He slept until 8:13. Normal nursing, etc. in the morning, then he went downstairs with me to do recycling. He was actual helpful, pushing buttons along the way as my hands were full. Down at recycling, sitting on the edge, we found a plastic bowl with Peter Rabbit on it that matches our Peter Rabbit stool. Score. Back up, Carly and him skyped with Vivian. The two of them then played with the counting cards. Carly said they should build something out of the bricks. Him: “shall we build a tower?” She was then teaching him to make the tower two blocks wide to make it more stable. They were building towers as high as he could reach, then he would say “It’s too big. I’ll build a smaller one.” At one point he also said “It’s time for me to go.” But he kept building. Also said “I’ll just move it right there.” I took a shower, and they skyped with Cherie and Chuck.
We then got ready to go and walked up to Sarang Children’s Park, getting there just before noon. August and I were eating our leftover kimbap when the fountain turned on. We played there until 12:30. August got in the water just a bit, but mainly played in the tree area, finding beads to throw in the fountain. He also found a couple pieces of glass and threw them away farther in the bushes: something he’s learned from me the last couple times we’ve been there, since there aren’t garbage cans.
We walked out the back entrance and to Starbucks, where we both got coffee drinks and August chose the chia seed yoghurt, which Carly says they had sometime last winter. August did the buckles getting into the stroller all on his own.
We walked back to the park, and August and I headed over to the sand area to look for beads. Carly went in the fountain a little when it came on at 1. Talking more about the glass, August concluded “I don’t think you can touch the glass of it’s sunny outside.” He was asking what was in the drinks, and asked “What is mine have?” He’s using ‘mine’ and ‘my’ for ‘your’ and ‘yours’, in addition to their correct usage, so a little confusing at times. Over in the sand area, August could now pop the beads on his own. I pointed out some pigeons and he said “How you doing?” a few times. Carly found a dead cicada and we looked at it and touched it. He picked it up, and eventually I had him put it in the bushes and told him to say goodbye. He waved and said bye. A little later he was talking about wanting to wake up the cicada. Before we left, we showed Carly how he could pop the beads and we washed our hands.
We got home a little before 3. At some point, he was also interested in the calculator on her computer, so I found a calculator for kids and put it on his iPad and we played with it a couple times during the day. They nursed and tried for a nap. Nope. Instead, they ended up drawing for a long time. It started with the pencil and eraser, but moved to crayons. He wanted to draw a monster, cantaloupe, children’s museum, house, road, shells…a lot of items. Carly tried coloring with black, but he wouldn’t let her: “It’s too dark.” He was also learning new colors: “That’s salmon pink.” A few things I heard him say: “That’s a road…to its home…to a children’s museum.” “That’s a shell…let me color a pink straw with it…this is a sandwich…its spicy.” “Yeah! I do want a mosaic right there! A pretty mosaic!”
We planned to go to Lucky Mart in the pink building. She went to change him, and he asked her to talk about why he was sad. Eventually it made sense: He was sad to stop coloring, but happy to go to the store. We were almost ready, when he changed his mind and wanted to nurse and “Want to stay here.” So I was about to leave on my own when he finished nursing and was now excited to go. We got the shopping done, although he was getting a little frustrated about staying in the stroller at the end. Let him out to help with checkout though.
Came home and they nursed, then he and I played with GarageBand. Taught him about measures and how to move through the song, then we were actually recording multiple tracks. He did some singing, then he added drums, bass, and some strings. Sounds like a free jazz sort of piece.
Something he did a few times today was shake his head and say “no”. He did it once when Carly had him naked and about to take a bath and I asked “Are you going to take a bath?” Naked time after his bath, then he helped vacuum the parlor. Carly got out pinto beans to soak overnight, and he was fascinated with them in the pot. Carried the pot around and played with them for several minutes. He said he was hungry, so I got out the sesame crackers we had just bought. Put several on the table, and he started playing with them, seeing shapes and letters in them, and then having me make those letters. At one point he decided they looked like the “emergency” call button in the elevator and so was pushing the button and we played that game.
Had some Apple Music playlist on and he was dancing to the music. We then read most of Kipper A to Z. At one point he then was lying on the floor, still naked. Carly asked if he was ready for bed: “Nah. I’m just lying down.” That said, he didn’t last much longer. Got his pajamas on and went to sleep at 8:30.
Morning:
Park. With his beads:
Home:
Numbers on his fingers:
Pushing the call button:
