He was waking up and nursing starting around 5:30. He got up about 5:50 and turned the light on on me for a couple minutes. He and Carly spent some good morning time together. He decided his name is now Zinndow (because it rhymes with window) they read The I Love You Book and he made up a song about a mug “Cooking in the mug…painting on the mug…” He was fine with Carly leaving, and we then painted for 15 minutes or so. He then did art on the iPad. We watched some Puffin Rock and ate some breakfast and then I took a shower. He’s now totally fine with me going to take a shower. He wanted to play with the slime, and while we did that he said “we’re mucking.” At some point he said “Grown ups poop.” He got ‘grown up’ from Puffin Rock today (had been asking what it meant), and remembered this line from the book Everyone Poops. He then said “I want to watch a video of pooping.” I passed on that one for the moment. He was then singing the Spanish ABC song and practicing ‘next time’ in English: “Next time we go to the big zoo we can see lava…Next time we go to the little zoo we can see bugs.”
As we were getting ready to go, I grabbed some coins to pay for the locker at the aquarium. He wanted to grab a coin as well, and got a 100 won coin. “I chose 100 today.” He then tried out some new words, referring to the coin: “It’s not crazy. It’s wonderful and brilliant.”
We headed out, and took the train to Cheongdam. It was after 11, and close to 6 hours since he woke up. So I told him we were going to the park first to eat and play. He didn’t object to it when I mentioned it on the train, but once we got to the park he asked what we were doing there, and wasn’t happy with the answer. He wanted to go to the aquarium. He refused to eat or get out of the backpack, and said he’d just go to sleep. But then I went to get a Larabar out for myself, and he wanted some. So he sat in the backpack and ate some bar, then some sweet potato, and then some sandwich. He had eaten a lot of apple before we left, so good eating so far. It started raining, so we calmly ate for awhile until it stopped, then got walking. Walked around a couple blocks, then it started raining. I circled back to the park and took cover in the bench area. I was walking around and he didn’t like that. Stood still and we watched the rain for a few minutes and when it stopped we got walking. I was concerned he was going to take a long time going to sleep, but he fell asleep pretty quickly. We went to LaVita Coffee, a new place for us, and he was asleep 12:41 to 1:55 When he woke up his left arm was numb, and I asked if he wanted to get out of the backpack. He replied “No. Want to play. Play at aquarium.”
So we headed to the aquarium. He chose a Japanese version of the stamp sheet for today. He realized we could cut some of the beginning by going by the bathrooms, but he wanted to start at the beginning. I carried him much to start with. He had a lot of fun at the Touch Lab again. Picked up shells, put sand on the sea stars, touched the pineapples, and I picked up a couple of the worms so he could touch them better. In the next room we sat on a bench and took a snack break. We spent a long time there – he ate some rice and finished up a lot of our other food. He walked around singing, lounged on the floor, and read the Korean signs. Part of his song was “pink is in my water…quake is in my quack…bread is in my seahorses…” On a sign he read “우리…that means ‘we’!” We made our way through the rest of the aquarium. We were there for close to 2 hours, so a nice leisurely visit.
We got the backpack, and sat and he ate more rice. He saw a ‘no smoking’ sign and asked what smoking was, and I of course included how bad smoking is, and mentioned that grampa doesn’t really like smoke and August said “Then he turns back to Bernie.” He was being funny, but I think he made the connection because he thinks grampa sounds like Bernie on Puffin Rock. On his own he started talking about our time in the aquarium: “you touched the spoon worms…I really like the spoon worms…I really like the moray eels and eels…” He then joked about smoking: “You’re smoking. I’m smoking. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Dada turning back to Bernie.” His pretending to smoke involved waving his fingers in front of him: I think that was the smoke. We headed out of the mall at 4:30.
As we left he wondered why it was dark. We then smelled something like burning leaves. As we walked back to the station, I was calling him Zinndow. Then he said “Now you turn back into Zinnie. Doooo.” – kind of making his robot sound at the end. It was getting a bit drizzly as we got close to the station, and a guy ran over with his umbrella. No, no, we’re fine. In the station, he saw the phone booths and started pointing and singing “That’s a phone booth, that’s a phone booth…” He continued the song, pointing to random panels and what not, and making a word play by switching the start of the words: “that’s a funny bone phooth, that’s a funny bone phooth…”
We got home about 5:30. On the way back he had mainly done art in Sketchbook on the iPad. He discovered all the different textures he could paint with. At home, they did a lot of nursing, and read some Pooh. They painted, then he asked for Sketchbook. He played with that, and wrote ‘posse’ in cursive. Which was odd. He wanted to see a poop video, so we found a potty training video, but I don’t think he liked it. He searched for some random things in YouTube Kids, then pulled up GarageBand. Got him to loop his song, and sign along to himself. He also added some drums to it. From there we moved to ShapeKit, and made a few animations. I had him carry the iPad over to Carly to show her one he did on his own. While Carly took a shower we moved to the Musyc app and he played with that for th first time in quite some time. He had some soup for dinner, and did some more painting.
Carly gave him a bath. He had a lot of fun. Pretty straightforward bedtime. Except that she put some footy pajamas on him and he kept pulling at the feet parts. She had to change him out of those, and he went to sleep about 9.
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