He was up at 7. Carly skyped with Cherie. He ate a pancake for breakfast. He and Carly worked on some small puzzles, then with me he sang from the songbook and then we read Drum Dream Girl and the cookie story from Frog and Toad. He then asked carly for strawberries, and started doing jump forward (well, side) rolls. He typed his autocorrect stories, then we played the privacy game and hide and seek. Then some more pianos and xylophone. He wanted to learn a new song, so we looked at the songbook, and he decided on Paw Paw Patch. We ended up watching the videos of it first. Carly Skyped with Glecy. At first she hadn’t answered, so they left a vide message and August had fun with that. I took a shower, and while I did they did playdough and played with the animal sticker farm thing. Laughing a lot over that as I came out.
He had slept for less than 8 hours, so I expected a long nap, but he only slept from 12:12 to 1:09. They nursed, then played with the fruits and veggies. I came in and played too, and he came up with some interesting fruits: “spicy watermelon…podo with jackfruit in it.” He ate banana bread, then part of Carly’s toast and egg for lunch. He ate a bite of egg by himself with the fork and was proud of himself. We then played piano and xylophone together.
I was going to take him outside, and Carly was heading to a coffee shop to do some work. He had refused two pairs of socks yesterday, but changed his mind today:“I want two pairs of socks now. I want my feet to be warm.” “You know what? I want my own shoes.” He was reciting a bunch of Mossy lines from Puffin Rock, including “I can’t believe it! They took all my food.” He then pretended to act like Mossy and eat berries. With two pairs of socks on, he had fun sliding on the floor. August decided we should take the big shovel and took it out of the stroller and put it in the back of the bike. Finally, he made a Mossy/Marshy joke and asked where Marshy was. We found him in the bedroom, and August was waking up.
We headed out at precisely 3 with him on the bike. I had suggested the tree playground, but he wasn’t enthused by that one. Instead we walked north and made it to Sarang Children’s Park (사랑어린이공원) – the one with the small floor fountain. There, he went on the swing. Had fun watching his shadow. He also practiced pumping, and is getting better with his timing. Spent most of our time on the swing, but then I reminded him of the shovel and we went over to the sand. Spent a lot of time filling up the bucket, pulling it up on its chain, and filling the chute that you can then pull a handle to open so the sand spills back out. He also stood on the chain, sort of swinging on it. He spotted some beads and I reminded him this is where we can pop them in the table thing. So we did that for awhile, with him trying to pop them up. He wasn’t too successful with up, but could push them down. He found some ice on the ground by a tree and had fun stepping on it. Went back to the swings for awhile, but it was getting cooler. He kneeled on a swing a bit. Before we left, we rode the bike around the park. He identified an eighth note on the ground, then got off the bike to ‘play’ a picture of a piano on the play structure.
It was about 4:30 when we headed home. We stopped at the playground by the youth center at the ‘Bye fuzzy’ platform and had a snack – crackers and soy crisps and banana bread. He was watching people play basketball, then played around on the platform. He was standing on the edge of the platform and said he was making me nervous. We were then practicing tones/ emotions. At one point he wanted me to be something like angry/worried/sad or something like that.
We got home right at 5. He sat with Carly in the hall and had some pasta salad.They then nursed. Carly took his diaper off, but said she was too lazy to get his underwear. He said “I’m lazy too”. They read a Bob Book or two, then I suggested some Hebrew. August wanted to paint, so we started that, then Carly gave him a popsicle, so he ate that. He was playing the Hebrew kids app, and Carly started doing it with him, but then he wanted to do it “on my own”. But then he was getting stressed out by one of the games, which was rather cute. Carly made him a veggie pancake for dinner, then gave him a bath. He was asleep by 7:10, but came back out just after 8, then a couple more times in the next couple hours.
Photos. Funny look:
Park. Sand chute:
Standing on the chain:
On ice:
Kneeling:
Watching basketball:
Dinner in the hall:
