A very rainy day.
Another happy wake up. 7:36. Opened the door and said “Yeah”. Then “Go find mama here” while pointing down the hall. He ran down the hall and I thought he was going to be upset. But instead he ran into the bedroom and said “Zinnie escape.” We went into the changing room and did one of the puzzles, played with the magnets, and then played with balloons. He remembered the balloons we hadn’t yet blown up, so I went and got them and blew up the green and pink. He wanted a yellow balloon, but we didn’t have one. He was on the iPad for a little while, but not long. He started coloring when I went to get breakfast but drew on the wall again, and also the ‘books’ sign. He helped wipe though. We had cheerios for breakfast, then he was typing on my computer. We played a little with is boots, then he found bubble wrap in the iHerb order box from yesterday. He remembered back to when he saw the woman with bubble wrap at Danggogye Park: “Sad about the bubble wrap outside. Say pleeease.” Remembering woman with bubble wrap at Danggogye.
Couple minutes later: “Hold the bubble wrap in the park. Take it with us.” So he put it in the backpack. He then said “Go outside.” and looked out the window: “Raining outside.”
We headed to Children’s Grand Park about 9:40. Raining hard, so I put on the rain gear down near where we do recycling. He was fine once we were up and moving, but not happy about putting it on. Headed down to the park. Not a lot of people out anywhere. Got food at GS25 then headed to the children’s museum.
At the museum we first walked up to the second floor and played in the space area. A lot of just wandering around and stepping on/pushing things. He spent the most time at the big video game thing where you stand on a tilting board reminiscent of a skate board. He stood on them a lot, and also counted down with the numbers on the screen. And he hung on the fence surrounding the area, looking out through the glass panels. We then went up to the family lounge to eat. A pretty straightforward lunch, then we went down to the book area. Grabbed the Oh No!, Opposites, Colors, Numbers, and Shapes books and took them up to the loft and read them. He took Smokey up to read with us. From there we walked to the little kids area. Not busy there. He mainly played with the puzzles and we went up to the kitchen area where he lounged in the little chair:“Want to cook. Want to make soup…have a seat.” He was even putting his feet on the little table and leaning back in the chair. Back down stairs he rode one of the ladybug scooters around – the first time he’s really done that.
He was getting sleepy, so I changed him and we got ready for a nap. It wasn’t raining hard out, but it was really windy. I made it all winter walking outside to put him to sleep at Children’s Grand Park, but today was a problem. I ended up walking in and around the covered areas at the Gammaru building (where the two coffee shops are) and that worked. He fell asleep after about 15 minutes. But as I ordered in Peace Coffee (first floor this time) the guy asked me a couple times if I wanted it iced. I then heard August say “iced” in his slurred voice. Then the woman lit up and started waving and saying “Good morning!” to him. I was like “No, no, no.” and quickly signed and took the vibrating thing. As I walked away, August started saying “Where’d it go? Where’d it go? Where’d it go?” Not sure what ‘it’ was. I went outside and walked around the little covered area for a minute and he fell back to sleep. Back in before my coffee was ready.
He was asleep 1:35 to 2:59. He woke up and played on the iPad a little. He’s had a runny nose the last couple of days, and as he was sitting there he said “Zinnie has crusty nose.”
We headed to the subway as I wanted to go shopping at Home Plus. On the subway he spelled ‘miss’ then said “Miss the one piece…Timmy Time…” He was also asking how to spell ‘hummingbird’ and working on that. We made it to Hagye and to Home Plus. A few drops and some wind, but didn’t put the cover up. In the first basement he wanted to get out of the backpack, but made it quickly through there and down to food. They have watermelon now and samples, so a few piece of that and a grape kept him happy. Paid and headed home. Raining a little more, but just had to make it home. As we came across our part of the park it suddenly started raining harder, so we hurried across to get home. Pretty wet by the time we got in, but it didn’t bother August.
At home he watched ABC songs until Carly got home, then drew with her. They were writing things like ‘here I am’ and ‘hummingbird’. He then started writing “Funny A. No line.” That is, the As he keeps spotting in logos that just look like upside down Vs. He drew again on the ‘Books’ sign so Carly took the markers away. He then wiped up the mess again. I changed him, then Carly gave him a bath. She had fun giving him a mohawk. He drew with me while she took a shower: he did dots for himself and wrote the alphabet and also more funny As. He wanted to get balloons and sing songs with them. When I asked which songs, he wanted Korean. So we sang one of the songs from class. He then went in to Carly in the parlor and they skyped with Cassie. He then typed on Carly’s computer – at one point he was typing the letters on the keyboard for the first time: ‘wertyuiopasdfg…’ He then climbed on the chair at the desk. I spun him around and he got dizzy. Lightly bumped his head on the arm and wanted to nurse. They did that, then read the lollypop Bob book. They then skyped with Cherie (who is now in Pennsylvania) and Vivi, and August was showing them one of his balloons. After that, August, for some reason, wanted presents: “Mama find presents.” Carly let him open the bag that had her shoes in it, and another bag that had the shirt that we had loaned to Derek for Rosie. August was happy with that, and wanted to put the shirt on. He was then climbing off the end of the couch into the basket with books – he wanted me to take all the books outs he could get in. I got the laundry basket instead. He was having fun getting pulled around in it, but then we were going fast, and it seems like he didn’t like the sound: “No S s s s s… no shshshshsh.” Holding on to my hands, he was then standing on it and sitting on it. When it came time to say goodbye on Skype, he very clearly said “Bye Oma. Bye Vivian.” He then got the stool so he could play with water in the sink. He went to sleep about 9:30.
New words/phrases: spelling ‘hot’ ‘cold’ ‘love’, have a seat
Waking up:
Cleaning up:
Rain gear:
Children’s museum:
New sign in the coffee shop. Think they need to work on the translation:
In from the rain:
Evening:
Pink balloon:
Showing it to Oma:
