August woke up about 7:30. Carly and he did some skyping with Cherie, then he was into color and wiping up the floor. We decided to walk up to the Tayo kid cafe, northeast of us. We walked along the stream. Hadn’t seen any ducks or egrets along the way, then we spotted some of each right as we were leaving the stream.
Got to the Tayo place right at 11 and left a little before 1. He started in the wooden bead digging area. I hung out with them for awhile, then went to do some reading. Carly stayed with him, and they went to the upstairs home area and did a lot of pretend washing of their hands and faces. He was then roaming around a lot and indecisive. I asked if he was hungry, and he sat on my lap and took a long time to eat some lunch. After that, they went and did a little coloring on the desks in the coloring area, then were back to the wood beads. He was lying on the bench on his stomach, reaching down to play with them. He was also trying to get them past me and throw them over the side.
We left, and it was starting to rain, so stopped to put the full rain gear on. He was clearly going to fall asleep, so we decided to head to a coffee shop. We went to a place called 커피공방고흐오솔길 just past Sanggye Station. I’d spotted it a couple years ago, but we had never been. Very nice little place, covered inside with art and notes. And each menu was hand written and illustrated. August slept 1:14 to 2:10. He woke up and played on the iPad. It was now pouring outside, so we were in no hurry to leave. The woman brought some steamed milk for August, and some free coffee for me and Carly. August ignored the milk at first, but really liked it when he tasted it.
We left close to 3, while it was still pouring. First tried to take a bus, but it was going to be 20 minutes. Went back and took the subway. At Hagye, Carly headed to Home Plus and August and I went home. He was not happy about this, crying and yelling the entire way to the apartment. Once here, he did not want to get out of the backpack, wanting to go back out to find mama instead. So I sat next to him on the ground and talked to him. Eventually he calmed down, and felt something with his right foot. It was Carly’s work shoes, in a bag. I got them out, and he was waving her shoes around as he was still in the backpack, sitting on the floor. Good time to teach him “pair”.
We then made no hold it letters, and he wanted to start listing letters. We usually do that with Q, but today he was into listing M words, then P words. I had to change him, and as I was finishing up I saw he was holding his hand up and looking at it weird. I asked if there was something on his hand. He gave me a serious look and said “Poop. Poop on hand.” So we went and changed him. Before Carly got home we were writing more Q words on the paper, and he asked “How ‘bout ‘quiz’?”
Carly got home. Soon thereafter, I noticed he was using ‘of’ quite well, as in ‘piece of banana’. And at one point he randomly pointed to his own eyes and said “two eyes, two eyes”.
He wanted the iPad, so we got that out. It ended up being a lesson in fractions by downloading Dr. Seuss books. He would download one in the Treasury app, and as it loaded it would show a circle and I’d say “one-fourth, two-fourths, etc.” and soon he was saying them himself. Carly made coleslaw, and I was feeding some to him and got him to say “Thank you mama for coleslaw.” He was then reading the Marvin K. Mooney Dr. Seuss book with Carly and was reading and spelling ‘go’.
Carly gave him a bath, after which he made up a little ‘Oma’ song and was then singing the Plural ABCs song while walking around and writing in the air. He wanted the iPad again and we settled on playing Nighty Night Circus once. He started it a second time, but decided he was done. Carly was in the middle of marinating the chicken so he had to wait a couple minutes and that did not go well. But eventually I got him to read Opuestos for awhile. He was joking about having a tail (cola) and said “Dada have a tail…Green Monster have a tail.”
He was asleep at 8, but woke up a little at 8:45. We heard him say “Dada…more zoo”, then Carly got him back to sleep.
New words/phrases: cambiando (switch), one quarter, one half, three quarters
Popping the packing material:
Tayo:
In the rain:
Steamed milk at the coffee shop:
Playing with the shoes:
Two-quarters:
Reading Dr. Seuss:
