He was awake at 7:25. I went in and he stood in the bedroom, said “No want, no want” and was then quiet for a couple minutes. He then walked out to the paper and said “ABCD…Hangeul ㄷ change to Hangeul ㅁ” as if he had just dreamed that one up (and maybe he had).
He found the iPad (I keep leaving it out on the table when I get up in the morning and forgetting to hide it behind the computer stand). When the sound wasn’t working on some apps he was saying “Too quiet”. He had accidentally turned on mute (which doesn’t affect YouTube, apparently, thus confusing us both). We were close to being ready to leave when I remembered we really needed to do laundry. So I also took of his owl shirt (his pants were already off) to wash them. He was having difficulty parting with them though. He considered it, when I explained they needed to be washed and I asked him to put the shirt in the washing machine. But he couldn’t do it. Instead, he went to the washing machine and pulled the pants out. I then walked back into the laundry room to find that he had hung both the shirt and pants on the drying rack as if they were already clean.
W made letters out of Duplos. I made a pyramid from Duplos and he said “Pyramid at play area”‘ remembering the pyramid I had made from the shape magnets at Banghok. As I then hung up laundry, I walked out to find him in the reading area holding both Bluie and Green Monster and having them dance and sing the ABC song. Before we left, he had a nice session of looking out the window.
So it was close to 11 before we finally left. Got down to the children’s museum and he directed me upstairs. At the second floor I asked for further direction and he pointed across to the stairs to the third floor and said “eat”. So we ate first, like last time. From there he led the way, going to the ‘culture play’ area he hasn’t really used before. There he found the puzzle matching things, matching objects to their cultures, then wandered down to the second floor. Had me carry him down the ramp, as he is still adjusting to the new shoes and keeps thinking “something in shoe”. There, I noticed that he was holding his pants up with one hand – despite not needing to. Probably a combination of being so used to the owl pants (which do), and being so used to wearing two pairs of pants, but I only had one pair on him today. Anyway, pretty funny. The best moment was as he walked by the astronaut again and held up fingers with one hand while holding up his pants with the other. Did a little hangeul magnet time, then went down to the ball area and played there for ten minutes or so, then on to the chalkboard, then back up to the book area, where we grabbed a few books and went up in the loft area to read them. Before we left, he wanted his water, and requested a silver one. When I told him we only had a blue water bottle, he said “Buy a silver wawa.” I told Carly the capitalism is strong with this one.
We did our pre-nap routine and went walking. He was asleep from 1:38 to 2:32 in the lower Peace Coffee. When he woke up he wanted out in the cafe. Played iPad a few minutes, but not much. He was reading letters and words off the floor, and near the front door the vinyl covering with words on it had a big rip on it. He found this very interesting, and kept saying “Floor coming apart”.
We then went outside and played in the pile of snow near the Tweety Bird statue, writing words – mainly Q ones, as he is working on quack, queen, quick, and quiet. He had a little stick, and when we were done there, he kind of wandered around the general vicinity, waving the little stick in the air as he looked at things and wrote letters and sang.
From there he didn’t want to go see animals, instead wanting to go back to the children’s museum. By this point we didn’t have much time left at all, and when we got close to it, he wanted to go to the water museum. So we went there and played with the water wheels and pumps. When we got to the pumps, he was trying to push and pull the handle and I tried to help. He pushed me away, saying “Zinnie do it” and, indeed, he was able to operate most of the handles using two hands. First time he’s done that.
On our way home we were going to stop to get fruit at the pink building. Carly left work early to go to the bank, and finished there as we got to the station. So she went instead. August and I surprised her as we walked up to her as she was checking out, much like we did that one time we found her in Home Plus.
At home, we played iwht Bluie and Green Monster, doing more of the rabbit dance. He took apart the “Rana” (frog) in his floor mats and put it back together several times. Carly gave him a bath. He wanted me to make up a colors song (we started to do this the other day). He invented a new word of sorts as he was looking out the windows in the parlor and lifting up the curtain. It was getting stuck on the chair at one end. I moved it a little, but it was still hitting the chair, which he called “More stucking”.
He did some more art with Carly (bubble letters, and what she calls ‘happy letter’ – letters with happy faces on them). Then read books with me. He then wanted the funny book. Carly didn’t know which one he meant, so he went out to the book stands, saying “Get the funny one…funny one right there”, referring to the little bear book. Finally, he was doing something with me when he saw Carly wiping the counter in the kitchens. He immediately wanted to do some wiping himself, so she gave him a floor wipe and they wiped the floor. After that, he went to bed pretty quickly, a little before 9.
Helping Carly wipe the floor
New words/phrases: too quiet, chips de platano, pyramid, buy a silver wawa, mud, tu sabes
Children’s museum:
Holding his pants:
Possibly the best moment of the day (although see the pigeons below – tough call). Walking by and seeing the astronaut holding up two fingers, doing a double take, putting up a finger himself, while holding his pants:
We wrote his name in Hangeul. Four syllables (Ah, gu, su, tu). He is touching the ‘tu’:
Pigeon friends:
After his nap. Broken floor:
Q words in the snow:
Home. Making the bed:
Audition Day: