He woke up a little before 6 and started nursing. After awhile they came out and nursed more on the couch. August agreed to stop when we suggested watching the orchestra on his iPad. Did that for awhile, then watched math and science videos. He traced some Arabic, then wanted to add Spanish words to the tracing app. We got the book and added people words. He then wanted to write them on paper, so we went in and he practiced ‘el’ and ‘la’. Turned out he wasn’t sure about writing ‘a’ so he practiced that. Took photos on his own. Refused to take a photo of me. I suggested the stuffed animals and he likes that idea. “Come on!” So he took photos on the bed, and took one of me and Marshy. He made a nest on the bed, and said he was taking all the pillows: “Well, some of them.” He had them make omelettes again for breakfast, then was doing sort of jump kicks off the headboard with his hands on the bed. He cuddled with me and hugged Marshy. After omelettes, he had them get 8 kinds of ice cream and then cookies.
After some jumping, we headed out to the kitchen where “I want real peanut butter on a spoon.” and ate a banana. We ate Cheerios for breakfast and he played some piano. He put together the octopus things as a hose and said there was water going through it. He took more photos, of the hose and some out the window.
He was reading lots of words today. While looking at the skeleton app I was pretty sure he read mandible and vomer, and then while using my phone as a camera he would say the names of buttons when he pushed them: camera, photo.
We watched an orchestra video and read the Doc book again. He pretended to be a “different kid” again today while on the toilet. This is something he started yesterday. Today he was being a different kid pooping in his underwear.
He watched a Venus fly trap video, then watched orchestra videos while I took a shower. After my shower we read and colored one of the Bob Book activities books. He then found the cardboard kaleidoscope cards while look in the draw and remembered that they were a present from gramma and grampa. We also discussed dolphins for some reason and he remembered not liking the dolphin show at the big zoo.
Finally, he got afraid of the announcements this morning. Because they happened five times. They’ve been happeneing every morning this week, but this was the first time there has been so many of them. He had me pick him up and was hiding his face on my chest like with the wind yesterday. He took a few more photos with my camera and then we got going, leaving at 11:40.
Got kimbap and a strawberry sandwich (yes, with strawberries and whipped cream – had to try it once) for lunch, then went to the children’s museum and ate. A smaller kid was screeching, so August took that as an invitation to screech at first. Then, he wanted to interact with other people, but was going up to them and yelling ‘boo’. We were working on that, and alternative things to say. He did kind of twist/shimmy like a woman who was doing that for some reason. That was funny.
He then wanted to go to the little kids area. A little time on the trampoline, then to the puzzles. One of the wooden puzzles was missing a piece and he wanted me to find it, but I couldn’t. He saw a worker put sausage back in the wrong place (too lazy to go upstairs, it seemed). He went and took it upstairs and put it away and came back. He found the lion (saja) hand puppet and really wanted to play with it. Took it upstairs, sat in a little chair, and hugged it. He wanted me to do the voice of it, and I chose a growly voice. August told me it was the wrong voice, so it switched to a higher pitch, and said it had had a frog in its throat. August thought that was a funny expression, so we ended up having the lion eat frogs and get them caught in its throat.
Before we left he put all the hand puppets away, the worms that go in the center apple, and a couple other things. Back upstairs, we found that missing piece from the puzzle at the beginning, so he went and put it away.
He played with one of the little push beetle things for a few seconds, then carefully maneuvered it back to its spot along the wall. Alas, then he hit a boy on the head for no apparent reason.
We headed out. Bathroom, etc. then as we got ready to go he sang a little song:
“I can’t go anywhere cuz
I’m tired and sleepy”
He spent several minutes walking around the lobby and pretending to draw hopscotch patterns, and made up a colors song as we walked out. He ate some Larabar, then we got to walking. Took rather awhile – 25 minutes. Possibly extended first by asking about why the zoo was closed, then having a bunch of questions about bird flu. He would keep asking about it. At one point he also said “I want mama to come here.” I said that If you go to sleep you’ll see her sooner. He gave perhaps his first real “Okaaaay”.
He fell asleep and we went to the downstairs cafe. He slept from 2:27 to 3:37. I tried waking him up after an hour, but he wouldn’t, so I let him keep sleeping. When I did wake him up he went back to sleep on me sitting in the chair until 3:57. It was nice to have him sleeping on me again.
He then wanted a drink. He was a little sad when I said he had already had juice (we brought orange juice) and a treat (the strawberry sandwich) with lunch.
We headed home, stopping at the bathroom in the subway station. He had some more difficulties in the train: he lightly hit one woman on the head before we got a seat, then was grabbing at a couple of coats, saying “grab, grab”. Got him settled down and was fine the rest of the way.
At Hagye, as we got in the backpack, I asked what he wanted to do until mama got home. We first discussed writing Hangeul on the paper, then he said Hangeul on his iPad. I asked which one he preferred and he said “Let’s do some of each…what’s ‘each’?” Interesting that he used ‘some of each’ in the proper context, but didn’t quite know what it meant.
Carly was home close to 6, having stayed a little late. I filled out the class registration form for spring (doing Teuni Teuni one last time, and also trying out the English class, which meets later on Thursdays) then walked to Home Plus on my own. Ordered a pizza, then went and bought a couple groceries and registered for his classes.
At home we ate pizza. August was happy about that. He had mentioned doing patterns with Duplos, so we did that. He has the idea of patterns down pretty well now and was doing two and three color patterns. We read the Doc McStuffins coloring book and he wanted me to draw a dog, then a puffin (Oona) on paper. That made him want to watch Puffin Rock, so he did that while Carly took a shower. He then nursed and they played a bit. At one point she asked me the time and I told her. August said “It’s one past two”. So working on that structure as well.
I gave him his bath. It was a long one. The water was quite lukewarm by this point but he didn’t mind. Or rather a long sitting on the toilet. We used the P O and E letters to list words that started with each, then spelled ‘poem’. Basic to bed routine after that and he was asleep about 10.
Photos. Skeleton:
His photo of me:
Walking on the 3 shape:
Strawberry sandwich:
Little kids area:
Hopping down the stairs:
Sitting with the rainbow:
A rest:
Hugging and feeding the saja:
Asleep on me:
Patterns:
Poem:
