We stayed home much of the day, which was fine because there was a lot of music and math and art time in there, then headed out to parks in the later afternoon.
He was up at 7:25. First thing he said was that he is hungry, so he ate the last bit of banana bread. Then played Are You Sleeping and worked on the Brother John part after which he traced our list of body part words for awhile. He watched some math videos, then we exercised and I took a shower. He was back to watching math and word videos. Made egg and toast for breakfast, and he ate a lot of that. I haven’t felt like eggs for quite awhile, but was getting tired of cereal. He ate a lot of that, then decided to do math, first on the door, but then said we should do it on paper. Went into the parlor and we did math on paper. Out of the blue he wrote ‘ALL’ on the paper – it was one of the word videos he had watched earlier. We used the blue counting squares for working out our math problems – we called them blueberries. In the end we counted all of them and found we have 97.
He tried doing a headstand and actually got his feet in the air for a second or two then did a forward roll. He called this a “Flip forward roll”. We read the Red Hen Bob Book and another one at some point. He was singing songs from the song book, and one song title is in French (Dites-moi, I think). He said “I want to learn French…and German.” I don’t know where he got German from. We watched a German number songs video, but then he remembered watching an orchestra yesterday. We watched Beethoven’s Ninth, performed by the Chicago Orchestra. He watched 15 minutes before wanting to do something else.
We went in on the bed. He had the friends do some cooking, then was really into pretending to cook himself. It was fun to see him copy what we do when making banana bread (including using things like baking soda). I went and got a bowl and spoon and measuring cup for him. After that, we made a fort and read Creepy Carrots a couple times. He had wanted more friends in there, so we brought Turkey, GG, and Peter Rabbit in as well.
We were getting hungry, so started with some cheese and crackers, then made a salmon sandoo. I’d been tracking the Super Bowl, so turned on the end of it and overtime. August didn’t show any interest until it was over and there was all the cheering. I had also had a webinar thing playing earlier and he had ignored that. But when the orchestra is on he is very attentive.
He showed me some more how to slide and jump, then played all of Are You Sleeping. Wanted me to play xylophone while he played piano. Then to ipad for Figure and Notion. We watched more of the orchestra, then did art on the iPad with the pencil before tracing body part words. I was getting him ready to go, and picked him up to put on a pair of pants. He instantly started crying. He agreed he was tired, and said he wanted to go sleep in the parlor. We lay in there for awhile, but he said the sun was too bright and said he wanted the bed. As usual though, once we were in on the bed he wouldn’t rest. Went back out and he was tracing some words while I finished getting us ready.
They started testing the alarms in the building (so that was what they had announced this morning…). I told August it was okay, but it still scared him as it kept going off every few seconds: “I want to go home…I want to go outside.” I picked him up and he was then hiding in reading area while I got our coats. We slipped out and got on his bike and headed out. It was just after 2:30.
We rode up north and ended up going to 3 parks. First, we went to 느티울근린공원, which is the park complex north of Sarang Children’s Park. We were last here with Carly several months ago when he watched big kids climbing on the big rope structure and he wanted to climb to. That’s where he went first, and he was actually able to climb up in it a bit, with just a little help. He climbed around a pole, then was trying to step down while holding on to a horizontal rope with both hands. He couldn’t reach the rope below, and ended up swinging by his hands. He hung there for several seconds, then fell the 4 inches to the ground. Kind of tumbled, but recovered and was fine with it.
He then went over and started to climb up the little play structure, but then realized he needed to go to the bathroom. We went over only to find the bathrooms closed. While figuring out what to do, he went on the swings for a minute. We then went and got on the bike and walked around and found bathrooms in a little office/community center building. But while we were talking I had mentioned another park nearby that, last time we were there, was all dug up. He wanted to go see what the work had done, so we headed that direction. The park (선녀어린이공원) was a disappointment – all the work they had been doing was apparently just for a water line or something. But there were some small swings. He went on those for several minutes. We then headed over to Sarang Children’s park, just a block west, to play with the sand.
We did our usual bucket and chute filling and emptying. He worked a bit on pulling the chain to raise the bucket. A girl came and asked him his name in English. He replied with ‘August’. I told him to ask her name, in Korean, but she had already run off and didn’t hear him. A bit later there were a few boys kind of close, and August went up and made funny noises to them. They responded by yelling back, and acting like chickens, and chasing August around. Fun, but a bit much, and I had to tell one boy to stop chasing August when he got a little worried. Then, they were playing with August’s shovel. August at first said something about sharing, but a minute later when I mentioned they’d give it back, August suddenly got upset and started crying. I paused to comfort him, then go get the shovel, but then I heard a crack. They had cracked the shovel. Luckily, it still works and should be fixable.
But August was done, and wanted to head home. He was fine after he had the shovel back and we were on our way.
In the evening he played Are You Sleeping for Carly, and we all finished watching Beethoven’s Ninth. August now said he wants to play the oboe. He also traced the body parts words and made funny sentences in the sentence app. Carly gave him a bath, and he wanted two pairs of socks on for sleeping. He said his feet have been cold. He was asleep by 7:20.
Photos. Our blueberries:
Math:
Reading in a fort:
Hiding from the alarm test:
Climbing:
Swinging:
Swings:
Larabar:
With the friends:
Upside down:
Hiding from the light:
