He got up with me at 7:00. They Skyped with Cassie. Then I had to deal with a phone/computer issue to recover some videos, so Carly took August out to the park while I did that. They played in the dinosaur footprints and had a snack there, then climbed on the rocks at the petrified forest area. When I came out they were sitting on the walking path, looking down through the grate. August said he saw sand, and was grabbing Carly’s head and pulling it down to look as well. He was doing that for quite awhile.
We all walked over to the museum. He went to the play area for a minute with Carly and I started looking at the new exhibit. He then said he wanted to go look at art, so they came in. There was a big stair step piece on the main floor that you could climb on, so they climbed up that. We all looked around the first floor a bit more, then August and I walked up to the second floor. There was a piece that had reflective silver on the floor, and it reflected rainbow from the lights above. August loved that, and we talked about “blue and yellow make…” There were a lot of videos, and there was one with 7 people wearing mascot heads, dancing to “So Happy Together”. We watched that one for a few minutes. He heard a ripping sort of noise coming from a video and he wanted to find it. It was from downstairs so we made our way down and found it – it involved people ripping fabric.
We all went to Home Plus, Carly getting ingredients for salsa. We got a couple fruit samples and caught up with her, then came home. August had seen the potato chips, so he got some sour cream and onion chips. At home we opened a new set of Bob Books – Sight Words, read the first book, and were singing The Ants Go Marching. And Carly made delicious salsa. He fell asleep a little after 12 and slept until 2:06. A nice, long nap. We did a lot of flopping and hopping before we left for a walk to Nowon.
We walked to Nowon, August singing nonsense songs on the way. We stopped at Starbucks on the way (Carly has a new gift card to use thanks to Teacher’s Day on Friday). As we walked in, August said “Starbuck’s in a book” – referring to his picture book version of Moby Dick. August had wanted out of the backpack so we got out in Starbucks. He then wanted to walk outside but didn’t want to hold our hands, but I got him going by holding both his hands and doing “Wheeee!” We would end up doing a lot of that the rest of the trip. From there we first went to the grocery store in Lotte, getting cilantro, thanks to intel from Torrey. We then went to Nowon Stationary and August and I waited outside, him climbing and standing on the little ledge outside the window. He stood there and ate crackers and strawberries. Carly came out and August had a little scary moment where he lost his balance and started to tip forward, but Carly caught him.
We headed to the playground, going to 신기루어린이겅원, the first of three adjacent parks that run east/west south of there. They climbed on the play structure and August wanted Smokey and was throwing him down the slide and I was tossing him back up. August was saying “Super whee!” I went to check out the rest of the parks, and they played a little more, then got out the markers and notebooks and were drawing letters when I came back. He also ate some of the raviolis we had brought along. A group of girls came up and were talking to us. Thanks to some Google Translate, I figured out that one of the girls was in the group that had talked to us at the playground by the youth center back on Children’s Day (May 5th).
We left there, and didn’t feel like changing him, so I just carried him the entire way home. As we walked downtime main road a fire truck went by and August started saying “W W W W W W W”, imitating the noise. I also realized this was where he started saying “W W W W” the other day and did so all the way home. So maybe he had heard a siren that day as well, and I didn’t make the connection.
At home Carly made fried rice using a recipe from Cassie. We watched the video from class and brushed his teeth. He then took a long bath, and we did a lot of “Eeny meeny” with his toes. We ate dinner, then read the Korean Elephant on a Wire book, translating a lot more of it. He nursed and read, then Carly took a shower. He played in the sink and dumped one cup of water on the floor. We got a towel and he reluctantly helped clean it up. He went to bed about 9:30.
New words/phrases: yesterday, reading ‘pizza’
Grate in the park:
Art museum:
Home:
Nowon:
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Playground:
