Carly was up first, then August around 6:40. I started to get up just a little before 7, but stayed in bed reading while Carly skyped with Cherie. I haven’t been coughing much, but a couple ribs/muscles got more sore over the night. Very annoying.
Carly went to Home Plus and I stayed home with August. August wasn’t too happy with her leaving, and after he calmed down I got an orange to eat. August wouldn’t let me eat it though, saying “no” and taking it out of my hand and putting it on the counter. I managed to eat it a few minutes later and he ate a little. We did a lot of drawing, then shared a couple pieces of pizza and watched Teuni Teuni and brushed his teeth. Started his new container of toothpaste only to realize it is a different flavor. He wasn’t happy about the change, but seemed to get used to it after tasting it later in the day.
When he was holding two markers he saw a ‘V’ and then ’11’. He did it again later, saying “Hold it 11.”
When Carly was back, he was drinking water from his dinosaur cup. He still isn’t entirely used to it, as water comes out faster than his other cups. He coughed, and threw up some water, then told Carly “Wipe it up.”
He and Carly did a lot of drawing together then. Carly was teaching him to draw ‘D’ and ‘B’.
He then fell asleep for a nap from 12:30 to about 1:40. Carly was skyping with Glecy when he woke up, so they got to Skype for awhile.
I was slow to get moving due to the sore rib muscles. Also, Carly was making chicken soup, so we waited until she was done with that and he could eat some. But eventually I took August out so Carly could do some work. We left at 3:15. I intended to take a little walk (he was in the backpack) then go to a play area. But it was 41 – cloudy, but 41 – and it felt good to be out. Temperatures are supposed to drop this week, so plenty of time for play areas later. Instead, we walked up along the stream to Madeul to play outside.
As we crossed the stream, August pointed out “duckies”, then I pointed out fish. Everything was funny today, so he said “funny duckies” and “funny fishies”. He also did his fish noises a couple of times. As we walked into the park we saw a magpie fly away and he said “funny magpie”. Passing the apartment complex that is under construction, he saw a forklift and said “funny cars”. Or maybe it was “funny coches”. We saw a sculpture and he said it looked like an “upside down U.” As we walked through the park, we saw a sign, part of their outdoor science exhibits, that had a big ‘Q’ on it. He liked that.
As part of his random singing/chanting as we walked, he suddenly spelled “C A T cat” and “B O O K book”. He saw puppies walking along the stream (he also called them “funny puppies”). I counted them in Korean “Hana, dul puppies.” He then said “Hana, sul, set, net.” That shocked me – I’ve said the Korean numbers to him, but since there are two sets of numbers, I’ve never worked too hard to teach them to him – I’ve never had him repeat the numbers back to me. By the time we were done in the park, he had added 5 and 6 (dasot, yosot) and was saying 7 and 8 (ilgop, yodel).
In the park, we first played all over the piano sculpture. We got out our stick and plastic shovel, and he was hitting the metal and other surfaces to make noise. We eventually went down to the playground and played in the sand, mainly letters. The last week+, thanks to Carly, he has really been into us holding two markers at once and writing ‘ABCs’. Today he wanted me to hold the shovel and stick at the same time and write them. We also climbed up on the play structure and went back and forth on the shaky bridge.
Eventually he tired of the playground. Wandered around a bit. Going by the soccer field, he was pointing out the numbers on their jerseys. We changed him in the heated bathroom, then headed towards the main street around 5:45. On the way, he started pointing and saying “Fun, fun”. Sure enough, there was a beer/cafe that had ‘fun, fun, fun’ on their awning. He then said “That say N U F fun.”
We went to Coffeenie, the new coffee shop in the building with Pizza School, but up on the second floor. I got a black tea latte and we shared a bagel and cream cheese. He played Endless Alphabet on the iPad, then for the second half of our time he sat on my lap and we drew together. Actually, he did most of the drawing, only having me write some letters near the end. When drinking water, he liked going over to the display case and looking at the “yummy stuff”. The last time, he was spinning in circles and getting dizzy. Finally, he said “Miss mama” and was done with the coffee shop – I’d asked him previously, but he chose to stay at the coffee shop and draw.
We headed home. Back at our building he was pointing out the 7-11 and wanted to see GS 25. So we walked around the building a bit before going in. As we did so, we spotted the moon up above through the haze. First he called it “banana moon” but then “D moon”. Then he said “Funny D moon” – I assume because it was fuzzy. Got back right at 6:15.
At home, he wrote a pretty decent ‘A B C D’ on paper. I was giving him strawberries, and he joked that they were sausage pieces from our kimbap, so he kept calling them “sausage” when I would hand him a piece. He heard a notification from my phone and said “dada’s email.”
I went to get his bath ready and he said “Dada take a bath.” Carly gave him his bath, which went pretty well. He came back out and typed on the computer with me a bit, then nursed. I was singing our pronoun song to him and he kept requesting more, then was looking pretty tired, so Carly took him in to bed and he fell asleep around 8:30.
New words/phrases: mama take it (telling her to take something away that he was done with),yummy in my tummy, listening Teuni Teuni, sticker on the paper, mama go finish up the food (she had been drawing with us but explained she needed to go finish the soup. He processed it, said this, but still got a little upset), doesn’t turn (kind of a running joke about all the round outside exhibits at Madeul park – he wants to turn things, but nothing turns, so now he just points at an exhibit and said this), dada pick up (wanting me to pick him up), 1 to 6 in Korean (counting numbers), That say N U F fun, dada take a bath (when I went to prepare HIS bath)
Frozen smoothie Popsicle:
Madeul park:
Flying across the shaky bridge:
Where he read ‘fun’:
Coffee shop:
Playing with Marshy:
