I hiked another portion of the Seoul Trail today with Derek and Jeff. Before I left to meet them at 8:30, August got a pan from the cupboard and took it to his play area. He then got the blocks and a spatula and put some blocks in and started stirring them. When he did this a few days ago it was my idea, this time it was all on his own.
The hike went well. A pretty boring section, and the flattest of the entire trail. Which is why it was the longest, at 10 kilometers.
While I was gone Carly and August walked to the stream and then played by the dinosaurs. When I came home they were playing with the first set of Duplos and August was saying ‘more’ and went and got a second set. So we opened that box and they made their tower even taller.
Carly left to go to a coffee shop down on the second floor to do some work. I was pretty tired, so didn’t want to move much. Luckily, August was good playing in the house. We spent a lot of time cutting play dough with his plastic knife, then did his transportation sticker book, read a few books, played with the Duplos (mainly having the people and the sheep going down the slide, and then playing in the utility drawer. There were the medicine dispensers in there (like for children’s tylenol) and we ended up filling them with water and squirting it into his mouth. He drank a lot of water that way.
Carly came home for awhile, then did some work in the bedroom. She had played some Nighty Night with him, then he and I switched to Endless Alphabet. He can do 4, 5, and 6 letter words entirely on his own (except for the ‘R’s – he is slightly afraid of them and grabs my finger to do them).
In the evening I took him out to the park for about 30 minutes. We mainly stayed in the photo zone place by the dinosaurs. He snacked on Cheerios and looked and danced around. He kept going up the two steps and back down. He was walking up on the main walkway and had a scary stumble – he was heading right for a hole in the railing and I thought he was going to fly right through it. Luckily, he stumbled 2 or 3 steps but didn’t fall.
Before we left the park, there were a couple of men playing harmonica and singing old Korean pop music. August liked this, and was sitting in my arms with his head on my shoulder, starting to get sleepy. It was now 7, and we headed home. He seemed pretty tired a few times, but stayed awake until about 9.
Grampa and Tia are his favorite people right now, at least their names. Starting with the fact that August sometimes wears grampa’s old shirts to bed, he loves to say things like ‘grampa’s shoes’ or ‘grampa’s car’ or ‘grampa’s house’. He does this with other people as well, but a couple days ago Carly made lentil soup. While he says ‘lentil soup’, he really started taking to calling it ‘grampa’s soup’, so he’s doubled up on calling everything ‘grampa’s’ the last couple of days.
Similarly, he inserts the names of other people into songs. We had changed “Baa Baa Black Sheep” to include ‘dada’ and ‘mama’ instead of ‘master’ and ‘dame’. At first he would sing it correctly, and also sing the correct words of ‘wool’ and ‘full’. But eventually he found it funny to start saying random names, like ‘oma’ and ‘gramma’. Since then, he has settled on ’tia’ being the funniest, and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” now goes like this, with me singing most of the words and August singing the ‘tia’s and the ‘full’ at the end:
Baa baa black sheep have you any tia
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags tia
One for the tia, one for the tia
And one for little tia (sometimes he still says August) who rides on a tia
Baa baa black sheep have you any tia
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
New words: kick, Cheerios, Duplo, sneezes, coming (may have listed), Lisa (Corduroy’s owner in the book), gul (Korean for the sound a pig makes), bak bak bak (sound of a chicken)
Morning:
My hike:
Back hoe:
He pinched his foot in the swiffer and was bleeding. Here is Carly attending to his wound:
Park:
