First off, August has two verified new words. The first is ‘baby’. It basically sounds like ‘baa baa’, but with a different intonation. He uses it primarily when reading the ‘Where is Baby’s Belly Button?’ Book.
The second is a word for pigeon. It sounds like ‘gamma’, so basically what he started saying a couple days ago. But he used it repeatedly when reading the Korean birds book and we come to the pigeon page. Also, he has said it several times when we have been in the park. I thought maybe he was thinking ‘garden’, as he has also said it when we read the garden book, but it seems very clearly connected to ‘pigeon’ now, so he was probably seeing or looking for them in the park.
So for our day today, with the pollution index 1/8th what it was yesterday and the sun out we spent much of the day outdoors.
But before that his sleep was a little weird. He (and thus Carly) woke up at 3:15. And stayed awake. I, luckily, blissfully slept through all of that. But he fell back asleep a little before 6:30 and took a regular nap. Pretty much a regular day for us after that.
We left the house a bit after 11 and returned close to 6pm. Perhaps our longest outing. We:
1. Took the subway north to Dobongsan to find the guide and stamp books for the Seoul Trail. We first ate some food and he tried to follow a pigeon that came close. We found the books and he fell asleep as we walked around the iris garden. I sat on a bench swing and read in the sun while he slept.
2. When he woke we took the subway south and east to Danggogye. We walked up to the stamp box we had seen on our hike and got the stamp we couldn’t get for lack of the stamp books. There was a pagoda nearby so we went there and ate some more and played and waved at hikers.
3. We walked to the Sanggye area. We found an art/toy store along the way and looked around. We will have to go back. We then found a new park and played on a slide. August liked spotting the magpie in the tree and waving to some girls sitting on a bench. Oh, and practicing his standing and sitting sans hands.
4. We walked across the street to the Tayo kid cafe. He was free (until 12 months) and I only cost a buck fifty. We played for an hour. It was pretty amazing and much nicer and bigger than the one next door.
We then headed home via bus and arrived at the elevators at the same time as Carly.
At home, August used his new words with Carly and enjoyed some soup. He also started making an ‘s’ sound. He managed to stay awake past 7 for a normal bed time.
Random thing: I forgot to mention about a week ago that he sneezed 6 times in a row. A record from my counting.
Waking up:
Kicking during breakfast:
Saying ‘baby’:
Word for pigeon:
On our adventure:
Iris garden:
Pagoda:
Playground:
Pointing/waving at a magpie:
Tayo Kid Cafe:
Back home: