He was up at 6:38. He went back in the bedroom so I went with him and we lay in bed for another ten minutes.
Downstairs we read the first half of What Do You Knoe About Earth’s Oceans? Oceanographer was a word of the day from that. We then read the first half of Tree Mail by Mike Raicht, a graphic novel about a frog that wants to be a delivery bird.
August then remembered the “What Happens if You Hold Your Pee?” Bright Side video he had wanted to watch, so we watched that. We started Minecraft buy then he needed to use the bathroom. He told me about how he uses rivers and conveyor belt sushi to deliver mail. Eventually we got back to Minecraft.
When it came time for breakfast he told me “I don’t think you and mama drink enough milk.” And he said, “Did you know I make rabbit liver pate?” He ate his oatmeal, then as we got ready we played the “Hey cop…” where the cop is repeatedly outwitted by a criminal.
We left at 9 and headed for Herzliya Park. He told me of his acoustic instrument he had made, then of musical instrument on conveyor belt with billions of 1s and 0s. We listened to Underworld and Story Pirates on the way down.
We were the first ones there and August rode his bike around the big ply structure. I helped push him up a hill and he would ride down. He made a comparison: “it’s like zombie flesh…gives you hunger and takes away hunger. Simile!” And he said his simile was cool because it compared two different things (Minecraft and riding his bike up and down the hill): “It’s cool…acoustic and not acoustic…” What he really meant was analog and _digital _ so I explained those, although he didn’t seem to entirely believe me, as he felt like analog was a computer sort of word.
Gilad and Lauren showed up. She said that the family with five kids wasn’t going to make it. Gilad coaxed August up on the play structure. I went up with them for a while. August had no interest in going down slides or walking on the suspended pathways. We went over to the little kid part and August rode his bike on that a bit and they played around. They then decided to ride their bikes.
We first headed up towards the boardwalk part, but the signs say no bikes up there. So we rode the path all the way to the south playground. Down there I called the water area a stream and he said it wasn’t because it wasn’t natural. I said it was a “man-made stream” and he responded, “What? A girl could have made it.”
The two of them played in the sand area for quite a while. We then sat and had a snack. Lauren and Gilad got going, and we left a couple minutes later. August was humming new music, and also hummed part of. Song he wanted me to identify. It turned out to be “Sentimental Wars” again, which was also the first song he ever did that with, bck in Kore. He rode his bike back up through the park. There was some military gathering happening, so lots of people carrying guns, and people doing tug-of-war.
We stopped to go to the bathroom before we left and he did a sliding stop. I pointed out his rubber trail and he admired that. We left the park at 11:30. He was rhyming words with pig and I used sprig so taught him that word. We listened to the rest of the Story Pirates episode on the way back and part of a Brains On! episode.
We were home at 12. We negotiated iPd time, then watched a Bright Side about oxygen. For lunch we had banana milk and chicken noodle soup. Then a video “What if the Moon Disappeared Right Now?” We went outside and set up the fort so it looked nicer when Eve and Zoe got here. He got the decorative tape and was decorating the bars of the slide. We then read part of Earthling.
We drove to school. On the walk in he told me he had invented a dog collar connected to Google Maps so people could find their pets. We picked up the girls, and Eve wanted to head to the library. Eve and Zoe ended up playing checkers at one of the tall tables and August watched. I found out that they had separated the middle school graphic novels from the high school and told Carly, as she had mentioned they should do that just a few days ago.
Eve wandered off and we found her playing with clay with Ms. Amanda. While they did that August wanted to find a book. I saw the Mr. Men books and we read Mr. Nosey, and Mr. Worry and then checked out Mr. Bump, Little Miss Sunshine, and Little Miss Naughty to take home.
We all headed to the house. The kids played around outside for a bit and I got more sheets they could use. They then proceeded to not play with the fort, although that was what they had been wanting to play. Eve started making potions and I stopped that as she hadn’t asked and I needed the kitchen to start making quiche. August had the idea of making potions upstairs in the bathroom, and he had me come up so I could explain what they could use a lot of and what they could use a little of and what they couldn’t use. That worked well, and I left them with two piles of things.
Carly got home around 4, so she was able to go and check on them a couple times.
August was doing invisible writing and showing them, and Zoe had been trying to play multiple instruments at once.
Dave came to get the girls (Heather is on the high school Week Without Walls) about 4:50. August got grumpy at first but got over that and was fine. I finished the quiche. While that was cooking carly made him the carrot and lemons dish and he ate that. We read the 3 books we’d checked out. Permitted was another new word. He ate a little pate and crackers, then had me trying to scare him—this was from the Brains On! episode where kids had been talking about why they like scary movies.
He has joked about “vanishing” me from the house; so I clarified vanished versus banished. He then had a Brother game where Brother was getting so much snot everywhere (August has been stuffier) that he gets sent home from school. He finds Sister’s diary left out and ends up ruining it with snot when he reds it. We watched a My Little Pony, then ate quiche.
His first impressions of the quiche weren’t too positive. He didn’t like how it looked. He ate a little, then a little bit more after a few minutes, then had a yogurt. He was then doing some music time with the keyboard when I left for a run.
She washed him and got him ready and I took a shower. They said good night. In the Zinnie room he had us do a Brother game where he was licking his hand and it was getting really dry, like what is happening to August’s hand. Yesterday he had let me put a band aid on it (he wouldn’t do cream) then took it off before going in the school because he didn’t want Jonathan or Carly to see it. He let me put lotion on it after he was asleep yesterday and it wasn’t getting worse today. Then another Brother game, also based on his life, where Brother gets cuts on his feet, then goes to the ocean and gets sand and salt in his cuts. Of course, it was much more extreme, with Brother’s feet being covered by bandaids, then getting new feet from Bar. When August had me telling it he was actually cringing and covering his eyes/ears when it came to the part where Brother ran on the beach.
We read two oldies but goodies, Lock Mess Monster and Hug Machine, which we haven’t read in quite some time. For the story of my life I started to tell him about Grandma and Grandpa Niman. Had some goal in mind but he got distracted on something. He then told a ghost story like he’d heard on My Little Pony (lots of connections going on—it had been the episode where Scootaloo gets scared of Rainbow’s campfire stories). Lights out at 9:10. He was really stuffy and said he wanted a new nose and hand. We got his water bottle. He sang a song about the water cycle (based on a chart in the ocean book we read this morning). We listened to Haydn’s String Quarter #4 and he was asleep at 9:45.
Riding the hill at Herzliya Park:
Sand playground with Gilad:
Humming a tune and Senrimental Wars:
Potions in the bathroom sink:
