Awake at 7:40. He ate oatmeal with Carly again, and this time reflected on yesterday’s frustration when making oatmeal “Sad bathroom, sad up…” He did some painting with Carly, and we played with stickers. We did a lot of spring cleaning in the morning: Carly vacuumed and started on some other things, and I tackled the papers and other things in the hallway closet. August had some good iPad time, and we also played with the plastic eggs from yesterday.
He napped from about 12:45 to 2:05 then spent a long time nursing with Carly. We went for a walk in the afternoon to Hangeulbi Park. We stopped at Juicy Juice and got a mango juice and a mixed berry juice and drank them on the way. August kept calling the mixed berry one “milky”, which it was.
At the park August first wanted to look in the garbage cans, then we played in the hangeul sculpture area. He was identifying the characters on the ground, and carly got out the soccer ball to play with. He played with that and went to put it in the Hangeul M character, only to find that someone else had placed several rocks there. So he was playing with the rocks as well, and putting them on the soccer ball and making them fall off.
He wanted to walk over to the playground area. He was looking at the L shaped benches and calling them letters or Hangeul characters, and there was a hedge bordering the paved area that curved in an interesting shape. August seemed to think it was supposed to look like something, but couldn’t decide what, so he said “arte abstracto!”
At the playground the first thing he wanted to do was go over and climb on the round platforms. That was where he spent much of his time. He climbed up and down all of them with our help, then just wanted to sit, mainly on the blue one, and look around. He talked about falling. We went over and he went on a swing with Carly for a little while. And we took a break and had a snack on the benches before going back to the platforms and sitting on them again. He got pretty good at climbing up and down on the lowest two or three platforms. He was spelling ‘up’ and ‘down’ as he got up and down on the platforms – he has ‘up’ memorized and was getting ‘down’ learned pretty well. We spent several minutes on the teeter totter – He could look across and see Carly on the swing as he went up and down on the teeter totter. There were little plastic beads from something on the ground, and he played with those, dropping them from where he sat on the platform and watching them bounce and roll away. Before we left, he wanted to take two plastic bottles to throw away. He had a cute moment of indecision as he could only carry the bottles or two of the little plastic beads and he didn’t know which he wanted to take. He ended up taking the bottles. We took those over and he found the plastic bin and tossed them in. He played a little more at the Hangeul sculpture. The rocks from before had disappeared, so we were looking for new rocks. I found one, then a chip off a brick. He held both and said “Have a rock, have a brick.” We then put him in the backpack and he spotted another plastic bottle, so he got to recycle that one too and dropped it from the backpack.
We walked home and did some shopping together in the pink building grocery store. At home, Carly made nutty noodles both for us and for a woman at work who just had a baby. I fed August, and we played with a balloon, singing the very repetitive balloon song many times. We played on the iPad together, then read the Sam book (he concentrated on reading it pretty well through the first six pages) and brushed his teeth. We read Feely Bugs and Happy Birthday, then he wanted to play in the sink again. Did that for awhile. He didn’t want to stop, but he was tired and it was time for bed. He fell asleep about 9:15.
I noted today that it wasn’t long ago that we were introducing prepositions to August. Now he pretty much has all the common ones down, both in understanding and in speaking: under, on, in, next to, above, etc.
New words/phrases: Zinnie falled in the bathroom, what’s in the blue egg?, platform, sitting on the blue one, spelling up and down, teeter totter, spelling three, lobster, spelling box
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