August woke up at 5 and was awake for an hour with Carly. She thought he might have a temperature, but not much of one.
He woke up at 7:40 and was low energy through breakfast, but didn’t seem too off. He fell back asleep an hour later, and slept another hour until the school maintenance showed up and woke him up.
With no fever, and with him perking up (he finds the words pee and poop really funny, and was working on his B and P sounds on the changing table), we headed towards Itaewon. He stayed awake on the bus and subway, but was very mellow. We got off the subway, and found a water faucet to play in. But when I put him down to play, he made it clear he wanted up and was tired. So I picked him up and he fell asleep.
I walked up the hill past the Grand Hyatt hotel. Thought about getting coffee and sitting down, but a $6 latte at the Kenyan embassy made me think otherwise. So I kept walking and found a bench in Namsan Park between the children’s forest and the wild flower garden and read.
We were to meet Derek over the the west in the HBC neighborhood at 2pm, so at 1 I got up and walked through the wild flower garden and then headed that direction. August woke up enough to look at a stream and a little fountain, but then fell back to sleep again.
He woke up yet again when we met Derek. He stayed strapped to me through lunch and ate a decent lunch himself before falling back to sleep. The pizza was very good.
We then headed into Itaewon and to a seafood taco place. I tried the octopus taco for him and also had an horchata. The taco was really quite good. The octopus was deep fried and you couldn’t really tell it was octopus.
August woke up as we were leaving again and heading home. He nodded off on the train but couldn’t fully get to sleep. He made it most of the way but started to cry (but not very loudly) the last stop (the most noise he had made all day). There was a woman mumbling at me as he was fussing the last few stops and she tried to touch him twice. The second time I literally swatted her hand away as she grabbed his arm.
As expected, he fell right asleep as we left the subway and I could get walking. We caught the bus home and ran into Carly at the elevators.
August livened up a bit for part of the evening, but went to bed a little after 7. His fever never went much over 38, so hopefully the sleep is helping him get over whatever is bothering him. We have an open day tomorrow – making banana bread, taking a bath, that sort of thing.
Sleeping in Namsan Park:
Looking at the stream:
Eating lunch:
Octopus taco:
Sleeping on the bus home:
Asleep for the night:
