Up at 7:13. Very calm again. on floor, then played with the wooden shapes puzzle. After that, Duplos, making a ship shape that we said was carrying food for the zoo. He then wanted the zookeeper to help with puzzles, so she helped with the Peter Rabbit puzzle. We had cereal, and he watched one Kipper episode while I showered, then got out the Spanish cards and was looking at those when I got out. We then went and played in his nest. He got two coins from my pocket and was playing with them, hiding them in the blanket. We then started to get ready to go. He got the phone and wanted to call animals. He said “The spiders name is three hundred thousand two” meaning the phone number. I joked about calling a wrong number once, then he wanted to dial more wrong numbers. We skyped with my parents. While skyping, he talked about wanting to go to Kipper’s house, we played in the nest, and he wanted to color. He wanted to color on the floor with the pink crayon, and claimed that the blunt end wouldn’t write on the floor. He wanted me to do it, so I did, showing him that it actually did. He smiled, and loudly said “Hey dada. What do you color on?” Which is what we always say to him, then he says “On the paper!” Got me. It reminded me that yesterday, as I was trying to get him to take a nap and we were walking, he caught me crossing an intersection on red. It was up near Chysanthemum park, on the side street that runs along the stream. I crossed and he said “It’s red! It’s red!“ After we hung up, he wanted to work more on the mosaic, and I was coloring in a space. He’s started to do it as well (in the past he would just scribble). I did a space, and he looked and said “Hey dada. I see some white.” Did a little more iPad, then finally we were ready to head out the door. For some reason I mentioned a wizard, and he asked what a wizard was, and I answered by explaining magic, then picking up a ball and making it disappear. He said “More wizarding!” I hadn’t used it as a verb.
We headed out. There’s a food thing going on at the park, and a band playing. As we walked by I realized August was dancing in the backpack, moving his fists around. On the train he was asking about all the stops, and for one said on his own “There’s nothing too exciting at that stop.”
We transferred at Gunja and went to Achasan, and went to Daiso. Got a new lunch bag thing, as one of ours is wearing out, new straws for his bottles, and a set of letter stickers for him. Looked at puzzles, but they only had 150 piece puzzles. We had gotten one roll of kimbap in the subway, and we stopped by the old playground/foot path and ate lunch. He then played on the play structure, first climbing up the little climbing wall. He contemplated the skinny rope bridge, but decided against that. We went down the slide. I changed him, and he was tired. We got in the backpack, and he wanted to go to the children’s museum. I told him after his nap. He got really sad, and kept repeating “Today. Today, dada. Can we go today?” A good example of ‘today’ meaning ‘now’. Lasted about 10 minutes. I had to stop after a minute to get out a tissue for him. Then he fell asleep.
Slept from 1:36 to 2:54 in the upstairs coffee shop. When he woke up I told him we had to go straight to the children’s museum if he wanted to play there. We hurried over there. He first wanted to go up to the space play area – he looked at the signs on the wall and chose from those. We went up there for a few minutes. He did some hopping, and playing with buttons and switches in the spaceship, then he wanted to go down to the blue blocks. We went down there and played. There was a boy who spoke English with his mom. August seemed a little weirded out by them – I think he maybe thought they were talking to him. Other kids showed up, and started making a big fort using most of the pieces. August helped out, adding to their wall pretty well. At one point he was entranced by the music, looking up at it, and he also laid on the ground and watched the numbers change on the CD player. Oh, and in the space area we learned he is 100cm tall.
Right at 3:30 I told him we needed to leave, and he went without a fuss. I’d been explaining to him what we were doing. We walked to Children’s Grand Park station. He was once again optimistic that the escalators would be open. He spotted them first and was excited even though they weren’t: “Not open!” At Hagye we transferred to the Nowon 15 bus. Took about 10 minutes. We saw 3 1137 buses in the meantime. August had a seat both directions, while I sat next to him. He ate the Larabar, then we played I Spy. When we drove by Wolgye Stations, he said “You’ve been here…Don’t like it.” He was remembering that we always meet other people there. We went to Tospia and got sandwiches and coffee for Carly. Walked to APIS. He was nervous about going in, but I said he didn’t have to talk to anyone, and if anyone said hi I would just say hi and we’d keep going. He did well. Once we got up there, he went straight to her computer, wanting a document. I told her he had been a little nervous coming in. He said “BIG nervous”. We ate the sandwiches. He ate the pizza one and said “Its a little spicy. Not too spicy on your mouth.” He drew on a whiteboard, making squiggly lines, and when it was time to leave at 5:30, he said bye bye to Carly and waved. He didn’t mention nursing the entire time, and wasn’t upset when we left.
We got home, and put together 3 of his small puzzles, then played in the nest. He wanted to do emojis on the iPad, and wanted a piggy back ride while doing it. He let me carry him around the house a little too. At some point, he said “I’ll be back soon.” I got his bath ready, and he got in without a fuss. We had a lot of fun with the letters. Then, playing on the bed, he almost fell of. I told him to be careful. He then told me he had fallen off the bed yesterday. When I asked when, he said it was dark, and when I asked where mama was, he said sleeping. I then asked if it was pretend, and he said yes. But then seemed to claim it was real.
Carly got home, and they were nursing. She asked him if he’d taken a bath and he said yes, but then she hollered to me to verify. Then she asked him if he had played with the letters. He said yes, then hollered on his own to me “Did we play with the letters?” He got out the bucket of blue counting blocks and we all played with those. Carly had brought up a present from Tana. He opened it, and it is a stuffed bear with ‘August’ on it. His game with it became to wipe poop off its bottom, which started because he said there was some poop on its ruffle. Anyway, we all went into bed and played with the bear, and August and I did weird flops and lifts, as he made up funny names like “Want a moomoomaamakakakaah”. He struggled a little about going to sleep, but he was asleep a little before 10.
Waking up:
Playground:
Sad Zinnie:
Children’s museum:
CD player:
Subway. Making a bird out of shapes:
APIS:
On the bus:
Bath:
Q parts!