Today we went to brunch with Megan in the morning, went to a little giveaway event, and then in the afternoon returned to the park we recently found with a fountain.
He got up at 6:20 and was nursing and sleeping on the reading area until 7:20. Carly was finally able to get up, but then he woke up for good a couple minutes later. They then had a long Skype call with Cherie. One of Carly’s animal paintings, originally from his mobile, fell down and Carly got tape to put it back up. August wanted to act like the animals, remembering the Elmo Loves Animals app. He acted like a fish and eagle, then wanted to do the octopus. One of the paintings looks like seaweed, so that’s what I called it, and August wanted to be seaweed. This was his favorite, and I would pick him up and he’d put his arms up in the air and we’d float back and forth. He then developed a little skit where he’d get down, then pretend to bite me, I’d say “Don’t eat me! I thought you didn’t like seaweed.” and he’d say something about seaweed in the kimbap.
Later in the morning, I went to change him before we left, and he only wanted to read the Korean poster by his changing pad. After changing him, he had the spray bottle, and he’s starting to get a bit wild with it, thinking he can spray everything, since he can now aim and fire with ease. I tried to give him his vitamins, but he sprayed them and they turned soggy. Finally, we got him in the backpack, ready to go, and I brushed his hair. He’s asking ‘What kind of…’ questions, and asked “What kind of brush?” Carly said “Oma brush”, since she gave it to us. From there August went to the Ladybug song (which Cherie taught him): “Ladybug…flew away…sad bout that.”
We walked down to this brunch place called 502 Seconds a couple blocks south of us that we’d never been to. We were meeting Meg there, but didn’t know if it would be open due to Memorial Day. Happily, a woman came and opened the doors at 10. We waited outside, and August played on the piano on the porch to the left of the restaurant. Brunch was good, and August had fun, first looking at all the cushions (they had a deer on them), then trying out all the different chairs, then eating, then just kind of roaming around and performing. At one point he was hiding behind his shirt. Meg gave me a piece of art by a student who graduated a couple years ago. She had remembered I had really liked it, and it was framed. It was a thank you for letting her borrow my camera to do the AP Studio Art portfolios. And she gave August a picture book about Leo Tolstoy called The Three Questions. We all hung out outside for awhile before we left, and August took a bunch of photos, primarily of the piano. I then took his photo with Meg and the book, and she took a family photo of us. Also, she got some wonderful shots of August when he was looking out the door at her. She left and we stayed a few minutes longer as he played around. He saw an ant carrying a piece of food and said “Thank you ant he said” (the ant was thanking someone).
We stopped at a playground in that apartment complex for a few minutes, and all went on the swings, then Carly took him over to see the recycling truck that he could hear. We went home and he took a short nap, from about 12:25 to 1. After his nap, he noticed we hard hung the piece of art on the wall and he liked it. He pointed at the open mouth on it and said “Circle…mouth is a circle.” Then traced his own mouth with his finger. He requested the seaweed thing: “Want to be like seaweed with dada.” Then did painting, mixing colors, and I skyped with parents. He wasn’t much into Skyping today, instead wanting to wash his hands a couple times, then playing in the sink with the water, and then the spray bottle.
At 2 we went to 3 other apartments here in Brownstone, where people who are leaving APIS were giving stuff away. We came away with some lightbulbs and some food items. August wasn’t into it at first, but got better by the end.
We came home for awhile, then decided to go outside in the afternoon. Carly needed some help getting going, so I told August, who was hyper, to blow some energy on mama, and he had fun doing that. He wanted in the stroller, and when Carly opened the tray for him he said “Thank you”. I washed his hand or something, and he asked “What is the messy?”, a question he asks all the time now. He is most confused when there isn’t something visibly messy. So I was explaining germs and he was really trying to understand, but looked skeptical.
We walked up to the Love Children’s Park that August and I had found the other day. We were a little early for the 5 o’clock fountain time, so we walked around the block first, up some streets we’ve never been on. At the park, he first played in the sand. Carly was filling the bucket with water from the faucet, and he was using the cup to pour it in the sand. Carly warned him the faucet might spray him, and he would retreat a long way away. When the fountain turned on, we went over there. Carly mainly played with him and I watched. She was filling the bucket for him from the big jets and he would dump it out.
We headed home after it was off. At home he wanted to nurse, but Carly was trying to wait until he was ready to sleep. We shared some nutty noodles, then Carly gave him his bath. We watched some Korean videos, then he dumped out the crayons and otok some convincing to get him to pick them back up. He was then going wild with the spray bottle again, spraying our word signs and everything else, so we had to take that away. He and Carly had read the Tolstoy book a couple times today, and he requested it once with me as well: “Read the book from Meg”. He fell asleep about 7:20.
New words/phrases: what kind of…
Back asleep on and off the reading area:
Brunch:
With Meg and the new book:
One of August’s photos:
Photos that Meg took:
With mama before we left:
Our new art:
Out on our walk:
Sarang (Love) Children’s Park:
Carly filling the bucket:
Mama and August Berry:
