Awake a quarter to 1. Stood up and then wanted his diaper changed. Carly took his temperature, which seems a degree or two high. She went back to bed and k stayed up with him. Played and drew on the iPad. Then spent most of our time with markers and stickers on the paper. Back to the iPad for Endless Spanish, then close to 2:30 he wanted books. He grabbed the Palabras book and he sat on my lap and we analyzed the book, multiple times, looking for Qs (2 of them) and Ñs (7, I think). He was starting to occasionally rub his eyes and say “Miss Mama”, but if I asked if he was ready to nurse and go to sleep, he would say “No” and go back to playing. Snacked on crackers and strawberries I cut up. Finally, I read Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. After that, he was sitting on the floor rubbing his eyes and yawning, but still saying “No” to going in to Carly. I opened the door and carried him in at 3:08. When he saw mama he said “Nurse”. I left, hearing him say “Miss Dada” a couple times as I closed the door.
Despite the wakeup in the middle of the night, he didn’t sleep in, and was awake at 6:30. I took a shower, then Carly let me go back to sleep until she was leaving for school, a bit later than usual. Once she was gone, I got out the big box of Crayola crayons we bought yesterday. He was excited by them, but initially frustrated, as they aren’t as bright as the markers or Korean crayons. But he used them more and more throughout the day. When we brushed his teeth, he then did a lot of brushing on his own, moving the toothbrush back and forth.
We watched Timmy Time, or at least parts of it, a few times through the day. Always the same story, the one about the puzzle. We made a smoothie, then spent a lot of time making art on the iPad and listening to Teuni Teuni. Tried to Skype with my parents, but they weren’t online yet. But August wanted to send a message to Carly. So we sent her some messages. He typed “Hi” twice, once backwards and then once “in order”.
At one point, he thought I had my cough drops in my pocket, but didn’t I told him they were in the bedroom. He responded with “Get it. Get cough drops.” We did, and he had a lot of fun just playing with the package, and kept saying “Yummy cough drops”. He’s never tasted them, but he has smelled them, and he’s seen me eat them a lot, so that is a logical conclusion.
We read some books and he had me read Humpty Dumpty about a dozen times. He started saying “Que Paso?” (What happened?) and I would reply “Se cayo” (He fell). Also, he said that the boy in Skip to My Lou with his arms out looks like a T.
We ate an early lunch of stir fry, and I was about to put him in the stroller close to 12 even though he was still saying he wasn’t ready for a nap when Carly came home a little before noon. He laid down with her from about noon to 12:45. Nursed a lot, but didn’t really fall asleep. At 1 I got up and stayed with him while Carly rested. We did some coloring on both the paper and iPad, watched Timmy Time, and then ABC songs, which we haven’t done in a long time. A bit after 2 she got up, and then nursed him again. He rested for awhile, but again no nap. It is like he doesn’t need sleep when he is sick.
We Skyped with my parents for about half an hour. August likes to say “No” to skyping now, but then e was all smiles and laughs. He did some art for them and played Endless Numbers and Cursive on the iPad for them.
My one excursion from the house was to go down and get some supplies (milk, juice, and cough drops) from GS25 and pick up our latest iHerb order from the guardhouse. I took the opportunity to do a quick walk around the building. Yep, still cold.
August finally did fall asleep from about 5 to 6: just under an hour. When he got up he wanted to draw on the iPad, and suddenly he was drawing capital Bs. Slowly but surely he’s getting the alphabet down.
The evening was full of a lot of ABC songs on the iPad. He hadn’t watched them in a long time, and when I suggested them to him he knew just where to find YouTube Kids on the iPad. Also a good amount of drawing and nursing and some eating of dinner.
At 9:20 he was still up and he was joking about stepping on Carly’s computer, and that turned into a running joke: “Step on the popcorn”, “step on the table”, “step on the home” (just on the wood floor), “step on the pattern” (the carpet). He and Carly were then playing a game in which she would tell him what to touch and he would repeat it and go touch the object or, “touch dada.”
Finally, after 10, still acting like he wasn’t ready for sleep, Carly made him stay on the bed and he fell asleep by 10:15.
New words/phrases: no stepping in the markers/crayons/iPad, climb up there, Smokey up there, ABC songs with Mama, run to mama, yellow chameleon, corner, bebe (baby), cochecito (stroller)
Up at 1am:
Rest of the day. His new owl pajamas:
Trying out the new crayons:
Dumping them out:
Brushing his teeth:
Playing with Marshy:
Dada’s cough drops:
Acting sleepy, but denying it:
Playing with the lamp:
Singing along with ABC songs: