He was up at 5:30 or so. Nursed at first then got up with Carly about 5:45. A little after 6 he came back into the bedroom and played with me. We had the stuffed animals eat breakfast (they decided on waffles with mango).
A while later we were it in the living room and Carly went to get dressed. August asked where she was going and she said work. He said “I don’t want (you) to work.” But he was in a good mood, and as she was getting ready to walk out the door he paused with Human Anatomy and said “I want a kiss.” Also, at some point he asked “Why mama not at work yet?”, referring to the fact that he was awake and she was still here. I had to point out that it was still really dark and that he had woken up really early.
He switched and took over my iPad, then we had Cheerios. We went in and did some art and Arabic on the paper and iPad. He watched one Puffin Rock story, then joined in some exercise. We played with the Duplos and started counting them. He wanted to do 55, so we counted then in 10s. I took a shower, and then we spent some time trying out some Arabic apps, finding a couple that we liked. I got ready to go and he wanted some peanut butter. He still jokes about zookeepers in the peanut butter. Today we had this exchange: “I see zookeepers in there…I’m eating zookeepers.” Me: “That doesn’t seem…” Him: “That seems tasty.” We then looked up cartilage again, and worked on the “Morning bells are ringing” line on the piano. We did math with door magnets and my fingers (pretending they were apples). He remembered Qing things, and went around Qing everything as I told him not to.
Finally, he had a drink of water and asked himself: “Why you drink some water? Because it protects your joints…once we watched a video and…to protect the joints.” He had learned that on the videos he watched with Carly.
We walked and caught the subway down. He wore his red sunglasses on the way there. It was late, about 12:30, so we got some kimbap and planned to go eat in the conservatory and then he could take a nap. Didn’t work out that way, as we arrived at the conservatory to find it closed. Not many other indoor places to eat our lunch except for the children’s museum. We went to the new playground and he went on the swings for quite awhile. Then climbed up on the play structure, and worked on climbing back down backwards. It was now one, but he didn’t want to head back to the conservatory (I think it reopened then). Instead, he wanted the children’s museum.
On our walk over we heard a woodpecker. He was asking about woodpeckers. At the children’s museum he was still wearing his full outfit, including glasses, and they liked that. We went up to the cafeteria and ate our lunch. He then wanted to go down to the space area. Played there a few minutes, then down to the art area briefly before he needed to use the bathroom. Back up to the second floor for that. Then he said he was going to the little kids area, but we went to the reading are instead. He found a new game there involving raccoons that you dress in different outfits based on rolls of dice so we played that, then went up to the loft and read parts of a book called 너는 누구니 (Who are you?). He played with the ball pillows and they were hatching into dinosaurs and woodpeckers. We then found the orchestra book and looked at that a little. I tried to say we would save it until next time, but he started to get really sad.
We got walking up the center of the park, past the throngs of people playing Pokémon Go and past the new playground that still hasn’t been touched since December. He fell asleep quickly, and slept 2:55 to 3:40 in the upstairs coffee shop. I woke him up, and he took some convincing to wake up. I held him for a few minutes, then he just sat by the backpack while I packed up.
He was ready to head home, so we walked to the station. The escalator was squeaky (we speculated it would soon be worked on again), so I made a little “Squeaky escalator” that he thought was funny. Then another little song that cracked him up:
“Dada snuck a kiss
Dada snuck a kiss
Dada’s gonna kiss your nose
He’ll kiss it like this
(Kiss)”
We were on the train at 4:10.
Back at home we played Human Body. We figured out how the lymphatic system page works, and made the person sick. The person threw up. August was upset and went and stood by the parlor. I told him it showed that he had empathy, because he felt sad for the person (and also for babies when they are crying).
He wanted to go meet mama, but she got home early, by 5:15, since she had a professional development day. On his iPad he spent a lot of time looking at the skeleton (spine, etc.) They nursed, and he ate soup on his own. They played together on the bed, with him waking her up. He was then in the parlor with me. We did some art, then he was pretending to be a bee and a seagull, bothering me and keeping me awake. I threw pillows at him, but then he turned out to be a nice bee and cuddled and rested with me. Carly gave him a bath, then we blew bubbles while she took a shower. He finally ate most of his soup, and watched some Venus flytraps and math videos on the iPad. He was asleep around 8:30.
Photos. Sunglasses:
Squinting:
Glasses back on:
Climbing down:
Raccoon game:
Book:
More Pokémon Go players:
Asleep:
Awake. Sort of:
Nice woman on the train. She was trying to touch his hands, so he hid them underneath him. It turned into a bit of a game:
Bubbles:
