He got up at 6:25 and turned the light on. Some good mama time before Carly left for work. He said goodbye, but then wanted me to go play in the hall with him and got sad when we said no. I said we could try walking her to the elevator. Didn’t know how that would go, but it worked. He pushed the button for her, then we said goodbye as she got on. He then got to walk the hall way a little on the way home. We went to the apartment so we could get socks on. Did that, but didn’t make it back out. He sat on the floor, leaning against me, and studied he Korean poster for several minutes. He started singing songs to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell”, including lines like “Sagwa in my hat” and “The slime is in my color” and also used random words from the Korean poster.
He wanted to type on my phone, but got sad when I wouldn’t let him delete my typing. He went in and laid on the reading area, and didn’t want me to join him. I went to make breakfast, but he came out and decided he was hungry, so we got cereal. He asked where Pete the Cat was and wanted to read it. So we ate breakfast and read Pete’s First Pet together. He did some typing on my iPad, then we had fun with play dough for quite awhile. He had some snot and I tried to get a tissue for him. He politely disagreed, saying “Dada, stop doing my tissue. I’m going away now. Bye.” And closed the door to the parlor. A minute later he opened the door, stuck his head out and pointed at me, saying “Hey dada. You get the iPad. You get the iPad if you want. I’m going away again. Bye!”
I took it in. We watched some Puffin Rock. I left the room for a minute to return and find that he had taken off his pants and diaper on his own. The first time he’s done that. I went to take a shower and left him with that and some Korean books. As I was finishing my shower he came in and said he had to pee. I quickly finished and grabbed the towel and went out in the cold apartment to turn the light on in the other bathroom for him. He had also dragged the Teuni gym thing out into the living room he pointed out that he had moved it and said something about it being for mama, as she was coming soon.
Back in the parlor, we made numbers with the Duplos. Then on the iPad we made music with the Musyc app – we did more of the tutorial and figured out how to do some new things. He then did some art in SketchBook.
We tried to Skype with my parents, but they weren’t online. So we left a video message. I said something about the Teuni gym being out and he told me to crawl through it. So I did. I mostly fit, although a couple pieces came apart. We moved to his Korean books for awhile and that reminded him of the videos from class, so we watched those a bit.
We headed out a bit early, and went down to the grocery store in Home Plus to get diapers and salmon for our lunch later. We got to class early and saw him blowing bubbles. August was excited by this – we’ve always been walking in late the last few weeks, and I was just thinking about how August liked the bubbles. August was really into the beginning of class, running around, and rolling around on the floor like another boy was. And when it came to the forward roll part, August first walked the path without doing a forward roll, but then did it again and allowed the teacher to do the forward roll. He was very happy with himself for doing it, and later in the day when I asked him about it he said he’d do it again next week. After that, he bowed to the teacher when he comes around and bows to them, and he was using his fingers to count the beats of the music. Class was about the post office today, and all was fine until the teacher demonstrated a mailbox board thing. It was built with a hinge, and stood up. The teacher stepped away from it, and two kids went behind it, and fell over each other and into the board. It fell over, and all three of them landed on August. He wasn’t really physically hurt – he never told me a specific part that hurt – but it took about 10 minutes of hallway time before he wanted to go back in. Later, when I asked if he remembered what happened, he remembered getting hurt, but said “I changed it to a minion.” I think he didn’t really know what happened, and that was probably the scariest part.
Anyway, he put the postal hat on for a bit, then participated in the rest of the activities. They got a toy today, which was a Teuni fencing sword thing. It squeaks when you stab something, and he immediately started stabbing me.
We headed home after class and made a salmon sandoo for lunch. We got in the stroller and went walking. He just kept singing and singing, finally after 20 minutes he got a bit upset, then quieted. Walked over 30 minutes by the time he fell asleep. Asleep 2:22 to 3:37 in the women’s business center coffee shop. Thought he was up and I started to pack up, but he dozed back off. I woke him up at 4 and we walked to Juicy Juice. I asked what he wanted and he said “귤파”. I asked “You mean 귤?” But he kept insisting on 귤파 and pointed to the menu – 귤파 was there and meant mandarin and pineapple. So he got that and I got the raspberry one.
We walked over to the park, but he didn’t want to get out at the playground. Walked over to the other half of the park and wandered around. I asked if he wanted to go to the library, and he agreed. He chose one book and wanted to sit at the table and look at it by himself for awhile, then we got another book, Abigail Spells, and took it upstairs. We read that, and then he got down a Korean book about worms and translated parts of that.
We headed home, and Carly heard us coming at the elevators as August was singing. At home, they nursed and he typed on Skype and we did our ‘secret’ word game again. At one point he was really riffing on the ‘Got be, brown tree’ thing, with “Got me monkey donkey…pantsy mantsy…juicy moosey…banana yamma…” Carly got out his old high chair to clean it up, and he tied it out. We then played with the Teuni fencing sword thing for quite awhile, and did lots of hide and seek with Turkey. We read some Pooh, and the Korean elephant book. He went in my bathroom and pretended to take a shower, getting in and pretending to wash himself and turn it off. He likes to wet my soap by the sink now, and he did that, explaining “I just washed off the soap so it doesn’t stick. Otherwise it could really stick.”
He and Carly did more nursing and reading, and she was surprised when he requested a ‘poem’. He also had a good hand motion for when he explained to her that a poem was shorter than a story (this was in the Pooh book). They read some Pooh, then the elephant book. Well, he mainly read the Korean book. They got a bit distracted, and Carly was getting him up to go to the bath. August said “I’m going to read one last page.” And did.
I gave him a bath. He was scrubbing his own hands and arms “It’s an arm washing day” and his hair “I’m washing the back myself.” Very cool.
We read Pete the Cat before bed (today, when asked what he would take to show and tell, he said “a window”), and he was asleep by 9:40.
Earlier, while on Sketchbook, he had claimed that Puff was spelled with one ‘f’. I pointed out that Zinn had two ‘n’s and could be spelled with just one, and he liked that: Zin. He spelled it like that a few times during the day.
Upset at class:
Teuni Teuni mail carrier:
Home. Getting stuck:
Walk:
Library:
Reminiscing, and wanting to be small:
Fencing circle things:
