He was up at 7:53. Pretty much a repeat of yesterday, with him sitting in my lap when I told him that mama was at work. We went to the reading area and read some of the wordplay book and played with the sponge letters. I then changed him and we were spelling an ‘-ed’ word, so I taught him the word ‘suffix’ and that ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ are suffixes. He then did some tracing on the iPad and watched some songs, then we were back to the reading area and playing with the sponges, putting them on his feet. For breakfast we had Cheerios. The new strawberries were really good, and we ate a bunch of strawberries first before putting more in the cereal.
As I was getting ready, he was spinning and getting dizzy and saying “bing-ul, bing-ul, bing-ul”. I changed him, and as I started to take off his shirt he said “Bye owls” and then requested his “cosmonaut shirt” before I had even asked. Unfortunately it was dirty. We were singing “The Ants Go Marching…” and he was requesting 14, and said “Like the ‘that’s enough’ part”. Finally, before we took off he wanted the water on: “Turn on the faucet please”
Got to class right at 10:10. He ran in and was totally engaged the entire time. The only thing he didn’t do was give the teacher a high five. He did 7 forward rolls with him though. At one point early in the class the song “If You’re Happy and You Know It” was playing and he stood in front of the whole class and played peek-a-boo. Class involved all sorts of walking paths and things involving small objects. Later in the day I would asking him what his favorite part of class had been, and he said “walking”. He really liked putting the toiletries in a basket with the right shapes, then filling a container with little foam shapes. Finally, there was a big ball pit sort of thing that they all got in and the teachers were dumping foam pieces on the kids’ heads. The kids helped move the ball pit thing at the end, and the teacher was chanting “young-chai” (pull) and August really liked that and was repeating it. At the end of class everyone got a ‘monster ball’ and the teacher gave away a couple of ‘jungle gym’ sets. August got one, so we had to go home first.
So we went home first and August wanted to “Open!” So we played with the new toys for awhile, then made a salmon sandwich for lunch and ate that.
We then headed out. We walked up and took the bus – August had chosen taking the bus because he wanted to see bus numbers. We took the 1139 up to Danggogye. He stayed in the backpack both directions, and enjoyed looking out the windows. We walked to the park and first went to the playground, after he first talked about wanting to go on the climbing wall. We sat and climbed on the slide, then had a snack and spent a lot of time playing ‘Smokey sees’. The waterfall fountain came on at 1 and we went to see it and we threw in a few rocks. I changed him, then he was writing things in the air and joked that it was “just a finger”. We went to a little hill area and he was walking up and down it saying “up here, down here…up, down” Finally, he was noting a lot of sounds again today, and at one point we heard a wheelchair. A bit later it was moving again and he said “where the wheelchair moving?”
We walked around the park and he fell asleep from 1:51 to 1:53. I sat on a bench near the climbing wall. When he woke up we first walked over and looked at the garbage cans and watched the climbers, then went to the low climbing wall and he tried climbing for a few seconds, but then focused on wondering what each shape looked like. A photographer was photographing the climbers and took our photo a few times. When he was done with this, we walked over and looked at the drinking fountains and while we were there the photographer came over and talked to me – he wanted to send me the photos via KakaoTalk. While I talked to him, August started pouring his water on the ground. After the photographer left, we spent quite some time pouring water on the ground.
We then went back to a hill area and he was walking around calling himself “Zinn Zinn”, saying “Zinn Zinn stands on this one.” We also saw a lot of ants and flies and bees and other insects today. After that, we sat and had a snack. We had an egg – he peeled most of it. We were singing the ants song, and now he wanted 15 over and over. He also had a “Where’s the climbing wall?” joke, saying it over and over.
We headed home, taking the bus again. We were home a little after Carly. He covered his eyes when we came in, and Carly was able to sneak up and stand right in front of him and surprise him. That kind of started the crazy – he was then going crazy with the cube we had made from the jungle gym set. We did some cleaning up, then Megan came over at 6 – she and Carly were making spring rolls for the new parents at APIS. August was going wild again, so I got him to read the bus Bob Book for Megan, then he was on the iPad for awhile. Megan then used a big piece of paper and she and August decorated it as a card. He and Carly nursed and read The Red Car. I then gave him a bath. We played with the squirt cars, and he wanted me to keep spelling ‘Megan’ in the water. He invented the word ‘qup’ and I was asking him what a ‘qup’ was. He said squares and rectangles, but changed his mind. Back out, he was a bit crazy again, then we were hopping (me holding his arms) on the table and the couch, and I was holding him up in the air to touch the ceiling. Megan was washing the dishes, and he wanted to play in the sink. He did that when she was done. She then left.
While Carly took a shower, he ate a bunch more strawberry, then banana. He bit his tongue while eating the banana and wanted Carly. I held him for a couple minutes and we went to the reading area and were reading the Richard Scarry Things on Wheels book. We had been listening to Radiohead all evening, and at one point he made a “ha ha hoo hoo” imitating a sound in a remix of Radiohead’s “Bloom”.
Carly took him in and he was asleep 9:15ish.
New words/phrases: cosmonaut, suffix, faucets, flutes, cube
Awake:
Class:
His new toy:
Danggogye Park:
Walking home from the bus stop. We were singing The Ants Go Marching when suddenly he started chanting ‘W’. This lasted for two blocks until we got home. I don’t know why:
Home:
Decorating with Megan:
