Not quite as smooth of a night. There was seemingly a party out on the street at 4am, which woke up both Carly and myself. August popped out of bed at 6:25. He went right back to sleep. So that technically ends the sting of sleeping through the night (I think it was 4), but he made it most of the way to morning.
He then slept until 8:12. I know that exactly as I looked at the clock and said, “Ah! It’s 8:12!” I jumped up to go wake him up, but then immediately heard him call down. He came down and played Minecraft with Carly, then ate a quesadilla. Carly read passages to him from a middle school book she is reading that is about fast food, etc.
He had a Brother game where he was getting bitten by scorpions. He then told me, “Dada, I need my science tific calculator. I need to figure out 70 million divided by 2.” “I made 70,000,000 pizzas in my lab, and half were for myself…” He was making story problems for himself. We did more problems and Carly got him ready to go. They left at 9:45.
They went up to town to do some small town shopping: the produce stand, a treat from the bakery, peanut butter from the health food store, and a few things from the small grocery store.
They got back at 11:05. He sat next to me and the sun came out, “Sun! Eh, I’m not mama. Anyway, it was probably just a cloud…” He told me about the bakery:
“We got a ‘special occasion donut’…they have it each year…fluffy bread with fake sugar on it and strawberry in the middle…” It was a Hanukkah donut. He asked Carly if he could have the savory pastry. She was talking to David about something. He was then jumping on the couch from a new angle, leaping over the folded-up blanket.
We did some Simple Rockets, then I got him to walk up to the park with me. We were going to fly paper airplanes for a few minutes, then go back and do more Simple Rockets. But he liked flying the paper airplanes so much that he decided that we could just do that as long as possible. We both tried each of the airplanes, and he decided he liked the long dart version the best. He was throwing it from the top of the ship and getting some good distance on it. Once, it went into the lawn bowling area. He was oaky with it being lost, but I walked around through the gate and got it. I had to assure him that it was okay, and not illegal.
We headed back to the house, he had some soup and seconds, then he and Carly headed to Mr. Gabi’s. August took the paper airplanes and showed them to Gabi and said they played with the army. They used play dough to make a landing pad for the helicopters.
From there they went to Herzliya Park and the big playground. No bike this time, as it wasn’t in the car and there was a good chance it would rain. But it was dray at the time, and they played on the big play structure. Carly wanted to go on the big slide but found it was closed. It has been closed off the last couple times we have been there. They went down a medium-sized slide. August grumbled about it, but went down one himself. I noted later that August has still gone down two bigger slides than Carly: this big slide once, and the big one in Korea that Carly never did.
They then went to the play area in the mall. Carly sent me photos of playing in a ball pit and launching balls from one of those air launchers, which totally reminded both of us of Korea. There was also a big area full of balloons that they played in.
They were back around 5:15. He did alone time. When he went to the bathroom he asked how banks work. We talked about loans and interest and credit card fees. Back to alone time he marked pages in the Visual Dictionary. Gastropod was a word of the day. He was marking things to make in Minecraft. Carly hadn’t gotten everything she needed at the store, so I walked over to Tiv Taam. August but with Carly, but didn’t try to do a gastropod as he said he didn’t think she knew how to do it. When I got back he was playing with the stopwatch on his iPad.
He ate nutty noodles for dinner. Three bowls. He asked about how allergies work, so we watched a couple about allergies, including the It’s Okay to Be Smart video on allergies. He then watched the Kurzgesagt video on “An antidote to dissatisfaction”. Gratitude was what that was about, and he was really interested in it.
I bought a year subscription to Curiosity Stream for 20 dollars, and we now did a documentary and popcorn. He chose one on the systems in the human body. He watched about 30 minutes of it. There were good thunderstorms during it, and we opened the door to watch the rain. He stopped the video before the end, and told me about his DNA bank machine and how “It’s as strong as human evolution…” We moved to Brother stories, and did the one where he finds twin jaguars in the jungle and tries to build an enclosure for them without Greena knowing.
I got him upstairs and he went to the bathroom. There was a new box of tissues and he was asking questions about it, then kept asking “Why?” to be funny. Carly said he’d been doing it in the car as well, and it reminded her of three-year old August. He had also fallen asleep in the car on the way home.
I gave him a bath, and he sang a cool version of “Walking in the Park”. We did the Brother and the first tiger story (where they get a tiger from the animal shelter) and in mishearing something he said I thought he said sheaf. He asked, “What’s a sheaf?” So another new word.
He asked about the next verse of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” so I looked that up and we were singing it over and over so that he could learn it. From there he wanted me to sing “London Bridge” but I couldn’t remember the words well enough so he wanted to hear a version. We listened to a few versions and added them to our iTunes library. I brushed his teeth and had Carly come up to say good night. He decided he wanted to sleep with Carly, so they went in the big bed. I left them just before 10.
And soon after that my phone, which is the biggest one and has never mentioned it was running out of space, told me it was out of space. I tried deleting things and offloading them. It didn’t seem to be working, so I shut it down and turned it back on. And it wouldn’t start back up. I started a download to restore it from the laptop, but it wasn’t done before I went to bed. So this is annoying.
Paper airplanes in the park 1:
Paper airplanes in the park 2:
Carly exercising:
August’s view of walking in the park:
Balloon fun:
DNA banks and seed banks:
His version of walking in the park:
His photo of the painting he likes in the waiting room at Mr. Gabi’s.
