He was up early, before Carly left for work. When she did, he was really good about waving to her and saying ‘bye bye’. In the morning he played with Angeles, giving high gives and hugs, and using Angeles as a vacuum cleaner.
We then made a smoothie as he played in the sink. And he spent a good amount of time playing with his magnet letters. ‘P’ is his recent favorite letter.
We went out at 9-something, headed north. We walked a slightly back road once we crossed the stream and found Korean Bible College behind a hospital. A small campus, but they have a round courtyard with a lot of plants that August walked around for a couple minutes.
As we walked, August, who now pulls his arms out of the top straps on the front carrier, spent most of the time staring at the ground.
We went to Daiso and bought a couple more straw bottles for August. We also found a Spongebob Squarepants fork and spoon set for August. He held the package as we walked around, and got upset when I tried to take it from him at the register. The woman scanned it while it was still in his hands.
We walked a couple blocks to one of the last remaining parks we haven’t visited between here and Nowon, Eumji Children’s Park. He still carried the package most of the time we were at the park. He picked up some garbage, then ate the quesadilla Carly made for him and went on the little springy seat rides and played in the water fountain. He didn’t have much use for the playground proper.
He fell asleep on the walk home. I took him out of the carrier and held him in my arms as he did so, so that putting him on the bed would be easier. Alas, he woke up crying at the mere thought of setting him down. A 12 minute nap.
He bounced back quickly, and we had fun playing around the house. He was carrying the fork around a lot until he found the little broom and dustpan in the front closet. He called the dustpan a shovel. He did a lot of talking to himself in the doorway mirror – even beeped his own nose – and watched himself sweep. He wanted to go outside, but wanted to take the broom. At one point he was standing in front of the door with the broom saying ‘outside, elevator’.
Eventually, he gave up the broom for the fork and we went outside. We sat on a bench for a few minutes. We then watched the fountains (both the floor and the one by the stage) and he briefly stood close to the floor fountain. He was then ‘all done’ so we walked back to the playground for awhile.
He was rather clingy on and off today. He was startled by a cleaning woman on our first walk to the elevator and started crying. For much of the day he would say ‘down’ but then either cling to me or want right back up.
He started to look a little tired and was saying/signing ’nurse’ so we went home. He no longer seemed tired. We played with his headphones. It took me awhile to find his fish song, and when I did he signed ‘thank you’.
About 3 he still wasn’t looking sleepy, so We went to Home Plus. I had the front carrier, but just had him in my arms. When we got there, he still didn’t want to be turned around and put in the carrier. Or set down for that matter. And then he fell asleep. He slept for the next 40 minutes as I did the shopping, and woke up at check out.
We got home and he started crying because Carly wasn’t home and he didn’t like being set down. I started ‘attacking’ him and myself with the water bottle and he started laughing while he cried. We had a good long silly time and it just turned to laughter.
Carly got home and took over a bit. August spun in circles and made himself dizzy – he learned that from Logan.
Carly took him outside to the park. He was particularly interested in the fountain by the stage. Off now, but it still had water in it. They went over by the museum and he wanted to sit on the bench area. They just sat there for several minutes.
Signing thank you when I found the fish song
New words: pillow, towel, carrot (seeing them on his bathrobe), lizard (pointing at the lizards sculpture as we cross the bridge), cooking area (coh area)
Morning:
On our walk:
Carrying his fork and spoon package:
Eating quesadilla:
At home after his nap:
In the park:
Back home:
He started waaaaay to the left:
