He was up at 7:50. He kept playing with the fan, and finally he managed to run over it and put his finger in it. Kind of perfect as it hurt just enough to really scare him, and he didn’t do it again all day. He went to Carly and cuddled for a few minutes, but didn’t think about nursing for several minutes. When he did she distracted him with a “No ploopa ploppa” game with the stuffed animals. She and I were going to trade off with him so we could both get some work done. She took him outside to the park, but they came back after just a few minutes – he complained it was too sunny. They then did some sponge painting and he mainly liked the squirting but painted a little. They then skyped with Vivian and were typing back and forth.
About 10:30 Carly took him to the Namu play area. He really liked jumping in the trampoline area, which is what I expected, and the three push cars. They were back about 12:15. He then spent some time with me, tracing in the Hangeul workbooks. Carly had started doing some cleaning, and there were a bunch of books to be moved from the living room to the parlor. He made several trips to bring them all in to me so I could organize them on the shelves. We also played with the wooden toolbox again and he worked on turning the screwdriver. He fell asleep from about 2 to 3:30. He was then typing on Carly’s computer, and asking what each of the buttons did. Carly was teaching him how to change the background color, font size, do strike through, etc. Then he and I did some music time, playing on the xylophone and drum and singing our Wheels on the Bus song about people and making up some new verses.
In the afternoon he and I went to Home Plus, mainly to get ingredients for nutty noodles. It was busy, so I asked him to stay in the stroller and he did awesome. As we shopped, I would let him choose the low stuff, like broccoli, and I’d hand him everything and he’d reach underneath and put it in the basket area under the stroller. I rolled him next to the candy area so he could smell it for a minute, then let him out at checkout so he could put groceries on the conveyor belt, then put them back underneath the stroller. He got back in once we were outside. As we walked home, we were singing wheels on the bus and started doing the hand motions again – for time in a long time. Stopped in the park to do those for a few minutes, then continued home.
We ate hot dogs and some other stuff for dinner, then he asked what the door intercom screen was for. So Carly went out in the hall and pushed the button and he saw her on the screen. It turned into a big game, with both of them going out and pushing the button, then me going out to him and calling in to Carly. I was then picking him up and we were singing wheels on the bus. For “Go round and round” I spun him in circles, etc. He also remembered the horn line, which we hadn’t sung in forever, and he wanted to recite the “Hey You forgot this!” Line from the end of the book.
Finally, we headed out for an evening walk up to Starbucks. He got a mango juice, and as we walked, him in the stroller, he was spitting it on the ground. We walked back along the stream, and when we walked under the bridges he would loudly sing Wheels on the Bus. It was getting dark, and we walked down to the river and then back up the stream. We went through the last tunnel, and he pointed up at the lights lighting up the ceiling and said “background color”, making a connection to changing the background color of the text on the computer earlier.
At home he asked me to cut a nectarine but then didn’t eat any of it. He nursed, then Carly gave him a bath that he wasn’t too happy about. He and I then got our toothbrushes out and brushed our teeth together. I read a little of Horton Hatches an Egg and he worked on the shapes puzzle and we ended up singing Yellow Submarine into the fan together. Carly got ready for bed and they were both asleep by about 9:30.
He was saying “actually” a lot today
Morning. Playing with the fan:
Screwdriver:
Drumming:
Coming back from Home Plus:
Home. Playing with the doorbell:
Evening walk: