He got up at 7. I went back to bed and kept sleeping. They did a lot of nursing, he did the tracing app on iPad, and they listened to French songs. When I got up, they had been painting and were cutting out leaves from their paintings and making a tree on the door to the parlor. Carly had explained to him that she got to go to his class today, as she didn’t have to work for Thanskgiving. He was confused by that, and kept asking why it was a holiday.
We headed out for his class. Cold today, so Carly put the cover on the stroller. August was not happy at all. We kept him in until Home Plus. He was pretty upset at the beginning of class. They nursed for a minute, then it took a couple minutes for him to warm to class. When the teacher first came around to him, he wouldn’t give a high five. The teacher kind of acted like a cat and made August laugh. Then I got august to sort of hop on the first walking path, and give him a high five once.
The first toy they did was the plastic pigs that you push the pieces through – actually the very first activity August did in his first Teuni Teuni class. Only this time he could totally push the pieces in on his own, and use his palm for pushing them in.
After that, it was all a variety of cool walking and climbing paths. So Carly didn’t get to see a themed class (no hats!), but it was a lot of fun. I helped him walk one path, but mainly Carly was with him or he was on his own. He also did a lot of acting like a frog – at one point he and the teacher were doing it together.
At the end of class, he did the group photo. August wasn’t excited by that, but he did it. Then, I got to hand out the candies from the penguin backpack to all the kids while the teacher went and got all the parents’ phone numbers.
We then went downstairs and did some shopping. Carly had the list – I had August. Maybe he was just hungry, or maybe he has suddenly realized that he can request new things. But he wanted everything he saw. Started with some 호빵 (buns with stuff in them). Got those, as he’s been curious about them. But then he wanted a Mickey Mouse plate, a bag of chips, etc. I got him a little individual spear of pineapple and I also said yes to a little pack of cheese flavored peanuts as they looked interesting.
We headed home. He was upset by the stroller again. But calmer. And when Carly headed to the pink building for one item and I headed home with him he was silent.
At home he ate his pineapple and a bunch of curry rice for lunch, then shared a red bean 호빵 with me. We watched some Puffin Rock, and at the end of the episode I turned it off. He was ready for a nap and slept from 1:50 to 2:54.
When he woke up they nursed and I went and napped some more. Carly took him and they got a mango banana juice and went over to the playground. I came down a few minutes later and found Carly on a swing, with August drinking juice by the teeter totter. We stayed for maybe another 10 minutes. He drank some juice, th then spent a few minutes looking at the Mama Juice label and arguing that it would sound different if part of it had a curved line. I sort of chased him around on the platform, then he was showing us that he can turn around to get down now. He was very excited about this and showed us several times. It is something I’ve encouraged going down climbing walls, etc. but it seems to have clicked with him.
We walked back into Brownstone. Carly was carrying him and he was singing. As we passes Pink Burger he sang a song (to the tune of ABC) that went “black burger, white burger…light green burger…purple burger.”
I went and got a raspberry juice and met them upstairs. August wanted to try mine, but I told him my straw had germs. I let him use his straw in mine. A few minutes later, as we were watching Beat Bugs, he started to say “I have germs! I have germs, dada…for funsies.”
They nursed, and when he came out to me he was carrying the three pigeon books. We haven’t read those since being back, but apparently the two of them read them yesterday. August and I read all three. Then he was lying on the floor and I started spinning him. When I stopped he would look at the ceiling and say “It’s spinning!” Did that a few times until we were both tired out. At one point he stood up and fell over.
He wanted to be changed, so did that and changed him into shorts sans diaper. Carly had made a new rice casserole and August and I ate that for dinner. We then played with Musyc on the iPad.
Carly started vacuuming and August wanted to do it, but didn’t want to wait a turn and got upset. They nursed and then he wrote on paper. I wrote ‘I can’, ‘hope’, and ‘cane’ on his own.
Carly went to take a shower. He wanted a nest and we went and got a pillow and the blanket. In the nest we read Hop in Pop. He was then hungry and requested banana bread. He ate two slices, then I asked if he wanted to share a banana. He said “other food” and went and opened the fridge and spotted the strawberries. He ate 6 strawberries before I cut him off. At one point he went and got his stool so he could wash off his strawberry. He was asking what would happen if I used to much water to wash them, and I said something silly. He missed it and asked what I had said. I said “Nevermind. Something silly.” He replied with “Oh dada.”
Carly gave him a bath. He isn’t enthused about them now, even though once he is in the water he sits down and everything. But he hates the washing. Today was no exception. As they left the bathroom, carly asked if he wanted to go to the parlor. He said “I call it the playroom now.” He hasn’t done that in weeks. He kept insisting on it while they nursed.
A bit later we headed to the bedroom. We played for awhile, and he climbed down and got the lotion from my side of the bed and rubbed some on his knees. He went to sleep pretty soon after that, around 8:40.
Photos. Painting with mama:
Teuni Teuni class:
Handstamps:
Group photo:
Mama Juice:
Lotion:
