He was up just before 7. Nursed and read Pooh with Carly – the Piglet and Kanga story. He and I put in the piano keys and played the piano a little, then he wanted on the iPad and did the Hangeul apps. He watched some of the Formula 1 racing with me, and was intrigued by all the numbers on the screen. Carly made oatmeal for him for breakfast. He was then acting like a puppy dog. Then he was doing math using the blocks with Carly and the Pooh pillow. August was counting pockets. He counted my pockets, then said I had a crazy amount of pockets, so I had to go grab a couple of coats and shirts and hung them from my head, then pretended to be a monster. I slimed him, but he said “Just dirt…not slime.” Which is his response any time you say he has slime on him. He and I then read the 123 Peas book, then they skyped with Chuck and Cherie. He did some art with Carly, using the new paints and then adding stickers. He likes to give us silly names, and was saying “Mama’s name is to-gee (Korean for rabbit)…mama’s name is hedge (which was on one of the stickers).”
He and I played with the animal magnets in the changing room, then he made a little nest/cave in the corner of the room, like the fox. I helped use the drawers from his clothes to make it. He then curled up, then said “You wake up and you’re a beautiful butterfly.” He then had a lot of fun talking to Siri. At one point he kept asking her “What does that mean? What does that mean, Siri?” Referring to the nonsense words he had been saying before that.
Carly started our Sunday cleaning, and we joined in. August really got into putting stuff away (“Sorting” he called it), then vacuuming. He then took a nap, sleeping from 1:05 to 2:30. After waking up he read some Pooh with Carly. It was the part about planning to kidnap Roo, and August got sad, but wouldn’t explain why.
After awhile, he and I got out on a walk. Carly had gone to the store, then came back and started making enchiladas and did some work. We walked east to check on the science center that is being built. Didn’t think it was done yet, but wanted to check the progress. The building and landscaping look done, and the big fences are down. But it doesn’t open until April. Then walked just south to the park. Walked to the playground, but spent the first 10 minutes or so looking at the stone sign, tracing the Hangeul. Then found some beads and walked along the edge of the stone wall, holding my hand. Then we went over to the playground. He climbed up, then went down the fast slide once. He had me do a lot of fixing of the playground. A few older kids showed up and talked to him. He wasn’t too bothered by them, although one boy kept getting in his face, and his mom told him to back off. We were looking at a Pokémon sign someone had drawn in the sand. August sang a bit of our ‘Lulu chingu dae…’ song. Basically, it is a song from one of his Korean classes, but we change ‘Lulu’ to different syllables he makes out of Hangeul…Nunu, Say-say, etc. He brought that up. It was starting to get chilly and dark (he was in long sleeves, and had complained a bit when I made him put on his sweatshirt) and I convinced him we should head home. He was looking at the park sign and counted “6 syllables”.
Paused in the park to watch a little singing and the big mask festival puppet things. We saw these with Chuck and Cherie last year. The concert in the evening was when August was dancing. It was 5:30 now, but the big concert didn’t start until 6. We didn’t go back out for it.
At home he wanted to do Korean on the iPad. He walked into the kitchen and Carly didn’t see him and bumped him into the counter. Sad boy after that. We read Biscuit Wins a Prize. He said ‘simple’ for something, and I was wondering how he knew the word. He told me: ‘“Simple’ is in Peppa’s Windy Fall Day.” I changed him and he wanted to stay naked after that. We ate Carly’s enchiladas for dinner. August was asking what cooked beans was all about, so Carly was teaching him about the dry beans and the different kinds. He was really liking that.
They were counting pockets again, and August turned it into a multiplication thing. August said “7 pockets in one suit” and we wondered how he knew ‘suit’ – but he knew his source: Rabbit says it in the Pooh story. He was excited when we understood what he was talking about. At one point he said “Multiplication!” He was writing multiplication problems on the paper, when suddenly he wrote 사이 (‘Psy’). He’s definitely learning from that Hangeul app. Just not important stuff…
He cuddled on the reading area and was pretending to sleep. He said “You wake up and you’re a beautiful butterfly.” again. He wanted to type, so I let him type to multiple people on Skype – sent a ton to Carly. I gave him a bath. Carly had been cutting up grapefruit and he wanted one piece as he went in. Then he decided he wanted more. Ended up eating a lot. At one point Carly asked “More grapefruit?” He said no and then “Thank you for asking though.” He wanted me to play the confusing game, and specifically wanted me to confuse each piece of grapefruit: “Dada confuse that grapefruit.” And at one point he randomly said “Ask your mother about that.” I know I’ve said that in the past, but don’t know why he pulled that out now.
Pretty straightforward bedtime after that, and he was asleep about 9:30.
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