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A pretty laid back Sunday. We went grocery shopping in the morning, and then all went for a walk to a playground in the late afternoon.
He was up at 7:40. Nursed, then was reading Winnie-the-Pooh with Carly. Nice that he is starting to get into that. He then came and played on the iPad with/next to me. He was playing the Hangeul app and wanted the ‘You’re the best’ sentence. Told him I didn’t remember what that one was, and he was able to tell me in Korean. Later, he told me I was wearing a box. That was a reference to the book Not a Box. He was singing songs and made ones up about sounds and fish: “all the sounds…parrot fish, yellow fish, butterfly fish…” Then making octopus jokes, and my favorite was when he said “Giant pacific octopus fish…that’s a silly joke.” I made scrambled eggs and broccoli for breakfast and we all ate together. While eating, a “gnat” was flying around and August told it to “Go away” He then joked about it going in my ear, which was a reference to when we were walking home from the playground yesterday and one actually tried to. He wanted to paint with Carly, so they did that while I took a shower.
We then got ready to head out and do our shopping. I asked August if he knew what grocery store we were going to, and he said “Lucky Mart”. It turned out that Carly had, in fact, told him. We did our grocery shopping, pretty uneventful except that I let him buy one of the pineapple jello things this time, and we came home.
He ate the pineapple thing, laughing much of the time just at the thought of it slurping, then I got out the paint brushes that he and I had bought up at Uijeongbu and we added to their painting. He got into the brush painting right away, and was painting Ks and triangles. He played the Korean app. Again. Then he was telling me “you’re the best, dada” and giving me a thumbs up, which is what the little monster in the picture for that one does in the app. After awhile I told him one more sentence, and when he was done with it he turned it off and put it away on the table without me saying anything. We went into the parlor and made a walking path for him out of blocks and the Teuni gym thing and the chairs. He was sort of swinging while sitting on the Teuni gym, then barely fell getting out of it. He did his “That’s a yes, yes” thing that he does when he’s hurt or something goes wrong. Think this was the first time I sort of got it on video. We were getting close to a nap, and when he suddenly wanted the ipad again we said no and he was a bit upset. But got him straightened out by suggesting we read Rain. We read that in bed, then talked about writing our own story. So that turned in to making a list of words in his language. He would type something, then tell me what it was in English and I would type that. We ended up with a long list. When he was ready for a nap he told me so, and I told him to call to mama, which he did: “Hey mama, I want to take a nap.” She came in and he napped from 1:50 to 3:15.
He had apparently woken up crying. I didn’t hear this because I was in the parlor and the door was closed because Carly had the air conditioner on. When he came in to me about 3:30 I asked him about his nap and if he had dreamed. He said yes, and when I asked him what he had dreamed about he said “About ‘No’”. I was surprised because he’s never acknowledged dreams before. But then Carly told me she had asked why he was crying and had asked if he had been dreaming about us saying “No” to something.
He and I spent a long time with one of the Duplo people as a vet, taking care of animals, then he typed more words on his list. He did the putting magnets in the xylophone game, and at one point said “I took them out. There’s no many left, okay?”
We headed out for a walk, August in the stroller. Got coffee and a pineapple juice for August at Mama Juice. We had seen people walking across the new rail-to-trail bridge across the river, so thought we would check it out. However, the park area on this end was still closed, so we couldn’t cross the river. We went to the children’s park near there instead. He and Carly immediately started finding the beads, and there were tons of them. So did quite a bit of that. He put them in Carly’s pocket, and a bunch more in the stroller. Then went and played on the play structure. Climbed up a couple of bar ladders and went down the slide, then I played the Jaws ‘duh-duh’ game again – like many months ago when Carly was last there – and he loved that. And after we changed him he went up the short actual climbing wall a couple times with our help. And he yelled into the bottom of the slide and said it was an echo on his own. After climbing he wandered off to the foot path, so we all tried that. We then saw five cats hanging out in the bench area, so watched them, then back to the walking path, then playing on the exercise equipment. August could do the spinning back and forth one by himself. We then went back to collecting beads for awhile. August found a piece of broken porcelain and was excited, saying “want to throw glass” and went and threw it in the bushes. We’ve done that a few times when we find glass and there are no garbage cans around.
It was 6 or so and we were hungry, so we headed home. We ate and he played some iPad. At one point he went to the refrigerator and saw the pear and prune juice and wanted to try that, and liked it. He was making octopus jokes, and said “giant pacific octoseven.” He played with the Hangeul magnets, making up things for us to pronounce. Carly gave him a bath, then switched and I played with him while he was in the bath. Got out and when he went out to the living room he immediately wanted the iPad and was upset. I reminded him that the plan was to do a puzzle or read books. They nursed and did some more reading. I made another loaf of banana bread. At some point, they got out some books to read, and one was the Junior Picture Dictionary, which we’ve had for a long time but haven’t much looked at. He was looking at the animals other things and saying “Let’s try (look for) this sometime”. Then, talking about us reading, he said “This is two people reading the book.” While Carly took a shower we ended up in the changing room playing with the animal magnet set. We took all the magnets off, and tried to put them in the logical spot on the zoo board. A good sorting activity. One of the magnets is a fox, and we put it in a cave. He then wanted to go in on the bed and we made a cave and he pretended to be a baby fox, sleeping. He wanted a photo of him going in the cave, but also wanted to take it. He did end up holding the phone and taking photos of the sheets and other things. Carly came in, and he was asleep by 10:10.
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To the park:
Park. Looking for beads:
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