He came out at 7:26. Saw me and said “Dada!” but kept walking to the parlor. He heard me start to get up and said “No! No!”I kept reading for a couple minutes, then he came out on his hands and knees and was joking with me through the legs of the table and chair, going “Dada! Dada!” He came over and the first thing he wanted was to type some Hangeul on my iPad, so I let him do that. After a couple minutes he said “I want music!” so we are playing with Musyc.
I made eggs, cheese and mushrooms for breakfast and we had a banana. We played with the Teuni sword thing, then watched some Puffin Rock before we had Turkey and August Jr play hide and seek for quite awhile. He sent messages on Skype while I showered. Before I got in, he was excited to find that the ghost emoji worked on his iPad. When I was done with my shower, he came in the bathroom and closed the door. He said “You’re hiding from something.” I asked what, and he said “Ghost.” He noted some dirt in the corner of the bathroom, and wanted to wash it with the shower head. His original idea, as he’s never seen me do. We washed the floor of the bathroom that way. Then he played with one of the weather science apps while I got ready to leave. He was doing a lot of hopping and singing for awhile, then asked for the ‘thermometer’. Don’t know where that came from either. He tried out the thermometer in his mouth. Didn’t get it fully under his tongue, but he kept it in until it gave a temperature.
In my bathroom, he wanted to look in the left cabinet. He saw the new deodorant and wanted it – I thought to smell it. I handed it to him. He said “I need deodorant today.” He then rubbed it on his face. He liked the smell. Before we left, he declared “I’m nocturnal now.” And he wanted some water. He drank a bit and said “I just wanted a little drink before I go outside.”
We got to Children’s Grand Park. In the station, he saw the big add on the platform that we always see. It is for a chicken place, but has a big photo of a baby on it. It also has a lot of punctuation. Today he said “My favorite is question mark…the Baby’s is tilde.” We got one roll of kimbap and headed to the park. The first thing he wanted to do was sidewalk chalk again. He wasn’t really interested in lunch again, so we ate in stages. Did sidewalk chalk for 10 minutes or so, then moved to sand castles. After awhile he headed off across the playground to the hill, which he can now get up and down on his own. He wanted me to climb it with him, then he sort of played behind me while I sat with my back against the hill.
He then wanted to go see animals. We went through the tropical building for the first time in quite some time, then down into the children’s zoo. He liked the meerkats and watched them for a few minutes while he swung on the railing. He then played around in that area, dropping leaves down a drain. I was doing some reading, and he came over to me and wanted me to see something – something he had just touched, he said. It was bird poop. He wanted me to touch it too. I refused, and when he kept trying to pull my arm so I would touch it I would say “Ooh” and pull away. Turned into a game. We went and washed his hand off by the horses, and translated some signs.
We walked towards the bathroom to change him, with him walking. Suddenly, he started doing a shoulders and arms shrug thing and saying “I don’t know”. I don’t know where that came from. Very amusing. Went and changed him. As I set him on the changing pad, he again covered his eyes so as to not see the pig-shaped urinal with the auto-flusher. I changed him, and he was calm about it, and just laid back on the changing pad, his head turned the other way.
We went out and he wanted to climb the stairs in the theater again. We got to the top, and he wanted to sit on the top set of benches. He sat and said “Hey dada. Sit…why there no music playing?” We sat there a few minutes, and he also asked why there were so few people in the theater. He then said “I want to walk in the forest.” We did, but just for a couple minutes, as it was late and he was sleepy, although he said he wasn’t. Put him in the backpack, and he zoned out after 10 or 15 minutes, but took several more minutes before his eyes finally closed. He slept from 2:41 to 4, downstairs, until I woke him up and we left.
Before putting him in the backpack before his nap, we had discussed what we were doing for the rest of the day, as we were going to Costco to buy a turkey, taking a bus to line 1, taking the subway to Derek and Jill’s house and dropping off the turkey, then going home. We had listed all the steps: 1 was getting in the backpack, 2 was falling asleep…12 was handing off the turkey. So as we made our way from here we kept counting off those steps. We went to the subway, took it up to Sangbong, and walked to Costco. There, we got one block of cheese, found the turkeys and got one, and grabbed a few samples on the way to keep him happy. Paid, and got some food for dinner, then then headed out. We crossed the street and just missed the 2235 bus, and had to wait 10 minutes. It was a slow bus, so August was getting a little impatient. I pointed at the river as we went over it, and he said “What’s it in the distance about?” The bridge we went over was rather tall.
That bus took us across to Sinimun Station on line 1, where we caught a train north. Unfortunately, it was stopping at Kwangwoon, one stop short. But it was empty so we got seats. At Kwangwoon we ate some chicken bake while we waited for the next train to come along. It was packed, but it was just one stop to Wolgye.
We left the station and walked right across the street to their apartment complex. August said “I like Logan.” As we got closer, he said ”Want to go to Logan’s house.” This is a huge change from the past when he was afraid to come here. Unfortunately, they weren’t there when we got there. We slipped in the outside door with someone else, and left the turkey outside their door. We went back outside and sat on the picnic structure and ate more chicken bake before heading home. He played around a bit, and it started to rain a little. Fully dark now. We were there long enough that they showed up and we got to talk to them for a couple minutes. August was really happy about that.
We went and caught a bus home. As we walked into our building, he saw one of the lights on the parking garage that lights up when cars leave. He said “It’s an Oona light.” A few days ago I told him he used to call these baba lights. Baba is a character on Puffin Rock, and so is Oona. So he started calling them Oona lights now.
He was also singing a song “The oven is in my walking…the home is in the bus…”
We were home quite late – it was about 7 when we got in. They nursed, and then we played the typing game where we type words for each other. We did a lot of hiding Turkey and August Jr, then I gave him a bath. We got lotion out to put on his backside where he was getting dry, and he really got into putting lotion on himself, and on me – first on my neck and face, then on my arms and legs and back. Maybe he’ll be a masseuse.
We read Pete the Cat again – he was back again to orange juice for show and tell. He let me put his pajamas on. He wanted to try the footsie ones again (he wanted to be a pig like in the Sandra Boynton Pajamas poem), but we didn’t get those on very far before he wanted the other pajamas instead. Carly came in and he was asleep at 9:45 or so.
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Thermometer:
Playground:
Meerkats:
Being a zero:
Hiding from the flusher:
Chicken bake and delivering the turkey:
Lotion:
