He slept in until 8:32. Held him for a minute, then when he wanted down we took care of the animals. After awhile with that, I showed him a new iPad app – Animal Hospital, in which you get to take care of seven different animals. August’s range of knowledge was limited, so the animals we take care of either throw up or have a hurt leg. Playing this app for awhile helped increase that range. We ate banana bread for breakfast, then some special flakes later. We then skyped with my dad. My mom was out at dinner with some friends. We talked for about half an hour. August was playing Oceans on the ipad for awhile, but was then acting like an elephant, and then showed grampa how he takes care of the Duplo animals.
We got off Skype at 10, and turned on the debate just as the candidates came out. August was asking what they were doing. I watched the debate, and August played with the Hangeul and number magnets, and we made letters out of play dough. Thrice he picked up on things Clinton said: “what does business mean?” “What does ‘at the same time’ mean?” “facing…facing it. What way you going.” At some point he also said “business…closed for business…went to the aquarium and it was closed.” Not clear that that was entirely related to the debate. I’m not sure where he learned ‘closed for business’ though.
After the debate we got ready to head out only to realize it was raining. Using the umbrella and the sun cover we walked to Toys R Us. Looked around there. Got four boxes of chalk, and a Smurfs storybook/play mat thing that I’ll save for later. August looked at the animal figurines for awhile, and we helped straighten them out. He was hungry, so we went into the baby lounge and ate in there. Our game was counting syllables on his big long made up words. Changed him then back out in the main hall he climbed on the metal guide rail along the wall. We walked home. Still didn’t put on the full rain gear, but it was now raining harder, so got a bit more wet. August was acting a bit tired, and put down his head for awhile, but was then up and singing the rest of the way home.
At home he talked more about Uidong and said “transfer at Uidong. Maybe it’s the end of the line.” He went in the parlor and played by himself for a few minutes, then suddenly he came out and climbed up on the couch with me and cuddled a little. We ate some crackers, and were eating the crumbs. He was asking what kind each crumb was, and I said one was a cheese-it. He replied “Sorry dada, it was a wheat thin.” A bit later, out of nowhere, he got up, walked over and picked up the Q magnet on the other end of the couch and said “I love you Q.” And kissed it.
We headed out one more time to see if he might want a nap, but I didn’t really think so. Before we left I had to change him again. By the time we left it was getting pretty late for a nap, so I was kind of hoping no. I put the yellow cover on this time, and expected him to get upset, but he didn’t. Totally fine with it. We headed out, and decided to go to the library. At the library, we sat down on the benches in the hall to get him out and I said I needed to take off the cover first. He asked “How do we take off the cover?” We went in and started looking at the English books. He grabbed a Halloween book off the shelf and said “Zinnie’s read it on his own.” He then climbed up in a chair and started turning the pages. He was working on his whispering, and would say things loudly, then sometimes catch himself and whisper it. We got five or six books and headed upstairs and read four of them. We read Pooh and Eeyore, How to Massage Your Cat, and Quinn’s Q Book.
He wanted a snack, so we headed out, and sat next to the backpack and had some crackers. We then headed out. Given the choice of art museum play area or coffee shop, he chose the latter. We walked back through Brownstone and headed over across the stream and to Cafe Tolerance. Along the way he remembered taking care of animals yesterday and said “want to take care of the cybisters.” So we pretended to do that as we walked. August chose a grape juice pack and I got my macchiato. We sat in chairs looking out over the stream. He played on the iPad and I did some reading. He spilled just a little out of his juice pack and was sad when we couldn’t put it back in and sort of cuddled for a bit. Acting tired, but got over it. We spent the last few minutes there with him spinning in the chair and verbally doing the Cookie Monster Is it a word? game.
Left about 5:40, and he walked the entire way home. Just light rain. He stomped in the first puddle and said “Blasted puddle!” Then he started jumping in the puddles and saying “Ribbit!” He also stopped to watch the water going down a drain in the street. A very fun walk home, and took about 20 minutes.
We got home just after 6. They nursed. He then was playing on his own, drawing on the paper and talking to himself: “…go to work period.” (As if he was writing it) “Its NOT NOT NOT NOT a box. Now you’re wearing a box?” And for a couple minutes he just drew Ks. He went into the parlor and asked if we could read Not a Box and Swirl By Swirl. He read Not a Box with Carly, as she hadn’t yet read it. He was then typing things in the search field in iBooks, and seemed to be doing fine until it was bath time. He wasn’t happy about that at all, and it ended up being a quick bath. Did a little talking in bed, but not much. He said he wanted to nurse, but Carly didn’t know if he was ready. She nursed him though and he fell immediately to sleep, right at 8.
Toys R Us:
Home:
Library:
Korean poop book:
Q:
To Cafe Tolerance:
Cafe:
Puddles:
Home: