amazing. It didn’t work out with Gilad; his brother was not there, and they were just getting errors while trying to connect. So we gave up and watched a My Little Pony instead. Fracas and ruckus were words of the day. He had to skip ahead when Rainbow Dash was in trouble.
When it was time to head to school he didn’t want to go. But eventually said we could go after a Brother game. Brother ws scratched by a tiger, then was finding a new animal. It was a porcupine. He asked what the most dangerous germ is and we ended up watching a video about bacteriaphage, then another video about a nuclear explosion. He asked, “What’s abundance?” We left close to 3:30.
At the school we picked up the package with my new watch band. At the pool we put it on my watch. August tried it on and said it fit better, but said he still hates it because it isn’t the same as the old one.
We started getting in the pool, and August showed me how the surface tension bends the water around his hand when he starts to put it in. He then told me that it was caused by God, or something to the sort. He then said, “I’m just messing with you…I don’t believe in God.”
Carly joined us, and August had a Brother game where Brother has a runny nose that gets over everything and he’s really embarrassed.
We got home at 5 and I made dinner: pesto pasta and cauliflower and mushrooms. They played Minecraft, then went outside. He helped clean up the tree things. Back inside we ate, and read the My Little Pony: Friends Forever issue about Apple Jack and Mayor Mare. I hung up swim stuff and then did dishes while they played with Legos. There were long negotiations about treats, etc.
He then had the idea that we should “train” to put him to sleep and wash him faster using stuffed animals. He had me go get stuffed animals to practice on, and he had us sitting on the couch, practicing, while he played with Legos and sang a “higher and higher” song.
Carly took him up for a bath, then they read Madeleine and The Big Book of Why while I went for a run. He had an experiment where he filled up an old soap bottle with bubbles, and then would see how long it takes for them to all pop.
Carly said good night 9:15. He asked me for creepy things from when I was a kid. I told him about the noises of the settling house during the night. I then sang lullabies, like he had told me during the practice time, and he was asleep by 9:30. My training must have paid off as tht was really fast.
Riding in circles at Ra’anana Park:
Hanging out with Gilad:
More riding at Ra’anana Park:
Sing narrating his Lego building:
