Today was a weird day of sleep. More of that in a minute. But first, a funny story about fish:
When I came home from PT Carly told me that August had been looking at his iPod and headphones and making fish noises. She asked if I knew what it was about. Well, he had been doing the same thing earlier in the day when we were using it to listen to music. One of the songs from his first class is about fish (mulgogi in korean). The crazy thing is that either he remembered that the song is about fish from either watching the video (which he hasn’t seen in many weeks, as we’ve only been listening/watching the music/video from his current class) or he knows the word ‘mulgogi’ well enough to identify it in the song (seems less likely, but I’ve used the word with him hundreds of times). Either way, pretty cool. Poor Carly thought there must be a music cover with a fish on it so was looking for that.
Anyway, his sleep. He only slept 9 hours last night, which had me worrying he wasn’t getting enough sleep, what with his movement towards a single nap. But then his nap came…
50 minutes in bed and then he woke up crying. He fell asleep twice on my shoulder but would wake up when I set him down. Tried to get him to fall back asleep lying down. No luck. Went to change him and he falls asleep on the changing pad. Turn off the lights. 7 minutes and he wakes up crying again.
Pick him up, back to the couch. This time he lets me sit down. He falls asleep. And sleeps. And sleeps. For almost two and a half hours. In that time I type a few emails and read a good chunk of Think Like a Freak. He only wakes up when I whisper his name.
We eat a late lunch (he had eaten two breakfasts) and make a smoothie. He had smoothie before, but this time I put it in his old straw cup so he can drink it better.
Only an hour until Carly gets home and I go to PT, so no time for our original plans. We go to a couple of playgrounds instead. He shakes the little riding animals (horse, duck, rooster) and walks around at one and then just wants to be on the swings at the other.
We head home, buy bananas on the way and make the exchange with Carly.
And then, on my way home from PT Carly tells me he has fallen asleep already. At 6. He is still sleeping soundly, so we will see how early he wakes up tomorrow…
Morning. One handed piano playing:
Just playing in water. He was supposed to have a bath in the evening:
Listening to the fish song:
The long nap:
Smoothie:
Playground:
When he was done shaking the ‘neigh’ he turned around and got excited by the duck (which he had seen dozens of times) and, in his excitement, shouted some of his animal sounds, except for the correct one – ‘baa’, ‘moo’ …