Up 7:55. He turned on the light and joked with me for a minute. We got up and he found Carly. After nursing they Skyped with Cherie. She talked about teaching English, and August said “Chinese” when she said “English”. Then she mentioned ‘tenses’ and he shouted “Twelveses!”
They then Skyped with Vivian, and left her watching a video on the iPad while Carly made a sandwich. August and I played together and he pushed himself backwards away from me on the floor saying “I’m going far away.” When the sandwich was ready and Carly cut it he asked “What happen if you don’t quarter it?”
He watched French songs with Carly. When she took a shower we then did a little art, then he cuddled with me and we read The I Love You Book and two Peppa books. He then wanted the smart board and we wrote on that after he had had fun throwing the stylus in the air. I stated making a shopping list, and he wanted to write on it. So he helped Carly. When they were done he said “I wrote the list with mama.” He still wanted to write, so carly got him a piece of paper and with a marker he wrote ‘kite’ and said “we can get kites at the store.”
Carly tried to leave to go to the store but August made it clear he wanted to go as well. So we got him ready and we all went. Once there, they went and got a cart and I went into the stationary store to buy some pads of paper for his art. When I got to the grocery store, he was out of the cart and admiring the meat. I walked around with him for a few minutes. He wanted a slurpy thing but settled for an orange juice. He also looked at the bracelets and hair things again.
At home, he was having some more constipation problems. Pooped a little, but felt like there was more. Eventually got him to sit on the toilet and let him watch some Peppa Pig. But no luck. back out in the living room we watched a little more Peppa Pig, then played with ShapeKit. Our creatures are becoming more elaborate. Carly made a rice and veggies dish while we did that. He ate some when it was ready, and while eating eat he said, all on his own, “Thank you mama for making dinner.” I noticed a bruise on his tailbone and commented on it. He said “Its a tail! I’m a mouse!” He then pretended to be a mouse. They nursed, and he said he was a girl. He then hid from Carly and found her and thought it was funny to jump on her in the ‘nest’. While in the nest, he peed a little: “I peed in the burrow…why I pee in the burrow. For funsies.”
We were planning to go for a walk, so I slipped down and got my hair cut first. They were just getting ready to go when I was done, so I came back up, then we all headed out. We walked up the stream to Chrysanthemum Park. Close to the park, August wanted to get out and walk, so we let him out. He had a sticker that had been stuck to his sweatshirt, and he stuck it to a metal gate. We were talking about it (he wanted it to stick all the way) and he was grabbing at his diaper. Carly checked his diaper and realized that he had pooped. The prune she had given him earlier had worked. And he had poop on his finger. We hurried to the park and she changed him just inside the door of the bathroom. That crisis averted, he played on the play structure, showing Carly how he could climb the climbing wall. He hung out on it for a long time, quoting the minion on Skype (“Ah, no.”) and chatting away. They played some hide and seek, talked to an older girl in English, and rode the worm thing together. Then we headed home.
We went home and he ate some sweet potato, then he and I headed back outside while Carly stayed to make soup. We met up with Derek and his two kids at the park. Rosie is running around a lot now, and the park was crowded, so we were busy. Also, there was a girl and a boy, the girl in particular, who kept bother us and Logan and August – like touching them and constantly asking questions after we said we didn’t speak Korean. Logan was pointing and saying “Go away” and August made himself heard at one point as well. Finally, they left. The other two kids spent a lot of time on the swings, but August’s favorite game was standing on the railing around it, holding my hands, and walking around and jumping off. We called it a ‘making mama nervous’ game. We played a bit more, then got the kids in the strollers and walked around the park a bit, then came up to the apartment.
Here, Logan and August did art with markers together for 10 or 15 minutes or so. At 5:30 they took off. August wouldn’t give Derek a hug, but did participate in a hug with Logan. That was very cool. And he gave Rosie some good pats as she was already in the stroller.
In the evening, Carly gave him a good bath. He and I read Mr. Gumpy at one point. No nap today, so an early bedtime, and he was asleep by 7:30.
Park:
With Logan and Rosie:
Saying goodbye:
