He was up really early with Carly at 5:50. When I came out a bit alter, he wanted to poke me. After Carly left, he was looking at his drawings on the paper and said a pretty complex sentence: “Kind of an ‘I’ that’s sideways right here.” He was watching a Korean video and started hiding. When I asked why he was hiding, he said “From the chalgyeyo part” when listening to one of the Lulu songs. He was acting tired, and we ended up laying on the bed in the dark together for a couple minutes. We were then listening to songs from class, deciding which we wanted to download for the States, then watched some videos, and then wrote words from the pigeon books on paper. He was ready to go outside once he had poured a cup of water on the floor, then got upset when he saw my phone and wanted to watch videos. When I wouldn’t allow him, we ended up back on the bed lying down for a minute.
We got ready to go and headed out to the park across the street. He wanted to keep walking though, so we kept walking east. He was acting tired, so I asked if he wanted Smokey and the cover, and he said yes. I made my way towards a nearby park so I could sit down, but along the way we came across a little play area in an apartment complex. There was a snake made of concrete to climb on, a seesaw (“teeter totter seesaw”), and swings. August got really excited, so we played there. First he climbed on the snake/“worm”, and kind of crawled up it like a “gabohgi” (turtle) and “Like a snake.” We then got on the teeter totter, where he stood on it, then wanted to go higher “up to sky…like toh-gi (rabbit) in the book” Figured out he meant a rabbit on a swing in the Korean book about a badger – I hadn’t even noticed there was a rabbit in one of the pictures. He then played with the spray bottle, spraying the mosaic tiles on the snake.
Time for a nap. We had spotted a coffee shop called Caffe Nissi on the second floor of a building. Went there and he slept from 11:26 to 12:33. Nice place, but they switched from traditional Korean instrumental music to English music, probably for their one paying customer. Had to listen to Prince’s “Kiss”, a Spice Girls song, and “Physical”. When he woke up he said “Leaking!” So changed him in the bathroom. Then explored the coffee shop – a little aquarium with fish, a pink cushion he wanted to sit on, a little desk pond with green rocks, etc.
Headed home, but stopped at the museum side of the park and played in the faucets. A woman fell off her bike close to us, and he was very intererested. He saw another person coming along in a shirt like hers and pointed and said “another green one”. Then the fountain came on, so we went and played in that. He put his hands in it, then found a straw to stick in it. Another boy was playing with him, but started splashing and got August’s shirt quite wet. Took it off and he went back to playing for awhile.
We went home, and in the evening Carly took him out in the stroller. They went up to the new playground near Madeul Stadium, where they played on the spider web, he did the spinny thing, and they went on the seesaw. He kept talking about standing up, but it is one with seats instead of a flat surface. They then spent a lot of time in the sand. The sand was wet, so it stuck together, and they made sandcastles. They then went to Starbucks to use soem of the gift card that Carly got at school. They got sandwiches and August did a good job of staying with her and sitting and eating.
In the evening he was really into “Donde esta?” using the First 100 words book. He played with Carly, then played for quite awhile with me. He started jumping on the bed, first with his hands on the bed while looking at the book and just jumping his feet off the bed, then jumping and landing on his butt. He went to sleep around 8:30.
New words/phrases: sip of tea, I’m thinking bout this
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