He was awake a little before 7. He and Carly played the nest game for quite awhile, with him finding all sorts of colorful cicadas and other insects to eat. When we went out to the living room he was surprised to find the windows open, as it was cooler today. He said it “smells like cold” and kept trying to close the windows for awhile. I made some toast, and he played play dough with Carly. She’s trying to get him to nurse less, which is hard, because then it seems like he just thinks about it more. Eventually, they went back in the bedroom and played in the nest (and nursed, I presume). We then skyped with Cassie and Vivian for a long time. I played with him while we showed Vivian the Teuni cubes and the Duplos. They then skyped with Chuck and Cherie and Derek and family while I took a shower. He was then really upset about not nursing, and we were planning to go to Home Plus. Eventually, she gave in and nursed him, and he fell asleep. Way, way early for a nap, and he slept from 10:50 to 12:09.
After he woke up we finally got ready and headed over to Home Plus. Carly got to see where he likes to try out the tester creams. On the first basement she looked at backpacks, and August helped by knocking some off. August spotted the birds and said “How you doing birds?” We then headed down to groceries. At first he just wanted to smell the candies. Think he said “Want ‘I do not know’”, which is what I say when he asks what kind of candy they are. But then he and I actually did a lot of shopping. On the way home he was eating raisins, and pretending they were jelly beans. He would say what color they were, and what was in them, and offer them to Carly. Eventually I got a couple.
At home, they played in the parlor while I put the filters in the range hood. That took longer than expected. After that, we skyped with my parents. They then nursed. Carly did some vacuuming, and August then helped, and was vacuuming on his own. He and I then did some drawing, and he wanted to draw monsters. He was drawing the circles, and starting to draw eyes and mouths and whatnot. We worked together a little, but mainly he drew.
He was really working on pronouncing ‘jelly bean’, ‘highlighting’ (something he can now do on his own in word), and ‘adult’.
In the late afternoon we headed out again and walked over to Hangeulbi Park. We first got coffee and juice at Mama Juice. The banana juice was really good. Along the way, August wanted to get down and walk. He walked a bit, but we also ended up carrying him. As we turned into the park, he said something about ‘left right’. Figured out it was “left right there”, as we had just taken a left into the park.
In the park we played in the flat area where the Hangeul characters are. Carly and I were kicking the soccer ball around, and he was playing with us a little and playing with pieces of plastic he found. The big metal letters (where my dad and me and August took a selfie) are now surrounded by bushes and landscaping, so he couldn’t play with those, but he was identifying the Hangeul characters made out of tiles on the ground, and identifying where tiles had broken and been replaced by boring cement ones. He also played the ‘bzzzzt’, having me touch a piece of plastic on the ground. We headed back to the playground, and August pretended to pee along the way, doing the whole toilet flushing and pulling up his pants thing. He found a plastic bead on the ground, and then we were finding them everywhere. This was the park, after all, where we first started noticing them.
At the playground he played with us on the swings a bit, but mainly he wanted to play on the exercise equipment. He also climbed on the play structure – he climbed up a little curved climbing wall on his own a few times, and climbed up and down the round steps. He was a little unsure about climbing down them, so I would spot him, but he did it without touching me at all.
We headed home. I had a slight headache, so Carly gave him a bath. They had a lot of fun with the letters and whatnot. From there he wanted to go straight to nursing and sleep, so they did, and he was asleep right at 8. I had made raviolis and chicken for him, but he apparently didn’t want dinner.
Offering Vivian some milk:
Home Plus. “We should try this sometime”:
Home:
Interesting text on our coffee cup insulators:
Hangeulbi Park:
