Note: I am posting two days tonight to catch up. Generally, each night I have been posting about the previous day. This allows me to simply post about the current day.
We went to Children’s Grand Park again today. There is so much to do there, and still so much to figure out, that I am sure we will be returning several times through the winter and into spring.
But first, I have to start with this photo, taken as we were getting ready to go on our adventure:
It looks like a photo of him standing on his own without holding on. But that isn’t it at all.
What had happened was that I needed to brush my teeth. So I had left him on the mat, about six feet away from here, and run into the bathroom to get my toothbrush. I was hurrying back with the toothbrush to brush my teeth in the living room, as I didn’t want him sucking on the bottom of a shoe (he has a tendency to do that).
But I didn’t find him sucking on a shoe, I found him standing at the table. It happened very quickly. Luckily, he was focused on a crumb of food on the table and hadn’t gone after the computer or its cord (yet).
He was quite proud of his accomplishment and was standing there for a few minutes. So I got my phone to take a photo. On seeing me raise the phone to take a photo, he got excited and kind of did his excited arms waving thing. This of course took both of his hands of the table.
I snapped the photo at that instant. What came next was he instantly fell backwards. Luckily, he first landed on his butt, then kind of rolled backwards. So when he managed to miss the mat and hit his head on the hardwood floor he wasn’t traveling too fast. A little crying and comforting ensued before we could continue getting ready.
Taking a step back, this is a video of him on the changing pad pounding the pad with his right hand raised over his head. He does this quite regularly, at least when I change him:
Sitting in a chair and eating his lunch:
My lunch:
August eventually bumped his head on the edge of the table. This woman instantly appeared next to us and wanted to pick him up. Apparently she thought she could calm him down. Right. Anyway, I picked him up and calmed him, and then let her hold him. She responded by kidnapping him and taking him behind and down the counter to see the other women. You can see me catching up at th beginning:
This is actually the same place where August stole his first straw when my parents were here. So it was funny when one of the women reached to the same straw dispenser and gave him one this time. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that on film.
We spent most of our time watching seals underwater. Here are the fur seals:
I call this the sad ball because it floats around the pool that used to be the polar bear exhibit. The exhibit was always sad, given the small, isolated, concrete nature of it. But the bear has been missing for a couple months now. I don’t know what happened to it, but this ball still floats around, with polar bear teeth marks:
Spotted seal:
More seal watching. Spotted seals this time:
And we of course saw deer. Because every big park in Seoul has to have a deer park:
August spotted the haechi statues (the mascot of Seoul, based on the mythical creature that defended Seoul) as we were both entering and leaving the park. A note to my parents: they have removed three of the dwarves, meaning that now four are missing:
A rather odd new game on the subway. What is great about this video, is that you get the new biting of the hood thing, some trying to hit me in the chin with his head action, and then him getting startled by the subway doors near the end:
A nice long video of a little playing/crawling around the floor:
Finally, standing at one of his favorite places, the washing machine:
