Children’s Grand Park
He was awake at 8:05. I followed him as he walked around looking for Carly. She was in the bathroom, so I told him to go knock on the door, which he did. He and I looked at the APIS art book, then Carly skyped with her mom and she was spelling words for August. August and I tried out a Peg+Cat app – he really liked the cat, and I think the show is math-based, so he might really get into it. He also played with the Q that Carly is painting and the X painting sponge, placing them next to each other. We skyped with my parents, and spent some time reading Plant a Tree for Me before we headed out to Children’s Grand Park.
At the park we first went to the children’s museum. The school groups were suddenly back, so it was quite busy. We went up to the second floor (August directed us) and played in the new space area – mainly with the hopscotch area and hexagons again. As he was walking around after that he saw a few hexagons left out on the ground and he went and put them away. He talked about going upstairs, but when I mentioned lunch he decided he wanted to eat. So we went up to the cafeteria and took a long time eating lunch. Carly went to the bathroom, and while she was gone August said “Talk about the mama peeing at the home.”
We took August on a walk to get him to sleep. He yawned several times, and after some complaining, went quiet. But it was like he couldn’t turn off his brain. We walked a half hour and then went to the first floor coffee shop. Carly nursed him, but he still didn’t fall asleep. I read some Sherlock Holmes while they did that. He got up and was really into figuring out words on the floor. He found ‘how’ and then said “Find how in the funny one” and headed back to our table. I figured out he wanted to read the Dr. Seuss story Marvin K. Mooney, which includes the line “I don’t care how”. We were reading and Carly was reading. I asked if he had pooped and said “Somebody pooped.” He liked that sentence and was repeating it, and pointed at the baby sitting across from us. I took him upstairs and changed him. I washed my hands, and he wanted to use the hand dryer – he first used a hand dryer at the aquarium last year, but since then has been scared of them, but likes hearing them from a distance. But today he actually put his hand in it, three times. Our walk back to Carly was slow, as he was pointing at everything and saying “This is?” He was then fascinated by two signs for Peace Coffee with a lot of writing. We spent several minutes reading those, especially the messy handwriting-looking Hangeul on them.
From the cafe he chose to go to the new playground. Spent 20 or 30 minutes there playing primarily with the water faucets. Someone had left a plastic cup on the ground, and he used that to pour water on the ground and on the sand. He was having difficulty understanding to hold the cup upright to get water into it, which was pretty amusing. We went under the play structure a bit, where he read the word ‘zone’ by himself – he would later spot the word again on a sign at Brownstone. It was threatening rain and getting pretty windy, so we convinced him to head home.
At home, I got another message from Patrick inviting me to come over to get some more free stuff. I went over there – it was now raining a bit – and picked up a little more stuff. Nothing too exciting. We ate dinner, Carly gave him a bath, and read some books with him. He went to sleep right about 8. About an hour later he walked out and Carly took him back to bed. Interesting how he doesn’t cry out or yell when he wakes up at night. He simply walks out of the room.
New words/phrases: reading ‘zone’
With the Q and X:
Children’s museum:
Peace Coffee:
Home:
