He was up at 6:30. Carly Skyped with her mom in the morning. August was quite clingy with Carly this morning. Early, it seemed like it was because he thought she would try to leave for work. But it basically continued through the morning. At one point he told her he wanted to “cuddle”. We were thinking of heading to Dream Forest today, but the pollution was high and the weather just didn’t seem to be improving like it was supposed to. Also, he was looking tired early (he didn’t sleep for a long time last night). He fell asleep for a nap just before 11:30 and slept to 1:08.
After he woke up and nursed, he and I played with Peter Rabbit, with Peter hiding behind me. After awhile we decided to at least get outside for awhile, and did a stream walk. We went to the new playground in that apartment complex – after, of course, stopping to look at all the recycling. He spent most of the time sitting either on the rock or on the edge of the spider web with Carly. On the rock we were spelling ‘Zinn’ and he did it over and over: “Zinn Zinn Zinn”. While sitting on the spider web he was focused on the shapes, saying “Octagon has eight sides”. He also wanted me to sing the counting song (the Mother Goose Club “Count with Me”). When I got done with 5 he said “keep going 6 to 10”.
He wanted to nurse, so we walked up to the playground at Madeul. As I was carrying him he was looking at the bushes and suddenly started saying “Mama’s tea! Mama’s tea!” We walked back and he pointed to a Pepsi can in the bushes. Very funny. They nursed and then August spotted the little Sejong Park area with the statues of Hangeul characters. He and I walked over there for a few minutes. We went back to the playground and got the stick and started writing letters and numbers in the sand. We moved over to the dirt where we could better see the writing. We decided we should get going, so I told August we could write one more word. Of course, he chose the longest word he knows: gargantuan. I wrote it, then he traced it a couple of times and then walked around singing a “Gargantuan” song. We got him in the backpack and started to leave. As we walked past, he said “Bye gargantuan!”
On the way to Tolerance Cafe, he was saying letters and said “M O O S S”. I said it sort of spelled ‘moos’. He then repeated it with two Ss a few times and excitedly insisted “It’s a word!”
When we got into the cafe, he remembered being there before and immediately said “Get dalghi smoothie” We sat in three chairs looking out over the stream. Carly and I read and he was on the iPad, doing Dr. Seuss by himself for much of it. We were talking about our plans for afterwards, and Carly was planning on going to Home Plus. August was fine with letting her go and going home with me, saying “dada Zinnie fun”. Before we left, Carly changed him in the bathroom. The sign on the counter that said ‘order’ had an ‘E’ that was coming down, and as we left August said “Bye falling E!”
We stopped out on the platform to put him in the backpack. This was where the ‘fuzz’y incident happened, and he remembered it both directions on our walk.
We got home, and then I headed out to Home Plus, as I also needed to drop off my camera with Meg, as she needed to borrow it. Took quite awhile at the store as it was busy and there were things I couldn’t find. When I got back, they were finishing August’s bath. She was washing his hair – he wasn’t happy about it, but he has gotten better with it. While I was gone they had done a lot of reading, including the Dr. Seuss birthday book.
He nursed, then Carly took him in to bed. He got up though and they were reading. Carly was surprised he could read so much of the Picnic Bob book. After awhile they came out, and he wanted to find Bluie and Green Monster. We searched for them, and found them in a drawer in the parlor. We then took them and Peter Rabbit in on the bed and played under the blanket and hid from Carly. August wanted Green Monster and Bluie to sing “Happy Birthday” to him. We also read Picnic, and he read the full sentences “Sam, Tanner, and Dot cut up pizza and pie for the picnic.” And “What a yummy lunch!”
He then read with Carly again in the parlor. After awhile he came out to the living room, looking for a book. We didn’t understand what he was saying at first until he found the book and we realized he had been saying “Cheerios”. He read that with me, then wanted Cheerios to put in the book. I got those down, and he also ate a few. He then spotted the box and had an idea: “ABC here…ABC on the box.” He got an orange marker, and had me write the alphabet on the box a few times. We then read Dot, and then spent a lot of time on the Corduroy cover. He did a good job figuring out the “funny” letters, but was particularly fixated on the ‘F’ in ‘Freeman’ that looked more like a ’t’. He had also done a good job of figuring out the confusing Hangeul characters on the door to the cafe earlier.
He also wanted to sing the ABC tongue twister song, then remembered the biting my finger game. He’s done this a few times – I think it started the day after he actually bit my finger a week or so ago. In it, he pretends to bite my finger and I go “Oww!” and he laughs.
Carly skyped with Cassie, and August was excited to see Colin. He wanted Colin to be messy though, as he really likes a video of Colin being messy.
Carly tried to take him to bed after that, but he still wasn’t ready. Carly went to sleep, and he stayed out with me for awhile, reading books. I said ‘no’ to something and that was too much for him, so he went in with Carly and fell asleep, a little after 9:30.
New words/phrases: spelling short words form sounding them out: can, be; More really want to nurse in the fort.
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