Author: Ryan/Dada

There was a short power outage last night before I went to bed. Happened just before 10. It was long enough for me to get up and look out the window for awhile and realize that it wasn’t just our building – everything was out. The power then came back down and I saw all the buildings light back up. Later, August sat up in bed. He was sitting against me, and after a minute I laid him back down and he slept against me for the next hour or so. He laughed at one point. He woke up around 6:20 and headed out to Carly. When I got up he requested Christmas music but he got upset when I wouldn’t let him type in the computer on the desk. He wanted to nurse. They had been doing a lot of nursing. They then did watercolor painting for a long time as we listened to Christmas music and he was quite happy with that.

As carly got ready to go, August and I were writing on paper. He wrote silent e words like ‘slope’ on his own. Then Vivian and Cassie called and they Skyped for a few minutes.

When she left August wanted to go to, but we convinced him it was okay. He said he wanted to play in the hall, but we only got as far as putting on his diaper. Instead, he ended up wanting the lotion. First he put it on his legs, then mine, then wanted to do my back. Did that for a few minutes. Then we were throwing soft things up in the air, before he said he wanted to make a secret nest. We got blankets and did that, and read After the Storm, two pigeon books, and part of One Fish Two Fish. He got distracted and excited by the rhymes, and was coming up with his own rhymes, and also asking why words didn’t rhyme: “Computer and book do not rhyme.” He then said “I have an idea, dada.” It was to get out the plastic fruits and veggies.

He then had the idea of going to the Namu play area. I changed him, and he talked about being a grown up, looking up at the ceiling and talking about how tall he is. We called gramma and grampa, who were with Paul over at Dee and Grants and talked for a few minutes. August was ready for the play area, but then we took awhile brushing our teeth (he helped brush mine) and after that he sat on the couch and started asking about what happens if you break things: “What happens if you break your nose…your chin…your tummy?” He then wanted to type on my phone. He did that for awhile, and it was now past 11:30. He was acting tired and so was I. So we went back in on the reading area and watched some Puffin Rock.

We got up after awhile and made a salmon sandwich and some rice casserole for lunch, then created art in Paper.

Carly got home after 1, and August went to sleep right away. It was a short nap, from 1:15 to 1:56, but he fell back to sleep with Carly on the reading area.  I was napping in the bed and kept napping for awhile. They were typing words on her computer, then did more watercolor painting. He was in prime question mode, asking Carly why she was doing everything “Why mama dry the black about? Why mama kiss the forehead about? What just a minute about?”

At 3:30 we decided to heard out. August didn’t want to get in the stroller, so carly put two pairs of pants on him and a sweatshirt under his coat. His coat, which he wore last year, has worked so far, but with the sweatshirt on underneath he looked like a marshmallow. And he wasn’t too happy with it. Definitely not going to last 3 more months. So we decided to head to Home Plus. August walked almost all the way there, until I picked him up to cross the parking lot on the other side of the park. In the park, he got down and crawled/slithered a bit, and said “You did something funny.”

At Home Plus we went and first tried two coats on him. This was against his will. But when I gave him a choice of the two, he chose the one with the bears on it. While Carly looked at something else, he and I wandered off. He wanted to look for something to buy. I followed him to the other end of the store, and he chose a red cell phone case. He tried to convince me to get it: “I want that case cuz I don’t like dada’s old one.” He was hungry, so we made our way back to the stroller and sat on the floor and had a Larabar. There was an awful fuzzy pink sweatshirt/dress that he said he wanted to wear at one point, and now he bit it, and said “It tastes very bad.” We then went downstairs and got some groceries.

Back outside, we gave him the option of either heading home, or getting in the stroller and getting Mama Juice. Mama Juice won, and he sat in the stroller without problem with the cover on, but open. Progress. He also adapted to his new coat pretty quickly. On the way over, he sang a “I want mama Juice” song. I told him he should sing it for the owner sometime. He had asked for Mama Juice on our way out, and specified that he wanted kiwi this time, and he stuck to that. So he got kiwi, and Carly and I both got coffee drinks. While waiting, he and I were looking at the signs, and I said we should try the pizza sometime. He said it cost 7000 won, and I said no, there is a sign right there that says 2000 won. He’s going to be quite the arguer, as he replied, dismissively, “No dada, that is the brand.” I don’t remember what that was from, but he was using something that I had said, where I was telling him the name on something was just the brand, not the actual product. Pretty sure I didn’t use the same attitude in my voice though.

Juice in hand, he got back in the stroller and we headed across the stream, and by the youth center playground. August wanted to get down and walk, but we asked him to stay in for a few minutes. But then he pooped, so we figured we should head back, and we let him out. He stood on the path and played around, counting his steps and pretending to shock Carly and me. Then he ‘shocked’ a stranger passing by. Pretty funny.

We got home and changed him, then he did painting with mama, then made a nest with me and we were hiding August Jr. Carly made him strawberry milk, then he requested Beat Bugs on my iPad, so we watched that. They nursed, and he randomly said “Want to make 28 costume now.” He ate more strawberries, then had rice casserole for dinner. They did more painting and Carly gave him a bath. He and I read the monkey book, two Peas books, and the three Peppa books before he was ready to go to go to sleep at 9:40. At the very end he was telling me to read, then turning to Carly and saying he was ready to nurse, then changing his mind and telling me to read, etc. Finally nursing won out. He fell asleep by 10.

Lotion: 

Reading the pigeon books: 

Comfy: 

Painting: 

How he felt about the new coat: 

Check out: 

Walking: 

He got up at 7. I went back to bed and kept sleeping. They did a lot of nursing, he did the tracing app on iPad, and they listened to French songs. When I got up, they had been painting and were cutting out leaves from their paintings and making a tree on the door to the parlor. Carly had explained to him that she got to go to his class today, as she didn’t have to work for Thanskgiving. He was confused by that, and kept asking why it was a holiday.

We headed out for his class. Cold today, so Carly put the cover on the stroller. August was not happy at all. We kept him in until Home Plus. He was pretty upset at the beginning of class. They nursed for a minute, then it took a couple minutes for him to warm to class. When the teacher first came around to him, he wouldn’t give a high five. The teacher kind of acted like a cat and made August laugh. Then I got august to sort of hop on the first walking path, and give him a high five once.

The first toy they did was the plastic pigs that you push the pieces through – actually the very first activity August did in his first Teuni Teuni class. Only this time he could totally push the pieces in on his own, and use his palm for pushing them in.

After that, it was all a variety of cool walking and climbing paths. So Carly didn’t get to see a themed class (no hats!), but it was a lot of fun. I helped him walk one path, but mainly Carly was with him or he was on his own. He also did a lot of acting like a frog – at one point he and the teacher were doing it together.

At the end of class, he did the group photo. August wasn’t excited by that, but he did it. Then, I got to hand out the candies from the penguin backpack to all the kids while the teacher went and got all the parents’ phone numbers.

We then went downstairs and did some shopping. Carly had the list – I had August. Maybe he was just hungry, or maybe he has suddenly realized that he can request new things. But he wanted everything he saw. Started with some 호빵 (buns with stuff in them). Got those, as he’s been curious about them. But then he wanted a Mickey Mouse plate, a bag of chips, etc. I got him a little individual spear of pineapple and I also said yes to a little pack of cheese flavored peanuts as they looked interesting.

We headed home. He was upset by the stroller again. But calmer. And when Carly headed to the pink building for one item and I headed home with him he was silent.

At home he ate his pineapple and a bunch of curry rice for lunch, then shared a red bean 호빵 with me. We watched some Puffin Rock, and at the end of the episode I turned it off. He was ready for a nap and slept from 1:50 to 2:54.

When he woke up they nursed and I went and napped some more. Carly took him and they got a mango banana juice and went over to the playground. I came down a few minutes later and found Carly on a swing, with August drinking juice by the teeter totter. We stayed for maybe another 10 minutes. He drank some juice, th then spent a few minutes looking at the Mama Juice label and arguing that it would sound different if part of it had a curved line. I sort of chased him around on the platform, then he was showing us that he can turn around to get down now. He was very excited about this and showed us several times. It is something I’ve encouraged going down climbing walls, etc. but it seems to have clicked with him.

We walked back into Brownstone. Carly was carrying him and he was singing. As we passes Pink Burger he sang a song (to the tune of ABC) that went “black burger, white burger…light green burger…purple burger.”

I went and got a raspberry juice and met them upstairs. August wanted to try mine, but I told him my straw had germs. I let him use his straw in mine. A few minutes later, as we were watching Beat Bugs, he started to say “I have germs! I have germs, dada…for funsies.”

They nursed, and when he came out to me he was carrying the three pigeon books. We haven’t read those since being back, but apparently the two of them read them yesterday. August and I read all three. Then he was lying on the floor and I started spinning him. When I stopped he would look at the ceiling and say “It’s spinning!” Did that a few times until we were both tired out. At one point he stood up and fell over.

He wanted to be changed, so did that and changed him into shorts sans diaper. Carly had made a new rice casserole and August and I ate that for dinner. We then played with Musyc on the iPad.

Carly started vacuuming and August wanted to do it, but didn’t want to wait a turn and got upset. They nursed and then he wrote on paper. I wrote ‘I can’, ‘hope’, and ‘cane’ on his own.

Carly went to take a shower. He wanted a nest and we went and got a pillow and the blanket. In the nest we read Hop in Pop. He was then hungry and requested banana bread. He ate two slices, then I asked if he wanted to share a banana. He said “other food” and went and opened the fridge and spotted the strawberries. He ate 6 strawberries before I cut him off. At one point he went and got his stool so he could wash off his strawberry. He was asking what would happen if I used to much water to wash them, and I said something silly. He missed it and asked what I had said. I said “Nevermind. Something silly.” He replied with “Oh dada.”

Carly gave him a bath. He isn’t enthused about them now, even though once he is in the water he sits down and everything. But he hates the washing. Today was no exception. As they left the bathroom, carly asked if he wanted to go to the parlor. He said “I call it the playroom now.” He hasn’t done that in weeks. He kept insisting on it while they nursed.

A bit later we headed to the bedroom. We played for awhile, and he climbed down and got the lotion from my side of the bed and rubbed some on his knees. He went to sleep pretty soon after that, around 8:40.

Photos. Painting with mama:  

Teuni Teuni class: 

Handstamps: 

Group photo: 

Mama Juice: 

Lotion: 

I had felt a cold coming on last night, with a slight sore throat. Not much worse this morning. I planned on Olympic Park, as it was cold today and I figured there were lots of indoor places to go. As it went, my cold actually got quite bad, and we only went into one of the buildings. A lot of time outside in the cold when developing a cold. It was a fun day though.

He came out at 7:27. Headed for the parlor and closed the door. Came out after 5 minutes and laid on the floor. He wanted Cheerios for breakfast, but I reminded him of the banana bread. We had some of that, and he wanted strawberries, so I salvaged some of the remaining strawberries for him. And I used the last of Carly’s batter to make a veggie chocolate pancake. He was eating, and realized the sketchbook was shaped like a ㅁ. He used the Teuni fencing thing to make a ㅡ and combined them for 므. He then used a little ball to make it into 모 and 무. He ate, and was balancing on the top of the piano (which was sitting on the floor, not the piano). He was then pretending to slip and fall all the way to the couch. He then wanted me to pretend to fall. He stood on it staring out the window while eating pancake, kind of chanting, then pretending to type and saying “send” like a Skype message.

Rhyming words. I said ‘better’ and he then said “wetter… temperature”. He was coming up with a lot of other rhyming words, both real and imagined.

In on the reading area he was jumping on it and saying funny words: “smurf bird…smurf bird…I’m doing funny words.” That went on for a long time. He also hid the stuffed animals under the blanket and had Duplos, etc. find them.

We watched some Puffin Rock, then I took a shower and we got ready to go. I tried to put a blue and brown shirt on him, but he said “Not that shirt. I don’t like that shirt!” Why? “It has brown and blue.” But you like brown and blue. “I like LIGHT GREEN now. Light green, Dada.” Then the next shirt I brought had green stripes, but he claimed they were dark green. Eventually, he went into the changing room and chose the trees shirt, and also chose his own socks.

We got going, him singing. Transferred at Gunja and went to Olympic Park. I had brought food, but the CU had indoor seating. So we bought some triangle kimbap and a sandwich and sat inside to eat. After lunch he needed to be changed, so we went to the bathrooms that were close. No changing tables, just a regular bathroom. Went in the separate handicap bathroom. He was afraid of the flushing. I told him there would be no flushing, but the toilet was making a loud running noise and he said “I don’t like that toilet now.”

My cold had just been a sore throat upon waking up, but it started to kick in now, with a headache and all. And August decided to get hyper and ask about 8000 questions. It was a pretty funny running monologue though:

“Here comes trouble…(I asked where he learned that)…from Puffin Rock…the seagull…when it eats Mossy’s big berry…why it eat the berry?”

“It’s sunny. I can’t believe it.”

“Why there no flushing outside? What is that? What the machine do? What if the machine not work? What are those long jumps about?”

At this point he had started hopping over the ‘gaps’. Or cracks between bricks, really, but he is fascinated by ‘gaps’ from the subway. Anyway, this went on for a long time as we walked into the park. He discovered he can jump a distance now – over two bricks, roughly. A few times he did his little arms together move and said “That was pretty fun.”

We got to the big olympic buildings, and he was feeling cold. So I put him in the backpack, and he wanted his gloves on. But then he took them off. I asked why, and he said “Because I thought it felt weird.” I put them back on, and I promised something to him. He said “I promise too. Just FYI.” Then he said “It’s still weird dada.” and took them off again. But when I asked Why did you take them off? He said “For funsies. I’ll try dada. I’m gonna try.” To keep them on, that is.

He kept them on, and sang and sang until we got to the Baekje Museum. When we got inside he  was whispering “this is a secret place we have not been here before. This is a secret bathroom…” I just washed my hands, and as we headed out he said “I was closing my eyes because of the toilets.”

We went downstairs to where the puzzles had been, but sadly they were gone. He stayed in the backpack but wanted to look around the museum. We spent quite some time looking at three dioramas (Neolithic, agricultural, and Bronze Age) and watching a short cartoon about Neolithic people. He watched it four or five times. Or eight. He kept wanting to go back. We walked through a special exhibit on Shandong area of China (the birthplace of Confucius). He picked up on the fact that the maps had two languages: “Why are there both Korean and Chinese?”

We went downstairs to the nice changing room and changed him. He spent a long time rolling around and lounging and playing on the changing table. We then got walking for a nap. He got quiet for a good amount of time, but no nap. We stopped by the (now empty) fountain near the museum and had a snack. As he ate his sandwich he wandered over to the fountain and kept asking “What you can’t go in about? But you can sit! Stop making that noise! I’m trying to sit!” It was never clear what noise he was talking about, or how it would keep him from sitting on the edge of the fountain. He was also balancing, walking along the curb. I told him he was like a gymnast, like Tia Cassie. He had stepped off at that point, then tried to step back on to keep doing it. He tripped and stumbled down. He got back up, but said “I not Tia Cassie. I not a gymnast.”

I had to change him yet again. Another 3 poop day. We went back in and quickly changed him in the same spot. I left him standing by the door of the bathroom while I went. He liked it because he could still see me. He said “I like standing out here, FYI dada.” He was back in full energy mode: “I found a garbage…What the toilets back there for? I not hear the flushing sounds, dada.” He was then crawling in the lobby, and got up and did some silly runny around, telling me “Run dada!” But a woman played with him instead. That was pretty cute. I followed him down a hallway, and he wanted to go in a seminar room that had people working on computers. He was a bit upset when I wouldn’t let him. Got him going back the other direction and he was walking on his knees chanting “goldenrod, goldenrod, goldenrod…” A woman walked by and he said “that’s a person…that’s a girl.”

Outside we had planned to go to the art museum, but he had been noticing the open drainage ditches they have here. There is one that is incorporated as a spiral into a sculpture area. He wanted to play there: “I working (on) stepping over things, dada…there’s a gap there, there’s a gap there.” He stepped back and forth over it, then stepped into it, then held himself up with his hands on either side and was “swinging like a monkey”. We walked along it together. When I suggested we go, he said “Okie dokie”. He’s been saying that a lot.

We were on our way out, but he saw the playground and wanted to play there. He climbed up a little stairway and went down a short “fast” slide a few times, and had me do some turns. He then started to say he was ready to go home, but he saw one of those rocking seat things: “I need to go home…wait a second…what’s that!? It’s a ducky!” He shook that, and we also went on the teeter totter briefly. Suddenly, he said “Hey dada. Turn around. I want to show you a secret” He led me to the other side of the playground and starts pointing. “The secret was POOP BREAD!” As I then carried him over he said “Poop bread is yummy!” We got two poop breads at the 똥빵 store and ate them on a bench. I then put him in the backpack, and as I did so told
him he had a lot of poop on his face from the bread. He thought that was really funny.

We walked out the north end of the park and took the two transfers route home. He was loudly singing Silent E song on and off on the way.

We got home just after 5. He got a little frustrated when I wouldn’t let him choose my kind of tea for me. We ended up on the reading area cuddling together a bit, then Carly got home.

She was nice enough to take over for the next couple hours while I went and slept. They painted and did a long bath. He told Carly his full name (all 4). I heard her trying to get him to say that ‘Althauser’ was his favorite part of his name, but he stuck with ‘Niman’. She brought him in as I was getting up to have some dinner. He fell asleep right away, at 7:15.

 

Photos: 

Lunch: 

Singing and gloves: 

History museum. Diorama: 

Video: 

Another diorama. With buttons: 

Changing table fun: 

The fountain: 

The gap: 

Playground: 

Poop bread: 

Poop on his face: 

Pretending to sleep (since I told him not to fall asleep): 

The latest update to the SquareSpace app for iOS broke things again. So until they fix that I won’t be able to post. At least not as easily…

He was up at 6. Or maybe 6:01. It was early. He was fine with Carly leaving again today. He initially wanted Puffin Rock, but chose Beat Bugs instead. A nice change. We haven’t watched any since watching that one episode when it came out. Randomly, at one point he said “Uncle Paul Nimand” And he read the word ‘Rain’ at the beginning of an episode. He did some typing into Google, then watched Puffin Rock while I showered. He didn’t have a diaper on, and accidentally peed on the floor. He looked at the shape of it, pointed, and said “That is countries.” I made a sandwich for lunch, and he wanted to know what the old kind of honey was. I didn’t remember, so he wanted me to look it up. So we pulled up the bottles on iHerb and he studied them. He found a coin on the floor, and it was a 500 this time. I mentioned that he would have fun doing math with coins when he was older, and he said he wanted to do that game now. So we got some coins and did some adding with them. But mainly he had fun hiding them under the carpet. His favorite was the little 10 won coin: “I get 10 today.” He read ‘osprey’ on the backpack and asked again what it meant. I’ve told him many times that we should look up photos of an osprey, so this time we finally did. He saw one of his drawing tablets and read ‘Sketchbook’ on it. He got back on hiding the door magnets in the xylophone, so we did that for awhile. He said “Period is my favorite punctuation.” Finally, we left at 11.

He did Art Maker on the subway. I asked if Abby was still his favorite, and he said “Yeah”.

We grabbed some kimbap, and headed to the children’s museum. He told me on the way that he wanted to play first. We went downstairs, where he first spent time practicing sliding paper into the machines that let you punch words in braille. It is kind of tricky to slide them in properly. He then wanted to blue blocks area. Went there and built some towers. Today was a long list of “What happen if…?” questions, such as “What happen if we don’t take our shoes off?” and “What happen if we not eat in cafeteria?”

He agreed it was time to get going and take a nap. I asked “how long is your nap going to be?” He replied“8:72 to 8:73”. He was claiming to be a grown up again: “I’m a grown up…I’m a kid now.” In the lobby we had fun with our shadows – he wanted me to try to step on his. We got our coats on and went outside to get in the backpack. He was saying he was a grown up again, but changed back when I put him in: “grown ups don’t go in backamapacks…you’re a kid.”

A usual walk, and he fell asleep. Went to the upstairs cafe and he slept from 1:31 to 3:05. I had taken his coat off again when he was taking a nap. He wanted out of the backpack, and went and looked in the display case. He wanted the black bean drink this time. We got that. He drank a good amount of it. I don’t understand the appeal. He wanted to go outside – without his coat. He was working to open the doors, but couldn’t do it on his own. Good job trying though. I was packing up our stuff and said we’d go out in a minute. I looked over and he was gone; a guy had come in through the doors and he had slipped out. He was very excited about his mistake. I went and got him, and he agreed to stand by the door until I came out. Outside, he had a glorious minute running around without a coat on. The cold then set in and he let me put on his coat. He said he wanted to see animals, so we headed that way.

Didn’t get that far though, as he saw the playground and wanted sidewalk chalk. The sun was gone and the wind had come up. It was cold. But we tried it anyway. For a few minutes he did sidewalk chalk happily. He kept writing a made up Korean word over and over and asking what it meant. I told him it didn’t mean anything, but he kept asking. Not sure where it came from – maybe he dreamt it. Eventually he made up other words. Then the wind really picked up and he was getting cold and came to me. The wind got so heavy that the box and some of the pieces of chalk started blowing away. He didn’t like that. I grabbed them, and we counted the colors as we put them all back. I tried putting his hat and gloves on. He refused the hat, but accepted the gloves. He was ready to head home now and no longer interested in seeing animals.

He did some good singing on the way back to the subway as we walked through the pond area. Lots of triplets in his rhythms. He was incorporating signs he saw all day into his singing (he had been singing about subway stops on the map after we got out of the subway on the way there), but at this point there were no signs, so mainly just random syllables. Started up with the words again when we got back to the station.

He pooped on the train, so I carried him home from Hagye Station. I changed him, and he said “Maybe it’s a leaf poop…you’ve been eating leaves.” I said ‘sorry’ about something, and he kept insisting “Dont say sorry, Dada.”

We spent a few minutes sending Skype messages – or at least typing them – then I suggested we go to the store and get some fruit. He jumped up and said “Yeah!” We went to the pink building. He wanted oranges, so we headed to them. It turned out he wanted one. Then I said we’d get mandarins. I held the bag, and he put two in. I said we could get like 10, but he insisted he only wanted 2. So I had to get the rest myself. We got persimmons for Carly, and he said 3 was the right number for those, so I went with that. Strawberries are getting cheaper – down to 7900 won, but there were also slightly old ones for 3000. So we went with one of those. Some looked edible, and the rest would be a smoothie in the morning. He also remembered letter crackers and wanted to look for them. They of course don’t have them, but I let him get some other cracker thing as a treat. He got mandarin slices and a piece of a yummy bun thing as free samples.

We got home a few minutes after 5:30. On the way over, and a little on the way back, I’d let him walk across the driveway and along the sidewalks. He did a really good job of looking around for cars, etc. Carly came home a few minutes later. He greeted her and said “I smell the nursing.” We were eating the strawberries at the time, so we all had some of those. They were quite good. Then they nursed and read some Pooh. We ate some dinner, then he really wanted to make the banana bread. So we did that. He helped a lot. All went smoothly except when I was trying to melt butter in the microwave. He kept wanting to change the power level, and tried swatting my hand away. He accidentally knocked Carly’s empty mug on the floor. Nothing broke or spilled, but it upset him, and he went and stood in the bathroom while Carly finished her shower. But when he came back out he helped me finish up, then helped wash all the dishes.

He then went in the parlor with Carly and closed the door. They nursed, and he played on the iPad. She made a deal with him to take a bath, but then he refused to leave the parlor. Finally, I asked if he needed some alone time, and he said yes. He agreed to a minute of alone time, then he would take a bath. It worked. He closed the door and we heard him talking to himself for awhile. When he came out, the banana bread beeped that it was done, and I said he could have some after his bath. I took him in and gave him a bath. He was sitting and playing again. A decent play time.

He was saying he was ready to nurse and sleep sometime after 8:30. They went in, but a little after 9 he came into the parlor saying he needed a tissue. He let me wipe his nose, then sat down and we read four book: Peppa at the Pool, Would You Feed It to the Monkey?, Rain, and Swirl by Swirl. We haven’t read those for some time. He laughed a lot at Rain – it is the reason he hops around as a frog all the time, after all. He went back in at 9:30 and fell asleep.

 

Hiding from Flynn the fox: 

Braille: 

Blue blocks: 

The sun: 

His shadow: 

Black bean juice: 

Trying the door: 

Mittens and a yawn: 

The wet-looking painting: 

First strawberry: 

He was up at 6:20. I was surprisingly tired today, so when he wanted to make a nest in the reading area I was fine with that. He said goodbye to Carly, and we read some of the Tigger story, then were hiding the animals and finding them, then did art in Paper. We ate some banana bread and some of Carly’s pancakes for breakfast. We watched a Korean video and did some translating, then played Endless Spanish for the first time in quite awhile. He watched Puffin Rock while I showered. He peed on the toilet, and took August Jr to pee too. We used the green bath cup as a toilet for August Jr.

Got ready to go. He first wanted just the little zoo, but then got excited about the big zoo. He was interested in Flynn, the fox on Puffin Rock, so we looked up photos of foxes and talked about finding them at the zoo. He went into the parlor and locked the door for a minute. He came back out and I picked him up for some reason, and he said “I’m heavy.” He also said “Hey dada, show me.” for something. He locked me out again – wanted some alone time I heard him singing and making funny noises and talking to himself about numbers. He came out and wanted to go out in the hall. Told him we would get going as soon as he was dressed. Got his diaper and pants on, but then he was grabbing at it and said “The penis is uncomfortable”   I tried to help, but he went back and closed the door again, saying “I’m going away.” But he was soon back out, saying “I want to go to the big zoo.” But before we left, he pooped and I changed him yet again. We didn’t leave until 10:45. And he yawned as I put him in the backpack. Then he didn’t want to get out of the backpack on the subway. Next thing I knew, he was falling asleep. He kept insisting he wanted the big zoo even as he fell asleep. But I got off at Ttukseom and walked to the Life on Mars coffee shop and had a tiramisu cappuccino. He slept from 11:17 to 12:27. When he woke up he looked around and started reading the menu. First thing he was saying was repeating “Americano, americano, americano…”  He then went on about how the “ㅓis more of an O sound” – it does often seem that way. Anyway, he was really into studying that menu, and we didn’t leave until 12:48.

We walked around a bit and he sang, then we went to the park and to the big play structure. We sat down by the sand area and ate lunch. I had taken his coat off while he slept, as he has talked about how he wakes up too warm. Now he took his coat back off. He was then cold but didn’t want to put anything on. He instead cuddled with me while we ate. After eating a bit he got really energetic, and the sun came out and warmed us up a bit. He was randomly saying “What’s going on here?” “What’s that? Dung beetle? Mouse? Chicken?” He then started a game of throwing his sweatshirt around. Then he was saying “hee haw” as he did it. After a bit he crawled over to me on his knees and said “snuggle, snuggle, snuggle…I had a fun day.”

I needed to change him, so we did that over on the bench, then went back to playing, this time in the play structure shaped like a whale. Climbing in:“Your turn dada…you’re trying very well…I want to go in there…that looks pretty fun.” On the wavy part: “Sine wave, sine wave, I’m sine wave in the sun…” Studying the broken step on the climbing wall: “I can’t believe it…oh dear…what happened?” We spent a lot of time lounging in the trough (he now knows the parts of a wave) of one wave up top. He sat up and looked at me and said “I’m having fun.” He also talked a lot about being a grown up: “I want to be a grown up. Grown up, please, dada.” He lay down next to me, and pretended to sleep. He then wanted his feet up at the crest of the wave, like me. But when he did that it meant his head was in the trough. He thought that was funny. We climbed down the rope ladder, then back up the climbing wall. He had needed to use my hand as a foot hold going up, and now he wanted to help me climb, and wanted me to step on his hand. It took a lot of explaining to convince him that I shouldn’t step on his hand like that.

Finally, we were ready to go from there. We went inside to the library for a bit, and read If You give a mouse a cookie and a song in that book. And bits of a Korean book. But then he wanted water. Got his water bottle, but then he spit on the floor. He said “Sorry”, but then climbed on a couch. He looked out the window and talked about nursing. He looked at the river and said “Hey mama, are you in the water?” He then started getting loud. The hyper had returned to him, so we headed out.

We stopped at a bench on the first floor of the J-Bug building to get in the backpack. It had a sort of climby part in the middle, and he said “I suppose I can climb; There’s no sign.” He then crawled around it double checking that there wasn’t a sign anywhere.

We headed home. As we walked into Brownstone, we smell a series of food smells we don’t usually smell. Odd, really. He was trying to figure out where they came from and joked “maybe it comes from the engines…wheels…restaurant…that place over there…”

At home he pooped again. The third time today. He wanted to paint (when we left the park that had been our plan for home). We were just getting set up with the watercolors that I had bought at Daiso in Uijeongbu some time ago when Carly got home. He was very excited to find that there was brown paint. They painted together for 20 minutes or so, filling two and a half pages, before he decided he was done and wanted to nurse. While they were painting, I was trying to ask him about his day. He wasn’t answering, and flatly said to me “I’m busy.” Oh, and at one point he went and got his stool and brought it to the kitchen sink, then got his cup of painting water and brought it to rinse it out.

They nursed and read some Pooh. We then did a lot of hide and seek and hiding the green cup, etc. He watched some Puffin Rock, then I gave him a long bath. He was squirting soap on his hands and washing the walls. He sat in the sudsy water and was stretching out his legs. He was then almost on his stomach and pretending to be a snake in the water. He also kept trying to drink the dirty water.

In to go to sleep 8:10. I said thank you for letting mama put on your pajamas. He said “don’t say thank you.” I told him mama appreciated him not getting upset about them, and he said “Mama not appreciate it.” Asleep about 10 minutes later.

 

Falling asleep on the subway: 

Lunch: 

Throwing his sweatshirt around: 

In the trough: 

Feet on the crest: 

Closing his eyes: 

Library: 

Watercolors: 

Hiding: 

August woke up at 4:40 and told Carly “I’m not sleep.” They got up together and let me sleep. They did math with Duplos as counters, and were doing quite well, until August was insisting that two long pieces were ’11’ and got frustrated and sad when Carly tried to explain. They watched Puffin Rock, and looked up photos of the hummingbird moth. Carly had mixed up ingredients for veggie/apple/chocolate pancakes, and they made those. August loves them. I got up, and we did some drawing on paper, then played with Musyc. While doing that, he accidentally peed (he had pants on, but no diaper). Miraculously, it only went on the floor, between the rug and the reading area. A bit later he watched one of his Korean videos, and we translated words on the phone. He then played with GarageBand a bit, before going to find Carly. She was in ironing.

Carly asked if he needed to pee, and he reminded her “I already peed on the floor.” while pointing at the ground. They then made crazy sentences with the Free Speech app before August helped me mix the dry ingredients for banana bread, then helped Carly prepare more of her curry rice (mainly by eating the cheese). He then ate a bunch of rice and more pancakes. He said “I like chocolate.” and gave a big smile. Back to Free Speech. He then helped me finish the banana bread, and licked the spatula.

Carly tried to get him to sleep, but he got back up and said “I’m going to say cheesy jokes.”  He cam running out to me, saying a bunch of nonsense that included ‘cheesy’ in it. I let him type a bit and we ate a few mandarin oranges. A couple times he claimed to be an adult today. He went back and fell asleep from 12:43 to about 2:20. He nursed and was then leaving Skype videos and watching videos from summer. For his video messages, he was singing, and each one was a made up tune, many including rests in them. Very cool.

