He was up right at 6. He and Carly read “Five minutes peace”, the first time Carly has read that book. He then played with Duplos on his own and was singing a lot and talking to himself. Earlier, Carly had called them Legos, and he said “Actually, they’re Duplos.” He made monster finger things and attacked Carly. We made a 2, then a 3 out of Duplos, then it turned into a fountain, then a home for a gorilla.
We had oatmeal and strawberries for breakfast, and there was a lot of watching Beethoven’s Ninth through the day. We also watched the ink video, and he played the Namoo app – he is primarily fascinated by the carbon dioxide going in the leaves, and the oxygen coming out. We read Berenstain Bears Go to School, DInosaurs Love Underpants, and looked at the song book and Musical Instruments book.
I tried to give him a dose of his allergy medicine, but he wasn’t as cooperative with me. He would only take a tiny sip and say he was done. Eventually got him to take a full dose, by first mixing it with some water drink, then the remains of that with just water.
Oh, and he did some more Dragonbox Big Numbers, paying (with the fake coins) for the disco dance at the end several times and sort of dancing and humming along.
We had fettuccini alfredo with veggies, and a chicken breast for lunch. As we ate the chicken he said “I want a video of this…the smoky chicken.” We left at 12:30. His eye wasn’t as bad as it had been at its worst yesterday, but was still quite puffy, and he was rubbing it more than I would like, so I was going to try to take him to the doctor. We had talked about it, but when we got to the second floor he really wasn’t happy. Very upset about the idea. I got him down the hall, to look in the office and he was generally calm, but it was now 12:37 and quite crowded – I was pretty sure we weren’t going to get in before their lunch break at 1.
So we headed out, and went for a walk, August humming along the entire way, up past Toys R Us and a park that we’ve missed in the past. We got to the park, 다람쥐어린이공원, and he first went on a teeter totter. Did that, then ran back and forth on the little mound surrounding the park and jumped off. Over to the play structure, where he found a pair of shoes lying on the ground that he tried to play with. He said he was being silly. Then he went up on the structure and went down the slide once, then just went up and down the stairs a lot.
Then he found the exercise bikes. He was excited that he could reach the pedals and turn them all on his own. Rode them for quite awhile. It was actually a video game sort of thing that you could race the other person on, but he was pedaling backwards as it was easier that way, so it wouldn’t work for him.
Next, over to the swings when one opened up. We had a good turn on them, and he switched from the shorter red swing to the higher green swing at one point. But then a bunch of other kids arrived and it was time to let someone else have a turn. I initially gave him one more set of pushes, but then he wanted more, so I asked how many pushes. He’s getting smart to this tactic and said 20. So I started pushing him, but when I got to about 10 he started saying “Stop pushing! Stop pushing!” So then I playfully grabbed him off the swing, but he wasn’t letting it go and got quite upset. He kept pointing towards the swings and saying “I want it!”
Eventually, he calmed down a bit and I sat down next to our backpack and got out the last of the letter cookies from Glecy and he ate those. He was hungry, so we continued on with crackers, pine nuts, and dried cherries. Spent a lot of time cuddling on my lap before getting up and going back on the bikes. He then played under the play structure and chased the blowing flower petals, putting some down a drain. Once more down the slide, and we left at 2:30.
Just to the south of park is a building we have walked by several times, but this time we spotted a coffee shop. Indego, on the north side, not visible from the Main Street to the south. I just poked in the building to give it a look, but August wanted to go to the coffee shop. I thought about it a second and realized we hadn’t been to one recently, so we went on in. He got an apple juice, and my caramel macchiato came with a lot of whipped cream on top, which I shared with him. He played some Dragonbox Numbers, standing on the floor next to me with the iPad on a chair, while I read. He needed to use the bathroom so we went and found one. When we came back, one of the women brought August a pack of chocolate-covered Sesame seeds. When he finished them, another woman brought him a pack of potato crisps and American cheese. He switched to Big Numbers, and was chanting “How much gold? So many gold.” He only drank a bit of his apple juice, then wanted his water instead. He was then really interested in how much was left in each of the water bottles, so we were talking about it as fractions.
Eventually we started the walk home. At the elevators I remembered we needed to go to Tous Les Jour for bread. I had to tell him he could pick something out, as he was ready to go up the elevators. He chose a bun with custard in it. We paid and looked at the cakes. He kept asking “Mama would like that one?” He caught on that I was replying that she would like the ones with chocolate and as we left he was making up cakes and saying “Mama would like…? Because it has chocolate?” Some of his cakes were:
“One with Legoes you can eat and chocolate?”
“One with a monster that you can eat on it, and chocolate?”
“One with strawberries and yogurt and chocolate?”
We were home at 4:30. We were playing mandolin (August was working on pressing the forests with his foot) when Carly got home about 5. They nursed and had some dinner, then he nursed some more and Carly thought he was asleep about 6:30 and was going to take him to bed. But he got back up and instead wanted a pillow fight. I hit him with a pillow, then he hit back: “oh yeah? Well kaboom.” He was then carrying pillows with his mouth, like he was a dog, and wanted me to pull on them: “I want to fight over it.” “I’m not sharing.”
I gave him a bath. We started watching Beethoven’s First until the internet started acting up. We played with a squirt car, then play fought over it. He played with the bag of letters, pushing it down in the water and then letting it drip.
After his bath we ate some hummus and crackers. He grabbed the old banana on the counter and said “I was playing a squeezing banana instrument.” He went to bed after that and was asleep by 8:10.
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