He woke up at 4:30 and wanted to nurse in the parlor. Carly went out with him and he was up until some time after 5:30. He mostly watched Puffin Rock and also sat there staring off into space.
He fell back to sleep on the reading area and was back up at 7:30. A rough one. Kept repeating “I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go…” and “I’ll nurse, I’ll nurse, nurse…” He wanted to go outside. First time we walked around the park. But he got upset when I put on his sweatshirt. Went home and he wanted back in the stroller. More successful this time and we walked along the stream and saw some ducks. By the time we got back he was making jokes about Hangeul and asking me for the tempo of something he started chanting.
He then typed messages to mama. He wanted to type the ghost emoji but said “you’re not good at typing.” Kind of like the Darong game yesterday. So we worked on the typing together. We then sat together and watched Puffin Rock for awhile. At some point he then turned to me and said “Dada needs some tea.” I asked if he needed anything and he said “I just need some milk.” He spent some time being a hedgehog under the chair. We were then writing on the paper and he asked “What’s teeter totter in Korean?” He wanted to do art: “lots of work”. He then watched Puffin Rock while I showered. We did some play dough, printing letters.
We then skyped with my parents to say happy birthday to my mom. He was quite into skype today. He was typing to them, and created a pattern, where he was typing a closed parentheses, two periods, a letter, two more periods, and another letter or number. Kept doing that over and over.
I gave him some options for lunch and he said “I prefer Mandu.” He was really into the Silent E song, so we watched it and a couple others while we ate.
Then it was off for a nap. Supposedly. We walked for 33 minutes. At the beginning he made up a new alphabet song, where he worked through the alphabet, singing A is for (nonsense word), then reviewing the last few letters and then doing the next one. He was silent, with his head down much of the time. At 33 minutes he was singing again though. Stopped for a minute, then kept walking for another 6. No change, so we stopped at the playground by the youth center and sat and had a snack. He also walked around a little, and did some writing in the air. We then walked for another 22 minutes, during which he kept singing, before we returned home.
We got inside, and were sitting inside the door, talking about something. I typed something on my phone, and he said “Poop on dada.” I looked down and yes, yes there was poop on my arm. He had reached down his diaper. We changed him and got washed up. We then went back to the paper and I was writing more English and Korean words for him to copy.
He was acting tired though, and I didn’t feel there was any way he would make it to 7. So we headed back out in the backpack. He was singing his new ABC song much of the way there, but quieted down and fell asleep at 3:50, right before we got to Toys R Us. I did a quick look in Lotte Mart for butter, and in Toys R Us for Halloween costumes – no luck on either. I went to the infant room and rested for about 15 minutes, then we headed home. I was going to wake him up when we got home, but the sound of the door keys at 4:22 did that for me.
He wasn’t ready to wake up, so it was a tough one. More “I’ll nurse, I’ll nurse, I’ll nurse…” and he crawled to the door. Calmed down after awhile though and played until Carly got home.
Carly got home and they nursed. He wanted to paint, and said that dark blue was his favorite color. Carly asked “When is green going to be your favorite color?” His reply: “For Halloween.” He shared soup with me again, and we went and read LMNO Peas and 123 Peas. We watched the Silent E song and typed up the words so we could sing it later. We wrote words, and he was singing the “If you’re looking for an vowel” and “a e I o u and sometimes Y”. We were writing full lines from the Silent E song.
Carly gave him a bath and this went smoothly from there. He was asleep about 9:00.
Cold:
Upset:
Hedgehog:
Too close:
Done:
Writing in the air:
Toys R Us:
The night’s painting:
