He walked out at 6:56. A slight change in his morning routine as he came straight to me and had me pick him up. Held him a little, then we both laid down on the reading area for a few minutes. After 5 minutes he said “One zero zero zero zero zero one”. He rolled over and got up and looked out the window for a minute, then came back to reading area and whispered “talk to Siri.” But then he laid back down on the reading area and didn’t get up until 7:14 to go and play with the smurfs. We then had some banana bread.
I watched the debate this morning, and he watched Pooh much of the time. We were writing on the paper at some point, and I started writing ‘banana’ in English. On his own, he then spelled it in Korean: 바나나 Finally, we spent a good amount of time sorting the magnets on the door. That started because we couldn’t find the Hangeul ㄱ magnet for a word.
Eventually, we headed out and went to his Teuni Teuni class. Got there as they were doing the path and forward rolls. August was excited to go in. Walked the path once and calmly told the teacher “No forward roll.” Class was about ropes today. We first got a rope with handles on each end to play with – working on winding and swinging motions, pulling, etc. We then set them on the floor and the kids were jumping over them. August liked this (and reminded me how he couldn’t jump at all that long ago).
Next was a walking path made of elastic bands just a few inches above the ground. They would stretch to the ground, so it made a sort of tricky walking path as you tried to not trip on them. August wanted to do it on his own, without me holding on, which caused a bit of a traffic jam of kids behind him. I notice that regularly, and with all the activities he was into today, where he/we tend to take our times on things, while other people are rushing by.
Anyway, he did the path a second time, all on his own, while everyone else moved on to these boards with big jellyfish on them. The tentacles were actually ropes that went through a hole and hung down both sides of the board. There were stoppers on the end, so you couldn’t pull them out. Half the kids went on one side, and the other kids went on the other side. You would pull the ropes, only to have them get pulled back the other way. August loved that. The teacher then set up the next course, and August was the last one left pulling on the ropes.
The next thing involved lowering a then pulling (another motion) a rope to catch a candy with a magnet. They then crawled through the stretchy net things, now placed vertically. All was going well until August dropped his candy as he crawled through the first net. He was reaching for it when another mom – maybe not realizing where it came from – grabbed it and put it in the box at the end. August didn’t know what had happened, and he wanted that one. Held him for a minute then he was ready to go again.
Finally, there was an obstacle course where they went over the walking path again, climbed up aboard at an angle and jumped off.
At the end of class we got these vacuum cleaner sort of toys where you catch balls in it. August then got his two treats and handstamps on both hands. He got the treats then went back and held his hand out until the teacher got the idea and got out the stamp.
We went home for lunch. Asked what he wanted and he said salmon sandwich. That was convenient as it was what I had in mind. I made that and he played with magnets. He said “Zinnie likes P because it is for pink. Zinnie likes pink. Your favorite is pink.” He was then hiding a magnet, then going in the other room while I looked: “Ill stay in there until you find it.”
We ate then headed out with the stroller for a nap. He was asleep in 5 minutes. Went to the women’s center coffee shop and he slept from 1:42 to 2:59.
We walked from there east and behind Toys R Us to a park we’d never been to. A cool structure, shaped like a spaceship. Never played on it though. He sat in the stroller and had a snack, and when he got out he found a stick and wanted to write. We spent most of our time writing Korean in the sand around the badminton courts. He corrected me once, when I accidentally wrote 의 instead of 와 (for ‘and’). We worked on some verbs and simple sentences in Korean. At one point he was running around and declared “I’m having fun.” For the last 15 minutes or so he wanted to actually type Korean, so we sat on a bench and he typed on the iPad while I asked Carly what she wanted from the store. We got a reply from her and got ready to go. August at first didn’t like the idea of going to the store, but I said we could get something for the sick boy. He liked that, and a minute later put together the sentence “We can find a slurpy thing for the sick little boy.”
We walked to the pink building and did our shopping. He got out of the stroller and got his pineapple jello thing, then helped push the stroller and put things on the conveyor belt. As we left he was helping push but tripped on the wheel and fell. Not crying, but wanted to be picked up. He was a bit sad as we walked out and I talked about all the stuff we had done today. I mentioned I had gotten a lot of good work done at the coffee shop while he slept. He said “Zinnie do lot of good work at home. Art is my work.”
We were home a little after Carly. He ate the slurpy thing, and then declared that “Indigo is my favorite.” So no longer pink. He sang some lines from the Silent E song, then wanted to watch Pooh. He kept saying the Tigger line “not enough pictures/colors” and wanted to know what it meant.
I gave him a bath. He was trying to spell words and there was a word that needed two ‘d’s in the middle (well, like that). Oh, it was puddle. Anyway, I told him he could pretend with just the one. He kept saying/asking if he could do it with just one letter. Something about that exchange made him sad, and he wanted to go nurse. But we hadn’t started washing him yet. Made it through that with only a light washing of the hair and took him in to Carly. He wouldn’t tell me why he was sad, and he never told Carly about it either.
They nursed, then he was typing on her computer. He said “You have lots of important work to do.” He would type a bunch and point at it and say “What is that!?”
Carly saw the Teuni Teuni toy, which we hadn’t used yet, so she opened it and put it together and they played with it a bit. I then took him in to bed and he and I read books. We bought LMNO Peas and read that, then some Pete the Cat. He then saw me rearrange a couple books in iBooks and he wanted to do that. He put all the Biscuit books together, etc. and then messed them all up. Carly came in and he was ready for sleep. He was asleep about 9:30.
Typing LMNOP:
Jumping over the rope:
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The tricky path on his own:
The jellyfish rope thing:
Air drying his hands:
Made up silent e – dak to dake:
I have a lot of important work to do:
New Teuni toy:
Sorting books on the iPad:
Tricky path
Stamp pad fun
Writing Hangeul
Helping push
His bruise as he watches Pooh
Photos. Fox in the cave:
Stamp pad:
Snack:
Tracing “is nursing”:
Hangeul in the park:
Home Plus:
Bruise:
