August was up at 7ish. They skyped with Cassie and company. Colin now gets excited to see August. When I came out, August and Carly were making “No hold it letters” by laying Duplos in shapes. Chuck and Cherie then called on Skype. August was on the iPad at first, but switched to the paper and did a lot of letter writing for them.
Carly went to the pink building to do some grocery shopping. August and I stayed home, and mainly played with the musical instruments after he wanted to play with the cymbal things.
I then got a message from Derek, saying he needed chicken bouillon and a couple other things. So August and I did a rescue mission, taking our chicken bouillon, the rolls Carly had just bought, and Coke and onions we bought at the pink building. August and I stopped for a second at the park by Wolgye station to get the bag with rolls out – August has gotten upset the last 3 times we’ve tried to go to their house without Carly with us, so I planned on just meeting Derek outside to do a handoff – and Derek called, saying he also needed foil. So August and I walked down to the convenience store nearby and bought some as well. August wasn’t happy when he found us at the door to their apartment building, but he didn’t have a total meltdown. Derek came down and we did the handoff, and we took off.
It was now close to 12:30 and he was getting tired. He had already mentioned a coffee shop, so I asked him a couple times if he wanted to go home to mama and nap, or nap and go to a coffeeshop. He chose the coffee shop. And then he said “Wake up coffee shop”. So we walked the street behind their apartment complex, finding a bakery and coffee shop I didn’t know existed, then starting walking towards home as he dozed off. Went to the Yoger Presso, where he and I had shared a yogurt strawberry smoothie a few weeks back. He slept from 12:56 to 1:50. First thing he said as he woke up was “iPad please.”
The forecast earlier in the day had not mentioned snow. Now, a huge wind was blowing through, and looking at the forecast said snow at 5:15. Nope. It was here now, with the wind. Figured we would wait it out in the coffee shop for awhile. At first August didn’t want a smoothie, but then he spotted them on the wall himself and changed his mind. So we got a smoothie and sandwich, and spent another hour there. The wind died down, but it kept snowing and snowing, and the temperature dropped to 32. August enjoyed the smoothie; after taking a sip he would say “Dalgi (strawberry) in my mouth.” He started joking about zookeepers, saying they were in the smoothie and “Zookeeper in the coffee shop”. He did a lot of Art Maker and Loopimal and took a break to sing songs, telling me to “Sing ‘A makes Ah’.” Finally, at 3 he decided it was time to go. Looking out the door he said “iPad away…walk backpack home.”
He didn’t like putting his extra sweatshirt on though and started getting loud. The woman at the table next to us decided to ‘help’ by helping shush him, which didn’t help at all, as he then screeched at her. We headed out, then saw the #9 bus as we got to the bus stop across the street. Got on and rode it across the bridge. August wanted to walk though, so we got out after it turned off the main street. We walked the last couple blocks in the snow. My hands were cold, but August wouldn’t hold my hands – he was having fun singing and enjoying the snow.
We got home and had about an hour to hang out before we turned around and left again with Carly. It was still snowing, although a little lighter, but not much. Missed the 1161, so took the 111, which meant we had a few more blocks to walk in the snow.
August wasn’t happy at first to be in their house and Carly took him back to nurse. They disappeared for awhile and then reappeared, looking for letters. Looking for letters was how Carly got him excited to leave the back room. They came out, and he had a blast the rest of the time. He needed one other break after an hour or so, and came out the second time ready for food. Carly and I read him some books, although he would get distracted by other toys so we were often reading to the other kids. At one point Carly was reading a book to Chloe, and August was on the porch playing with the magnets and Logan went in with him. Logan closed the door, so I watched the two of them playing together, both talking, through the glass. Very fun to see. Carly and I both had a turn holding Rosie as well. We ate a ton (there was stuffing, turkey wrapped in bacon, carrots, and ham) and August ate some ham and most of my rolls.
We had gotten there about 5:15. A little after 7 August decided he was getting ready to go home. At one pointe he went and grabbed Carly’s shoes and would say “Get going…backpack.” But then he saw the pie that Nathalie had brought and decided he wanted to stay for dessert. So we had pie and ice cream, and left around 7:45. He was tired, but no crying/meltdown like at the end of previous visits. In fact, as we left he was waving and saying “Adios!” We planned on taking the bus, but it was a nice evening, and likely the last walk in the snow for the winter. As we walked home he was singing A is for… and came up with “p is for pigeon…s is for snowman” I was really impressed with the snowman one, and he got a huge smile. He also saw Ts in the fence we were walking by. We talked about the party we had just been to and he said “Logan’s house is fun.”
At home he had a good hyper time before bed. We got books and read on the bed. He kept laughing and doing his head shaking back and forth thing. He coughed and was saying “Why are you coughing…Why are you laughing?” I would barely touch him and he would start laughing. Finally, he fell asleep right about 9. I changed him sometime later and he did some random talking in his sleep.
New words/phrases: zalamero, frio, open little stick (straw), type later (? When ready to go)
No hold it letters:
Music time:
Walkig to Derek’s:
Some interesting text in the Yoger Presso. How many errors do you count?:
Playing Loopimal:
Out the coffee shop door:
He skipped a couple, but he surprised me by counting by 10s:
At dinner. August was playing with cars and didn’t seem like he was listening, but when Carly read a word with ‘q’ he had to turn around and find it:
Logan and August playing out on the porch:
Walking home: