There was a short power outage last night before I went to bed. Happened just before 10. It was long enough for me to get up and look out the window for awhile and realize that it wasn’t just our building – everything was out. The power then came back down and I saw all the buildings light back up. Later, August sat up in bed. He was sitting against me, and after a minute I laid him back down and he slept against me for the next hour or so. He laughed at one point. He woke up around 6:20 and headed out to Carly. When I got up he requested Christmas music but he got upset when I wouldn’t let him type in the computer on the desk. He wanted to nurse. They had been doing a lot of nursing. They then did watercolor painting for a long time as we listened to Christmas music and he was quite happy with that.
As carly got ready to go, August and I were writing on paper. He wrote silent e words like ‘slope’ on his own. Then Vivian and Cassie called and they Skyped for a few minutes.
When she left August wanted to go to, but we convinced him it was okay. He said he wanted to play in the hall, but we only got as far as putting on his diaper. Instead, he ended up wanting the lotion. First he put it on his legs, then mine, then wanted to do my back. Did that for a few minutes. Then we were throwing soft things up in the air, before he said he wanted to make a secret nest. We got blankets and did that, and read After the Storm, two pigeon books, and part of One Fish Two Fish. He got distracted and excited by the rhymes, and was coming up with his own rhymes, and also asking why words didn’t rhyme: “Computer and book do not rhyme.” He then said “I have an idea, dada.” It was to get out the plastic fruits and veggies.
He then had the idea of going to the Namu play area. I changed him, and he talked about being a grown up, looking up at the ceiling and talking about how tall he is. We called gramma and grampa, who were with Paul over at Dee and Grants and talked for a few minutes. August was ready for the play area, but then we took awhile brushing our teeth (he helped brush mine) and after that he sat on the couch and started asking about what happens if you break things: “What happens if you break your nose…your chin…your tummy?” He then wanted to type on my phone. He did that for awhile, and it was now past 11:30. He was acting tired and so was I. So we went back in on the reading area and watched some Puffin Rock.
We got up after awhile and made a salmon sandwich and some rice casserole for lunch, then created art in Paper.
Carly got home after 1, and August went to sleep right away. It was a short nap, from 1:15 to 1:56, but he fell back to sleep with Carly on the reading area. I was napping in the bed and kept napping for awhile. They were typing words on her computer, then did more watercolor painting. He was in prime question mode, asking Carly why she was doing everything “Why mama dry the black about? Why mama kiss the forehead about? What just a minute about?”
At 3:30 we decided to heard out. August didn’t want to get in the stroller, so carly put two pairs of pants on him and a sweatshirt under his coat. His coat, which he wore last year, has worked so far, but with the sweatshirt on underneath he looked like a marshmallow. And he wasn’t too happy with it. Definitely not going to last 3 more months. So we decided to head to Home Plus. August walked almost all the way there, until I picked him up to cross the parking lot on the other side of the park. In the park, he got down and crawled/slithered a bit, and said “You did something funny.”
At Home Plus we went and first tried two coats on him. This was against his will. But when I gave him a choice of the two, he chose the one with the bears on it. While Carly looked at something else, he and I wandered off. He wanted to look for something to buy. I followed him to the other end of the store, and he chose a red cell phone case. He tried to convince me to get it: “I want that case cuz I don’t like dada’s old one.” He was hungry, so we made our way back to the stroller and sat on the floor and had a Larabar. There was an awful fuzzy pink sweatshirt/dress that he said he wanted to wear at one point, and now he bit it, and said “It tastes very bad.” We then went downstairs and got some groceries.
Back outside, we gave him the option of either heading home, or getting in the stroller and getting Mama Juice. Mama Juice won, and he sat in the stroller without problem with the cover on, but open. Progress. He also adapted to his new coat pretty quickly. On the way over, he sang a “I want mama Juice” song. I told him he should sing it for the owner sometime. He had asked for Mama Juice on our way out, and specified that he wanted kiwi this time, and he stuck to that. So he got kiwi, and Carly and I both got coffee drinks. While waiting, he and I were looking at the signs, and I said we should try the pizza sometime. He said it cost 7000 won, and I said no, there is a sign right there that says 2000 won. He’s going to be quite the arguer, as he replied, dismissively, “No dada, that is the brand.” I don’t remember what that was from, but he was using something that I had said, where I was telling him the name on something was just the brand, not the actual product. Pretty sure I didn’t use the same attitude in my voice though.
Juice in hand, he got back in the stroller and we headed across the stream, and by the youth center playground. August wanted to get down and walk, but we asked him to stay in for a few minutes. But then he pooped, so we figured we should head back, and we let him out. He stood on the path and played around, counting his steps and pretending to shock Carly and me. Then he ‘shocked’ a stranger passing by. Pretty funny.
We got home and changed him, then he did painting with mama, then made a nest with me and we were hiding August Jr. Carly made him strawberry milk, then he requested Beat Bugs on my iPad, so we watched that. They nursed, and he randomly said “Want to make 28 costume now.” He ate more strawberries, then had rice casserole for dinner. They did more painting and Carly gave him a bath. He and I read the monkey book, two Peas books, and the three Peppa books before he was ready to go to go to sleep at 9:40. At the very end he was telling me to read, then turning to Carly and saying he was ready to nurse, then changing his mind and telling me to read, etc. Finally nursing won out. He fell asleep by 10.
Lotion:
Reading the pigeon books:
Comfy:
Painting:
How he felt about the new coat:
Check out:
Walking:
