He got up at 7:00, after Carly had headed to work. He was a bit upset, but not too bad. He sat on the step for a few minutes, then we put on our shoes, but I realized we hadn’t taken off his diaper yet, so we changed him into underwear. He then wanted to measure his feet. They’re 15cm long. He asked “What happens if you’re 12 cm tall?” Still wanted out: “I want to go out in the hall.” So we went out and roamed the hallways, from 7:15 to 7:32. Looked at the mail boxes, and he led the way, humming as he wandered the building. At one point he rubbed his hand on the wall as he walked and said “I’m making a sine wave.”
Back in the house he played with all the xylophone stuff (magnets, etc.) We read “Spring” (Frog and Toad) and part of The Little Prince. He then said he wanted to play with the Namoo app: “Namoo? What? It’s about growing.” He wanted cereal for breakfast, but didn’t reply when I asked if he wanted his own bowl. When I brought just one to share he said “I want my own bowl.” After he ate he was looking out the window at cars: “I want that black car. That’s a good size for our car in Israel?…How about that car? It’s a little big.” We had been listening to music, and he liked songs by the Black Angels after the the Telemann classical album was over.
I took a shower and came out to find him hauling pillows to the bedroom: “I was taking away the pillows from the reading area. I mean the nursing spot.” We played on the bed and did cupcakes and cake with the friends .
Then he was really hungry. I offered him several options (French toast, hummus, soup, etc.) but he remembered crackers and cream cheese and crab. So we had that and he was getting pretty good st scooping cream cheese with a cracker and putting a piece of crab on it. He was making a lot of his yummy noises as he ate.
Did some art. He started drawing a picture: “I’m making a machine instrument. This is a machine that cuts those pieces in half.” By the time he finished it he had slightly changed his mind and said it was a machine that cuts pizzas. He then made a line of Duplos and other things through the middle of the parlor. He then remembered the playground and getting sprayed game on reading area. That was from back when we had the Teuni gym set thing and it was a “playground” that you had to be a certain age to use, or you got sprayed with a hose. We were also cuddling in the reading area, and talking about germs and how there are good and bad germs.
He said he was still hungry, then needed to use the bathroom. Then he talked about how “I want to do Dragonbox Numbers because I was talking about Dragonbox Numbers.” Let him do that a bit, then we skyped with my parents. He did a great job talking to them and engaging with them today. He was being a cat, and took the lid off his water bottle and was drinking from it like a cup. Did fine until he spilled a bunch on his shirt. He tried taking his shirt off but found that the shirts he had today were too small for his previous method. Will have to work on that. We also played some mandolin for them, me pressing frets and him doing the strumming. He had called Uncle Paul quiet at the beginning, because he didn’t hear Paul say hi when August had his fingers in his ears. After we hung up, he asked again “Uncle Paul is quiet?”
He brought up visiting gramma and grampa this summer, and said “I want to stay in Korea.” He then talked a bit more about moving and said “We’re not going to move right now?” Definitely thinking about it all.
We headed to Teuni Teuni. Got there just as bubbles were finishing. August ran in to pop bubbles and I had to chase him to take off his shoes. Then proceeded to run and dance and everything as usual. He was tickling other kids today, at first, I think, when they were crowding him on the walking path, but then also as a game with the teacher.
Class was about routines. It started with them getting sleeping mats and pretending to sleep, then waking up and putting them away in a cabinet (little Korean culture lesson for him there). At first the teacher pretended to sleep, and all the kids went and woke him up. Really funny. Then they had vacuum cleaners that picked up pieces of dust using magnets. August really liked that. Next was sorting blocks from cars and putting them away. The teacher was driving a car piece on people, so August started doing it back to him. They then got fake books and were putting them away on shelves. There were also seats they could sit down on with their books.
After class we came to Mama Juice and he chose an orange and carrot juice and I got strawberry banana. We got two corndogs – one covered with potato chunks, and one covered in ramen. Enjoyed both of those, and we tried sauces on them this time, preferring the usual ketchup and also an onion sauce. Next time we’ll try one rolled in sugar.
We then went to the art museum play are, getting there at 2:50. He did a lot of jumping in. He saw me throwing balls off shapes on the wall, and he practiced that as well. He and another boy were throwing balls out of one of them, and August kept saying “I’m spending so much coins.” A reference to Big Numbers. He started to get crazy at the end, intentionally throwing balls down the steps and not stopping when I asked. After a couple more minutes we left.
He wanted to go see the art, which is new. Didn’t have much time, and he got crazy in the gallery once, but calmed down and was able to go back in. He liked a video of a sewing machine sewing bird pictures on hats and watched that a bit and we looked at the hats.
We then headed to the Poli class. Went well enough today. We made an owl out of paper. I brought the book from last time, which we hadn’t done the stickers in yet, and our notebook, so those helped. A good example of her lack of efficiency was passing out all of the pieces of the owl. One. At. A. Time. August liked the owl though, and did a good job dancing to the songs. For the videos he likes going up to the front of the room and watching them on the computer screen instead of the projector screen. He was also rubbing his eyes a lot throughout class. Tired.
Carly beat us home. They nursed, then we read The Little Red Hen twice. He suddenly is all interested in buying more books. He did the spraying game with Carly, then he built a small tower things out of Duplos on his own, then brought the pieces over to Carly and rebuilt it in her hands as she held it. He then filled his shirt with Duplos and dumped them on her. Not a new thing, but what was funny was how serious he was as he carefully filled up his shirt.
I brought him noodles and veggies for dinner and he ate them. He asked how you made noodles, and I gave him a joke answer. He asked “How do you ACTUALLY make noodles.”
Carly gave him a bath, and as we got him ready for bed she realized there was a series of red dots down each of his legs. I had seen the bottom ones and thought they were bruises. But they appear to be more of a pattern. They aren’t bumpy though, and he says they don’t itch. Our shared possibly-shared allergic reactions get more mysterious. He was asleep by 7:20.
Photos:
Teuni Teuni:
Lunch:
Ball area:
Art:
English class. Making an owl:
Driving:
Building Duplos on mama:
Spots on his legs:
