I heard him laugh over the baby monitor about an hour before he woke up. When he woke up at 8:02, it was a very happy wakeup. He wanted me to leave him alone for a few minutes, but there was no crying. Then, he said “dada go in” and wanted me to go in the parlor. We ate banana bread, strawberries and leftover smoothie for breakfast. He must have been impressed by the banana bread, because he was saying “dada make that.”
Spent a lot of time writing on the whiteboard. I played music on the computer at one point, and he requested “Teuni Teuni music”. So we listened to that. It was on repeat, so every time it got to the last song he would say “Teuni Teuni all done.”
Around 10 we left the house and first headed to the sign area by the bridge. We pushed the button, he did some watering, climbed some steps, and then wanted to “call mama”, since that is where we did it yesterday at 5. After awhile we headed to the art museum play area. We only played in there a couple minutes, then he wanted to drink water, during which he started roaming the hall and going out in the lobby. He went in the gift shop and started pointing and saying “present for mama.” I was shocked, as I haven’t talked about getting her any presents for quite some time. We did get those presents for Logan, and stickers for Megan in the last couple of months, so maybe the concept of ‘present’ has stuck pretty well.
About 10:30 we headed out and first did some grocery shopping at Home Plus, then went up to his class at 11. Class today was all about shooting things. Yes, a bit odd. The first activity involved shooting crossbow at poop on a toilet target. I could not make this up. August was a bit miffed by all this (as was I). He mainly wanted to inspect the crossbow, and didn’t see the point of shooting things. When the teacher put on a big costume and the kids could shoot him, August was completely uninterested.
However, the next activity August loved. They were this plastic blow up cannons. You stuffed the barrels with plastic balls, then jumped (or dropped a kid) on the platform to make it fire. He caught on to this pretty quickly and had fun loading the cannons and then being jumped or dropped (none of the kids can jump well enough to do it themselves yet) by me or one of the teachers. At the end of class found out that Jungbin is going into kindergarten at the end of this session, so he won’t be in classes anymore. But Jihong will be, so we will coordinate to be in the same classes again.
We came home and ate kimbap and a sandwich and oranges for lunch. And we skyped with my parents right after they had returned from 3 days over in Everett. August was saying “no” to any idea of Skyping before we called, but then he was very happy to see gramma and grampa.
I changed him and said “let’s see.” He got excited and started saying “Let’s see. Mama says that.” He was saying it several times after that.
He rejected the carrier again, and any idea of a nap. He slept a long time, so I didn’t expect one. But he wanted to get in the stroller, so we got in that and went for a nice walk – about 45 minutes and close to two miles. As I put him in the stroller he said “Don’t fall asleep. Mama says that.” I was like, “No, no. You can fall asleep this time.” Up the stream then down it, then down the river, up at the bridge, and home via streets. He kept eating crackers and pumpkin snacks from yesterday. As we were coming back on the road, he screamed once. I didn’t say anything, but then I heard him saying “No screaming. Mama says that.” Very much into the “Mama says…” today.
As we got home and I got him out of the stroller he said “Dada feels better.” Once he was out, he laid down on the hardwood floor and said he was sleepy.
We did some more coloring, then he once again started talking/joking about “call mama.” Right before 3 we headed over to the pink building to the Namu Kid Cafe. We used our full 2 hours, leaving at 5:05. He spent a lot of time on the trampoline; I would roll balls up and he would go try to get them, then he would run back down and throw the balls off. If he grabbed two balls, or picked two up, he would say “both, both!” He also slid down the ramp a lot. I pushed him around in the car a lot – the same car, as it is the only one with a cell phone with numbers on it, so he didn’t want the other cars – and I pointed out the way he has never used where he could climb up to the play area behind the trampoline. Eventually he wanted to do that, so we went up there, and he played a lot up there with stuff he hasn’t played with before.
Several times he would be playing, then come over to me (I was up in the play structure, too) and say “hi” and sit next to me. If we slid down the ramp together I would lie back, and he would follow suit and lay next to me for awhile.
He totally has the pneumatic ball thing down. He knows how to turn it on and only use the small balls to put in it. Later, there was a slightly smaller kid standing next to it. August went over to him and said “turn it on” and showed him how to turn it on. He then pointed at where the balls go, and grabbed balls to show him how to do it. Afterward, I thanked him and told him he was being a teacher just like Mama.
Near the end, he went into the food area where a girl was with her grandparents. August had started out there again today, cooking food and making soup. They had the table covered in food, and August stood there and the grandfather gave him foods and was telling him the names in Korean. Very cool.
Oh, and when we were in the ball area I must have coughed, because suddenly he started imitating me, even holding his elbow up by his mouth and making coughing noises. Quite the joker.
Right about 5 August started wanting to go find mama. When we got there, we had put our numbers in locker 26. About 10 minutes later I had asked him where we put our shoes and he said “26!” But by the end he had forgotten. So it became a game of him guessing a number and we’d look in that locker to see if our shoes were there.
Eventually we found them and we headed home. Carly had beaten us by a few minutes as she had taken the bus. He ate spaghetti for dinner and Carly gave him a decent bath. A lot of writing on paper and the whiteboard in the evening. We watched Teuni Teuni and brushed his teeth. Carly tried to put him to sleep about 7:30 but he wasn’t ready. So she took a shower and we all sat on the bed and read stories together. Finally, he fell asleep a little after 8.
New words/phrases: dada go in, found the wawa, drink over here, call mama, talk with mama, August silly goose, hi sweetie
Art museum play area:
Home Plus. August spotted the Q, and then two others, from across the store:
Teuni Teuni:
Shooting dada:
Playing in the park on the way home:
Sticking his hands out on our walk:
After the walk, saying he is sleepy:
Namu kid cafe. Cooking first:
Looking down at the park:
Ball area:
Playing up top:
In his favorite car:
Helping the boy:
Back in the ball area:
Food:
Home. Hugging a book while Carly reads:
