He was up at 8:25. He walked into the parlor and said “Mama’s in here.” Startling her, as she didn’t know he was there. Saw her computer and said “Want a document.” Then “Good…the diaper’s good” when she felt it. But then as they nursed he leaked on reading area. Talked about it being ‘sticky’ and ‘moist’ when they went back. Spent some time stacking blocks, then doing Duplo Art in a box. He asked me what it was, and when I said I didn’t know, he did his ‘giving me ideas’ thing and stuck ideas in my head. I said it looked like a ‘Y’ and he liked that. They skyped with Vivian and Cassie, then he and I did the piano keys. He then made designs out of crayons, and was giving them long crazy names. Then he and Carly played with the farm sticker set for a long time. He was having the animals cuddle in the pond, and they had the farmers planting seeds. We skyped with my parents for a few minutes, after which he randomly said “Kitty cat, where do you color?” They nursed again and read Froggy’s Day with Dad, then he played around pretending to wake up, and was making up funny animal names, like “Allima-Ks” instead of ‘alligators’.
We headed out for Ttukseom Resort at 11, leaving Carly to work from home. When we got off the train, I asked him how he was doing, as he walked beside me. He said “Not good” and when I asked why he said “Just soosadoo good.” He first wanted to go to the J-Bug building, and once there he wanted to play in the elevator. So we went up and down a few times, him pushing all the buttons, and investigating what we found on each floor – fish, the library, etc. We then went out next to the western playground and sat and ate lunch. As we got close to the playground, he remembered pinching his finger there climbing on the play structure. That was a few months ago. Played on the play structure a bit, going down the covered slides a couple of times.
We then walked over to the east playgrounds, and spent the next hour playing in the sand. Made a mountain, and found some of the beads, which he played with, putting them in nests on the mountain: “I build a nest so bugs can go in there and sleep.” We also watched and ant nest, and used our stick to do some writing in the sand. There was a woman and her 2-year old son there. She said she has seen me at Children’s Grand Park. I asked her where all the beads come from, and she said they’re from little toy guns – like BB guns. So the mystery has moved to these guns, which we’ve never seen anyone playing with in all these years. Before they left, she gave August a gummy worm. So August got his first real candy. It was a lemon lime flavored one, and it is safe to say he liked it. Really intent while eating it, and also called it a squishy worm.
It was supposed to rain today, but the clouds were slow rolling in. Had been thinking that we’d go to a coffee shop when it hit, so had been holding off on it. Around 2 though they finally started to approach, and August was acting a little sleepy, despite the late sleep in. So we got walking, and as we left the park the first big cloud went in front of the sun. August liked watching that. We walked some new streets to the east of the station, finding a few coffee shops and restaurants I marked on the map for later. He had the hiccups, but was clearly tired. Every few minutes he was asking me, in a sort of slurred, sleepy voice, “What stop this is?” Finally, he fell asleep. Went to one of the coffee shops we had spotted as the wind picked up. Called ‘at 856 Coffee Roastery’ (yes, with the ‘at’ at the beginning). He slept from 2:40 to 3:47. The wind got quite strong, but no rain. But Carly said it poured up here. When he woke up, he sat and played his shape app a bit, then wanted to do art and use the geometry app on my iPad. He was making big polygons, and said “Hepta means seven. Deca means ten.” as he made a heptadecagon (17 sides).
About 4:30 we headed home. As we exited in Hagye we smelled the rain, and August said “It smells like French fries.” Got home and they nursed. Then nursed some more. Then some more. She wanted to get out of the house and go to the store. Finally she convinced him to go. They came back with sweet potatoes and more bread. We had sandwiches for dinner, then he did a bit more of the sorting game. We then built a new zoo while Carly took a shower. This time, we used the cardboard bricks for exterior walls, allowing us to make a larger zoo, and individual exhibits for animals. He was really getting into what food each animal eats, and asking what would happen if you put one animal in with another. I had New Order playing on the stereo, and he would occasionally dance a bit as he played in the zoo.
Carly was teaching him ‘why’ today. Until now he asks things like “What is the dark about?” But is now working on asking “Why is it dark?”
They first tried going to bed around 9, as they were both tired. He was about asleep, but then popped up and came out, asking for the pink water. We read Bob Books for awhile, then he wanted to play with Duplos. I told him the choices were either reading with me or nursing and going to sleep with mama. He chose the latter. Carly said something about not wanting to break dada’s rule, which he picked up on, asking “What is break the rule?” several times.
9:40 or a bit after he suddenly showed up again (I was trying to watch Inglorious Bastards with my headphones in) asking to have his diaper changed. I took him and changed his diaper, then we read some stories on the iPad. We read most of the Paddington picture book (still has more words in it than most books we read) before he headed back in about 10:15 and fell asleep.
Y:
Playground 1:
Playground 2:
Gummy worm:
Feather:
Coffee shop:
Headed home:
Home: