He slept until 8:30 – a long night of sleep. Skyped with Cherie in the morning. A little before 10 I remembered recycling, so quickly gathered that together and Carly took it down. August was not happy she left, and cried for a few minutes. He then stopped and went to the iPad. When she came back he barely paid her any attention. She apologized for leaving him and making him sad. Finally, he turned to her and gave her his upset/hurt look, then asked to nurse.
He was in the other room with Carly and songs were still playing. The 5 Little Ducks came on and he instantly got sad and wanted it off. I quickly turned it off. But he was with Carly at the time, so he isn’t just sad that the song reminds him of her, but because of the ducks leaving.
Before we left, Carly prepared some of the Naan from Costco. He entertained himself by pushing the package of frozen naan around on the floor while on his hands and knees.
He wanted to play in the sink, so I had him stand on his stool in the bathroom. He played for a few minutes and wrote the ABCs in the water a few times. When he was done he wanted to “Dry my hands” – but he didn’t want the towel in the bathroom; he wanted the “big towel” in the kitchen.
As we got ready to go I put a sweatshirt and light rain/wind coat on him. He wasn’t happy with this change and wanted his regular coat. I told him it was his rainy day coat. As we were leaving the building he saw outside and said “Raining outside.” He then put it together and said “Rainy coat! Rainy day coat!”
We headed to Hoegi but took line 7, so had to transfer in Sangbong. We just missed a train and had to wait about 20 minutes. He got really antsy and impatient about the wait, especially as the platform filled up around us. Carly did a good job of getting a seat in the crowded train for the two stop trip. When we got off, August wanted back on the subways – two short stints weren’t enough for him and his iPad art time.
We walked to the university and over to the natural history museum. We thought August might like it, but he didn’t want to go inside and didn’t really give it a chance. I had hoped we could find some selenite in the geology collection on the first floor, but alas they didn’t have any. So we went outside to a bench in the square outside and got him out and had a snack. He ate all the ravioli I brought. He then spotted a package of crackers in the backpack and darted his hand in to get them. So he had some of those as well. He walked and played around a bit with the stick, and did some funny numbers and dancing with Carly.
It then started raining, so we hurried over to the covered area and put him in the backpack and put up the cover. We headed to 8 Street coffee, stopping to take a photo with the Peter Pan and Tinkerbell graffiti art on a building. August had had a long night of sleep and wasn’t seeming tired on the walk, so we thought he might skip a nap. We got coffees and headed up to the second floor. August got to have some whip cream from Carly’s mocha. He mainly sat on Carly’s lap and played on the iPad, doing art and Dr. Seuss with her. We had the notebook and markers out for awhile as well. He started acting tired and wanted to nurse, so we moved up to a table on the third floor. He didn’t fall asleep though, and was soon back up. We had to change him around 3:30 and figured it was a good time to leave. Carly changed him, and he was upset when she went back into the bathroom without him. We left, and put him in the backpack outside on the benches.
We walked a couple blocks and it started rain. Stopped at a covered bench to put up the cover and it started raining harder. So put on the full yellow cover and my rain jacket. He then fell asleep on the way to the subway, despite our attempts to keep him awake. He slept from 3:52 to 4:19, when I tried to sit down on the bus home. He woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep; worse, he saw Carly, but couldn’t go to her. He was pretty frustrated by the time we got home.
At home in the evening he remembered that the B shape was still missing, so we moved the couch to find it. He helped by getting up on the couch and pulling down all the animals. He wouldn’t pull down Baby Q though and made me get Baby Q down. At some point later I was doing something and said “Oops”. He then said “Oops espanol?” According to Google, it is “Uy”, which August also really liked.
August was walking around looking for something, and he said to himself “What are you looking for? Looking for…” The first is a question we often ask him and this was the second time today I’d heard him saying it himself.
We read some books in the parlor, did some art, and Carly gave him a bath. While she did that I stuck down the rest of the book holders using sticky tack. So now he can’t take it apart. We also put his Teuni ball back together and did some stickers. He was sleepy around 8:30 and went to Carly in the parlor. He wanted to move to the bed, but in the process changed his mind. Carly’s side is still sore from the coughing, even though the coughing is gone. So wrestled him into bed and stayed with them, singing to him until he was close to sleep.
New words/phrases: naranja, raining outside, rainy day coat, ABC cancion, ribbit, buhos (owls), dos fresas (two strawberries), erasers, manos (hands)
Morning:
University:
Reading with mama in her Nook:
With Peter Pan (and the old man who is now the background on my phone):
To answer Peter Pan’s question:
8 Street. Whipped cream:
Asleep:
Home. Reading with Mama:
Clearing the couch so we can find the B:
Playing with the humidifier:
