August woke up at 6:25 and we had a very nice morning, although he seemed to get tired and rebound a few times.
We did a lot of reading; so much so that I was actually taking him away from the books to do other things. He played with his shapes, but the blocks in the tin can, played with shoe laces, drank from the spray bottle, watched his Napul Napul video with me, and of course played on the bed a lot.
His nap was an enormous two and a half hours, but that includes about 20 minutes in the middle of crying and failed attempts to get him back to sleep.
When he woke up it was about 2:30. Carly was getting home late because of her club so I decided we had time for a little adventure. We took a bus northeast just past Sanggye station and walked a bit to the foot of the mountains and Bulamsan Nature Park.
We walked up a trail a bit and found a nice bench. We hung out there for awhile, reading But Not the Hippopotamus and feeling the trees.
We then walked around more, seeing a big, fenced in stone that had no sign but looked important, a building with some odd art on it, and a few other things before we got back to the playground and played there.
Oh, and along the way August found his new spotting obsession: the electrical boxes along the sides of the street that have a picture on them. He’s never pointed them out before, but did it four times today.
Just for fun, playing with his shapes in slow motion:
He is proud of his shapes:
The books have told me that he should be interested in shoelaces about now. But he rarely gets to play with our shoes now since we take them off inside. And since it is winter they have been dirty so I haven’t given them to him to play with. Well yesterday he happened to be by my feet when I was putting on my shoes and got really excited about trying to untie them. So, more shoe fun today:
He was being goofy while drinking out of the spray bottle. Here he is looking up at the monkeys on his growh chart and offering them some water:
It was with Carly a couple days ago that he started putting blocks in the tin can and taking them out again. We had filled the can a couple times already before I shot this:
Perhaps the best August video yet. You would think he is tired in this video, but he stayed awake for more than an hour after this:
And here is one of the electrical boxes that is his new obsession:
At out sitting spot in the woods. He felt the bench and the tree and we read But Not the Hippopotamus:
Feeling more trees and talking to/about them:
He was also excited by this exercise wheel and did a pretty good job of turning it:
The weird art on the side of a building. August seemed to most like the blue branchy head in the second photo:
On one of those little rocking things at the playground:
Watching the scenery on the way home:
