Today felt both long and busy, but also rather small, in that all we did was play in the wading pool at Dream Forest and take a nap in the coffee shop there.
Started at 6:30 when he again woke up and asked where Carly was. He was in pretty good spirits, but clingy, and not happy when Carly was leaving. I suggested we walk her to the elevators, which worked well. He got a little upset when the doors closed, but as we walked back to the apartment I was carrying him so he put his head down on my shoulder. At home, we read A Pocket for Corduroy. I was then looking for something, and he found the old toy that went on top of his food tray – the plastic thing with lizards and a monkey, etc. and played with that. A few times. We then played with the zoo and the wooden bolts. I got the iPad out had he was on YouTube when I started a shower. When I turned off the water, August came and said “Dada is done.” I could tell he was watching something else, so asked. In his new big kid it’s-no-big-deal voice he said “Timmy”. It’s like everything he used to say used to have an exclamation point at the end of it, and now it doesn’t.
He wanted cereal for breakfast, but not Cheerios – the other kind. So he had the last of those. He had been singing “Yellow Submarine“ and so then I was playing it on the iPad Pro. He started choosing other songs of the Yellow Submarine album and liked a couple. Then clicked on “Come Together” and liked that. I then pulled up music videos. He really found Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” (particularly the part where he’s in footie pajamas) and Fat Boy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” (with Christopher Walken dancing on an escalator and flying) funny and tried out several others. While watching the latter, he decided he wanted me to spin him in the chair, so we brought that out and did that. There was one Brad video he also said he liked.
He said he wanted mango, and was very particular about getting it the right temperature in the microwave, but then he didn’t actually eat any. He then did dishes for quite awhile. I kept giving him dishes and he would rinse them then put them in the drying area, saying “Dada! It’s clean now! More washing things!”
We were playing in the parlor and listening to Amanda and Jack Palmer’s album of cover songs and he started slowly singing to it. At one point he got in the cube thing and kept dancing, then fell over trying to get out of it. I then spotted a dancing video that Paul had posted on Facebook so we watched that. It has a dancer dancing as a swan while Yo-Yo Ma plays. August copied some of the footwork, then flew around the room like a swan.
The video: http://youtu.be/qfEYjKWJ56E
We made a quick trip to the pink building and got fish crackers, as they were out of letter crackers, and frozen strawberries. I apparently kept talking to myself, as August, in the stroller, kept asking “What you say?” When we came home and turned into our hallway, August pointed at one door after another and said “Neighbors, neighbors, neighbors…” Did every door except ours. We opened the crackers, and got ready to go in the backpack. He took a cracker and said “One more then we’re going.” “Three of them then we’re going.” He got up to five or six before we left. As we walked out, August said “Two walks…dada has two walks.” Sang Wheels on the Bus as we walked, and saw a guy with a t-shirt that said “I don’t thing so.” Note the typo.
At Dream Forest he wanted to get out at the playground and play with the kids on the round thing. But then he got upset when I put on sunscreen, and the kids left. So we kept going. He saw the play structure made out of hexagons and we talked about it. I said it was like the one at Yangwon that he’s played in a couple times. He out-remembered me by saying something about “Where had the treat.” It was a reference to the ice cream cups or whatever it was that the woman gave us at the coffee shop in the hospital near there and that we ate in that play structure.
We went to GS25 and got a couple triangle kimbaps, a cup of peaches, and a fruit and veggie drink. At lunch sitting on a step, then played in the wading pool. I was throwing buckets of water, with the ball in it, and he would give each throw a funny name, saying things like “cha-gay-moo is a tricky one.” A bit later I got him to sort of sit, and I splashed him a little. He then said “want big splashing” and I obliged. Walking on the spots where the water comes out, he said “that’s a cold one…that’s warm.” Finally, he said “Pretend…when mama paints.” He wanted to pretend to paint letters in the water.
At 1:30 we changed him into dry clothes and walked for a few minutes and he fell asleep. He slept from 1:37 to 2:59, fell back to sleep, and woke up at 3:47 as I woke him up as we walked back to the bus.
As we walked the few blocks home, we sang Wheels on the bus, and made up new verses, such as “Ants on the bus go tickle, tickle, tickle.” At home we switched to the stroller and went to Home Plus and did some grocery shopping, buying broccoli, zucchini, hotdog buns, etc. He was walking, and helped choose all the veggies and fruits and put them in the cart. Walked home, and actually met Carly in the park. I saw her coming, so we stopped. August didn’t see her until she was close. When he saw her, he immediately said “Ant juice!” When she didn’t understand him, he switched to “Beetle juice!”
At home, Carly said she was going to change into lighter clothes, out of no where, August decided he wanted “Mama match the same color…Want to match the same color as Zinnie’s clothes.” So they went and he got on dark blue shorts and a blue shirt like her. They went down to get rice to have with the baked beans we got. We ate dinner, and he was being kind of whiney. A package had arrived from Gmarket, so Carly wanted to go down for it. She asked August “Nurse then look for packages?” He replied with “Yes. Deal.”
They went down and got that package (tahini). Back up, Carly was on the couch. August said “Move that then we cuddle,” referring to the cushion. So they cuddled, then he pretended to eat the caterpillar. That turned into a game where he wanted Carly to say no when he asks “Can you hold it?” and then he would pretend to be said. I then played on the couch with them and the caterpillar. Carly took a shower, and he was not at all happy about that. He was talking about some animals and said “They want to go outside…the animals want to go to Safeway.”
I was going to go meet Derek over at 7-11 to sit and talk for awhile. We had just gotten August in the bath when I needed to leave at 8:30. Carly said he fell asleep a little after 9.
Music videos:
Dream Forest:
Asleep:
Sleepy:
Strange flowers:
Cuddling with mama:
