because he didn’t take a nap. And I feel fine. He slept in until 8:30, so he had that going for him. They skyped with Glecy in the morning and we had a lazy Sunday morning around the house (note: I had planned to go hiking on the Seoul Trail but, of course, we had to postpone again…). At one point we were coloring and he wanted to use the purple marker. I let him, and almost immediately he realized he could color on his arm. So he had a purple arm all day. Pretty cool.
Around noon I decided I’d take him out for a walk until he was a bit tired. Before we left, he was staring at the pictures on his Korean poster. He tends to do that quite often.
The walk went well – we just went to the loop behind the youth center and around that area, and admired the mural they’re painting below one of the ramps along the stream. And he seemed pretty tired when we got home.
But he wouldn’t sleep. He nursed and nursed and nursed, but wouldn’t sleep. And just kept moving a lot. At one point he was dragging the iron around by the cord as if it was on a leash. So, about 2:30 I put him in the carrier and went walking around our floor. Did this for at least 20 minutes. He had fun looking up at lights, etc. but seemed no more tired at the end.
So we went home and a few minutes later I took him to the park. We were there for the next hour and a half. He played with the teeter totter, and spent a lot of time near the dinosaurs. First, looking at bushes and flowers. Then we went and played on the rocks behind the playground, throwing the tennis ball into the bushes a lot. From there we went over by the fountain, and when it turned on at 4 he watched for a few minutes. Then he wanted to go back by the dinosaurs (“roar”). So we went back, and he played in the bushes and with the tennis ball for quite awhile. At one point people from a church came by and gave us a bag of crackers. I called them the Jesus crackers as they had a line about Jesus painted on them. We ate several of those, and he still seemed hungry. So a little after 4:30 we went home.
He then stayed with Carly while I went to the grocery store. Apparently, he spent a lot of time cleaning the floor as Carly did the same. I finally found everything we needed for our burritos at that store and came home.
Carly did the cooking while I distracted August. He ate, then we ate and Carly took a shower. Miraculously, he stayed awake until a little after 7. Pretty darn good for his first day without a nap.
He is really loving the Nighty Night game, and has pretty much figured out how to move between all the animals, make them move, and put them to sleep. He was playing it with Carly when I came home from the store, and we played some more while she was in the shower. Time to find the next app or two.
I finished the book I’ve been reading for my book group. It’s called The Slap. Happy to be done with it. Not horrible, but not good either. Also, I finished watching that Scientology documentary a couple days ago. Derek had recommended it.
New words: towel, crack, pizza, hiccup
Park:
Jesus crackers:
