He got up at 6:10 and went out and found Carly. First activity of the day was play dough mixing, which he was really into. He made one that was a beetle, another was a chomebahdi spider, etc. Before Carly left she gave him th iPad and he started doing art. I noticed he started using ‘why’ when talking: ‘Why that is pink about?’ Still has his unique sentence structure, but that is slowly going away. Will miss that. As he was mixing colors he added yellow and said “and makes that goldenrod.” Didn’t know he knew goldenrod. When he finished it, we typed the date and he made up a name for it. He liked that, so we went back and dated and named a few from yesterday. He then kept going, adding random dates and making up names for older pieces that didn’t have them. He said “Hey dada, you need to learn to spell chwachwanicall.” So we sounded it out and spelled it together, and he declared it has two ls at the end.
He then wanted to read stories, and he chose Pooh. He was pretending to be Spikey, the hedgehog, and making a nest while I read. When piglet talked about being a small animal, August said “I’m a small animal.” At the pockets in suits part he said “I always do funny ones.” At some point he decided to be a bird in the nest instead. We read much of the Kanga and Roo story, then the poem about Christopher Robin having weazles and sneezles- August caught some of the rhymes and thought it was funny. He then really got into nesting mode so I went and got another blanket and pillows for him. He wanted August Jr. and Turkey and cuddled with them, saying “I have the two friends…we are cuddling.” We did some cuddling in the fort, and then played hide and seek with the two stuffed animals, hiding them in the nest area and finding them.
I went and took a shower and he did more iPad art. We watched some Puffin Rock, ate some pineapple, and did more hide and seek with the stuffed animals and Puff.
We headed down, got some lunch at GS25 across the street, and went to the children’s museum. During lunch he said “strange fungus…from Winnie the Pooh…I changed it.” He was referring to Kanga and Roo being a “strange animal”. He got out his broom and was sweeping and throwing away garbage in hallway. He walked in the changing room and sat down in the chair and said “I’m going to sit on this couch for a little while…now I’m done with the rest.” As we went down the stairs to the reading area, I noticed him grabbing his pants and mentioned they were loose. He agreed. Then said “Piggies like pajamas just a little loose.” That’s a line from Snoozers.
In the reading area, we played with the new rotating game, which involves colorful pieces and penguins. August immediately had an idea how he wanted to play with them and showed me, and said “I just showed you this game.” We then actually played it as a memory game, like it is meant, then we got down a wooden puzzle. He did the puzzle “funny”, then said “Let’s do it quite right. ‘Quite right’ rhymes. What they rhyme about?” We did it correctly, then he went up in the reading area where we found Oh No! A nice surprise since we couldn’t find it last time we looked. We read that three times, and he used the pillows and dinosaurs to make a burrow to cuddle in while we read. Then he found a Korean book about animals eating an apple. He translated much of it himself, using Google Translate on my phone and typing the words in himself and translating them. Very cool.
Got ready for his nap and headed out. A regular walk, and he was asleep 1:41 to 3:06. After his nap, he liked the idea of looking at some animals before we headed to Costco. As we walked out, he heard a Korean song on the public broadcasting system and was repeating words from it. And he thought it was funny that it sounded like there were English letters in it.
We went and saw the donkeys and discussed what they eat, then went and saw the seals. We decided against a snack there as it was too cold. He sang quietly to himself as we walked out. We walked past the aviary and checked in. It was always closed because of bird flu, and now is just closed closed. No birds in it. Near the exit he said “바지 is dinosaur.” I was confused and said that it meant pants. He replied “I did a joke.” and laughed.
Pretty straightforward trip to Costco. We have it down. Got in, got our cheese, got a few free samples, paid, got some food for dinner, and headed out. On the way home he kept singing variations on the “Snake is in the grass” song from Jolly Tunes: “the can is in my cane, …in hagye, …in yellow, brown is in my pink, ladder is in my tea…”
We were home about 5:15. I got him out of the backpack and he sat on the couch, looked at me, and said “You need some tea, dada?” We ate some chicken bake, and Carly came home. He nursed, then was typing on her computer. He was sad when that was taken away. He was whispering, something he seems to do when he’s sad now, and got carly into the parlor and kicked me out and closed the door. A bit later they did some painting. Carly got his bath started, but he was resisting going in, and told me “because it is not fun.” So I talked about how it was our job to make it fun, and we talked about ideas. We ended up going and getting several of the plastic balls and putting them in the bath, and that worked. Carly took over and washed him. He played with letters, the spoke Spanish, and read the Boynton Spanish book.
He came out and we played in the parlor while Carly took a shower. We cuddled in the nest (he said he was a bird) and read several New Kids on the Block poems, then some Pooh poems and
Much of the first story. He then wanted to play with Duplos. We made Hangeul and a tower, then he went and nursed. He did some more painting, then made a game of stepping back and forth over the painting. He then sang a song: “This is Mongolia. This is Myanmar. This is China. This is watermelon…” We added to our Duplo tower, and August wanted to take a photo. We worked together on a couple photos, then he tried holding the phone and taking photos himself. Getting better, but still awkward for him. Carly took him in to the bedroom and he was asleep by 8:50
Reading Pooh together:
Cozy:
A rest:
Playing memory game:
Seals:
Jumping over his art:
Blurry photo of our tower:
A photo he took:
