He and Carly were up at 7:30. He came and found me a few minutes later. He and Carly had slept on the reading area as she is feeling sick. Kind of an eventful night. When I went in to go to bed last night he woke up, having a dream, saying “No, no, I’ll do it, I’ll do it, no…” probably dreaming of HS not letting him use the iPad or erase a restaurant sign. I got him to calm down, and he sat there a couple minutes and seemed to be falling back to sleep but wouldn’t lay down. Eventually Carly had to come in. Later, he woke me up and I carried him in to Carly, where he spent the rest of the night. But he woke up a couple more times. One time he didn’t see her next to him and he started walking back to the bedroom another time she was sitting on the couch and he walked by and headed to the bedroom and was startled when she said something.
Anyway, once they were up I measured him st his request – about 92cm now. Carly made him oatmeal, but he still won’t try to feed himself. I helped, and joked about when he would learn by. He assured me he’d learn by the time he was 10.
He sang “There’s a 100, there’s a 100, there’s a 100, there’s a 100, there’s a 100 at the bottom of the sea.”
As Carly said something August said “ai, ai, ai” and said that mama says that. I mentioned Skippyjon Jones, which we haven’t read in a long tie and he wanted to read it. I found it and we read some, but he wanted to know more about ‘siamese’ and ‘chihuahua’. In discussing those he said “What civets eat?” I was impressed with myself when I figured out what he was saying as it was rather off topic. So we looked up civet on Wikipedia.
He was then doing the Silent E song and wanted to know what ‘site’ means. So we were discussing ‘site’ and ‘sight’ and he was asking for more examples.
He then wanted to draw on my iPad, and wanted to ‘share’ by having me use his. I figured out that he really wanted to use the stylus, so I got the blue stylus out for his iPad and he happily did art for quite awhile.
August and Carly Skyped with Oma and Opa. Afterwards, he sent them a video by himself and watched Cherie’s reply on his own. He was then sending messages to my parents and Paul. He was typing a lot of words on his own: boo, Zinn, hi, kit kite
We Skyped with my parents while Carly went to the store. “Why don’t you like the spaghetti. “Because I don’t like the sauce…the sauce is too spicy.” I asked him something else and he was coughing and said “I’ll tell you in a minute.” We ate some kimbap and made playdough marbles while we Skyped. He wanted the play dough knife, but we couldn’t find it. While looking for it he said “The play dough knife was around here, but I don’t see it now.”
Carly was home about 11. She started making soup and her rice stuff. August wanted to go outside, but I needed to change him. He forgot about going outside after that and wanted to do art instead. So I got him set up with the paper and I hung up laundry. Later we were playing in the parlor. He had a running monologue of what he was doing as he was playing on the reading area: “Maybe the playdough knife began hiding under something but I don’t see it…it’s not hiding in my nest…I’m going to type on my computer. Look at my typing. What did you type. Anything…maybe I typed a baby or mooka moo…but I don’t know. Maybe I was making a joke.”
They nursed and then August saw me typing. He then read ‘doll’ and Carly got out Baby Q. August said “She’s sad because Oma…she’s sad because Opa is in Mexico.” They also played with Puff, and August was laughing a lot as he played the music and moved around and Carly made fun of him. I was playing with him and he was talking about a fish. When I stepped in the ‘water’ he said “The fish will say ‘Hey, you’re in the water. You can’t be in the water. Go out there. Leave us alone. You have a time out.’”
Eventually, he and I finally headed out to let Carly finish cooking and get some work done. We first walked down to the stream and down to the river and back. On the way down we stopped to look at a bunch of fish. August was putting his foot through the fence and drawing a ‘K’ for the fish. On the way back up, we saw an egret and watched as he struck for fish 3 times, succeeding at least twice. We then continued on to the park near the pink building. There, he was singing portions of the Big Numbers song, things like “1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion…” Out of the stroller, he said “My favorite game is finding beads.” He went up in the area where he and Carly looked for beads, and was wondering why the leaves were falling of the trees. I mentioned hibernating animals and asked “Do you remember animals that hibernate?” He said “Yeah! Hedgehogs. Spiky hibernates.” Spiky is the hedgehog on Puffin Rock. We looked around for awhile, finding a few. I looked up and he had climbed back out of the area over the little fence. It wasn’t huge – maybe up to his waist – but I was surprised he just did it. He then tried to squish an insect and when I reminded him that would hurt it he said “sorry” to it.
We went over to the rocky things and he went to the train one and said “That’s a 기차” (train in Korean). Also, he’s regularly saying “yeah-yo” for yes nowadays. Don’t know where that came from. We climbed on the play structure and shaky bridge, then went down the slide together. He spent a couple minutes sort of wandering around and singing, then dancing. He then said “I’m running around.” And did. He climbed on one of the cars, rode it, then got off and wandered around. I asked “what are you doing?” And he responded “I’m the silent E.” He then walked around singing a new song (“That’s leaves, l l l, that’s the kids, k k k…”). A boy said he was cute and I said thanks. August said “Hi! I love your art!” That’s a line that Elmo says on Sesame Street Art Maker. He followed it with a few other random sentences, but I didn’t catch those.
We then went to the grocery store for a few things. August had slept a lot last night, and I didn’t expect a nap. And so far he hadn’t been slowing down. He helped at the store, getting out of the stroller right away. He remembered the slurpy things and went and got a peach one on his own when we got near. Then he started crawling on the floor – I think he was a puppy – and laid down and looked up at the ceiling. Suddenly he was acting tired. We finished up and got him in the cart and headed home. He yawned once.
At home he nursed and showed some signs of wanting to sleep, but rallied. We shared two mandarins, then read Skippyjon Jones. Or part of it. He kept wanting me to fall asleep so he could wake me up. That continued through the day. And he’d want me to go to the bedroom to fall asleep. He typed messages to gramma, then ate some soup with mama. We then played the falling down game where we each kept falling down in the parlor, and falling on each other. We played with Duplos, making an exhibit for all the herbivores and letters and Hangeul out of bricks. We typed on the iPad, and I taught him about ‘autocorrect’. So then he was trying to spell words slightly wrong to get autocorrect to kick in. That’s his sort of game.
He ate some rice, then read Amelia Bedilia and Pete the Cat with Carly and did some more typing. We played with play dough, mixing colors together and making brown and printing letters. Suddenly, he got the idea of pretending to pee on me. Very random, out of no where, creative, funny, and slightly disturbing.
As we headed to his bath he said “you can try sitting down again.” And he did try, for a few seconds. Before he was in though, he was running around naked. He stopped in front of the mirror and was repeating “what just happened?” In the bath, we were trying to remember what Pooh rhymes with autumn. He’s starting to catch rhyming words. There was then a couple minutes where I tried to wash him
but he still wanted to play with letters and he used his ‘attitude’ voice to say “NOT washing. JUST letters.” He also wrote in the air and said “잠자다”. I asked what that meant and he said “to sleep”. It does.
He acted like a puppy dog after his bath. He was cuddling on the bed (in the reading area, as that was where they were sleeping tonight) under the soft blanket and “I’m right here cozy.” Carly came in and out of the blue he started saying to her “I like cashews. I like cashews. I like cashews. I like cashews.” I think I told him that was a good way to test his mother’s love. He then was making up a game and explained it: “you hit this bar and you catch a little toilet. it’s not a real toilet, it’s a pretend toilet. It’s like this tall.” They finished by reading some Winnie the Pooh and were asleep about 8.
