He came out at 6:47. Quiet for a couple minutes, then wanted to play the Human Body app. Later he said “I want an app that shows you how dada’s humerus bone broke.” And randomly he recited some Puffin Rock lines: “Eh. I don’t need those guys. Because you don’t have to share your food with us. Exactly.” After awhile he requested “I want the story Parking Problems…Paddington.” But we never got around to reading it, as we ended up playing with some music, then doing some exercise. Then it was in on the bed to do the rolling game and made a nest.
He talked about bones he could feel and we looked them up on the phone – phalanx, metacarpal, radius, ulna.
We skyped with my parents. I asked them about getting a cat, and I asked August how many cats Gramma and Grampa should get. He said “One” and held up one finger, but then after a pause kept counting, all the way to ten, and said they should get ten cats.
After Skype we played more on the iPad and ate a peanut butter sandwich. We played in the parlor. He rolled around, and put a blanket on me. We read Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight. Then he had the idea of making cats out of play dough. I tried to make cats, and he made other things: “I made a foot jellyfish.”
We headed out early to Teuni Teuni class, but not early enough to get lunch beforehand. So we sat at a table outside his class and had some crackers. But before going up the moving walkway, August stopped at the goo-mood-a-fire store, which was back, and smelled the humidifiers, as they had scents in them. We saw Jihong and his mom as they were coming out of the class before ours. Surprising, as I thought she was out of the city, back to teaching this year. Class was about slapping flies with a flyswatter, picking up ants with a stick, and putting tadpoles in jars – a lot of pulling and pushing and poling stuff. He did well. Wouldn’t give the teacher a high five at the start of class, but instead ran up and did a big jump onto his hands and knees instead.
After class we went down and chose the bibimbap with soup (산채비빔밥) in the food court for lunch. He had a lot of fun trying everything, even trying the tiniest bit of the red pepper sauce. He particularly liked the boiled egg, which he ate all of, and he ate the sprouts and mushrooms and egg from the bibimbap. He did well with the seaweed as well, and of course ate the rice. The soup was spicy, but he liked the tofu chunks out of it when I wiped them off. He was excited by the new things he tried, and said “You handled the seaweed too.” He had also been looking at the stomach animations on the Human Body app earlier, so we talked about how the food was being digested. He said “Zinnie has a stomach; everyone has a stomach.” When he was done eating, he was running up and down a zigzag sort of line on the floor.
He asked how to use the chopsticks, and I realized we should buy him training chopsticks. So when we were done we went and chose a set with a blue owl on the end. We then went and got another set of underwear so we’d have more, then got some groceries. After, of course, he looked at the aquariums for awhile.
We headed out on his bike, and I asked if he wanted to go to the play area at the art museum. We spent about 50 minutes there. He worked on throwing (aiming and overhand), struggled to get his socks off, and played with some other kids. One girl told him not to throw balls at her head. He then crowded in one of the heart-shaped ball pits with two other kids and they all threw the balls out together.
At 4 we headed home and dropped off the groceries. He was hungry, so I suggested we could get something at the bakery. We went down and got bread and he chose a maple pecan pastry and then looked at all the cakes. And we picked up our package from iHerb. He carried the bag from the bakery from the guard station to the elevators.
We tried out the new chopsticks and popped the packing material together. August had said a couple times during the day that he was getting sleepy – once during class, and once in the ball area, but he never wanted to head home. When we were back home now, we ended up in the bed, making a fort, and he cuddled up in my left arm and lay with me for several minutes while we waited for Carly to get home.
When she got home they nursed, then he played with GarageBand. He ate rice curry, but Carly gave him a hot bite that really upset him. After they nursed, he went back to eating, but scooped it all up himself. If that’s what it took… But then wanted “something else”, which usually leads to him requesting “more breakfast foods”.
Carly gave him a bath. He wanted his underwear, one of the new crocodile pair from today, and started to get really sad and exhausted when we said he needed a diaper. We consoled him by putting the underwear on over his diaper, and he fell asleep by 7:15.
Think I forgot to mention he had the slightest pee accident yesterday when he was playing on the iPad at the couch. He realized though, and made it to the toilet. Pretty minor, and he wasn’t upset by it, but aware.
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