August was up sometime after 6. In the morning he requested Timmy Time, but just watched a few minutes before switching to drawing on the iPad. He ate a small breakfast, then after one vitamin he started coughing and had a big throw up. Switched to drawing on paper after that. We had planned on going to Children’s Grand Park today, but since he was feeling sick I cancelled that, instead taking him down to the doctor about 9:30. When getting him dressed he flat out refused his new yellow pants. He wore the new shirt though, with pine/fir trees on it.
Before heading to the doctor, I told him that was what we would be doing. So he started to say “Going to doctor soon.” He then started doing about screaming, saying “No screaming in doctor soon.” Of course, when we got down there and he realized what we were actually doing, he got upset. He wasn’t happy with the exam, but calmed down after, and stood in the room while I talked to the doctor. The nurse giving him a candy helped as well.
After coming home he wanted to go outside. He really wanted the backpack, but we weren’t going far, but he was fine with walking. We walked across to the art museum first. As we passed the ice rink, he pointed and said “Zinnie do that.” I told him he had to wait until we were both over our coughs. In the art museum we went to the play area first. He climbed up in it, and spent a few minutes trying to go through the shaky tube thing. I think he is hesitant because it goes downhill first. He drank some water, then wanted to walk around. He had spotted a group of big kids across the museum and waved and said “Hi, big kids.” Interesting because he otherwise continues to refuse to say ‘Hi’ to people.
So we got our shoes and backpack and went and looked at some art. He liked two pieces in the lower photo room: a blue sculpture and a big painting with a lot of people and things on it. From there we went into the main gallery. All of these shows just opened so were new to us. There was one piece on the ceiling that involved lights that he called “pretty”, and as he walked around upstairs he would see pieces with people in them and say “More people.” We also followed a few groups of “big kids” around, and when he saw them leaving he waved and said “Bye, big kids.”
Back on the first floor, he watched the ruby slippers video a bit more, then we headed downstairs to the never-ending Wonderland exhibit (supposed to end mid-December – the next show must have fallen through or something). As we went down he said “Look at the numbers, letters.” We did that, and he also spent some time feeling the fake grass, saying “pattern” and “texture” and “grain”. There was a silver information sign, which he called “pretty”, then was calling “silver”.
He was hungry and wanted a snack, so we went up to the second floor cafe. He ate and I got a tea latte and we sat and drew in the notebook. At least until he started dropping the crayons to see them roll on the floor. After that we switched to the iPad and drew on that. There is a video installation on the second floor, so every few minutes we got to hear Radiohead’s “Idioteque” in the background. He was getting tired – it was now 11:30 – but he denied it even as he lay his head on the table from time to time. Before we left we went into the art museum library as I realized they have several art books for children in English. Unfortunately, they were closing for lunch at noon. So we headed out and went home.
We ate some lunch (the left over rice and chicken soup). Despite his earlier tiredness, he wasn’t in a hurry for a nap. He first wanted to read Kipper, so we did that. He really got into knocking on the door at the right moment, and does a good job of rapping his knuckles on the door now. He tickled my feet, and when I didn’t immediately respond he said “‘Hee hee’ Dada say that.” as that is what I have done in the past when he tickles my feet.
He refused the stroller and carrier. Think he misses the backpack. So I put him in the backpack and walked around the 8th floor for 10 minutes and he fell asleep. Unfortunately, he only slept from 1:04 to 1:39 and woke up from a little coughing, wanting to nurse. I took him out of the backpack, which was a mistake, as he wanted back in. Put him back in and we went out for another 10 minute walk. He was resting the whole time, but didn’t fall back to sleep. Perhaps he would have, had I not taken him out.
We were drawing on paper again when he bumped his back on the brown chair. When he got upset he said “Phone. Magie. Magie for Mama” wanting to call Carly (‘Magie’ being the name that Carly gave to my phone because it is a ‘magic phone’.) He watched a little more Timmy Time, now figuring out how to skip through and episode and actually choosing a new episode to start watching. He was really into saying “Hoot, hoot, hoot” as one of the teachers on a show is an owl and that is all he says.
In the afternoon we headed out to the library and Home Plus. At the library we grabbed the Robot book and a couple of ABC and number books then went upstairs and read them for awhile. That went fine, but then he wanted a snack. So we headed out, eating on our way to Home Plus. There, we did some grocery shopping and picked up a pizza. A lot of free samples in the afternoon, so August was happy with that. As we walked home August was able to read ‘Pizza’. Of course, it was on the pizza box, so there was a big contextual clue.
He wanted to stop in the park and play, so we set everything down and found a stick. He drew for awhile, then started talking about ‘Pee’. At first I thought he was just joking about peeing in the grate, but then he started to get upset. I carried him home (I hadn’t really thought through the carrying the pizza home thing; with no carrier I had him in one arm and the pizza in the other), and he was upset the whole way, but fine when we got home, and nothing seemed wrong. Carly things he might just be getting more aware of when he needs to go to the bathroom.
Carly left school a little early, and stopped at the doctor on the second floor on her way home, getting pretty much the same treatment and prescriptions that I did. When she got home she and August lounged in bed together.
Carly and I had pizza for dinner. I made broccoli for August, and he ate some mushrooms and broccoli for dinner, dipped in teriyaki sauce. Didn’t eat a whole lot. Gave him a bath, which went okay. After his bath he took Sophie with him to play with. Wasn’t being overly successful with giving August his medicines. I got mango juice today, and he slowly drank his midday dose over the course of several hours. For his evening dose I just did a half dose of the medicines and mixed them in ice cream. I had gotten blueberry ice cream for August, but Carly had an urge for mint chocolate chip ice cream, so I went down to Baskin Robbins and got her some. August has always liked ice cream, but then he only ate a little of it. He seemed more excited just by the fact that it was cold. He would barely touch his tongue to the spoon, then excitedly say “Cold, cold, cold!” and flap his arms.
Carly headed to bed, and I stayed up with August, who was avoiding sleep again. We did his ABC puzzle several times. I help a lot, but he’s slowly figuring it out, and does pretty well when there are just a few pieces left. When the puzzle was done he said “Hold it ABCDs…Hold it uppercase.” After the puzzle we did a lot of reading: Little Kipper, Pigeon books, then Dr. Seuss’s One Fish, Two Fish on the iPad. When he got frustrated that I wouldn’t let him do anything besides read stories on the iPad, he went to get more paper books, but bumped his head in the process. He really tried to not let it bother him, but after several seconds he couldn’t keep it in and I took him
in to Carly. To went to sleep after that, around 9:30.
New words/phrases: going to doctor soon, no screaming in the doctor soon, look at the numbers (and) letters (wanting to go to the art exhibit downstairs where we have looked at them before), silver (the silver sign at the museum), push hard (using the crayons that aren’t very dark), reach (we were reaching under the couch for a marker), books with 5 (numbers on the ends of books at the library), climb in middle O (as he climbed into the round table at the library), bump the head (to Carly after bumping his head in the kitchen), dip it in dongstsu sauce (actually teriyaki sauce during dinner), gramma gave (?) milkshake, mama gave (?) that
Juice and medicine:
Art museum:
One of the pieces he liked:
“Pretty”:
Watching the big kids downstairs:
In the cafe:
Not tired:
Drawing:
Backpack in the hall:
After reading his Moby Dick book and liking the word ‘cap’n’:
Headed to Home Plus. With Camel:
Sitting on my lap and reading in the library:
Stopping in the park:
Helping put stain remover on his new shirt after I didn’t take it off him for dinner:
Some more coloring to finish the day:
