6:52. Like yesterday no fuss. Laid down on the rug for a couple minutes, then said “Where paper go?” We did some drawing/writing, then got up and made oatmeal for breakfast. He wanted to watch something on my iPad. I started by showing him a few minutes of The Smurfs. He was intrigued, but wanted the letter videos. So we started with the Silent E video and watched several. He liked one with the vowels hiding, and was learning about ‘sometimes Y’. He started making up shape names, one was “wytrionicle”, and drew them on the paper. Did some of the new Korean apps, then made funny sentences. He was looking through the lists of words, and asked me “What quantities mean?” He had read ‘quantities’ on his own. Finally, he played some Endless Reader for the first time in months. Which was cool, because he was clearly reading a lot more of the words now and sounding them out. As we got ready to go, we were discussing/singing the Silent E video. He doesn’t quite get the process, but likes the song, and ends up coming up with lines like “I can change basket to bird.”
We left by 10:45. In the station he started chanting ‘SN’ (we pronounce it ‘snuh’ – it is the name of a store (which has been closed since we’ve been back)). We got down to the platform and he asked what the tempo was. I had gotten an app so we can tap out tempos, so we did that while waiting for the train. On the train down he did the Cookie Monster app. He called one of the colors ‘periwinkle’ (correctly).
At Children’s Grand Park there was some event going on for blind people, including a concert in the theater. So got to hear parts of that. We got some kimbap on the way, and sat by the rectangle pond. We had fun confusing his food (calling the tuna ‘salmon’, etc.). He was sitting on the table and looked over at a sign we’ve never read and read out 피크닉정원 = pee-kuh-neek-jung-won. The picnic part was understandable enough, but we needed to look up jungwon- garden. I had also bought a honey lemon cookie, and he spotted it across the table – “What is that? What in there?” Big smile. He then crawled around our food to check it out. I remembered the books from last time, and went and got those. We then spent quite awhile reading The Ants Go Marching and the colors book.
It was now 12:30, but he started talking about going to the children’s museum. Too close to nap time for that. But he liked the idea of the piano. We walked up and played the piano for awhile. He played and sang a little Are You Sleeping, then talked about a baby crying. We then changed him and got walking. About 15 minutes or so and he fell asleep, from 1:09 to 2:41. Woke up in the coffee shop spelling Korean syllables/words: “Hangeul ㄷ Hangeul ㅣ…subak…” He was still in the backpack for a few minutes, and facing one of the transparent purple chairs. Looking through it he said “I see pink and blue and maroonish and orange and brown and…”
He got out and walked around a little, then wanted to go to the children’s museum. He dutifully carried the card to the counter, got our ticket, and carried them to the entry. We went in and he chose the Idea Transformer area. There, we spent quite a bit of time playing with the recycling conveyor belt thing: first correctly sorting them, then ‘oops’ sorting them, and saving them before they got to the end. He did the black magnet shapes a bit, and I showed him the hologram robot thing that teaches you to bow. He liked that, and bowed to it a few times. But then there was a machine where you vote for your favorite inventor. It was broken, and August got sad about that, and started talking about going home.
I walked us out and pointed out the chalk board, which we haven’t done recently. He liked that. The girl before had left a self portrait and her name written on it. So first he wanted to copy her name. Then, he started making up names for her, silly and not: “Here name is 나3…her name is 나누…” (The latter is ‘sister’, reversed. He’s learned that word in the newest app, but may have been a coincidence.) When he was done with the chalk, he made sure we fully erased it. Then went in and played with the cotton ball things, putting them in the window. Then took him back to the light stuff. We did some building, but he had started to talk about going home again. Then, he sat on the ground. Another kid bolted away from the blocks table, didn’t look where he was going, and ran right into August, falling on him and kneeing him in the face. Worst part was that when the dad got his son up, he didn’t have him apologize to August or me. August was definitely ready to head home.
He had calmed down and stopped talking about heading home by the time we got to the station. He’d been talking about the ‘Wolf and Beauty’ song that he knows in Korean through the day, and as we walked by the stained glass window he pointed and said “there is beauty”. He then wanted me to do “Oops beauty”. So I pointed at the ugly ceiling and said it. He thought that was funny. A new game. On the way home, he started talking about ink: “Dada’s out of ink…buy buy…here is some ink for dada…for pencil…you can write with it.” I’m not sure where that came from…Pooh? Maybe Darong (the dog) spills ink in one of his Korean apps?
In the elevator, he mentioned the doctor on the second floor. I said we should get our flu shots. He interjected “But not now” I agreed, saying it would be busy now. He then said “maybe we get our flu shots when it’s not busy.” Got home around 4:30 and Carly was homes few minutes later – early, as they had been sent home as the internet wasn’t working. They nursed and read Pooh, and counted buttons on suits. He came out and played with his Hangeul magnets, focusing on the sounds the consonants make in the bottom (coda) position. He made a syllable and said “That is the flower’s name outside.” We played Figure together, then read Peppa Pig books. A little more Korean app, then eating enchilada and mushrooms for dinner. He took a couple bites of mushroom using a spoon on his own. So it definitely seems to be a drip thing – he doesn’t want to control anything that might drip. At some point he wanted to nurse, and insisted “mama agrees.” They nursed, then were talking about pockets. Carly was asking how many pockets each person has. He said Kayla has 200.
I picked up August, and we were dancing to a My Autumn Empire song. He randomly said “Octopus doesn’t live on land.” He was then humming to the song. Then talked about “And sometimes Y.” He wanted to watch letters songs, so I let him do that while I got his bath ready. Carly gave him a bath, and he came back out wanting to watch more letter songs. We were watching a “A is for…” song, and they would list several words. He would then ask what each thing was – even the ones he really knows. When ‘horse’ came up, I said “Don’t ask about horse.” He thought that was hilarious and made jokes based on that, and of course was later asking “What horse is?” He also randomly said “Don’t answer that.” Which as far as I can figure he’s probably heard me say a couple times to Carly when I say something like “Do I ever forget anything? Don’t answer that.”
I said it was almost 9 and we’d have to put the iPad away. He turned it right off. But he picked up his ipad, went in the parlor, and closed the door. Came out a few seconds later to pee. On the toilet, he said “Pee out there”, whispering and pointing. I asked where, and he said “Carpet”. He had leaked a drop before coming out to the toilet. Very cute how he handled it and told me. I told him it was just fine and thanks for telling me. We went back in and I said he could do one word on the Korean app. He agreed to that. We then went in to bed. I told him to choose a book while I went to the bathroom. I came back to him being very silly with Carly. No book though. He chose Kipper’s Birthday and we read that. He wanted me to do oops words, so I did things like calling Kipper ‘Bisc
uit’ or Tiger ‘Tigger’. He had fun catching those. Left them a little after 9.
He came in to the parlor around 9:40. He sat with me and we read a couple Peppa Pig books, then took him back in at 10:05 (he read the clock) and he was soon asleep.
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