Around 4 we headed outside, stopping to get drinks at Mama Juice on the way – he wanted banana, and it was really good. We got to the playground, and he and I showed Carly the Nervous Game. He is very purposefully putting one foot in front of the other and trying to balance as much as possible. Derek showed up with Rosie a bit later. Carly stayed with August as he roamed around and I talked to Derek. After awhile, August was ready to get going. So we all got in the strollers and headed to their place. They were making pulled pork and coleslaw, and we were bringing banana bread and curry rice. We stopped at Paris Baguette for rolls, then went to their apartment building. On the way, we went through the new pathway to Wolgye Station, which we’ve seen, but never used. Derek called it the ‘secret’ tunnel, and August loved that, as he loves the word ‘secret’. At the playground at the apartment building, August went straight to the climbing thing, and played there for 15 minutes or so. Logan came out, and August was excited to see him.

Carly and Jill took August and Rosie up, and I walked with Derek and Logan to get a treat for him and August and drinks at the convenience store. We then went up to the apartment. August was totally relaxed there this time. The kids played with the block buildings things, and August played some peekaboo with everyone. We ate. August didn’t eat much, but he’d eaten well through the day. August was the one that called it, saying he was ready to head home.

We walked home. He was in the stroller, so couldn’t hear him well, but there was a lot of singing and talking along the way, and he was looking at all the lights – he’s not used to being out in the dark much, so is intrigued by all the lights. We got of the elevator, and he was pointing out the “X or T” shapes in the tiles. Apparently he had done this with Carly yesterday.

Carly gave him a bath. He sat down, and they were making words out of the letters. I saw him read ‘ghost’, and Carly said he had read  ‘bench’ on a bench in the park. We made some Duplo towers, and he let me put his pajamas on. He was asleep by 9:40.

 

Banana bread: 

Hiding: 

About to jump: 

Secret path: 

On the climbing wall:

Sitting down: 

Our tower: 

He walked out at 8:15. My book group meeting started at 8:30. He came in a few times and did lots of ribbits. He and Carly took recycling down. He came back in at the end and said bye to everyone. He talked to Peter a bit, but mainly interrupted us with numbers. He played with the calendar on my iPad, and was suggesting what we could do that day. He chose one day and said “We can go to Peter’s house.” Another was “the toilet museum.” Afterwards, we read the Korean elephant book, then made ducks and then polygons from Duplos. His tummy seemed to be bothering him, as he said “There’s a rumble in your tummy…your tummy’s upset…you have gas…”

We Skyped with my parents. He played hide and seek with them. First I was putting the pillow over the iPad, but then August would pick up the iPad and ‘hide’ them someplace. He tried putting them in the closet, but the iPad was on the cushion in there, slightly sticking out, so when he closed the door it closed on top of the iPad. Took a bit to get out, but it was okay. Carly tried to put him down a couple times for a nap, but no nap today. At one point I asked if he wanted a peanut butter sandwich, and he said no. So I made half of one and he ended up stealing it and eating most. Later we shared a tuna melt for lunch. Carly and him were ‘experimenting’ with the yoga mat, rolling it over, etc. and a  rubber band broke.

We were discussing S sound at the end of words, , and I mentioned that it makes an ‘S’ sound after K. And he immediately came up with ‘thanks’. I then said ‘t’ and he immediately said ‘knots”. I think his focus on the end sound of words comes from both the rhyming thing and from Korean.

We were working on a grocery list, and Carly got out paper, so August had to write on it. He was ready to go walk around Home Plus, but it took some effort to get him out of the house. A couple times in the morning he called Carly ‘Girl’, as I occasionally call her that.

At Home Plus we first looked at pants for him, and got one pair. Carly went to get something else, and he and I headed downstairs. Sort of. He wanted to push the stroller himself, but steering it is hard. He wanted to look at shoes, and I asked if we were looking for shoes for him or me. He said “Dada. Because those (pointing to my shoes) are old. We need to buy new shoes. They’re not shiny.”

We all got downstairs and we were getting some of the groceries. He was walking behind me and tripped over my foot. He was upset about that, then upset further when I wasn’t letting him put his hand in his diaper. Rather sad by the time we met up with Carly. She held him and I went to get the pizza. Wasn’t quite ready, so I got a chicken nugget sample and delivered it to August. Went back and got the pizza and we headed home. On the way home we stopped to look at the ‘cabbage flowers’, as we call them, which have suddenly appeared the rotating planters in front of buildings. August liked the little drops of water beaded up on them. He picked up a leaf that had fallen on them. A few seconds later I looked down to see him licking it. He said “You licked the water off. You’re a cat.”

At home we all had some pizza. He was rhyming words and said “Peter meter…that rhymes…they end in eter.” Also, randomly, he was saying “It’s all my fault.” Something, I think, he’s heard Carly say. And when looking for Carly he said “Whered mama go? She’s not over here. But I don’t see her.”

Derek texted to say he was on his way over with Rosie. Carly stayed at home to cook the veggie curry rice and work, and I took August out. We were there a few minutes before them, an August wanted to stand/walk on the bar again. He joked “you’re causing problems.” He was also wanting me to let go of him while he was standing on the bar – today he was working on balancing. He got down, and then went and climbed over the little fence (he couldn’t do that last time) into the dinosaur foot prints area. He was playing there, dropping things in the water, when they showed up.

We wandered around that end of the park with Rosie. August was really into walking along the curb, and then climbing all over the rocks at the petrified forest area. I had to change August, and he wanted to do it outside, so we did. Logan and Jill showed up after awhile. We were all together for a couple minutes, then Jill and Rosie headed to Home Plus, and we went with Derek and Logan over to Pink Building. They were getting food for dinner, and we met Carly there. The boys played around there – August liked looking through the glass door at Carly, and he saw Logan climbing on the big granite balls and wanted to climb on those. Before we headed our separate ways, Derek picked up both of them.

Carly, August, and I went over to the pink building to find the bowling alley that Carly is going to on Monday as part of a field trip. Did that and headed home. August kept saying “You had a fun day.” When I asked what made it fun, he said “Derek”.

He coughed at one point and said “you have the wheezles.” Which is from the Christopher Robin poem. Carly used her phone flashlight to find something she dropped, and August wanted his flashlight – the one he got this summer from Gramma and Grampa. The batteries were dead, so he helped me put in new ones. He was then looking for this, and put a measuring spoon under the washing machine so he could find it. He said “I’m good at hiding things and finding things with this flashlight.” He also got out his old trumpet rattle thing and was playing it and singing. Carly gave him a bath, and he was asleep sometime after 7:30.

He’s asking lots of “What happens if…” questions nowadays.

 

Duplo tower with mama: 

Cabbage flowers: 

Climbn the fence:

Socks off: 

The rocks: 

Rosie: 

Playing by Pink Burger: 

Climbing the stairs: 

Flashlight: 

He came out at 7:26. Saw me and said “Dada!” but kept walking to the parlor. He heard me start to get up and said “No! No!”I kept reading for a couple minutes, then he came out on his hands and knees and was joking with me through the legs of the table and chair, going “Dada! Dada!” He came over and the first thing he wanted was to type some Hangeul on my iPad, so I let him do that. After a couple minutes he said “I want music!” so we are playing with Musyc.

I made eggs, cheese and mushrooms for breakfast and we had a banana. We played with the Teuni sword thing, then watched some Puffin Rock before we had Turkey and August Jr play hide and seek for quite awhile. He sent messages on Skype while I showered. Before I got in, he was excited to find that the ghost emoji worked on his iPad. When I was done with my shower, he came in the bathroom and closed the door. He said “You’re hiding from something.” I asked what, and he said “Ghost.” He noted some dirt in the corner of the bathroom, and wanted to wash it with the shower head. His original idea, as he’s never seen me do. We washed the floor of the bathroom that way. Then he played with one of the weather science apps while I got ready to leave. He was doing a lot of hopping and singing for awhile, then asked for the ‘thermometer’. Don’t know where that came from either. He tried out the thermometer in his mouth. Didn’t get it fully under his tongue, but he kept it in until it gave a temperature.

In my bathroom, he wanted to look in the left cabinet. He saw the new deodorant and wanted it – I thought to smell it. I handed it to him. He said “I need deodorant today.” He then rubbed it on his face. He liked the smell. Before we left, he declared “I’m nocturnal now.” And he wanted some water. He drank a bit and said “I just wanted a little drink before I go outside.”

We got to Children’s Grand Park. In the station, he saw the big add on the platform that we always see. It is for a chicken place, but has a big photo of a baby on it. It also has a lot of punctuation. Today he said “My favorite is question mark…the Baby’s is tilde.” We got one roll of kimbap and headed to the park. The first thing he wanted to do was sidewalk chalk again. He wasn’t really interested in lunch again, so we ate in stages. Did sidewalk chalk for 10 minutes or so, then moved to sand castles. After awhile he headed off across the playground to the hill, which he can now get up and down on his own. He wanted me to climb it with him, then he sort of played behind me while I sat with my back against the hill.

He then wanted to go see animals. We went through the tropical building for the first time in quite some time, then down into the children’s zoo. He liked the meerkats and watched them for a few minutes while he swung on the railing. He then played around in that area, dropping leaves down a drain. I was doing some reading, and he came over to me and wanted me to see something – something he had just touched, he said. It was bird poop. He wanted me to touch it too. I refused, and when he kept trying to pull my arm so I would touch it I would say “Ooh” and pull away. Turned into a game. We went and washed his hand off by the horses, and translated some signs.

We walked towards the bathroom to change him, with him walking. Suddenly, he started doing a shoulders and arms shrug thing and saying “I don’t know”. I don’t know where that came from. Very amusing. Went and changed him. As I set him on the changing pad, he again covered his eyes so as to not see the pig-shaped urinal with the auto-flusher. I changed him, and he was calm about it, and just laid back on the changing pad, his head turned the other way.

We went out and he wanted to climb the stairs in the theater again. We got to the top, and he wanted to sit on the top set of benches. He sat and said “Hey dada. Sit…why there no music playing?” We sat there a few minutes, and he also asked why there were so few people in the theater. He then said “I want to walk in the forest.” We did, but just for a couple minutes, as it was late and he was sleepy, although he said he wasn’t. Put him in the backpack, and he zoned out after 10 or 15 minutes, but took several more minutes before his eyes finally closed. He slept from 2:41 to 4, downstairs, until I woke him up and we left.

Before putting him in the backpack before his nap, we had discussed what we were doing for the rest of the day, as we were going to Costco to buy a turkey, taking a bus to line 1, taking the subway to Derek and Jill’s house and dropping off the turkey, then going home. We had listed all the steps: 1 was getting in the backpack, 2 was falling asleep…12 was handing off the turkey. So as we made our way from here we kept counting off those steps. We went to the subway, took it up to Sangbong, and walked to Costco. There, we got one block of cheese, found the turkeys and got one, and grabbed a few samples on the way to keep him happy. Paid, and got some food for dinner, then then headed out. We crossed the street and just missed the 2235 bus, and had to wait 10 minutes. It was a slow bus, so August was getting a little impatient. I pointed at the river as we went over it, and he said “What’s it in the distance about?” The bridge we went over was rather tall.

That bus took us across to Sinimun Station on line 1, where we caught a train north. Unfortunately, it was stopping at Kwangwoon, one stop short. But it was empty so we got seats. At Kwangwoon we ate some chicken bake while we waited for the next train to come along. It was packed, but it was just one stop to Wolgye.

We left the station and walked right across the street to their apartment complex. August said “I like Logan.” As we got closer, he said ”Want to go to Logan’s house.” This is a huge change from the past when he was afraid to come here. Unfortunately, they weren’t there when we got there. We slipped in the outside door with someone else, and left the turkey outside their door. We went back outside and sat on the picnic structure and ate more chicken bake before heading home. He played around a bit, and it started to rain a little. Fully dark now. We were there long enough that they showed up and we got to talk to them for a couple minutes. August was really happy about that.

We went and caught a bus home. As we walked into our building, he saw one of the lights on the parking garage that lights up when cars leave. He said “It’s an Oona light.” A few days ago I told him he used to call these baba lights. Baba is a character on Puffin Rock, and so is Oona. So he started calling them Oona lights now.

He was also singing a song “The oven is in my walking…the home is in the bus…”

We were home quite late – it was about 7 when we got in. They nursed, and then we played the typing game where we type words for each other. We did a lot of hiding Turkey and August Jr, then I gave him a bath. We got lotion out to put on his backside where he was getting dry, and he really got into putting lotion on himself, and on me – first on my neck and face, then on my arms and legs and back. Maybe he’ll be a masseuse.

We read Pete the Cat again – he was back again to orange juice for show and tell. He let me put his pajamas on. He wanted to try the footsie ones again (he wanted to be a pig like in the Sandra Boynton Pajamas poem), but we didn’t get those on very far before he wanted the other pajamas instead. Carly came in and he was asleep at 9:45 or so.

 

Photos: 

Thermometer: 

Playground: 

Meerkats: 

Being a zero: 

Hiding from the flusher: 

Chicken bake and delivering the turkey: 

Lotion: 

He got up at 6:25 and turned the light on. Some good mama time before Carly left for work. He said goodbye, but then wanted me to go play in the hall with him and got sad when we said no. I said we could try walking her to the elevator. Didn’t know how that would go, but it worked. He pushed the button for her, then we said goodbye as she got on. He then got to walk the hall way a little on the way home. We went to the apartment so we could get socks on. Did that, but didn’t make it back out. He sat on the floor, leaning against me, and studied he Korean poster for several minutes. He started singing songs to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell”, including lines like “Sagwa in my hat” and “The slime is in my color” and also used random words from the Korean poster.

He wanted to type on my phone, but got sad when I wouldn’t let him delete my typing. He went in and laid on the reading area, and didn’t want me to join him. I went to make breakfast, but he came out and decided he was hungry, so we got cereal. He asked where Pete the Cat was and wanted to read it. So we ate breakfast and read Pete’s First Pet together. He did some typing on my iPad, then we had fun with play dough for quite awhile. He had some snot and I tried to get a tissue for him. He politely disagreed, saying “Dada, stop doing my tissue. I’m going away now. Bye.” And closed the door to the parlor. A minute later he opened the door, stuck his head out and pointed at me, saying “Hey dada. You get the iPad. You get the iPad if you want. I’m going away again. Bye!”

I took it in. We watched some Puffin Rock. I left the room for a minute to return and find that he had taken off his pants and diaper on his own. The first time he’s done that. I went to take a shower and left him with that and some Korean books. As I was finishing my shower he came in and said he had to pee. I quickly finished and grabbed the towel and went out in the cold apartment to turn the light on in the other bathroom for him. He had also dragged the Teuni gym thing out into the living room he pointed out that he had moved it and said something about it being for mama, as she was coming soon.

Back in the parlor, we made numbers with the Duplos. Then on the iPad we made music with the Musyc app – we did more of the tutorial and figured out how to do some new things. He then did some art in SketchBook.

We tried to Skype with my parents, but they weren’t online. So we left a video message. I said something about the Teuni gym being out and he told me to crawl through it. So I did. I mostly fit, although a couple pieces came apart. We moved to his Korean books for awhile and that reminded him of the videos from class, so we watched those a bit.

We headed out a bit early, and went down to the grocery store in Home Plus to get diapers and salmon for our lunch later. We got to class early and saw him blowing bubbles. August was excited by this – we’ve always been walking in late the last few weeks, and I was just thinking about how August liked the bubbles. August was really into the beginning of class, running around, and rolling around on the floor like another boy was. And when it came to the forward roll part, August first walked the path without doing a forward roll, but then did it again and allowed the teacher to do the forward roll. He was very happy with himself for doing it, and later in the day when I asked him about it he said he’d do it again next week. After that, he bowed to the teacher when he comes around and bows to them, and he was using his fingers to count the beats of the music. Class was about the post office today, and all was fine until the teacher demonstrated a mailbox board thing. It was built with a hinge, and stood up. The teacher stepped away from it, and two kids went behind it, and fell over each other and into the board. It fell over, and all three of them landed on August. He wasn’t really physically hurt – he never told me a specific part that hurt – but it took about 10 minutes of hallway time before he wanted to go back in. Later, when I asked if he remembered what happened, he remembered getting hurt, but said “I changed it to a minion.” I think he didn’t really know what happened, and that was probably the scariest part.

Anyway, he put the postal hat on for a bit, then participated in the rest of the  activities. They got a toy today, which was a Teuni fencing sword thing. It squeaks when you stab something, and he immediately started stabbing me.

We headed home after class and made a salmon sandoo for lunch. We got in the stroller and went walking. He just kept singing and singing, finally after 20 minutes he got a bit upset, then quieted. Walked over 30 minutes by the time he fell asleep. Asleep 2:22 to 3:37 in the women’s business center coffee shop. Thought he was up and I started to pack up, but he dozed back off. I woke him up at 4 and we walked to Juicy Juice. I asked what he wanted and he said “귤파”. I asked “You mean 귤?” But he kept insisting on 귤파 and pointed to the menu – 귤파 was there and meant mandarin and pineapple. So he got that and I got the raspberry one.

We walked over to the park, but he didn’t want to get out at the playground. Walked over to the other half of the park and wandered around. I asked if he wanted to go to the library, and he agreed. He chose one book and wanted to sit at the table and look at it by himself for awhile, then we got another book, Abigail Spells, and took it upstairs. We read that, and then he got down a Korean book about worms and translated parts of that.

We headed home, and Carly heard us coming at the elevators as August was singing. At home, they nursed and he typed on Skype and we did our ‘secret’ word game again. At one point he was really riffing on the ‘Got be, brown tree’ thing, with “Got me monkey donkey…pantsy mantsy…juicy moosey…banana yamma…” Carly got out his old high chair to clean it up, and he tied it out. We then played with the Teuni fencing sword thing for quite awhile, and did lots of hide and seek with Turkey. We read some Pooh, and the Korean elephant book. He went in my bathroom and pretended to take a shower, getting in and pretending to wash himself and turn it off. He likes to wet my soap by the sink now, and he did that, explaining “I just washed off the soap so it doesn’t stick. Otherwise it could really stick.”

He and Carly did more nursing and reading, and she was surprised when he requested a ‘poem’. He also had a good hand motion for when he explained to her that a poem was shorter than a story (this was in the Pooh book). They read some Pooh, then the elephant book. Well, he mainly read the Korean book. They got a bit distracted, and Carly was getting him up to go to the bath. August said “I’m going to read one last page.” And did.

I gave him a bath. He was scrubbing his own hands and arms “It’s an arm washing day” and his hair “I’m washing the back myself.” Very cool.

We read Pete the Cat before bed (today, when asked what he would take to show and tell, he said “a window”), and he was asleep by 9:40.

Earlier, while on Sketchbook, he had claimed that Puff was spelled with one ‘f’. I pointed out that Zinn had two ‘n’s and could be spelled with just one, and he liked that: Zin. He spelled it like that a few times during the day.

Upset at class: 

Teuni Teuni mail carrier:

Home. Getting stuck: 

Walk: 

Library: 

Reminiscing, and wanting to be small: 

Fencing circle things: