He woke up at 3am, apparently saying “Turn on light. Dada sleeping.” Carly got up with him for an hour before going back to sleep. He was then awake at 7 with a lot of energy. He nursed and read with Carly, then Carly went down to get a coffee, and then went back out to sit in the park and read while she drank it. While she was gone, he looked out the window and said “hear D D D” – I couldn’t quite tell what sound he was talking about. He also joked “Still raining”. He was drawing on Paper on the iPad and pulled up the photo of him playing in the sand yesterday. He started talking about the kids there: “Sad about the kids in the sand…too close.” We did a lot of captain voice, playing on the picnic mat, and Peter Rabbit this morning. We were then watching Timmy Time (trip to the beach episode – he really liked when they acted like crabs) and was hyper on the couch. A lot of nursing requests as well. We did hold-it Duplo letters with Peter Rabbit again, finishing the rest of the alphabet and starting over again, and doing some numbers. We watched Basho and Friends and ate banana. We watched the Hasta Mañana song to figure out who the names applied to – he was very happy to find out that “Luc is a frog.” He then played in the bathroom sink, then was hopping in my arms again. He lost his balance when he walked away once and bumped his head on the refrigerator, so wanted to nurse. Finally, before going out he put the fox button in his shorts pocket, and found that if he ran he could hear it rating.
We went out, just to the park across the street. No backpack for once. We went over to the fake stream area. Still not on, but we played with rocks. He then checked out where the puddle had been yesterday but it was gone. We walked over to the playground and got out the soccer ball for a second, but then he was off to the dinosaur foot prints. Most of them had puddles in them and he stepped in one. We took off his shoes, but then he just was dropping rocks in them. Lasted quite awhile, then we returned home where he slept from 12:30ish to a little before 2.
He woke up and was making Duplo letters with Carly. He was stuffy, so Carly got the snot sucker out and had a little success with that, although we both had to hold him. He decorated a card for Thatcher, and really got into using stickers: “That’s a good one.” “Where should I put it?”
I took him out in the backpack and Carly stayed home to do some work. We walked south, and ended up at 중현어린이공원, a small children’s park we’ve played at a few times before, but not for several months. There, a girl came over to him and August asked her “What is your name?” – totally on his own volition, and without me suggesting it. He tried to ask her a couple times. We took his shoes off and he first played in the sand, then went and walked on the walking path (where he asked her again), then back to the sand where we played with the shovel. There were several big ants nearby and he was trying to pick them up. Later, he would say he was sad because he couldn’t pick up the ants.
He showed a little interest in going up on the structure, but then changed his mind. We had just decided to head over to Hagye Children’s Park (which looks like a tree) a block away when I got a message from Derek saying he was in the area with his two kids. So we met him at Hagye Station and walked them to the park.
There, August and I followed Logan around on the play structure for a few minutes while Derek fed Rosie. The two boys then shared some snacks. August remembered playing in the park with Carly, and in our little clearing area wanted to first sing BINGO and then take a couple photos – he took photos of a bottle and then one of the mushrooms. August and I hung out with Rosie while Derek changed Logan, and we all went over to the sand for a bit. They then left, and August and I continued in the sand. He really liked a sand castle that another kid had built – it had a big moat and a tunnel. Luckily, that family left at that point, leaving August and a couple of other kids to play with it. August threw little rocks in the water, and used cups lying around to scoop up some of the water. That lasted 10 or 15 minutes until some bigger kids came and started playing there too. They started by drowning an ant – August wanted to see what they were doing but I told him they were being mean to the ant and we went away for a couple minutes. They were then all playing with the castle okay until the biggest kid decided to step on the bridge part. It then became a race to destroy it, and at that point we headed home.
We were home sometime after 6. He ate dinner, was really interested in the ‘sp’ sound, and read Bob books with Carly. They were doing art on the paper and August really got into covering a page in stickers – they were puffy stickers and he could easily take them off the sheet himself. He kept pulling off candy stickers and saying “Mama likes this.” But then he said he was leaking. In fact, his diaper seemed to barely hold anything in, as it soaked through the half of the pad of paper he was sitting on. I had to throw that part of the pad away but saved the side he had been stickering.
He was asleep by 9:30.
New words/phrases: vet, insectarium, now let’s sing faster
Outside. Showing Carly a rock:
Site of yesterday’s puddle:
Home. Decorating a card:
Afternoon outing. First park:
Hagye Children’s Park:
Couple of his photos:
Sand:
