He let out a longish yell at some point in the night, but went back to sleep. He woke up at 8:15. Nursed and then they skyped with Cherie. Afterwards, August wanted to pee standing up, but didn’t have his stool. He said “Maybe the garbage can.” and went to get it. Good problem solving (although we wouldn’t let him use it, as it was too small and slippery). He helped me put lotion on my legs: “massage, massage, massage…we’re rubbing it all in.” He spotted the guide book on a table and read ‘Thailand’ on it right away.
We went downstairs for breakfast just after 9. A cat came through the dining room, which was fun. Breakfast was amazing. There was a rice dish that was wonderful, and August also ate. We definitely prefer Thai breakfast to traditional Korean breakfast (rice and fish). We also had hard boiled age, fried egg, and his favorite, these little sausages. Oh, and some tang-type juice.
We then went on a little walk, where we got used to some Thai things: saw our first Buddhist shrine with the offerings of drinks (at a corner by a 7-11), got used to the heat, saw a lot of dogs wandering about, and got used to cars on the left side of the street. August found a big nut from a tree and carried that around, spotted a squashed toad on the street (which we wouldn’t let him touch), and looked at the green water in a pond by another shrine. And we also saw some lovely flowers that he liked.
We stopped by the hotel for a bit, then went to 7-11. Got guava and passion fruit juices and some different crackers. Back at the hotel we tried the juices. Carly said the passion fruit reminded her of Hawaii. August said “Reminds me of Mongolia.” The cool thing was that he recognized Hawaii as a place. Talking about the juice “That sounds amazing…I haven’t heard of this…this is 2%” I’d been reading the juice percentages on the containers.
He tried my honey toothpaste, and liked that. I asked “Do you want to read Gaston.” “I want to read Antoinette.” and gave me a big smile. Antoinette is the other dog in that book. We played some hide and seek in the apartment, then was nursing with Carly on the bed they had slept on. He kept asking “Why we on dada’s bed?” I had said that would probably be my bed the night before, but then we changed our minds.
While checking out he wore his sunglasses and sung the letters on the front of the desk “There’s a g and there’s and r and there’s an o and there’s a u and there’s a p and there’s a period, comma…”
Got in a cab at 12:15. In the cab he liked the little figurines, and ‘read’ the Thai around. He watched Puffin Rock much of the way. There was no seatbelt for him, so we put our arms around him.
Taxi driver had some difficulty finding our place, but we got here. He was a bit afraid going in again, like at the hotel, but once up to the condo he liked it. He especially liked the stuffed frog on the bed. Then, it turned out it actually changes into a prince. So Carly and he played a game where he kissed it and it would transform. A bit later he had his first fall of the bed. Then, when I was setting up the Apple TV he was upset when I wouldn’t let him use the remote.
We got ready and went for a walk. We were trying to find a small supermarket. Missed it heading west, but found it on the way back. But he fell asleep right as we found it, and there were only stairs down to the store. So I stayed out and Carly went in and got some salads and frozen spaghetti for lunch and things like sugar. She also got cash at an ATM. He was asleep from 2:45 to 3:39, when Carly woke him up back in the condo.
We ate our salads, and after August was slow to wake up, we prepared the spaghetti and he ate that. We then played with play dough on the floor. After awhile we changed into swimsuits and went down to the pool. We spotted some pigeons drinking from a corner of it, and we walked all around to check out the pool area. We then went into the shallow pool. Not heated, and it was getting pretty windy, so a little cold going in. August got in one step, and tried a second, but didn’t like his swimsuit getting wet. We went over to the big pool, and Carly went in deeper. August did further try a second step down, but I think it was a bit too cold. We headed back in a bit later.
We then went on a mission to find a big supermarket, about 20 or 30 minutes away, walking. For some reason we took the stroller. Backpack would have been much easier, as the street north got narrow, with lots of motorbikes. Not as bad as Vietnam, but not easy. And then there was a big pedestrian overpass over a street. We made it though. At the Top Super, he stayed with me and Carly went off to shop. He spotted the salad bar, and we got a container and he chose all the things he wanted to try: little corn, peas, dragon fruit, cooked carrot, and several other things. We did some more shopping and spotted Pororo on strawberries, and realized they were from Korea. We also got dried jack fruit and a bag of soy chip things.
We took a longer, but easier to walk, path home in the dark. We were eating the jack fruit, and Carly’s mouth started to itch. She was having an allergic reaction. We kept walking, and luckily it wasn’t too bad.
We were home at 7:45. We mixed a little play dough, then got out our salad bar snack selection and he had fun trying them all out. I also had gotten a lemon/honey green tea drink, and shared part of it with him. Carly heated some white sauce spaghetti for his dinner, and he ate some of that, although was skeptical of the white sauce at first. There was a fan in the corner of the room that he wanted on, so we plugged it in. He found a receipt or something, and was dropping it in front of the fan and it flew. He then started experimenting: a play dough lid, Carly’s shoes, “light things”, plastic.
He decided at one point to bring me a bite of spaghetti on the fork. Worked well, but I didn’t see the mushroom. When he pointed it out and tried to give it to me, it fell on my shorts. They nursed, then he watched some Puffin Rock. I was working on my iPad, further down on the bed. After a few minutes he picked up his iPad, kind of climbed over me, and set the iPad down so we could watched together. He lay on me for the next several minutes, watching, and only got up when Carly got out of the shower. We then read part of Green Eggs and Ham. A little later he fell of the bed again, this time almost hitting the desk, but mostly missed it, and fell on a body pillow on the floor.
Carly tried to get him in for a bath, but he wanted to nurse. We decided it would wait for the morning. He nursed, and was falling asleep so I turned off the light. He got up though and wanted it back on. He went back to nursing and fell asleep at 9:45.
Photos. Breakfast:
First walk:
Taxi:
Walk from our condo:
Pool:
Evening walk:
Korean strawberries:
Melon:
Puffin Rock:
