He was up at 6:50, then nursed. He then wanted to clean, saying “It’s messy around there.” He and I then did GarageBand with me for quite awhile, then went and nursed. He then wanted to play caterpillar with Carly, he wanted to do the pretend sad thing, saying “Hold it and say no.” He then played with a pot, pretending to cook soup. He would have it boil over, then turn it down and clean the floor. The pretending continued as he had Sophie doing more peeing, and then gave her a timeout for not peeing on the toilet. We read Me and My Dad, then he had Sophie being sad. I asked why and he said “mama at work” We cheered her up by getting the Duplo giraffe, who he decided was a teacher as he said “Teach her something.” So I had ‘Giraffe Sangsaengnim’ teach Sophie how to read Wild about Books. He then went back to soup, and we were eating it at the table together. He had a whole monologue going: “Should we get some more dada? Scoop some dada’s, scoop some Zinnie’s. Let me check the temperature. It’s ready now!” I needed to switch the speakers we had in the two rooms, and August helped with that. He was fascinated by the cords.
Carly went down to a coffee shop to get some work done. We mixed some drink together, then he dumped out the fruits and veggies on the couch. We got ready to go, then went for a walk. We walked up and around to the north end of Madeul Stadium. He ate crackers on the way. He wanted to look at the map, and we took a couple minutes interpreting that. We walked over to the dog park (where he once got licked) and there were only three dogs. He wanted to go in, so got out of the stroller, but then wouldn’t actually go all the way in. The dogs had gone to the other end of the area, so we kept going. He walked from there the length of the soccer field to the piano sculpture. There were a couple pigeons that he wanted to scare, but his idea of scaring them was to simply walk towards them and say ‘A!’ loudly, so not too bad. At the piano sculpture we ate a Larabar and played a little on the exercise equipment. We also looked at the map again. We then went over to the sand, and started to write some words in the sand. We were having a lot of fun with that, but it was incredibly humid, and while not sunny and incredibly hot, we were drenched in sweat. So we headed home. He did some nice chanting as we did so. He asked about a lot of signs on the way home. We were getting more and more raindrops as we walked, and started to actually get wet as we crossed to Brownstone. We got home at 2:10.
Carly tried to put him to sleep, but he wasn’t tired enough for a nap. He had found an eraser and wanted to know how it works, so I went in search of a pencil. Ended up getting out all our pens, so he got to play with those, and also learned how to use a pencil eraser. Carly had made hummus in the morning, and we had some to eat. He liked the garbanzo beans, but still isn’t sold on hummus. He would request a piece of pita, but “want a dry piece”. At one point Carly asked if he wanted orange, and he gave her an odd look and shake of his head and said “Umm, not the orange…I just want the banana.” He and Carly played with the cubes, with her putting them on him. He then got out his car and magnet puzzle and just played with that by himself for a few minutes, singing to himself as he did so.
Carly wanted to go outside at 4, but August started doing GarageBand again. He really kept wanting to do the guitar amp one, but you actually need to plug in a guitar for that one. So I think we need to get him a guitar. We also played with the sampler, making some really creepy music from his voice.
We went outside a little before 5. First went to the playground where he sent on the swings with Carly, then we played with exercise equipment. At 5 the fountain came on and we went over there. He played a lot with the spray bottle. He also saw a couple boys drawing a hopscotch course using a rock. He was very excited by that, so we found a rock that he could write with, and he did that a bit. Near the end, he actually said he wanted to get close to the fountain. So Carly picked him up and got close and he touched it. Sadly, it then turned off.
At home, I gave him a bath and washed his hair. To get him into it, we washed both Sophie and Ducky, and he wanted to get them both ready for bed. At the end of his bath, I said “I like giving you baths.” He replied “Mama loves to give a bath.” I then said “Well, something like that.” He said “Want to ask her!” So he ran out, but in his excitement to ask her, all he could get out was something like “You like it!” Which isn’t exactly a question.
I took him in to get his pajamas and we put a diaper on Sophie. We then started working on the puzzles. I was trying to not interfere too much, but must not have been doing too well, because when he only had the last two pieces and had it under control he told me (politely) “Go away.”
A few minutes later, we said goodnight and Carly took him in. He was asleep about 8.
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