Two awesome things today: we went to a department store up north and bought Duplo sets using a gift certificate Carly received last year and… we discovered shelves we never knew existed. After living here for 3 years.
The shelves happened in the morning. August can now climb up over the couch with little problem, so Carly started to move it against a different wall. I was cleaning the space now open to move the reading area there and wiped the back of the counter: click. Right next to the new reading area, and we now have all of his books on the shelves.
August also did a lot of vacuuming in the morning, and kept wanting us to really vacuum. And he did a pretty thorough job of using a rag to wipe everything.
That’s his clean side. He also used a marker for coloring and managed to get it all over, including his face.
He also got to Skype with Tia, Vivi, and Baby Colin.
Later in the afternoon, after a monster two and a half hour nap, we headed north to Uijeongbu and the Sinsaegae Department Store. This is where we previously bought toys using gift certificates and cards (and I took August to a kid cafe once, and they have the cool roof). August took his pink rag that he’d been using to clean the house with him, and held on to it until we were up in Uijeongbu and he got to play with Carly’s straw and coffee up.
We first walked across the street to the downtown area and went to Artbox, then stopped and got a coffee. We walked up the street, and there is a little stream running down the center that you can wade in. August played there for awhile, then we walked up the street, came back, and went to the department store.
At the department store we went straight to the Duplos and bought four sets. We then went up to the roof and played there. He did quite well despite it being more overrun with older kids (literally doing a lot of running. And yelling.) Before we left, we went to the bathroom and then changed him. While waiting for Carly to come out of the bathroom, he decided he would lie on the floor and squirm around and entertain passersby.
We didn’t get back until after 6, so we had dinner, he took a bath, and went to bed. The Duplos would wait until tomorrow.
New words: vacuuming, dirty, lentil soup, poh-doh (grape in korean), teddy bear, come here(?), lay down (according to Carly), I got you (the correct phrase, as opposed to ‘I got me’), I’m coming (?)
Uijeongbu trip:
Our haul for the day:
Washing his cup in the bath:
