He was up at 6:20. He played on the iPad until I made breakfast, at which point he wanted to help make oatmeal. After that, we read some Bob books and then played with Duplos, starting to build another zoo. One of the Duplo people we have is a guy in safari gear. August asked what he was, and I asked August. He decided it was a second zookeeper, so now we have to zookeepers for the zoo. He was having them both ride in the “zookeeper truck” and when he had difficulty getting one of them to sit he would say “Dada fix it”. We were getting ready to go and I was cutting up crab and he wanted some. He said “Thank you mama for crab.” I told him I was the one that had gotten it out, then he started repeating “Zinnie got the crabs.” He was then standing on his stool and started to use a butter knife to play with the apple core. I got him his plastic fork and spoon to play with instead, and that turned into a game of dropping them on the ground: “Fork and spoon back please…uh-oh.”
We went to his Teuni Teuni class. August made me hold him until we were past the point at the beginning of class where the teacher picks each of the kids up. He then got down, but stood by the door until the teacher got the first toy out, at which point August was engaged. Class was about alligators. At the end of class they had little rolly scooters and he was sad to end that one. After class, we went down and bought a couple packages of balloons at Home Plus. We would blow one up a little on the subway up to the Iris Garden. We also ate our Jesus crackers, which a guy handed to us as we were about to enter the subway station, on the ride up.
At the Iris Garden we first went and looked at the new Seoul Trail information center – it was the room where August was watching them paint the ceiling last time. We then walked to the same bench area where we ate last time. August remembered every detail of what he did with Carly last time. He pointed at the bathroom where we waited for her: “Mama here.” As we walked by where we threw rocks in the water he said “123 with Mama.” And when he got to the Lincoln Log bench he pointed to the end where Carly was sitting and said “Mama here.” I then noticed he was leaking and we walked back to the changing room, only to find it locked. He then talked about Mama, turning on the water, and screaming when he couldn’t.
For lunch we had bought a chicken and mayo bop burger in the station. I’m pretty sure August asked his first ‘why’ question of his own, when he was holding the spoon that came with it and said “Why spoon for bop burger?” A woman gave us an orange while we ate lunch. As he finished up eating, he was walking around being silly and asking for a lot of words to be spelled. I heard frogs from down below (all the streams had water in them now) and we went down to look for the frogs. Didn’t find them, but ended up throwing rocks in the water for awhile.
He didn’t want to stop with the rocks, but it was really time for his nap. So eventually got him up and in the backpack. Walked around the park and he fell asleep. We went and found a picnic table in the shade, and it coincidentally happened to be the same one we sat at with Carly last time (it was the only empty table). He slept from 1:02 to 2:02. Woke up and first wanted down, but changed his mind in the process and wanted to sit with me. We sat and read Dr. Seuss, including a couple of stories we (and I, for that matter) had never read before. He was then playing Elmo Loves 123s while standing on the bench and we were spelling a lot of words together. I suddenly noticed one of his arms was getting pink, and needed to change him, so we left (leaving behind the annoying woman who had sat at our picnic table and started to have a loud phone conversation). The changing room was still locked, so we did a pull up diaper in the upstairs bathroom. Headed home and got home about 4.
He pleaded for the iPad a lot, but enough of that for the day. Instead, we played with the new balloons, blowing up and tying several, including several heart balloons that he likes, but which pop easily. We also wrote some words on the paper. Carly was home about 5. He didn’t eat much for dinner again today (but he ha eaten a ton of oatmeal and strawberries this morning and a decent lunch). They read some books and Carly gave him a bath. He wanted it quick: no playing with the letters today. For quite awhile we played a new game with the etch-a-sketch: he would scribble something and then ask “This is a?” and I would say something. He would then often say “Uh-oh (thing)” and erase it, and draw something else. This went on for quite awhile. He would also tell me what to tell him, like “Do a D” and then I would say it and he would draw a D. He went to sleep pretty soon after that, at 7:40.
Oh, and he has been asking me to spell a lot of words or sounds like ‘yeah’, and ‘uh-uh’, and ‘uh-oh’, etc. This evening he started spelling “uh-uh” himself, including the hyphen.
New words/phrases: spelling ‘uh-uh’ (including the hyphen),
Reading:
Class:
Iris Garden. Fun at lunch time:
Throwing rocks:
After his nap:
Home. New balloons:
