He was up at 6:10 but Carly got him back to sleep. Up at 7:37 and upset for a second, but let me hold him. He then helped type the email to Carly and when I asked what he wanted to tell her, he said “More ant juice, mama”. He watched a Kipper video, then switched to his Korean videos. We ate Cheerios and a plum, then I took a shower. He came in with a chip clip out of his toy drawer, having broken it and wondering what it was. We then brushed our teeth, then he blew on his little trumpet to make me pretend cry. He watched Wheels on the Bus, and as usual, wanted to know why each baby was crying. Recently though, he has expanded to then asking “What mama said?” That is, what did the mama then say to the crying baby. Sometimes he will volunteer them, or expand on what I say, such as “Mama said wait home to nurse.”
Then he discovered he could close the microwave door, turn it on, then open it. And he has to run back from one side of the counter to the other to do it. This became a huge game, as we pulled “More hot things” from the microwave: “All done…in our tummies…dada eat the rest.”
We got ready to go, and he got upset about wanting me to help him jump. He had a couple times today where words seemed to be hard for him and he would get upset instead. Calmed him down and went to change him and he ended up running around naked, and rolling around the bed. After awhile he wanted to go in the bathroom: “Want to go in her bathroom.” This led to another big imagination game, as he would have Sophie pee in the little toilet, say “Good job, Sophie”, pretend to pour it in the toilet, and pretend to flush it. We then took Sophie in to give her a diaper, put her in pajamas, and have her go to sleep.
In the changing room, he decided he wanted a photo of himself sitting on the box of doctor toys, then “doing this” as he played with the magnets. Got out the dry erase board, which he and I haven’t used for a long time, and identified the three things in the corner: “this is pizza, this is a coffee grinder(?), this is a mug.” Not entirely sure he said ‘grinder’, but it was definitely ‘coffee’. He got the loud tractor toy out and kept pushing the button to make it go, but supposedly it still scares him, as he kept saying “don’t like it!”
Finally, he was playing with the Teuni ball and asked where it came from, and I said he got it from Gaeguli Sangsaengnym (Frog Teacher) in Teuni Teuni class. He then asked “What gaeguli sangsaengnym teach you?” Which shocked me as a.) it shows that he knows that ‘Sangsaengnym’ means ‘teacher’ and b.) that a teacher ‘teaches’. Which, I’m sure has come up in discussions at some point (particularly in 5-Touch class, where I probably mentioned that we learned about shapes today) – but then I’ve probably focused more on using ‘learned’ than ‘taught’. Anyway.
We went out in the stroller, and asked where he wanted to go. He wanted the “Dragon playground”. Turns out that is his name for the one across the street, next to the dinosaurs. Played there a bit, then he agreed to head on to Sarang Children’s Park and the fountain at noon. On the way up, he had the new bag of fish crackers. I looked down and found the bag empty. I said “You ate them all!” Him: “There’s a bunch of them.” Me: “Where?” Him: “There” (pointing on his tray) Me: “That’s two!” Him: (Chuckle)
We stopped at the park, then went across the street to play with the phone booths. It was about a million degrees and I had to hold him up for that, but he didn’t want to stop and got upset again and couldn’t use his words. We got over that, and we found some of those ubiquitous and mysterious plastic beads in the sand. The fountain turned on, and we went and played in it. We played in it both at 12 and 1, and we were the only people playing in the park the entire time. I wore my swimsuit, put my phone in the backpack, and took my shirt off so I could get nice and wet. Felt very good. Despite almost no one else in the park, when we went back over to the platform by the sand, we found a bunch of garbage on it. Crazy. In between the water being on (it turned off at 12:30), we ate and played in the sand, finding more beads. There are little holes in the table in the sand, and we discovered the beads would just fit in the holes, and either fall through or get stuck. In that case, if you pushed them from below they would pop up into the air. While at the fountain, August didn’t play in it a ton, but would play over in the little tree area next to it. A couple of times he also ran around the fountain, following the border, chanting “Run in circles, run in circles.” He would also bring little rocks, or the beads, over to throw in the fountain. A couple times we took buckets of water over and he spilled them on the ground. While he didn’t get in the water a ton, by the end he was still pretty wet as he did get closer to the big fountains a few times since I was standing by them.
We changed him, packed up, and walked out the back of the park, then made our way down the stream. He fell asleep by Cafe Tolerance but I checked and their is no elevator. So down to the stream, across it, and up the other side and we went to the women’s business center, where he slept from 2:04 to 2:54.
When he woke up he just laid there for 10 minutes or so, then wanted to head home. At home we mixed of drink stuff and he used one of his new straws (requested pink) to drink it from a cup. He saw peanuts and wanted to eat them, but pretty sure he just carried one around. He wanted more cereal, so had a little. Then we played with GarageBand on my iPad for quite awhile. We just did keyboards, and he got quite into it, and changing all the settings. Then he was back to the microwave game, really expanding it. When I asked what it was he said “Chocolate. Cake. Mango. And gum.” He would set it on the counter and bring me a piece: “Put some water in it and cool it down…one for dada.”
The microwave game went on and on and on… Eventually I convinced him to go meet mama at the elevators. His shoes were still wet as he put them on: “Feel it…the cold..the sprinkly things from the fountain.” We timed it well. We were at the elevators for maybe 20 seconds before Carly arrived. With her he nursed, then they played with play dough, making little balls and doing math with them. He then showed her the microwave game, and we ate dinner. Carly started cleaning the floor, and August really got into helping: “What is the messy there?…mango dust…I like blueberry dust more than mango dust.” They read Kipper A to Z, then I gave him a bath. He was quite upset, until I got Sophie involved. After the bath, while naked, he had Sophie peeing, then did the whole dumping it out and flushing thing several times. We then got her ready for bed, and took her in on the bed. He rolled around and played on the bed naked for several minutes. Being a clown. We read Picasso’s Trousers once, then Carly tried to get him to sleep once. Got up for awhile. When he was ready to go to sleep I went in and gave him a kiss, then he wanted a “Bonk bonk kiss”. Then he wanted “14 bonks”. So we did 14 forehead bonks. He was asleep at 9:30.
Photos he wanted to take:
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