At 7:38 he walked out of the bedroom, holding Sophie. They nursed and read some Winnie the Pooh and probably others. Eventually out in the living room with me, and playing with the door magnets. He said “KB is a bank.” as he pointed to two magnets. Presumably he and Carly had talked about this.
With rain, and lots of it on the way, we headed outside at 8:40 to try to get some outside time before it hit. It had already started to drizzle. We went over to the playground, and August found a bead. Looked around for a couple minutes, but he decided it was too wet to play and wanted to go home. We talked him into walking to the center of the park, and he spotted the coffee machines. Carly got a tea, and they wanted it dispense that. Then spent quite awhile playing in the center of the park: pretended to play badminton, he did some dancing, pretended to feed us strange things and pretend animals then said things like “It tastes like pufferfish”, then had us spitting them out, and the spit moving, and also pretended there was slime on things. All was good until he started dancing and running and fell. Carly was carrying him home and I suggested we see the statue with the blue paint on it and that cheered him up a bit.
Went home and they nursed and read Bob Books. He typed on Carly’s computer, then looked at Google Maps on mine. He was pointing at different cities/countries and talking about transferring at one ‘stop’ and going to another ‘stop’. He really wants to go to Siberia, apparently. He stacked wooden blocks with Carly.
We all headed out again, going to Home Plus. He walked on the way over, not wanting to get in the stroller. At Home Plus we played the ‘wrong ingredients’ game (his invention), where I list the ingredients of the Larabar or banana bread and accidentally include wrong ingredients – like pufferfish. He was singing the ABC song and changing the end, one time saying “Next time won’t you sing with boring stuff.” And he spent some time smelling the candies. We paid and went up to the second floor so I could have them process the refund for the class that was cancelled. August was lying on the floor, and sat at a table with a couple other people. Carly got August in the stroller and headed home while I did that. Got the refund, and caught up with them as they entered Brownstone.
We were home about 1:30. He played a confusing game, which came up once before, called ‘Confusing Sophie’, in which we (he) say confusing things to confuse Sophie. But mainly it confuses me. I’m sure it came from something, but I don’t know what. He says things like “Dada and Zinnie go to the carpet when Sophie goes to work.” He got sleepy and slept from 2:20 to 3:50. I was in the parlor and didn’t hear him until 4:10, when he finished nursing. I colored and wrote ‘oops’ Ks (where we make mistakes) with him on the paper. He then wrote ‘kit’, starting to spell ‘kitten’ on his own. We started to play with play dough, then Carly and I switched. I did the dishes after Carly finished making tomato bisque and a pasta dish. They nursed and played around. Carly started to go “Ahh!” anytime August said the word ‘nurse’, and he found that funny.
We then went out for a short walk. Raining rather hard. Carly had put pants on August for the first time and they didn’t seem to bother him – earlier in the day he had opposed the long-sleeved shirt, but eventually gotten okay with it. But as we were leaving he kept grabbing at the back of his diaper and asking ‘what is it’. In the hallway, I checked, and there was one of his zoo magnets in his diaper. Not clear how it got there. When asked, he said he did it, but had seemed awfully surprised it was there. Anyway, got downstairs and put August in the stroller, pulling the cover on over him. That had worked for Carly coming home from Home Plus, and worked for awhile this time. We just about got to the bridge over the stream, and he decided he wanted out. Let him out on the bridge, and he played in puddles for a couple minutes, but quickly decide he wanted to go home. Got upset and wasn’t too happy with the ride home. Back in Brownstone we let him out, and he was happy again. Spent a few minutes tracing Hangeul and sounding it out on a sign.
At home, he wanted the iPad and played with the geometry app, then one of the shape apps. He ate vegetables that Carly put out, and just kept eating them. Ended up eating a ton of broccoli. He wanted to type, and we typed Korean words (mama, tree, etc.) together. A bit later he typed 나무 (tree) entirely on his own. We looked at Reading Rainbow, and watched part of a video on alligators. Oh, and he played some instruments on the newest music app. As Carly took him in to his bath, he took a pretend spider with him, saying “spider says we need to take off the clothes.” After his bath, he wanted to nurse on the bed, claiming he would fall asleep. He did not, and as he noted himself a bit later, looking at the clock, “It’s only 8:20.” He then played on the bed with me for quite awhile. We read Mr. Gumpy twice, read some Curious George, built a nest, played the sleeping elephant game, and he chanted “emergency equipment” as he marched around on the bed, and later chanted “equilateral triangle”. I left him and Carly about 9:15, and he was asleep about 9:30.
Morning:
Fixing the fence:
Home:
Pants:
Walking in the rain:
Home Plus:
Taking a seat:
Later walk:
Home: