Nursed with Carly at 6:30. Then woke up at 7:59. Apparently he had almost woken me up last night around 3:30. He went into the parlor and lay on the floor for a few minutes. He came out hungry. Ate banana bread and then one green olive. I was placing an iHerb order, and August and I talked about what kind of toothpaste to buy. He decided he wasn’t ready to start spitting out his toothpaste all the time, so we went with the fluoride-free kind. He then wanted to find Green Monster and Bluie and Marshy. After that we did some exercise, then some Hebrew and art, starting a mosaic.
Funny conversation when he came in the bathroom when I was on the toilet. I was sitting there, and he touched my back and said “You can touch the back. There’s no poop coming out of there. Why there no poop coming out the back?” He claimed the floor was dirty, saying “There poop on there.”
I took a shower, then we looked for skeleton videos, then read some old Mother Goose on the iPad on the couch. Later, he would want “more poems”. We then went to the reading area to play and rest. Playing around, he joked “Don’t eat me. I don’t taste good. The bones, probably.” He then got nice and sweet and cuddled for awhile. He kept doing nose rubs with me and softly saying “Dada, dada.” He combined that with pretend waking me up and also cuddling.
Getting ready to go, he picked up the knife I used to cut the strawberries. He was being safe with it at first, but then started to walk with it. I tried to take it from him, but he tried to grab it with both hands, at which point I got it away from him. He wasn’t happy about that.
Ate a few crackers, then played the piano. He then started doing math on the door. First seriously, and then math with letters. He was standing on the tambourine and I picked it up and put it in the bowl. He then got it back, and was acting as if I had taken it away from him as a consequence. That led to a discussion of consequences, and distinction between natural consequences and discipline consequences. Sitting on the toilet, he wanted more and more examples of consequences. Sitting there, he lost his balance but caught himself. He told me “Don’t worry. I balanced.” Back with the magnets, he said “Zinnie did a little math…I haven’t done math with letters yet…What’s D minus T?” Finally, he then played piano, doing the whole song and singing through “Brother John” in the song.
We left at 12:10. He sang Itsy Bitsy Spider over and over. We walked up the main street, then turned right along the stream. The sidewalks and streets here were all slippery, so it was slow going. We made it to the park, which we decided to call Chinhurt Park (actually called 가재 Children’s Park). He had fun walking on the ice, then went on the swings for quite awhile. We sang a bunch of our old songs: Spanish ABC, counting songs, etc., then learned more Yankee Doodle Dandy.
We left at 1:00 when he decided he wanted to keep going to Tayo. He got too cold a block from the kid cafe, so I carried him and he buried his hands between us. Started playing at 1:25. He was ready to go, but open to going to the bathroom first thing. He insisted on wearing the slippers in the bathroom. Still a bit cold from being outside, and the bathroom was cold, so he was shivering. First played in the bead area, hiding and finding stuff. A girl and her baby sister came along. The older girl confused him (and me, for that matter) by first throwing beads at all of us, but when August tried to return the favor and I explained he could only do it on their legs, the older girl was having none of it and said we couldn’t put them on the little girl or her. But after they left, a mom and baby came along, and August used the pie crust toy thing as a massager on the boy’s foot and he really liked it. He then mimicked August by using it on his own foot, then handed it back to August so he would use it on the kid’s foot more.
August was then ready for something else. He went back to the baby toys and played with those while I went and ate some lunch at the counter. He came over after awhile and ate lunch, then went back in. He climbed in the baby chair, and pretended to be a baby and sleeping, then played with the toys hanging above him. Very cute.
After that, he wandered around looking for something else. I went to put the backpack back in the locker, and August followed me there, but then as I struggled to make it fit, August disappeared. I found him back at the other end of the play area looking for something else to do. We crawled through the crawling thing once, then went up to the book area, where we read two horrible, horrible Pororo books in English that I’d like to forget. Both the English and plot were horrible in both.
We went down a slide once, and did the small trampoline area a couple times. The second time he had it to himself for awhile, so was having more fun, but the second another kid came in he stopped. About 3 he decided he was ready to go home: “I want to go home.” “Are you sure?” “Yeah. Come on, dada.” But as we got our coats I saw that the tool area was open, so we did that for 15 minutes or so before leaving.
We walked some roads to avoid some of the icy area. Randomly, the footholds on the bike (which August never uses) fell off. Picked up the pieces and will see if it can be repaired later. Close to Toys R Us he talked about being hungry. We stopped at some benches and had a snack. He then got his shovel, and played around on the icy snow, mainly seeing if he could slip on it.
We then went to Toys R Us, where we went to the toy store. He mainly liked the aquariums with the real plants in them, and looked at some fish. We also went and saw the cats. He wanted to startle/wake them up, but reluctantly agreed not to, saying ‘hi’ instead. Tried to look at books at Toys R Us, but he didn’t want to. Seemed rather tired. We sang the Spanish ABC song as we walked home. As we got close to home (on our side of the park) he got cold again, and wanted me to carry him. Was then getting upset when I would set him down for a second.
Got home at 4:40. He requested more poems, and wanted me to sing the nursery rhymes, even if they don’t have a tune (that I know of). Then looked at the Bones app on his ipad. Carly was home at 5:10.
They nursed, then he watched Venus fly trap videos. He found the Sesame Street Play app, and we used it to find two games to play: the first was one where we put random objects on the table, then took one away while the other person closed their eyes. The second was one where we chose a funny word, then took turns saying it in a higher pitch until one person couldn’t go any higher.
He sang When Johnny Comes Marching Home again with Carly and she made up lines: “He wants some soup to eat, because he’s super super hungry” “he eats his soup with some bread and then he quickly goes to bed” etc. “Sing it again!” She was making them up during his bath last night. They then read Happy Birthday and the Pop-up Nursery Book. He did some art on the iPad, then wanted to read Peppa Pig books. I read a couple of those, then Carly used reverse psychology on him (telling him she didn’t want to hear Gaston) to get him to request Gaston. Carly gave him a bath, then he was lifting the little weight that he found in the cupboard near her closet. We read the Pop-up Nursery Book in a fort on reading area, then did some mosaic on paper. He said he was ready for sleep, and went in with Carly and was asleep at 8.
Photos. Bluie:
Swinging in the cold:
Baby area:
Reading area:
Tools:
Snack break:
Pet store:
To our park. Looking at things on the ground while he swings:
Pokémon Go players in the park:
