A lazy Sunday morning, for the most part. August and Carly were up from 4:30 to 6:10 (they made use of their time with some Skyping) and then slept in, so I had the place to myself for a bit this morning.
August didn’t seem too bothered by his cough, but with the weird night and the fact that his teeth are bothering him (he has yet another tooth coming through – I think that is tooth #43), we decided to stay home until after he took a nap.
So August filled the morning with a lot of reading of the cat book, pointing at people on the photo wall, and being entertained by Carly using the vacuum cleaner. Oh, and screeching. Lots of screeching.
After his nap (which was too short) he was in a bad mood but decided to go out anyway as I thought that might cheer him up. It did. We went to Home Plus and August had fun doing some shopping with Carly while I shopped for pants. We then finished the grocery shopping together and headed home.
Carly wanted to make a pasta dish, so I took August back out. We were going to go to the playground, but it had rained in the meantime so I decided to just walk first. As we neared the pink building, August made it known that he wanted to go inside.
So, I went where he pointed, and thus the August walk was invented. By following his pointing and asking him which way to go next, we:
– saw the balloons in Home Plus
– walked down and out the other side of the building
– crossed the street to the fruit stand and continued down the street
– crossed the street to the small playground
– went in the swings
– walked around the playground
– did more swinging while we watched kids play soccer
– headed home when he started doing the sign for milk
– went back in the pink building
– went downstairs and looked around the grocery store
– exited the grocery store and headed to the book/toy store
– looked around the store at the children’s books, balls, and toys (spotting all the Pororo toys, of course)
– exited the other side of the book store and meandered around the food court area
– headed back up the escalators to the second store where we looked at the furniture
– spent a fair amount of time looking at the fabric at a hanbok (traditional clothing) stand where August was upset I wouldn’t actually go in to see the colorful fabrics up close (it was closed)
– went back downstairs, looking at the balloons again
– headed outside and back to Brownstone
– examined the motorbikes outside the noodle place, where I learned that what he most likes about them is actually the helmets sitting on the handles – he went back and forth from one motorbike to the other, looking at the helmets
– started to walk around the building before he changed his mind, looked at the motorbikes some more, entered our usual entrance, and went up the elevators
– went to the mailboxes and played with their doors for a few minutes
– finally returned home
He nursed and then we left again to let Carly finish and get some relief from the screeching. This time we spent about 45 minutes walking around the park across the street. We went on the swings, looked at the dinosaurs (dino baabaas), played on the exercise equipment by the bus stop, admired the ‘mama’ sculpture (it must remind him of Carly somehow), and then stood on the rainbow bridge for a few minutes until he started saying ‘mama’.
All of that must have worn him out as he fell asleep quickly once he started nursing, barely making it to 7.
Getting his Pororo figure:
Our first outing:
The August walk:
Our final outing. The ‘mama’ statue:
