He was awake a little after 8. He nursed, then he and Carly were reading the word play poetry book. He was reading the cover and read “word play” and that reminded him of Endless Wordplay, which he hasn’t played for a long time, and he came out wanting to play it on the iPad. So he did that, and we listened to Basho and Friends. Carly made oatmeal and mango for breakfast. I was feeding him, and he was sitting on the table. But he wanted to stand up on it and dance to Basho. I wouldn’t let him stand on the table, so he was “sad about the standing on the floor”. He heard Carly making noise as she cleaned the bathroom, and I said it was a dragon. This turned into a dragon finding game, where he crept to bathroom and would spot mama and then laugh. We also got out Puff and used him. When Carly moved to the closet he heard her again, so now she was in another cave. One of the times he heard her he said “Hear dragon eating vitamins.”
A bunch (5 or 6) of his new puzzles were still a mess from yesterday, so he helped me put them together. We got to the elephant one and he was frustrated by the last piece. I was showing him to turn it by rotating his wrist, so then he was holding out his wrist and trying to copy me. Still couldn’t get it, so we moved on to the other puzzles and came back to it at the end and he got it. After that he played in the sink for awhile. We started getting ready to go outside, and he looked out the window and said “Look for the dragon outside.” Before we left, he was holding the ‘Q’ plastic toy we use with the play dough and he held it up and excitedly said “Q like a balloon!”, holding it by the Q part.
Carly was ready to go, but before we left I was holding August under his arms while he stood on the floor and he started bouncing, like in a bouncy chair, and singing and swaying back and forth. He kept asking for more of this, saying “More ABCDing!” Finally, I got him changed and we headed out.
We got coffees downstairs and a banana-shaped banana bread for August. August had said he wanted to play in water, so we headed up towards Madeul Stadium, headed for the faucets at the north end. On the walk he asked “How bout pleasing?” So I started to explain about dropping the ‘e’ and adding ‘-ing’. This would come up a couple more times, and we would later write it out on the paper with a couple words.
Up at Madeul, the little insect bouncy toys and the play area next to it were finally open. We played there. We ended up all sitting on the blue play floor while he first sat in my lap and ate my ice, then moved to Carly’s lap and ate hers. He got Smokey out and started playing “What do you see?” He took notice of ants several times. Another ‘drop the e’: asking for “moring”. He said we were “having a picnic on blue”
Eventually, he wanted to head down and play in the water. He did that, using our cups. He decided he didn’t want to wear his hat, so Carly put sunscreen on him, which he wasn’t happy about. “Play in the water some more.” He started pouring water on his feet and said it felt good. Eventually, it was time to head home for his nap. We first walked over to the dog area and he was really excited about seeing the dogs. A woman invited us in, so we went in, but then a little dog jumped up and licked him on the face and he got upset. Carly took him out and they nursed for a few minutes. He then went back to the dog area and just looked in. The woman brought a puppy over, so Carly picked up August and he sort of made peace.
We then walked down by the piano sculpture (he was excited to head down there) to change him and put him in the backpack. He spent a minute looking at the Hangeul sculptures first. We came home and he first ate some lunch of rice and zucchini, then fell asleep from roughly 2:20 to 3:20. After that he nursed and they read the Kipper books. They came out and he was doing art: “colored in” and was really into Bs. Carly made spaghetti, and I started to make more Spanish, Korean, and English signs to hang up around the house. August couldn’t handle that I wouldn’t let him write on my signs though as I made them, so there was a little more nursing and I stopped that short. We did more ABC on the paper, then he ate some cold mango.
A laundry basket was out, and I was pulling him around in it. He seemed to really like it, but then was “All done. No S S S. Sad about the S S S.” Seems he didn’t like the sound the basket makes. I cleaned the other bathroom, and he helped a bit, until he wanted to hold the window cleaner all alone and I wouldn’t let him. He ate spaghetti for dinner, then watched ABC songs on the iPad, before writing letters with me again. He got really into it, lying on the paper with his head just off it. I asked what he was drawing and he said “doing arte abstracto Qs.” Sadly, no photo of that as my phone decided to tell me it was out of space.
We read Puff the Magic Dragon together, and he actually started singing some of the words, and was trying to follow along with me with his finger in the book. I gave him a bath, then he nursed and read Frida with Carly. They headed off to sleep about 9:20.
New words/phrases: colored in, recognize, spelling/writing ‘loves’, screen
Eating ice and playing:
Water:
Doggies:
Home:
A new sign:
Bath:
Before bed: