He was up at 6:40. He nursed for awhile, then happily went to the iPad and said “Bye!” to Carly. He was tracing letters and asking “What is a K made of?” (because when you trace it uses stars, etc. to make the letter). He also sang along to “Hasta Mañana” again. We did more hopping in my arms, doing it on the couch this time. We then made more Duplo letters and had Peter Rabbit sitting on them. Carly asked me a question via email and I needed to respond. August got upset that he couldn’t hold the phone. But he ended up cuddling in my arms for a few minutes.
I made eggs and crab and toast for breakfast. I haven’t felt like eggs recently, so we haven’t been eating them, so he was excited by them. After that, I asked “Want to do some art?” and he replied “Yeah! Do some arte abstracto letters.” He ended up drawing random letters together, like “V and a Q”. He then played in the sink, which went fine until I went to grab a diaper. I came back to find him dumping water on the floor. We cleaned it up, then he played a little more. When he wanted to dry his hands he was saying “Wash your handy hands”, which I assume he got from Carly.
We got ready and left. We first went to the doctor to get an immunization shot. He did pretty awesome at the doctor. Hid behind his hands from the time I said we were going until a minute into waiting. It was a different doctor – a guy who doesn’t speak English. Went fine though. When he started the exam August started crying but reached out and said “Hold this one” and picked up the stuffed toy on the desk. When the exam was over he said “All done this” and put it back. He cried for the shot, but didn’t fight either the exam or shot too much. When he got the treat he said “Yes!” He then said “Kamsamneda” and “bye bye” when I asked him to.
We then went to the subway and made our way to Children’s Grand Park. We got a couple rolls of kimbap from a different place. It was raining again – only hard enough to have the cover up on the way to the subway, but now pouring enough to require full rain gear. Put that on and we went to the children’s museum and up to the cafeteria for lunch. We ate, then went down to read books. Grabbed several of the Luk books and read those (Shapes, I Hear…, I See, Oh No!). Put full rain gear back on for his nap walk and walked our usual ridge, but finished the last few minutes walking around the usual building. He fell asleep and had a rather short nap from 12:46 to 1:34.
He woke up and read words on the floor (we were on the first floor) and really liked the blue light above one of the tables, standing and staring up at it, and looking at his arms. He walked up and down the one step by the counter and said nonsense words. He then got Smokey out and showed him around. We left, with him walking, and he kind of explored the Gammaru building before deciding he was ready to leave.
He wasn’t excited by the zoo or children’s museum, then I suggested the water museum and he wanted to go there. We went there and played with the little dams, then the pumps. I noticed that he’s getting better at them. He was definitely in “Zinnie do it.” mode. A machine turned on somewhere, and he liked the noise “V V V”. He was then hearing a ’Ts’ noise and kept doing it – I finally figured out he was hearing the kind of hissing noise of someone talking – it was coming out of cheap TV speakers that made it sound hissy. He climbed in this little sitting area/climbing area, but needed use my hand as a step to make it up to the next level.
He wanted a snack, so we went out to the pagoda in front of the children’s museum and ate. They were setting up for a concert at the stage, and he liked the mic test, saying what letter it sounded like when the technician was making noises in the mic. A band then started doing sound check and playing, and he particularly liked the drumming. We walked over and watched them for a few minutes, then headed home.
On the walk home from the subway we extended our version of “The ants go marching”. It has to now gone up to 14, with the little one saying “That’s enough!” He thinks the last line is really funny and had me singing it over and over. He then asked for 15… and 16. So now it goes on with the ant saying things like “You’re still going?” “This is driving me crazy” and “Why are you doing this?”
We were home a little after 5. We shared an orange and listened to his music from class. He then started getting a bit antsy that mama wasn’t home, asking “Where’s M A? Where’s M A?” He wasn’t upset, but wanted to go wait at the elevators for her. We walked out, and stood in the corner. A few minutes later she came out of an elevator and started to walk away. He called “Mama!” and startled her pretty good.
Back in the house he was nursing and I snapped for some reason. He wanted more, so I kept snapping, and then moving my head towards the snap. He thought this was hilarious and (thanks to Carly) started saying “Silly dada.” He played in the sink, then was doing art but drew on the floor again. But he did a good job of wiping it up when we gave him a wipe. He shared my dinner with me – left over mandu and then the soup that Carly made.
He and Carly read the Bed Bugs Bob Book and then she gave him a bath. Lots of peeing, some in the toilet. I had gotten Sesame Street Art Maker working on the iPad (it hadn’t worked for a couple days) and he was very excited by this, so played that for awhile. He then did word tracing on it with Carly. He was choosing ‘lynx’ over and over, so Carly wanted a new word. He chose giraffe and said “Giraffe is a good word”.
He went to sleep about 8:40.
New words/phrases: just, Elevator “sitting on” a floor, kind of, diagonal lines
Morning:
Children’s Museum:
After his nap:
Water museum:
Pagod:
Home:
