He was up bright and early at 6:20. Carly stayed a little later in the morning and played with him. He was asking her to pick up a couple door magnets that were on the floor (funny, because they were right in his reach). Carly picked one up and was hiding it in her hands and having him choose which hand. He really liked that game. When it was time for her to leave he initially didn’t like that idea. But then Carly said he gets to stay with the Captain and he said “Captain!” and came to me. After she left I asked what he wanted to do and he used ‘sir’ again, saying “Read Bob Books, sir.” We played with the letter sponges and bath letters, then skyped with my parents. When it was first ringing he was saying “Maybe outside”, since yesterday when they didn’t answer I said they were maybe outside. After we hung up he said “They’re inside”. He did some letter tracing on the iPad, then we watched the 5-Touch video as he had been requesting it while we were skyping. He was singing along to parts of the caterpillar eating song, which we had just heard in class last week. We watched the new Teuni Teuni video while we brushed his teeth, then headed out at 9:30.
On the train he was doing letter tracing on the Montessorium app. The app has always had a little bit of a glitch where completing the last half inch of a letter usually requires a second attempt. Not big, but he was noticing it today, and letters that he could finish in one stroke were frustrating him. For each letter that didn’t work he would say “Don’t like the V” etc.
We transferred at Gangnam-gu Station and while we were waiting he read some Hangeul and then heard a buzzing electrical sound behind a door. He also read the Korean word for ‘garbage’ on a door in a sentence on a door.
At Seoul Forest he wanted to go feed the deer. In fact, as we came out of the station he saw a mural on the wall with a deer and said “Go feed the deer!” We walked that way, and he was in full look-at-the-garbages mode. He had noticed that the garbages had orange bags for the garbage and white bags for recycling. So he liked seeing that pattern. At one point, he saw a set off the path and we went to see those. I realized it was the rabbit area, with the rabbits a little farther away. I then asked if he wanted to see the rabbits. “No.” He then spotted some water faucets. “See wawa!” I signed, then he said “Fine!”
We went to the deer, and sat on a bench and ate some lunch. There was a school group walking by and a kid yelled something that sounded like ‘agua’. August liked that and was repeating “Ah GWA!” A dog barked and he said “Doggie says R R R.”
We decided to come back to the deer later, and go find rocks to throw in water now instead. So we walked over to the little stream area by the playground. We had loaded up a bag with rocks so we had a supply. He spent several minutes playing with the screw-like water pump thing, watching it drain and trying to figure out how to do it. I then got him over to the bridge, where he threw the rocks into the water. We then got ready for a nap and went walking. He slept from 12:38 to 1:35 on a bench in the shade.
We walked back over to the deer area. There was a worker using a weed eater and he said it sounded like “V!” and did some writing in the air while watching it. We feed the deer for close to a half hour. Took a while as a couple of school groups came and ‘stole’ our deer. He would throw the food in (preferring to get out the pieces of corn) for the deer and say nonsense words while doing so, like with the rocks and water. When the deer or pigeons would walk away he would say “Come back here!” When we were done, I told him to say “Bye”. He did that, then said “See you later deer.”
We walked back towards the floor fountain, which was to turn on at 3. He wanted to stop short of that, as he saw a bunch of school groups on picnic mats. We got down and he walked around and one kid gave him a star-shaped cracker thing. He found a water fountain and we played with that. The fountain turned on and we went over to it and watched. He was making up all sorts of Z-words, like ‘zonga’. We watched the fountains and got the picnic mat out and ate the rest of our sandwich and the orange, which he kept calling “juicy”. We went back over to the fountain, with shoes off. He was stomping in the little puddle around the fountain. Everything was fine until near the end when a boy came close to us and stepped on a nozzle and sprayed us a bit. August was not happy about that. The fountain turned off a minute later anyway at 3:30.
I changed him and we headed home. Easy trip home, mainly doing Art Maker. We also sang The Ants Go Marching. He was asking for new lines for 20, 30, and 40.
We got home at 5 and he had talked about meeting mama at the elevator. In fact, she had called as we were walking home, and we could have gone and met her before she went to the store, but August chose heading home. He really liked surprising her at the elevator. But at home he wanted to make a banana and mango smoothie, so we were drinking our smoothie when Carly got home. He hung out with Carly for awhile, then she was in the kitchen and he started spinning around and getting dizzy. He was then lying on the floor and I was sliding him back and forth. He was laughing like crazy. He got up and went towards the parlor and said “Dada come. Mama come too.” Carly gave him a bath. A bit later Carly went to take a shower and told August to stay with the Captain and that worked again. We did more Duplo letters with Peter Rabbit, then read the Kittens Bob Book. Carly came back out and we were on the reading area and he was stuffing sponge letters behind pillows and under things to hide them. He was off to sleep about 8:40.
New words/phrases: don’t like the…, too, that’s enough of rectangle crackers
Snacking by the deer:
By the water:
By the water:
Watching the fountain:
Feeding deer:
Exploring by the kids and water:
This is actually looking up. That is a hose he is holding:
Floor fountain:
Home: