He was up right at 7:15. About the first thing he said was “You should be Brother risking his life to go in a sewer.” “To see all the cute creepy crawlies.” He then had a little chant/song about Brother going in: “With no safety gear, gush gush gush.” Brother found an animal that he called a Subird. Then he discovered a Pegasus in the jungle. The baby only eats cocoa beans, palm leaves for breakfast, ripest mangos. We played that for a long time, then I finally got him downstairs at 7:50 to play Minecraft. On the way I got my sweatshirt out for the first time, and also took down a blanket. Don’t know if it was just because it is getting colder, or because I’m feeling a little under the weather.
In Minecraft I almost finished Brother’s house. We then watched a Bright Side video about dehydration as I got ready to go.
We drove down to Ra’anana Park. We parked and he rode his bike up to covered playground. He and Gilad rode their bikes around. Lauren and I were trying to talk about things like the OT, but August kept doing one lap at a time and stopping to talk to us. Hard to carrying on a conversation.
But then they both went to play on the merry-go-round together so we moved over there. They played on that the rest of the time. I helped push a few times, or put the backpack on in their luggage part. But mainly August stood on the edge and pushed with his foot. They got off to have a snack when a little girl and a woman came along to use it.
We got going at 11. I had thought of stopping to buy a bike rack for the car, but I was slowly feeling more and more sick and didn’t feel like it. At some point August was telling me how he’s going to destroy the moon to kill aliens that would otherwise invade us.
At home I made a lunch of an avocado sandwich after we shared a bar. He then played Minecraft with Gilad. On his own he had asked Lauren if he and Gilad could skype while they play, so we set that up. That worked well. They played together about 40 minutes.
He had more vocal, then watched Kurzgesagt videos on immune system, Ebola, and measles. We left at 1:25 for a bike ride. We ended up on the other side of the cloud bridge and were coasting down the hill to the right and riding back up. Did that twice before I realized there was glass all over the place. August wanted to come back and clean it up sometime. August was humming a lot as we rode around. On the way back there was a big tractor and what looked like a group of Japanese tourists on some sort of work trip over in that fruit tree grove by our house.
We were back at 2:05. He wanted to do a Brother game, and we realized that we had totally different views of what the park looked like that Brother is always walking through: he pictures a playground and grass, whereas I was thinking like a forest. This time he met a girl named Tame. She works with animals and was studying a tiger. He said, “Something will go wrong! Something always goes wrong….Just like in your story dice.”
We then got ready and headed to school to pick up Eve. We got her, then went up and met Heather coming out of the art building. As we talked to Heather August said, “Oh, I can teach you something early.” He taught her about the signs of dehydration.
We headed home. I made Eve and August chocolate milk and crackers and meat. August rejected a straw after Eve had touched it, because of germs. She claimed “I don’t have germs on my fingers.” He didn’t buy that. They were quiet for a couple minutes, then we went out and spent the rest of the time working on the tent/fort.
We got sheets and pillows and they expanded it. The main room was the living room, and August made a bedroom that was outside, while Eve had another that was more covered. They debated the merits of each, and traded back and forth. Shmuel talked to us through the fence. August said hi to him. Shmuel asked if we could share internet with the woman that is going to move in downstairs next week. She is a judo coach for the national junior team. I agreed, figuring that would be a good don’t-mind-our-noise move.
August watched the welding going on in the yard down below from the top of the slide, and Eve spent some time pushing August around the yard on his Pororo bike. I think he was calling her something like “Mommy.” Eve left at 5:15. Heather and Zoe were impressed with their fort.
At some point after that I told August I should tell him I love him ten times a day. He replied, “That sounds good.” We watched the last My Little Pony episode of season 2, then the “Too Many Pinkie Pies” episode in season 3. He was laughing hysterically at that one.
Carly got home kind of late, after a department meeting. August had his evening time and dinner, and I rested for a while. She got him upstairs at 8. They played the tea game. He was saying “poop and pee!” and aughing hysterically. I read him two Mr. Men stories: Mr. Bump and Mr. Nosey. He did a long good night with Carly. He asked what a back spasm was and she looked it up. She also explained what a muscle contraction is.
We went into the Zinnie room and did a Brother and Sister game where they go to get a pet for the first time (a “back story”). They go to the humane society and end up with a baby tiger. I put on a Mozart string quartet and he asked about conducting, so we practiced the 4/4 conducting pattern, and also 3/4. He fell asleep, finally, to the string quartet at 9:40.
Merry-go-round with Gilad 1:
Merry-go-round with Gilad 2:
Merry-go-round with Gilad 3:
Skype and Minecraft with Gilad:
Fort with Eve 1:
Fort with Eve 2:
Pushed on the bike by Eve:
