He was up at 6, and Carly was already up. When I got up a bit later he was hungry, and I made us some toast. After Carly left, we read some Winnie the Pooh, then watched the bookends episode of the Winnie the Pooh cartoon again before switching to watching Spanish songs. He played with the door magnets and we ate quesadilla and banana. We made a couple letters out of Duplos, then I rested while he played on the iPad. A bit later I was feeling better, and started talking to him about our day. I got as far as saying “I was thinking…” and he said “Kwangwoon University”. But first we were looking up the songs from the Hangeul up on YouTube, and watching the videos. He started singing to “Tell Me” and dancing to “Wolf”. He watched some phonics/words songs, and while watching the “Controlling R” song (https://youtu.be/lIGDpEVPzCw) he saw a horn on an animal and wanted to see one for real today. He was a bit upset when I said we probably wouldn’t today. We brushed our teeth, and he picked up my toothbrush and wanted to brush my teeth. He looked in my mouth as he did so and said “Ooh, teeth look very messy.” He was then doing a lot of art, only using the red pastel, and managed to get it on his hands and then on the chair and pillow and floor. He was happy to wash his hands in the sink though. Finally, before we left he was talking about counting jars of honey and pockets and handkerchiefs: “and one jar for a hankerchief”
We took the #9 bus to Kwangwoon University. Bought some kimbap and juice and a sandwich for lunch and walked up to a little park, 연천내어린이공원, and sat and ate lunch. Had fun joking around on the couch, then he was getting tired…I know when he’s ready for a nap because he asks if we can go home. Headed off and walked up to the top of the university and walked around campus until he fell asleep. Walked down to the main road and found a coffee shop, 베르데, where he slept from 12:24 to 1:41.
We walked up along the stream a bit and found the playground at the southwest corner of 영축산근린공원. That is the big hill south of APIS. August and I walked over it once a long time ago. We started writing in the sand. He is focused on final consonant sounds in Korean, and said “it more makes a t sound to me.” He wanted to write ‘sometimes’ and then we were talking about English words and he wanted to list words that end in K, have OO, etc. He was also saying Kwangwoon University in Korean. We stopped and had a snack, then played on the play structure a bit. There were two older boys, and they found a shovel and brought it over to August. He started playing with it, and was trying to pour sand on them. We did some talking with the boys – they told us their names. We played on the slide a bit, then after the boys left August wanted to write their names (the best we remembered them) in the sand. August also spelled ‘pig’.
We walked home, north to the main street, then the usual way home. August was singing a song, and said it was a spider song. I didn’t catch the connection. Then he said “Maybe got-me” means ‘spider’. It took me a moment to realize that he was correct, having remembered it from class the other day. We spent most of the rest of the walk singing Ants Go Marching. At one point he said they go marching “in the usual way” (a Pooh quote). Then he started to give insanely long numbers and explanations, like “go marching 8 billion 5 million 11 trillion 6 hundred 5 in a car in a tree…”
Got home at 3:45. He started coloring on the paper, and just making art – that is, not just writing letters, but choosing different colors and drawing abstract lines. He was really focused on that for a long time. He kept saying things like “Look at all that nice art…I did lots of art for dada.” “I’m doing lots of work.” I laid down on the reading area to rest, and he came and laid down with me for a minute, curling under my left arm. We got ready to go back out to Home Plus, and just as we were changing him to go he decided he wanted to watch Peppa Pig. He was sad when I said no, and we almost didn’t go. But finally I said he could push all the buttons along the way, and that got him. Nice how that worked, as he pushes all the buttons anyway.
At Home Plus he wanted to crawl on the floor. But got him back and we ordered pizza, then did our other shopping. Wanted to crawl on the floor, but I got him back by the pizza place and he played on a table and chair there, then played with the swinging door and marveled at the pizza oven and its lights and buttons. Got our pizza, then he laid on the floor while I paid for our groceries. Then I was holding him, and he kept asking if he could nurse, and reaching down my shirt. I carried him home, with the pizza propped on the stroller.
We got home a bit after Carly. I had some pizza and went to lie down. They nursed, read some Pooh, did some art, and played on the iPad. I heard them singing “I like to make mistakes…” I came out, and played some Classify It with him, then he took a bath with her. He was then getting out of the bath to draw one of his bath words, then explaining what it was, then going back in the bath to make another word: MRBHI “…goes past the museum we have not been to…to the university…transfers there…goes up to the sky…” KXA “that’s a snake…that’s a centimapede…and that is that…” “PT is a kind of snake” Carly had drawn something, and August called it a ‘superworm’. He then started to call Carly ‘Carly’, and was doing it repeatedly: “How you doing Carly. Hey Carly, where’s your computer? Hey Carly, you’re messy.”
A bit later, while Carly was taking a shower, he went to the window and was looking out: “I’m thinking a sad thing…sad thing right there…a man…likes to smoke a piglet on a stage…” Got him to bed a bit later, and he was asleep about 9:00.
Being lazy:
Waiting for pizza:
Studying the pizza oven:
On the floor at Home Plus:
