He woke up a little before Carly was to leave. She nursed him, but he wasn’t ready to let her go when she had to, so it was a tough goodbye. But as he was still crying, he looked around and saw his Korean sticker book and pointed to it. So we put stickers in it, and finished the book. I got out his other stickers (from the museum) and had him stick them on the back of his sketchbook. He is working on taking the stickers off by himself. He needs help with that, but he is pretty good at putting stickers on the paper.
I then showed him how to really use the broom and dustpan, and he started trying to do that. We used his blocks for sweeping practice.
From there we moved to the sink. He requested a smoothie, so we made one for breakfast. We got in a bit of a smoothie fight. He was sticking his finger in my smoothie and licking it, but then he snuck in his whole hand. I grabbed it and tried to lick the smoothie off his hand before he made a mess. As I did that he managed to put his hand on my face. There was a brief smoothie fight as I tried to get the smoothie off his hand and he tried to smear it on my face.
We walked to APIS to meet Carly for lunch. He fell asleep along the way, so I stopped in the park across from school. He woke up after 35 minutes. We were going to have water and a snack, but as I got them out, he managed to fall of a bench, face first. He wasn’t too hurt – no bruises or blood – but the dirt proved difficult to remove. I got a message from Carly saying we could go up early, so we did, and we found her in Megan’s room. Megan thought he looked sad, so she gave him two stickers.
We went to lunch at Cafe Tospia. When I came back with coffee, August started saying ‘Mama’s tea’ and ‘dada’s tea’, and really stressing the ’s’ sound. It rained hard while we ate, but then stopped. We headed back to Carly’s classroom for a couple minutes, then left.
August and I then went to the water park in the other park across from APIS. I first changed him and we played in the regular playground, then went to the water area at 1:20. The water shout off at 1:30, then we went up by our backpack and had some food and played up there. The last loaf of banana bread wasn’t very good, but I made a new loaf last night. He had been rejecting it, but started eating it again while it rained. We were standing under a cover, but he kept stepping out from underneath and got confused when his head would get wet. He was also really excited by some little birds that were close to us.
At 2:00 the water came back on and we went down. He went in the water a little, but mainly watched the bucket pour water, or walked around saying ‘goona geeha’ and pointing at everything, or shook the bars of the fence.
After the water turned off at 2:30, we went back to APIS to sign some paperwork. When we left, I planned to put him in the backpack on the front porch. But there were buckets and a box of squirt guns. He started playing with them, and we didn’t leave until 3:30.
We walked home and he fell asleep again as we were approached the bridge. He yawned, and said ‘sleepy’, which surprised me. I wasn’t 100% sure that was what he had said, but he later confirmed it when I showed him a photo of him sleeping in the backpack and he said ‘sleepy’, and he used it before going to bed. I stopped and sat on a bench in the park closest to us, then continued to walk home. He woke up as we got back to the building, a 45 minute nap.
He was still a bit damp when I took him out of the backpack. He was saying ‘sweaty’ and wanting to take off his shorts. He started to figure our how to push off his shorts. I helped him with that, then he started on the diaper. So we are getting to that point.
I decided to try him in the shower. So I took him in the shower, holding him. Went really well, and by the end the water was hitting most of his body.
We had a little time still before Carly got home after 5. We were looking at his bathrobe and he pointed to the kangaroo and said ‘hop’
Carly got home and he immediately rushed to her and said ‘hug’.
He ate some rice and soup for dinner, but a lot ended up on the floor. He was getting sleepy around 8 but had trouble getting to sleep. He kept missing me, so I went in on the bed with them. Before he fell asleep he kept saying ‘grampa’s shirt’, as he was wearing one of the old sleep shirts. Also, I did ‘this little piggy’ with him for the first time, and he thought it was hilarious and kept asking for more. Both he and Carly fell asleep close to 9.
New words: freezer, lid, word for blades of blenders, vitamin (bah-bee), sleepy, hug (to Carly when she got home), sweaty, grampa’s shirt
Walking:
Water park:
Feeling rain:
Leaving APIS:
Sleeping on the way home:
In the evening:
