Carly and I both heard him call out “No dots!” at some point in the night. He woke up at 8:12 and came out and quietly sat next to me on the couch for several minutes. When he got going he wanted to play with play dough. He was pressing letters into the play dough and was holding the Q and said “I’m a Q!”
We headed out about 10. Down to Sangbong, then two stops east to Yangwon, getting there a bit before 11. We looked at the map and walked over to the playground. Running through options with him, he wanted to get out and read books. So we sat on a bench and read a few sentences from Dot and Mit. He then wanted to go in the play structure, so we did that. He said “Zinnie fit” as we went in, and really liked all the hexagons, circles, and triangles in the structure. He climbed up three levels, and was counting them. At the end he was saying “All done climb up to 3.” We went to the plate ship for a minute, then back to the bench to read some Dr. Seuss and eat lunch. A group of kids came along, a little older than him. Three of them sat on the benches, and August walked over and started singing “ABC” to them. August did some flying as an eagle and wanted me to fly as well, then was ‘freezing’ me. He saw the big kids on the swings and was suddenly interested. First the green one opened up, but then he wanted the red. Luckily, it did a minute later. He sat on my lap and we were swinging for a few minutes. After that, he started to get a bit grumpy. I was packing up our stuff to go change him when a couple of women came in the bench area. One of them tried to get really close to August, and only got closer when he started screaming, and only backed off when I told her to. We left and went to find the bathroom. We did, but no changing table. Went back out and found a shady place to change him standing up. No one around at that point, but as I again packed up another group of women came by. They set off the same reaction. I was telling him to just say “Bye bye” but lost my patience with a few of the women when they stuck their heads back around the corner and were giggling at him. I told them to just leave him alone and one said “Sorry” and they left.
We went up to another set of benches for a snack, starting with pine nuts. He ate a whole lot, including string cheese, strawberries, grapes, and crab, and it took quite awhile. A maintenance worker came by using a leaf blower and August loved that. He kept pointing and saying letters. I didn’t quite understand why. If the guy stopped for a minute August would say “More B!” He lay on top of the bench and was looking under it at his shoes and me and said “See caballos!” referring to the shed that he had first spotted from the playground that looks like horse stalls. Mind you, I have no idea how he knows what horse stalls look like (he has done this since the “neigh gates”). He also saw a “group of kids” walk by. I had to change him again, so we went to a different set of bathrooms by the campground and found a changing table. Changed him, put him in the backpack, and started walking towards Costco.
He fell asleep after about 10 minutes. Slept from 1:59 to 3:12. I found a coffee shop called HiFish. Wen he woke up he wanted to get going. So we walked to Costco, looking briefly into a Daiso and a Beautiful Store. We went to Costco and did a quick trip, getting naan and feta. Got one sample for August this time, which he liked.
Headed home and got home a little before Carly. August really wanted the naan we had bought, so I started to cook one. He was not finding it easy to wait, then hit his head on the freezer door. Luckily, Carly got home soon after and he was able to nurse. After dinner, I went to Home Plus for diapers and also got August a new set of light owl pajamas. When I got home, they were finishing up a bath, and August was not happy. The faucet had dripped into the bathtub before he got in the bath, and they had waited for it to stop. Then, while he was in the bath, just a little drop had dripped out, and he didn’t like it at all.
After he got out of the bath, I said “Zinnie, I got you something!” He immediately said “Present! Present!”, grabbed the pack of pajamas out of my hand, and ran into the parlor. Kind of scary how well he understands ‘present’. We looked at the owls on his pajamas, although he was in no hurry to put them on. Carly took a shower, and we made Duplo letters, then hid (from Carly) under his baby blanket and read Plant a Tree with Me. He was counting the characters on each page, and had no trouble counting to 7. He was asleep a little after 9.
New words/phrases: group of kids, spelling ‘one’
Waking up:
Park:
Snack and leaf blower:
Home:
His reverse sentence construction: