He woke up at 7:45. Held him for a minute, then he was straight to the Duplos. We were making letters and numbers out of them, and we had made a 9 with the line at the bottom. He added a piece to make it look like a curved on and said “It’s a sitting 9!” He did some emailing with Carly, then played with the music apps, before doing some color sorting and mixing in the colors app.
I was about to jump in the shower, but he wanted some cereal, so we had that. He was playing with the remote to the stereo we don’t use, which he has done several times, but this time he pretended it was a phone. I asked who he was calling, and he said “birdie”. So he talked to a birdie. He then took the Peter Rabbit puzzle apart, and wanted birdie to help. We did some of the puzzle, then I finally took a shower and we got ready to go. We also of course did the piano keys. He only had C in, and was hitting it singing the ABC song. Left a little after 10.
We played with a Hangeul app on the way down. He understood the transferring, and that we were on line 5, as he talked about it later on the way back, and then at home. We got out at Olympic Park and went to CU, where we got some new kimbap, a macaroni salad, and he picked out a mango juice, and I got blueberry. He didn’t eat much, saying the macaroni was crunchy, and that the blueberry juice was salty. Threw our stuff away and went walking. Talked about where to go, and I mentioned the history museum, and he really wanted to go there. So he was disappointed when it was closed. He then used it for a “The baby was sad because she wanted to go to the history museum.” Later I would say sorry you were sad that the history museum wasn’t open, and he would claim he wasn’t sad about it. On the walk over, he was singing Wheels on the Bus, and wanted me to. He was doing hand motions in the backpack – driving, doors opening, etc. and said there were buttons to make the babies cry, and “There’s a button for the mama’s go shh shh shh” (think he said that one later at the playground). He also spotted interesting bushes with berries on them – something like beauty berries, I think.
Anyway, went to the big playground. They changed it all over the summer. Or at least parts of it. He mainly climbed on a big triangle-shaped climbing thing. On the rope ladder side he climbed to the top, about 7 feet up. On his way down his foot slipped and I went to help him, but he wasn’t upset – he was asking if he could get down under the rope part. He also went in the big jeep toy (which was there before, but moved). He sat in there and sang Wheels on the Bus, then he climbed in a little shaky toy and did the same. A few times he mentioned/sang about driving to mama’s work.
He needed changing, so we went and changed him in the nearby bathroom. He saw the drawings of poop on a nearby door, for the little Dongbang bakery – literally ‘Dung bread’. We went in a bit later and got a blueberry one. As we ate it, he joked about it being a “Pile of spaghetti poop”. He was looking a bit tired, but I didn’t expect a nap. We went walking around the pond area, but he just kept talking – a lot about colors, asking how they would mix, and singing about them as well. After about 20 minutes it was clear it was a no nap day. We stopped to look at the information on the 88 Olympics, and at the list of gold medal winners. We then watched the fake waterfall, and the waterwheel exhibit for several minutes. The waterwheel was only going partially around, going back and forth, and he kept asking why it was broken, and wanted someone to come fix it.
We started walking through the park, back to the same station. There was an announcement on the speakers, and he really wanted to know what it was about. We had heard one before trying to give him a nap, and one of us, I can’t remember who, started a joke that it was telling babies they were supposed to take a nap. This time he wanted to really know. After it stopped, New Kids on the Block’s “Step by Step” played.
We spotted the small playground near the south end of the park that he’d never played at. He wanted to get down. That it would be short, but we spent a lot of time there. He went across the shaky bridge a couple times, holding my hand. There was a net floor space, and at the entrance to it two handles. He started the bzzzzt game, and that went on for a long time. Then once when he had me get bzzzzt,, he suddenly said “Accident! It will feel better dada…I grabbed some water for you.” He then spent several minutes running around the structure, pretending to get water, then rubbing it on my hand and telling me it would feel better. A guy came and talked to us for a few minutes, kind of putting and end to that one, then we headed out, walking to the exit. Got him to do some of the walking. Spent a few minutes playing with a drinking fountain, then he found two beads on the ground and we looked for more as we walked towards the exit. Found several, and he threw some in the fountain. He drank from his water bottle, then asked “Can you spit in the train station?” He then randomly said “I just want dada to get some gum.”
We made our way home. On line 7 he spent all his time looking at the subway map, playing “All the way to this stop…”, where he points to a random stop, and then asks what is at that stop. His diaper was seeming full, so I carried him home. We changed him, then quickly headed to the pink building to pick up a couple things. Got back home a little before Carly. I let August get a little grape jelly thing at the grocery store, and he remembered it and wanted to eat it. When he was eating it, he said it “slurped” in his mouth. He used the word first, but then found it hilarious when I used it every time he took a bite. Carly had dropped off a bottle that Derek had left, and he gave her a bunch of mini meatloafs that he had made. We ate those and lasagna for dinner. He was nursing and almost fell asleep at 6:20, and wasn’t happy about being woken back up. Carly gave him a bath, and he rebounded and had. Lot of fun. He then came out with me and we did Hangeul together on the iPad. He then went to sleep at 7:40.
Straight to the Duplos:
Mixing colors:
Playground. Counting rope steps:
Poop bread:
Not sleeping:
Gold medal winners:
Playground 2:
Pigeon, thumb, and clouds:
In the station:
Home:
Asleep:
