7:15. He asked me where mama was, then asked if she was going to work. Was of course happy when the answer was no. After nursing, he played with/on the piano by himself for a few minutes. Was then doing puzzles with Carly, and then me. I wasn’t doing much, and he was singing as he worked on an animal puzzle. As he was about to finish it, he again said “Want dada go away out there.” They ate some Cheerios and he spilled some. Carly asked him to help clean up. “No! Mama do it.” But he actually did help.
A big activity today was the cardboard blocks. They were building towers, and she was teaching him about ‘wobbly’ and ‘stable’. They then started sorting the blocks by color. We shared some toast, then I started looking at the blocks with him, still with the sorting, but we were also looking at the animals on them and discussing what they ate. We then started stacking them by color. He had been diaper-less for some time, then Carly just put shorts on him as an experiment. He laid back in the rocking chair, hugging one of the bricks, and pretended to sleep. We did more playing with the Duplos and bricks, and he was singing Wheels on the Bus. I asked him what he wanted to do today, and he said “Want to go to dragon playground by mama’s work. Want to go to mama’s work.” He was sitting on our little piles of blocks by color and singing “The wheels on the bus go crash!” as he would fall to the ground. We took turns with the ‘more sad baby’ game – significant because he has generally wanted me to just do it.
Carly was making beans for burritos later and turned on the blender. He asked “What she blendering?” Back with the Duplos, he found the flower ones and was trying to find all of them. He was naming the flowers: “This is a dangelion. Two of them. Six of them!” Holding up six fingers and smiling. He said “Maybe she wants some flowers” and it turned out he was talking about the sad baby. Carly asked him “Do you want to pee on your toilet?” “Neh. I do not have pee.” But a few minutes later, not used to the shorts, he peed a bit on the floor. We did more Duplos and blocks after changing him, then he nursed and they read Wild About Books. They then skyped with Chuck and Cherie and I took a shower.
Carly was getting ready to go do some work, and August wasn’t fond of that idea. He kept talking about going to the bus with her (he wanted to take bus 15, which is hers) and going to playgrounds by her work – of course, the problem was that Carly wasn’t actually going in to work, but going to a coffee shop. Eventually he was getting upset and Carly didn’t feel right leaving, so they nursed. That was all it took, as he let her go at 11:50.
We intended to head out to some parks soon after, but he wanted some cereal, then crackers, then played with the volume buttons on the iPad, and made a production of choosing clothes. We didn’t leave until 12:45. We decided to head to Hagye Children’s Park and Pedulgi (Pigeon) Children’s Park, which he had been intrigued by when pointing to parks on the map at the station. Anyway, he started to nod off, and fell asleep just before getting to Hagye Children’s Park. I just had my phone with me, so we sat on a bench and I read. He slept from 12:57 to 1:45. He woke up, kind of slowly, and I suggested we get walking so we had some breeze. He said “sweat and breeze”.
We walked to Pedulgi Children’s Park. He sat in the stroller for a couple minutes, then was coaxed out when I pointed to the climbing wall. He played on the climbing wall (one of those at a slight slant with ropes to help climb) for 10 or 15 minutes. I spotted him, but eventually he was climbing up and down on his own, about 7 or 8 feet, total. Back down, he played on a rope tunnel thing, kind of climbing on it, then sitting in it, and wanting me get in it too, then wanted up on the little platform with a slide. To get up to it was a regular climbing wall, a short one. Helped him up a couple times, then he stood at the top and looked around. He had found a little black piece of plastic in the sand, and threw that off. He saw the peppers a couple women had out in the sun, and wanted to go touch them. He was really excited about that, so I said we could go see. We went over and looked at them, and he carefully touched a couple, but one of the women asked him not to. There were some dried stems lying around, and he contented himself with picking them up and throwing them in a drain. But then he wanted to touch them again, and stand on the bricks holding down the corners of the mat some of them were drying on. When I wouldn’t let him do that he got upset and I had to take him away. Calmed down, but was done with the park.
We walked towards home, then I mentioned going to Home Plus to get tortilla chips. He said “Yes. Let’s go!” We went and got chips, milk, and soy milk. We stopped at the clearance area to see if there was anything worth getting. I said there wasn’t anything I wanted to get, and on his own he said “Eh, nothing too exciting.”
We got home at 4, and Carly had beaten us home. They nursed, and Carly suggested going out to the park. He said “Nope. I just want to stay home. Dada can go to thto fountain.” At one point she got out his iPad and played some Sago Mini Monsters. Carly made nachos for dinner. August didn’t eat much, and wouldn’t eat the beans. But he hasn’t been eating big dinners lately.
They were in the parlor, and out of nowhere he said “Want to go in mama and Zinnie’s nest,” referring to the reading area. I have no idea where he got the idea of a nest from. They then pretended to see birds: “There’s a pedulgi in the ceiling…a purple one.” He was talking about flowers and made a funny portmanteau: “daisylions”.
At about 7 they went outside, walking over to the playground by the youth center. They went down the slide about 5 times. Once back, he wanted to stay in stroller and have Carly serve him some food. I gave him a bath. We washed Sophie. The game with her is he asks what the messy is on her, and we think of all the crazy things she has been eating or playing in or falling in…teriyaki sauce, gum, ice cream, mud, etc. They went in to bed about 8:40 and he was asleep by 9.
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