A long sleep…he didn’t come out until 8:52. And quite the routine he has going on. Once again he laid down on the carpet, and didn’t speak for several minutes. His first words came at 8:58 when he started sounding out the ‘fort’ sign. From there moved to the paper, where we were sounding out and writing Korean words like 포로로 and 포비 and our names in Korean. We read one Peppa Pig book, but my voice couldn’t handle much, so I suggested we watch Peppa Pig instead. Pulled up Netflix on the iPad, but then he saw Daniel Tiger, and we watched the first episode of that. He was quite into it, asking lots of questions. Also, the second story in it is the doctor book we have, so that was fun. From there we did apps and art, and got ready to go to class. He wanted to read the Pooh section on pockets, and he now insists that it is “71 pockets” Finally, I asked him what we should do later, and he said “Maybe we can go to Kwangwoon University…fort museum.”
Headed out to class and got there a little late. It was all about shopping – they pushed little shopping carts around, scanned items on a scanner that beeped: “later…orange juice…lots of noise.” In this case he liked the lot of noise that the scanner was making. Also, near the beginning of class he was talking about me smoking plastic. Not quite sure where that all came from. I asked him where he got that, and I thought he said something about the no smoking signs. The teacher was talking, so I didn’t really follow up on that. August didn’t do a forward roll again, but at the end of class did a great job of saying bye bye and thank you and bowing to the teacher – going back multiple times to get it all done.
After class we were walking out, and August decided to start crawling through Home Plus and singing. Then he was on his hands and feet, then on just his knees, then lying down…then he was doing circles while on his hands and feet. We walked over to the closest part of the park (by the water faucets) and he did more crawling. He also spotted graffiti on a rock and was reading that, then spent a lot of time sounding out the Hangeul on an inscription on a plaque.
At home he went straight to a poster and was reading it. He said “dada practice Korean”. He went to the paper and wrote 배 (off the poster – means boat and stomach) and was doing art: “Look at that art. It’s red.” We made a salmon sandwich and ate that, and read some Pooh. He then wanted the iPad: “I’ll do what music group, okay? I’ll be right back.” Went in the parlor and closed the door, then brought it out and played out here. No nap for him, but I needed a rest. I laid on the couch and he sat/laid on me and watched his word songs on YouTube. He let me doze off for awhile and rest, although he wanted me to look at things a couple times.
I was feeling better, so in the afternoon we got in the stroller and went out for a walk. We got Mama Juice (he wouldn’t hear of going to King Kong Juice). He got orange pineapple and I got a coffee. Got up to Chrysanthemum Park and played there. He climbed up the climbing wall, sat at the top, came down with my help (working on getting down), went back up, and then did the route around the top. He did much of the rope bridge by himself, then got a bit scared and needed my help. Made it, then did the wood bridge and got to the part around the platform. I climbed up on another portion and helped him just a little to get down to the platform. There, he laid down and did a lot of talking. A couple of other kids came and were getting on it, and he initially said “No” to them (strikes me that this is the first he’s really told someone ‘no’ since I taught him to say it to his Teuni Teuni teacher – he also said “No no no” today when he did the walking path, but then didn’t want to do the forward roll). I told him he had to share and he was okay with it. He also started talking about Smurfs, and was asking them how to climb.
He went down the slide, then we spent some time writing Korean in the sand before heading out. We walked over by the stadium. He spotted the globe thing and we were sad to find out that someone had vandalized it, breaking off the handles that let you open it up and scratching off some of the ocean. I pointed out where Oma and Opa were, and then he had fun pointing to spots on the globe and asking who lived there. Was able to give him a few people. I told him someone lived in Indonesia, and he was trying to figure out which island “Maybe it’s this one. Maybe…”
Headed home. Carly was home when we got there. August told her about our juice and coffee. I went to take a rest, but August was acting very tired and started crying. I came back out after awhile. He recovered, and took a good bath with Carly. He came out wearing his froggy towel and kneeled on the floor and was writing in the air. He made it until 7:15 and went to sleep.
Thinking about Hangeul:
