Sunday: Toys R Us and Lily Children’s Park

There were lots of wake ups in the night. I remember watching him sit up, sit silently for a couple minutes, then reaching over and silently tapping Carly on the shoulder because he wanted to nurse. At other times he was talking and making noise in his sleep, including his lip noise and saying ’bye bye Anna’. As such, he slept in until about 9.

I made an egg scramble with crab that he really liked. Later he helped me make a smoothie. The rest of the morning involved some cleaning and resting and of course some playing. A bit after noon I took him out for a walk in the backpack. We walked to a park (백합어린이공원, Lily Children’s Park) just north and across the street from Toys R Us that we’d never been to before. A nice find, as the park and playground area are good for playing, and there are two really nice apartment complex play areas kind of attached to the public park.

We played there for about an hour. First, of course, in the sand area, and then climbing on a bench and throwing his shovel an a long stick into the bushes and off the bench. He also got to watch a flock of pigeons as they moved through the park.

From there we went to Toys R Us. As soon as we got in the building and he saw the combination of the pet store and the giraffe statues for Toys R Us he got really excited and kept saying ‘at the zoo’, which is the name of a book he has and just started saying in the last couple days. When we actually went in Toys R Us he wanted to go back and kept saying ‘more at the zoo’. Didn’t buy anything, but we did scout out Duple sets for which ones have animals with them.

We then walked home, stopping at 2001 Outlet to watch four workers scaling the side of the building and washing it, and getting home about 2:30. This was when he would take a nap, if he was going to. He looked a bit tired, but didn’t go down for a nap. A no nap day.

We were at home for awhile and skyped with my parents, then I took him out to Home Plus. While we went there, Carly went to the pink building and got some groceries and pho. He carried his rag on the trip. Did a good job of holding on to it, although in the store he did decide to throw it on the ground so I took it for awhile. For samples he had red pepper, chicken nugget, and pineapple. This actually convinced us to get a pineapple. He was upset that he couldn’t have more pineapple in the store and had a little meltdown, but stopped crying soon, pretty much on his own.

We walked home and he ate a bunch of carrot. Carly called it a ’sweet carrot’, so he kept requesting more by saying ‘more sweet’. At one point he had been nursing and I sat down next to them on the couch with my iPad. He climbed on to my lap, blocking my view, and insisted on Nighty Night. In the evening he played in the sink and ate a late peanut butter sandwich as if we hadn’t been feeding him all day.

Carly gave him a bath. Before he got in, she had him try to use the toilet for the first time. Success! He was very excited by it and about dumping the pee in the toilet afterwards.

Right before bed I changed him again. We were singing “The wheels on the bus” and he was really getting into ‘the doors’ and timing his hand claps with mine, and saying ‘shut’ every time. He was asleep around 8:30.

New words/phrases: crack eggs, I see it, cow, At the Zoo, goat noise (baaaaaaaa), sweet carrot, salsa, bye bye people, smoothie cup

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