Sunday: A Sick and Rainy Day

He was up a bit after 7. Did a lot of skyping with Vivian and Oma and Opa. While skyping with Vivian, he insisted that Jeff’s favorite color is brown and that his name starts with a G. At some point, he said “play group” to Carly, and she asked how he knew what a play group was and he said “Peppa”.

I made pancakes for breakfast, and shared with him. As he ate the last piece of it, he asked “What the sauce on there?” I said it was syrup and he started to protest, but it was too late. I’d forgotten he supposedly doesn’t like syrup – he’s always rejected it. Now that he’s had some we’ll see how he responds to the option next time.

He was typing on my iPad, and we did Smurf stories, then he wanted me in the parlor. There, he pretended to be a puffin. We read part of Cat on the Mat is Flat (one of the books Carly got from the woman at school), then read 123 Peas, the Peppa ballet book, and LMNO Peas. He was doing okay, but was starting to have a bit of a rough morning. He tried to write in one of my notebooks and I tried to give him his instead. Then, Carly was hanging back up one of the pictures that had been taped on the wall in the living room. She was trying to figure out where to hang it, and he wanted it down close to the ground and was upset when she didn’t hang it there. Led to some nursing and mama time. Then we were writing words and coloring a mosaic on the paper. I took a shower, and when I came out they were playing with playdough and Carly was spelling ‘cuidado’ with it before August then deleted it.

A little later he was trying to move books of the couch and dropped one on his foot. He nursed, and then talked about feeling sick. This was when we realized we’d be staying in most of the day. He typed on Carly’s computer, and was saying “T is alone”. I think he had made the font really big and there was only one letter at a time. On my iPad we ended up searching Google Images for something, and he was searching for individual letters and numbers, which works well. He was also searching for ‘baby’ over and over, which worked fine until he typed ‘babe’ instead. Back to typing on the computer, he was changing the font colors and said “White and orange is real favorite colors.” He and I played with playdough. I was making marbles for him, and he was flattening. Randomly, he asked “What ‘obvious’ means?” I asked where that came from, and he said “from ‘isn’t it obvious’ from ‘would you feed monkey that?’” Been a good week since we’ve read that book, at least. But that phrase has been bumping around in his head.

Finally, he took a nap from 2:20 to 4:05. It was drizzling in the afternoon, but we wanted to get out a bit. And we figured he could use some Mama Juice. Went down and got him an orange and pineapple, and I got a lemon tea. We made August wear a sweatshirt. I’d let him choose one inside and he chose the green/grey/white striped one, but he still didn’t want to put it on. He did get used to it, but as we walked around the park, then headed to the stream, he was still cold. Not enough layers. So at Baskin Robbins we decided to just head home.

When we got inside, he was talking about it being ‘autumn’ now. He’s been using that word a lot. I tried to get him to do the underwater puzzle with me, but he told me to do it alone. So I mostly did. He climbed up into the rocking chair and was acting like a puffin. Came over to me and read LMNO Peas and Elmo’s Potty. I shared dinner with him – Carly’s curry and green soup. I showed him how to dip bread in the soup and eat it, but then that was all he wanted. Got him to agree to one bite from the spoon, one from the bread. We played some Siri, then he did some Hangeul app. We were on the couch, and he pulled up the Korean app with Darong (the name of a dog). He wanted me to do it, saying “I’m not good at it.” Not sure where that wording came from. We did it together, but he kept climbing up on the couch above my head.

Carly gave him some persimmon and he liked it and ate a bunch. She then gave him a bath. He started describing some creature, and she kept asking him questions about it. It was really cool. Part of what I caught: “Monkey that is a shower…shower made out of fire…it stands in the ocean…” When he was done with his bath, he came out doing some dancing to the Avett Brothers. Went straight to the paper and we did some writing. We found interesting ways to write ‘Mama Juice’ wrong. He was saying the line “voters, vets, and volunteers.” It is from the LMNO Peas book. Also, he started talking about “Dr. Kim” – Carly’s boss – and found our reaction funny, so he kept saying it.

I forgot the name for where puffins live, and I asked August and he said “burrow”. Carly was impressed by that one. He was also singing much of the Lulu song from class. Finally, about 9 he decided he wanted to paint with mama. They did that, and then he went to bed, falling asleep some time after 9:30.: 

The way he holds his hand sometimes: