7:22. His sweetest wakeup yet. Opened the door, looked at me, and said “Mama” in his cutest voice. When I said she was at work he stretched and yawned and I picked him up and we cuddled on the couch. Then he just laid on the couch for a bit. We then listened to Basho and he started to wake up. He saw a crumb on the table and said “Mesa has a crumb.” We did some ‘hopping’ on the table and couch, then he laid over the end of the couch and read the book signs (in the different languages). He then calmed down again and sat on the couch, quietly listening to the music, then got up and wrote Ks on the paper before switching to the umbrella and spray bottle. We ate the “twirly twirl” pastry and a smoothie, then he wanted to “Watch video from class. From yesterday.” and was singing along to a surprising amount of it. He climbed in the cube and wanted to sing our shapes song, then we ate some Cheerios and got ready to go.
We left around 9:30 and got to Ttukseom Resort a little after 10. Checked out the garbages and waters on our way to the little nature area to the west. There, we saw polliwogs and fish, and he threw little rocks in the water. And we saw two big spiderwebs on the bridge. We walked around on the little hills, then sat and had a snack. While eating the sandoo, we saw a homeless man picking up garbage from around the water area. I told August what he was doing, and we said thank you (in Korean) and August said it a few times and I gave him a few won.
We headed back towards the playground, but didn’t actually play there. He used his water bottle to pour water around the drinking fountains, and he was chanting a lot and singing, particularly the Onesy Twosey chant. And we sent a Skype video to Carly. He started standing on the bench and saying “annanghasaeyo” and bowing – to no one in particular. He saw a bunch of pigeons and said “See lots of pedulgi…Where is food for the pedulgi?” I asked “What do you think they eat?” and he replied “Little pieces of food like sagwa.” I changed him outside, and he pointed and said “Clouds up there.” There was a big puddle of water on the grass and he went stomping in it, first in his shoes, then without. He found a feather, looked at it a little, then threw it in the water. Finally, we sat and ate an egg. Out of seemingly nowhere he said “Joooo means? In video from class. Hana, dul, sat joooo” (it is the sound of someone going down a slide). Then he pointed, got excited, and said “놀이터 right there!” (playground)
We went for a walk and he fell asleep after pulling in his arms and putting down his head. He slept from 1:30 to 2:53, up on the top floor, and slept through the sirens of the civil defense drill and the noise of two jets screaming overhead. After he woke up, we looked around at the animals, then he wanted to go to the library. We read a book of Peter Rabbit songs, then Moo, Baa, La La La, then The Christmas Story, and finally spent most of our time with Tell Time with the Very Busy Spider. The spider builds a web, so I was able to remind him of the webs we saw a bit earlier.
From there we went to the eastern playground and played in the sand, then on the little climbing wall and play structure, then back, walking on the bench around the play structure. Had a snack of crackers and a “juicy” orange, of which he ate half. Spotted a little green bug walking on the bench and watched it intently. I found a broken marble, which he liked but then wanted to throw away. But on the walk over to the garbage cans he dropped it three times (I was carrying him). The first two times we found it, but the third it just vanished. I got to teach him “Oh, well.” We were about ready to leave, but he pointed farther east and said “See the vest(?) I thought he might mean ‘rest’ but that didn’t seem to be it. We walked that way, but we didn’t figure out what he meant – he said “Word you’re talking bout has an F” (I was asking if he could spell it) but that didn’t help. Looked a bit more at water fountains, then he found a plastic spoon to throw away. That took us past the spot of the marble, so we looked some more. Found a button instead, which he declared was also glass, so we threw that away instead.
As we walked out of the park, we spotted two cats. August declared “Cats find the marble.”
We got home a little after Carly. He nursed then played with the spray bottle and ate some dinner. He started saying “‘What is the matter?’ said Jim.” and we tracked it to the Kittens Bob Book. He was trying to tell me something and I wasn’t getting it and he would say “No. Say again.” and then say it again until I got it. He did this with Carly a day or two ago.
Carly gave him a bath, then we were reading a new book on the iPad about the painter Mary Cassell. There was a picture of hot air balloons and he wanted to hold them, and got sad when he couldn’t, and went to Carly. They nursed and then read Picasso’s Trousers. Back to me, we read a new Bob Book called The Jet. In it, a character is playing with a toy plane. Again, August wanted to hold it. Luckily, we could go and get the plane that Vivian sent him. But at the end of the book the character can actually fly on a plane. He wanted to do it too. I told him he would in a month, but he wanted to do it now. He got super sad and said “Zinnie do it…sad about the flying.” and went to Carly again. She basically took him right in to bed and he was asleep just before 9.
New words/phrases: yesterday, 자동차 (car), cube, feather, 놀이터 (playground), reading ‘neigh’ and ‘oink’
Morning:
Trukseom:
By the water faucets:
Asleep:
Library:
Playground:
Chinese:
