August was awake at 6:30. He drew on the iPad with Carly until she left about 7. He wasn’t happy her leaving, but after he calmed down, he went straight to the markers. He wanted to color with the black one first and said “black first.” In the morning we did some cleaning and vacuuming and laundry, then since August was up early I wanted to do our shopping before his class, so we got ready and left about 10:30. At Home Plus we bought August his first pairs of scissors, then went down and got some kimbap and a sandwich for lunch and some other groceries.
In talking with August in the morning and telling him we would go to class and see his teacher, he kept saying “No”, as if he didn’t want to go. He said the same as we were on our way up. But when we got to class he did pretty well. There was some standing by the door and looking out the vents, but for the most part he participated in class and had fun. It was about spiders and elephants and counting. He really liked the little play spider he got to play with. She made a web out of tape on the floor for them to have the spiders crawl along, then we pulled the tape off the floor and it turned into a big spider web parachute game. He was sad to see the toy spider go. Then we each got a spider web on a felt board that we could attach elephants to and work on counting. The most exciting part, of course, was the stickers at the end. He went through the stickers quickly today and wanted more. At the end of class, he did a really big, deep bow to the teacher (with some urging from me, of course).
We came home and ate lunch and were doing something at the couch when I asked him if he wanted to get in the carrier to fall asleep. Instead, he surprised me by saying “want to sleep (at) home” and he got up and ran in and climbed on the bed. Well, we tried, but he wouldn’t go to sleep on the bed (kept missing mama, for one). Eventually he was relenting on the carrier, but once I had him in the carrier he was just squirming to get out. Instead, he chose the stroller for the first time. He calmed down, and was patient while I changed him and got us ready to go outside. Outside, he fell asleep right away. Drove him home and parked him in the living room, where he slept from 1:22 to 2:03.
He woke up and I took him out of the stroller, but he wanted back in. Perhaps he would have fallen back to sleep if we had started right away, but I needed to get coats on, etc. Still, he was mellow as we went for a walk along the stream and to see the progress on the new apartment complex. He had colored on his hands with markers before his nap, and he would stick his marker-covered right hand out between the zippers of the cover when he wanted another cracker.
A package of crackers later, we were back at home. I was pretty worn out, so this was the lazy part of the day. A lot of Endless Spanish and Very Hungry Caterpillar. Finally roused myself a bit and we did a lot of writing on the whiteboard. He is drawing decent 3s now. I was writing words, and we made up our first silly rhyme: baby bunny funny, funny baby bunny. He also was very amused by the sentence “The cat meows” and had me write it several times.
Sometime after 4 he looked out the window and decided he wanted to go outside. So we went out to the park. He first went to the playground, but we only played there for a couple minutes, then headed to the usual spot at this end of the bridge: pushed the button a few time, did a lot of watering of rocks and water and bushes and bricks with his water bottle, then kind of practiced going up and down the first couple of the steps of the bridge and people watched, saying “people coming” when he saw someone. Finally, he decided he to climb the stairs to the top of the stairs. This took us to about 5:15. At this point he started wanting to find mama. So we tried to call her, but she didn’t answer.
So then we started to walk back, figuring we’d meet her and Megan at our usual spot by the pink building. Along the way we ran into Cluadia and Michaelina and their father. August saw them, and knew it was interrupting finding mama, so he started saying “No, no no.” We talked for a few seconds, long enough for them to tell me that the baby (Rogan) had been born. August handled it.
Anyway, we walked to the benches along the pink building. Now 5:30. August wanted to “Call Mama” again, so we did so (I now let him tap her name to make the call). They were a few minutes away. Met them at the corner.
From there, we came home. Carly fed him dinner. I laid down for a few minutes. During that time Carly tried to talk to Glecy, but August was having none of that, breaking out in screeching and writing with marker on the curtain. Luckily, it turns out the marker wipes right off.
After some Endless Spanish and drawing on the iPad, Carly took him for his bath about 7:30. After that, he was doing a lot of marker drawing in his notebooks. He is drawing pretty good 3s today, and this evening decided he should ‘dot’ each 3, like an ‘i’ or a ‘j’. I think it comes from seeing the electronic keyboards, or all the letter options in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, that show accent marks over letters.
He has continued to spot letters and numbers out and about. Today he spotted an ‘H’ in the yellow bricks/tiles in the sidewalk by a crosswalk, and then as he walked up the wooden walkway from the playground to the center of the park he realized it forks and looks like a ‘Y’.
New words/phrases: black first, having fun, want to sleep (at) home, pause, people coming, dada’s cough drops
Right to it:
Helping:
Class:
He was excited there were numbers on the elephants:
Shaking them off:
Letter and number spotting. Here is his ‘H’:
And here is the once (11) he always points out:
Marker-covered hand:
Out in the park:
His ‘Y’:
On the stairs:
Home:
Getting comfy while holding “dada’s cough drops”:
