Carly had the rest of her parent conferences today, so was at work until noon. He was awake 7:49. I barely heard him, then he silently walked out of the room, down the hall, and to the couch, where he found the iPad and started playing Endless Alphabet. We ate oatmeal for breakfast, and watched part of the new Teuni Teuni DVD we got at class yesterday. He wanted to make the fort in the parlor, so we id that, and he played with the letters, spelling words and having them fall down the front of the fort. We played with Bluie and Green Monster in on the bed, then were back out, writing on the paper. He then got the Korean cards out in the parlor, and was focusing on the numbers, particularly the big ones, although I was also getting him to count the smaller ones. He took the rest of the stickers that he had started putting on my computer last night and placed them on the couch cushion, then we put them all on the Teuni ball. He was eating strawberry pieces, and dumped them on the table and kept counting them over and over. He got back on the iPad and was watching ABC songs. We then skyped with my parents, and were doing that when Carly got home. He was spelling Q words, and could spell ‘queen’. He also spelled ‘happy’ earlier, and has been spelling ‘bat’ for a couple days.
He took a nice long nap, from 1:40 to 3:20. He had been in his pajamas all morning, and when I had asked he had wanted to stay inside: “Stay home…no adventure.” He didn’t really want to go outside now either, but the weather was really nice so we got him out. We walked up to Nowon and the stationary store so Carly could buy some cards. On the way, Carly stopped at Starbucks and used a gift card to get a mocha. A bit of a mistake, as August saw the whipped cream and wanted some. When he couldn’t have any he was upset all the way to Daiso, then to the stationary store. I finally got him to calm down enough to go in the stationary store, and we looked at the stuffed animals, then found the stamps and stamp pads. He picked out a tricolor blue, yellow, and red stamp pad for us to buy and take home.
We then walked the back way home, stopping at 엄지어린이공원 (the park we went to with Chuck, and where last time we were here he made a sculpture and played with ice around the drinking fountain). He wanted to get down and play. He got down in the sand area and was looking for rocks, saying “Remember this”. He got a big rock and was playing with that, lifting it up and down, then comparing it to a little rock (“big rock, little rock”). He wanted me to do the ‘Cap’n’ voice, saying “Matey, Cap’n!” We got out the tennis ball and played with that, and he ate almost all the snacks we had brought. He found a purple balloon someone had left and played with that, and was singing vowel sounds to some teenage boys that stood near. The sun was going down and we finally headed home.
We walked by the new Juicy place that just opened in the building, then went and looked at the new burger place in the pink building. Then went to Tous les Jours and got bread and a couple vegetable croquettes; he had some difficulty waiting until home to eat the croquette.
At home we had dinner, then August was playing more Endless Alphabet. When I changed him we had a conversation about tomorrow; he was able to tell me he didn’t want to go to Home Plus with Carly, instead wanted to stay home with me. Carly gave him a bath, after which he was talking about being “Sad about the D on the door” – he had also taken in a couple of the sponges from Glecy, but they wouldn’t stick to the door, which was a disappointment. Around 8:30 or so it looked like he might fall asleep, so Carly took him in. But awhile later he came back out with me. There was some reading, playing of fort, and playing with Bluie. Finally, he was with Carly in the walk-in closet and really wanted to nurse. In there. When she wouldn’t do that he had a good meltdown, repeating “Nurse in the closet. Mama in the closet!” She got him in to bed and he fell asleep soon after that, around 9:20.
New words/phrases: spelling ‘bat’ and ‘happy’ and ‘queen’, black in Korean, there’s mama, there’s dada’s iPad
Big rock:
Bouncing on mama’s lap: http://youtu.be/e8EYkXvp6D0
Vowel sounds to teenage boys:
No mas monos saltando en la cama:
Spelling:
In the fort:
Hugging the number:
Stickers on the couch:
Park:
Tasting the ball:
Carly knocking it out of his hands:
Balloon:
Statue on the way home:
Playing with Green Monster:
