He came out at 8:10. He had leaked last night, so carly took his diaper off right away and said he needed to go pee. “I just already peed.” Nursed with Carly. I made toast, milk, mandarin orange, and eggs from yesterday for his breakfast. He explored the closet and we read Baby’s Day. I did recycling and they Skyped with Chuck and Cherie and August did a lot of typing “What ‘hina’ mean? Why I type ‘hina’?” “Because I like to learn.” He was obsessed with the word ‘hina’ that he made up, and kept repeating it. “I like hina.” Cherie sent him a video of puffins, and there was lava, and he said “There’s lava!” Chuck said his shoes had broken once playing pickleball and hat finally got August’s attention: “Why your shoes fall apart?” “I did a mistake. I accidentally do capital.” We got ready to leave, and headed out a little after 11.
Carly changing him. He said ‘Hina’ the sound that Mossy the shrew says. But Carly heard “messy shoes”. He was excited when we sorted that out. They also read the Smokey Bear story on my iPad at some point in the morning.
We got going just after 11. He was uncomfortable in the backpack, so we stopped in the park to adjust. Took the Nowon 15 to APIS, but got out a stop early as he was uncomfortable again. Think he was getting too warm. Walked to APIS and met up with Megan a little before noon.
Megan made a joke about wiping snot on a tree and August though that was hilarious. He really wanted to go in the school, which was good, but ironic since we weren’t actually going in, but getting on a bus instead. August and I played on the bus while we waited for other people to show up. He was giving a running monologue “I like hot things. I like cold things…I like dust because it is dry.” Putting paper thing back in the seat pocket: “Yeah! That’s a great idea…it’s for an emergency. If something’s on fire. If something’s wrong in here…we found Megan…I like sitting in different busses.”
The bus trip was a bit long, and he kept wanting to nurse. Carly appeased him with bus candy (M&Ms) and we made it to the retirement home. He wanted to go in right away. A bit nervous once we were in there, and they nursed. We had fun looking at ornaments, then he relaxed once he had a peanut butter sandwich and was walking around eating it. He spent some time examining his bangs and at one point said to me “We’re having fun together.” They nursed again, then he stood against a wall for awhile and sang. We went back into the big room and spent most of our time playing up on the stage area. He slid these ‘Merry Christmas’ signs down the ramp, then I went and got Smokey from our backpack and he slid him down instead. He asked Smokey about forest fires. He and I both slid down the ramps, and he showed me how to jump up on the edge of it: “I showed you how to do that.” The best was when he started dancing to the music that was playing and he was basically voguing. And I received a message from Glecy, so he spent a lot of time typing messages back and forth with her.
It was around 3:30 that we headed out. We were taking the subway back, so had to find the station. Made our way to Wangsimni and took a very crowded train to Sangbong. Carly used the last of the bus candy to get him through it. We took the 7 home and went to Pink Burger. August was very excited about this, and wanted to sit there and eat. While we waited, he went out and we read the menu together. August was feeling constipated though and uncomfortable, so eventually Carly took him upstairs, then I brought up the food. He had french fries, and liked dipping them in ketchup and mayonnaise. And he ate a little burger. He then pooped in his toilet for the first time.
During the evening we read part of the Berenstain Bears new baby book, then the Baby’s Day book a few times. He found the box for the Teuni gym thing. We got that out and took the pieces apart and played with them for awhile. I gave him a bath. We played with the squirt cars. All was fine until the washing. When Carly was trying to get him in bed and dressed he didn’t want the pajamas and said “I’ll just hide the pajamas someplace.” She got them on, and he was asleep 7:20ish.
At some point during the day he wanted Carly to sing the ABC song. She was asking which language he wanted, and he said “French!” He was also identifying a lot of rhymes today.
Volunteering:
Headed home:
Pink Burger:
Teuni gym:
