He nursed at 6 or so, then slept all the way until 8:53. He came out, closed the door behind him (something he’s been doing regularly this week), then lay on the floor in the parlor. He was hungry so we got up. Went and put his underwear on, but he realized it was the elephant pair and wanted a different pair – it was the elephant pair that he had peed in. I assured him they had been washed, but he still wanted a different pair. He spent some time looking out the window at the good snow we got last night. Then we had cereal and strawberries. He repeated, like yesterday, that the new cereal tastes “brown sugary”. We then played with the Spin Monster toy and twirled the pieces as tops. He was getting a hang of that. We then played music. Hung the triangle on a rubber band since he broke the original rubber piece yesterday winding it up. We made up a song about kimchi. He then wanted books on the iPad but settled on the songbook. We sang from that and he made up songs.
He went to the bathroom and had me telling him about strawberries. When he was done he licked the sink and said “I ate germs and I didn’t get sick.” He watched Puffin Rock and I took a shower. He then played the shapes game in Spanish. Haven’t done that in quite awhile. We fixed the broken drum with tape again (he was pushing holes in it) then brushed our teeth. He put his blue clip on the photo of Grampa Dahl’s birthday party (something he did yesterday) and joked about it again (“What you did?” as he peered through the crack in the door to see it).
One time after he went to the bathroom this morning he pulled up his underwear all by himself. Which also reminded me that yesterday he wanted to wash his hands all by himself, and did a good job of it.
He weighed himself in the bathroom. Up to 13.1kg (28.9lbs). Getting ready to go, he started to open the snack pocket of the backpack. I stopped him. At which point he recited the entire conversation that WOULD have happened, had he got it open. Not the exact words (I wish I could remember it all), but it went:
“Will say a-ha when find the crackers. Dada say ‘they’re for later’. You ask can you eat them. Dada say ‘No’”
We were ready to head out and go to Children’s Grand Park, or so I thought. One last trip to the bathroom. But this time we were talking about the brain, and as he had me tell him about baby brains he chimed in with “Hasn’t developed.” He asked some question, and I suggested we look at a picture. I got the 3D Brain app on my iPad and the Tinybop anatomy app and we ended up spending the next half hour talking about the brain, eyes, nerves, and other systems.
He was hungry, so really time to get going. But as we were really leaving this time, he suddenly said “I want to ride my bike in the snow.” He was very happy with the idea, but it meant not going to Children’s Grand Park. So we went and rode around in the snow and went to the other side of the park. Stopped and stomped around in the snow and did snowballs. I had forgotten his snow boots. At one point though he saw circles in the snow and they were from someone’s shoe. We looked at our own tread patterns, and I wondered what his snow boots would look like. After that, he wanted to go home for lunch and get his snow boots.
We went home and ate our lunch. He liked the corn and crab salad and chicken and broccoli and rice things from our lunch. He was interested in the kimchi, but only smelled it. We used the tops again, then drew molecules. He pulled open a marker and said “Teuni Teuni works.” One time, after his class during which they worked on pulling things apart, I had said that when he was able to get a marker open. He remembered.
After lunch and in the warm sun I was getting sleepy. He wanted to read the new Berenstain Bears book and I was falling asleep on the reading area. He was asking a million questions too, so it was taking forever. I tried to tell him we could finish later, and he started to get really sad. I woke back up and was like “Okay, okay! We can read!” I told Carly it felt a little like how she must feel when he is sad and wants to nurse. We finished, and he wanted to watch Puffin Rock. We started and he said “Dada rest”. I did, for a bit, but then realized I needed to call the bank to get some information for our Korean taxes. I did that. Went smoothly enough, although August decided to start blowing his trumpet when I was on the phone.
We then went back outside, wearing his snow boots this time. We took the bike but he never rode it, instead preferring to tromp around in his boots. We went in the park and then just up on the hill to the right where kids were sledding. I asked if he would like to try it and he said “No!” with his little head shake, as if I was crazy to ask. Walked over to the pond area, now dry, and he wanted to go in there. Climbed around in there, then walked back up and over the hill again. As we got to the bottom of the hill, apparently a girl almost hit him on a sled. He was walking behind me, and I didn’t see it, and August wasn’t bothered, but they apologized profusely. We did snowballs by the drinking fountains for awhile, then he wanted to go on the swings. Did that for 20 or 30 minutes.
As we were getting ready to go back inside I said I had an idea. He got excited and asked “What’s your idea!?” It was to stop at Mama Juice, which he liked. He chose mango and I got a lemon tea. We went upstairs and I let him have some of the lemon tea. He really liked that and said “I love it warm.”
Carly got home a bit after 5. They nursed and read the orchestra book. She cooked mushrooms for him and he ate some, scooping a few up with a spoon. We read the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star book, which we haven’t done for a long time. He wanted me to read it without singing, so had fun with that. He did some play dough, and wrapped it around his spoon. He then entertained Carly with some dancing.
He said his bottom was itchy, so we went to put some cream on it. I had noted that we could get rid of the changing pad as we haven’t used it in weeks. But we used it to put on cream. He is starting to be aware of and concerned about getting rid of things, and wants to use the changing pad more. Kind of funny, as he just finished a whole week of using underwear.
I gave him a bath. Then he was hiding Angeles in the reading area and biting Angeles’s foot. We went in on the bed and Carly read him Paddington. He hid under a pillow for part of it. He was asleep a little before 8:20.
Photos. Snow:
Out in the snow. Stomping a snowball:
Tops:
In his boots:
Back home:
Where’s Zinnie?
