He came out at 7:43. Once again quiet and laying on the floor. He then wanted to read a Pooh story – the one with “Numbers”. I.e. buttons on suits. Read the word ‘sometimes’ and that reminded him of “and sometimes Y”. Which reminded him of YouTube videos. So watched some letter songs, then did some Korean, and ended up watching Spanish songs. I opened a MaraNatha peanut butter. August pointed in it and said “Zookeeer in there.” That was a joke of his from back in the spring. I laughed and said something about being surprised that he remembered that. He then said “Dropping water bottle on your foot…remember that…when you were a little baby.” Not sure what event he is talking about, but sounded plausible.
He also said “I’m in charge. K says that.” Not sure where that was coming from, but later at the park he was saying it and singing EIEIO and other lines. I think it is from a letters video he must have watched when I was showering or getting snacks together. He also asked me “Dada do oops words on French.”
We sang some Ants Go Marching…and would do that a lot on our walking. I have here that he said “How bout we just go home.” That’s something he says when he is ready for a nap when we are out. Can’t recall why he said it while we were still home…probably a joke. Anyway, he then caught a glimpse of my phone screen and was pretending to read it: “zookeeper…just boring stuff.” Finally, he was tapping his peanut butter spoon on the counter and started talking about “If I hold it loose…if I hold it tight…tap tap tap…” That was the lesson I gave him on drum/xylophone stick holding I gave him a week or two ago.
Got headed out 10:30ish. Mentioned going to the doctor, but it sunk in when I got out at the second floor. He started to whine, but I asked if he wanted to watch me get my flu shot first. He settled down, saying “Dada. Not Zinnie.” We went into my clinic and I held him the entire time. He was fascinated when the woman washed my arm, gave me the shot, and then a bandaid. He leaned over and watched from a few inches away. The doctor gave him two little Tootsie Roll pops, and the nursed put a bandaid on the back of his right hand.
Then to his doctor. It went amazingly well. I talked about how it was like the Daniel Tiger book as he went through the exam. He tensed up for the few seconds while we pulled down his shirt and held him for the shot, but otherwise just found it all a little ticklish. When we were done, he said bye bye to the doctor, then bye bye in both languages to the nurses and waved to them.
In the hallway I gave him a Tootsie Pop. His first lollipop. I handed it to him and he asked “What can you do?” Went across to the park and he had more of it, then we got in the backpack. He handed me the stick when he was finished.
We walked towards a couple schools by APIS. Walked the back route by the university to see the big construction site. Got to 신창어린이공원 and sat and ate lunch. He was then singing that EIEIO song, and then “The A says ah ah ah…” song. Spent a long time just eating and playing by the bench. Then had to change him. Went over to the play structure and he played on the end of the slide, holding himself up by the hands and lifting his feet off the ground. Leaned forward and fell on his face, but he recovered from that. He looked at a stone wall and said “want to do that game…all the way to this beetle…stream.” I let him walk along it, holding his hand. Then to the play structure. Did the xylophone sort of thing, then he watched the big kids on the swings, and examined his bandaid. Did the shaky bridge/stairs, which he insisted on doing himself. Did well, but got stuck on the last step, which was a wider gap. There was some Korean graffiti in there, and he got excited by it: “Can we do that? Want to write that painting in the sand.” Went down the slide, and we got our stick and spent the rest of the time writing in the sand. We were writing ‘월계 (Wolgye)’ but he wanted me to spell the Korean part ‘gay’ instead. He spent a few minutes writing the two versions over and over. He pooped again, so had to change him once more before leaving.
Got walking, across the stream and to a coffee place I wanted to check out. Then to a park we hadn’t been to in quite awhile. Before he fell asleep, he really started talking about…something “Kiss the J” sounded like part of it. He fell asleep from 2:14 to at 3:32 at BMT Coffee. I woke him up at the end.
Didn’t have time for the park I intended, so we walked to the park across from APIS where we would meet Carly at 4:30. Along the way we sang Ants go Marching, and I would stop at “ants go marching…” and he would fill in the rest. He did random numbers, and then ones like “70-window, 70-bench…”
At the park we read some Peppa Pig. A little girl walked by and knew Peggy Pig. Then What Would You Feed the Monkey? August wanted some Larabar, and joked about what was in it: “What’s in ther? There’s crab, eggs, soda…” Carly showed up, and he wanted to play with her. Climbed up the rope thing, and from there discussed flu shots with Carly, looking for her injection site: “It’s around there somewhere…up here or down there…mama feels better now.”
Played around and down the slide a couple times. And some loud singing. He was walking around and said “That was a 7” He had done that earlier too. He fell down, and needed some nursing. Then we left.
Walked home, talking a closer look at the construction site. He wanted to go into a bakery and was upset when we didn’t. Cheered him up with more Ants Go Marching. We stopped at the pink building for some fruit, then home.
I had been developing a sore throat, so I went and rested for awhile. They nursed and read Pooh. He came in and sort of patted me and laid his head on me when Carly told him I was sick. He kept quoting the Pooh story through the evening: “Pathetic, that’s what it is…around the mulberry bush.”
A highlight of the day definitely came after Carly asked me about a little jam jar. August started telling a long story about how it had been in the fridge, in the vegetable drawer, and how it had fallen out of the fridge and made a mess and then we cleaned it all up. Complete with lots of visuals. And all fiction. It was a pretty complete story, with a beginning, middle and end. Building on the Biscuit steps on a… stories we’ve been telling.
After that he started to do some dancing like Vivian. He and Carly must have watched that recently. I did show him a little ballet a few days ago, and he’s been reading that Peppa book a lot, so that could have reminded him as well.
We read the swimming book, then Carly took over reading Peppa, as my throat couldn’t handle it. She took him in for his bath, and he wanted to smell spices, so she took some in so he could smell them. I had some instrumental music playing when he came out, and he did some dancing to that. We did math on paper while Carly showered. He then did more dancing, and wanted me to join him: “Zinnie dada do TVXQ together.” I showed him a little of that Wolf and Beauty video, so he knows that TVXQ also dance. He had to go pee, then he said “What Tia Cassie say?” Confused me, but this is apparently a thing between him and Carly.
They went to sleep, or at least seemed to. They came back out and Carly read him the What Would You Feed a Monkey? book. After that he was ready to go try again and was asleep around 9:30.
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