Carly had a half day of parent conferences today, so it was me and August in the morning. He acted like a lot of different animals today: from a frog in the morning, to beetle and ladybug on our walk, to a puffin in the evening.
He got up right at 7:00. He spent several minutes on reading area. I chased him off by trying to use a tissue on his nose. He hid under the kitchen table and sat there a couple minutes. We finished off the banana bread for breakfast. We played music on the piano, then he took the keys out and wanted Green Monster to help put them back – we haven’t had GM help in quite awhile. Did that, then he said “Want to go in the parlor.” Went in and used the crayons. He said that today “My favorite is salmon.” He started typing Hangeul, and I took a shower. He was then being a froggy and hopping around, and hid in the corner. We did some of the Asia puzzle, then he was back to doing some more writing, then being a froggy again. He climbed on top of the Bob Books and puzzles and wasn’t happy when I took him down.
We did recycling, and went to take it downstairs. He found the front door unlocked, and asked “what’s it unlocked about?” I explained that Carly didn’t lock it in the morning so the door noise didn’t wake him up. He then wanted to understand ‘door noise’ and talked a lot about that. I asked if he wanted to play outside when we took down recycling, but he said “No. Its much too late for that. How bout we take the garbage?” It was only 9am.
We took down recycling and came back up. He wanted to write ‘jellyfish stew’ (I had made that up as a joke once a few days ago) and ‘neighbor’. He wrote 진 (Zinn) and 친구 (friend) on his own.
Eventually he wanted to go back outside. In the stroller. We walked around the little So So Festival (it lived up to its name). We got the fish-shaped bread and sat and watched a brass band play for a bit. Then went over to the playground. He focused on the pipe slide thing, going down a few times. I still helped him down, but he could sit on it on his own. Just needs to work on the sliding part. Also played on exercise equipment. Did some dancing to the drum group we could hear. And he saw a ‘blob’ shape on the ground again and was laughing about that. He then sung ‘The ants go marching blob by blob’ and thought it was hilarious when I had the little one say “blob, blob, blob”. We ended by going on the teeter totter. A girl got on the other end, and I helped them go up and down. As we left, he read 마미쿡 on a booth sign (Mommy Cook).
At home we went to books and read Little Kipper Collection and Little Big. We ate the rest of the Mandy for lunch. I had music playing and he was asking about the names of songs. He asked “What ‘baseball coming up’ about?” Siri had said it earlier when we were asking her random things. We then read Snappy Little Monsters, Moby Dick, and Puff the Magic Dragon.
Carly came home about 12:30 and he fell asleep from 12:45 to 1:42. He and I finished the puzzle, and they did more nursing. He was typing more Hangeul, and Carly was noticing that he was doing full syllables. I’d noticed this a couple days ago. He’s picked up the structure of Korean from the Hangeul app. Anyway, he was typing random things and saying things like “we go there last time” and talking about the smurfs.
We went for a walk at 3:30. August did a lot of walking at first, which made for slow going. He was acting like a froggy, then a beetle, hopping and crawling on the sidewalk: “you goed backwards”. Then a ladybug, helping push the stroller. He said “I want to ribbit.” I read an email to him from grampa. August had sent him a message earlier, saying he wanted to see how grampa was doing. August then said “you typed a message to grampa; he wrote back.” He then picked up leaves and put them on Carly, saying they were medicine. Asked how he was doing, and he said “I feel much better.” As we walked along the stream, he stopped and looked back and said “H is coming. H! Where are you?” He also stopped to put little rocks in his shoes. We tried to get him in the stroller, but he scooted on his bottom instead and said “oh my goodness.”
We got up to 햇살머금은채, a coffee shop we hadn’t been to. Got coffees and headed back along the stream. August was a little hurt, it turned out, that we hadn’t gotten a drink for him. We got to Pizza School and ordered a couple pizzas. He sat in the red chairs with Carly to wait, then stole her chair when she got up. We had told him we would stop at Mama Juice to get him something, but as we left the woman gave him an orange juice pouch, so that was his drink.
Got home and ate some pizza, and he did some writing. Carly went to the store. He wanted to watch Peppa Pig, but I introduced him to Puffin Rock instead. He really liked it, I liked how we learned about animals as well. Carly came home and started making food. August spent a long time pretending to be a puffin. He made a puffin burrow on the reading area, and had me get all the soft things I could find for his burrow. He also pretended that Mossy the shrew was in the burrow eating too many blueberries and getting sick. We read some Pooh, and he played with the Hangeul magnet app.
Got him to head to a bath. He washed his hands first, and said “I washed the germs off…I just washed my hands and the germs are gone.” As we got close to getting in he called out to Carly “Is it a hair washing day?” But then he was avoiding a bath, going out to Carly and asking “Does mama need some tea?” Finally got him in the bath and he was fine. Did some words, but then tried to escape. When I got him back in he was sad. Carly took him, and tried to get him to sleep around 9. He had other ideas and came back out. He and I read LMNO Peas, 123 Peas, The Earth Book, and Curious George Goes to the Zoo. He crawled out of the parlor to Carly when he was ready, and went to sleep about 10.
Playground:
Our walk:
Photos. Waking up:
Under the table:
Jumping on the “quadrant”:
Our walk:
Waiting for pizza:
Stealing her seat:
Puffin burrow:
