August slept late. Past 8. When he woke up, he didn’t make any noise. I was startled to see/hear the handle of the bedroom door opening and he walked out. He asked for ‘mama’ a few times, but then went to playing with the clips on his high chair.
In the morning, we made banana bread and a smoothie together. He helped with cracking the egg, peeling and smashing bananas, pouring milk and stirring, and then helped put fruit in the blender. As he drank his smoothie he looked out the window at the street below. He then sat on the floor and used his feet to spin himself around as he drank it.
We then had a nice extended art time, where he did some coloring, played with play dough, took stickers out of his sticker book (and put some on the arm of the couch), and then made a point of sitting on the couch with Marshy.
His class was at 11:10. As we were getting ready to leave, he had ahold of Marshy. He still had Marshy when I put him in the backpack. He got upset when I took Marshy away, but I was able to trade him for the leopard, err ‘camel’. He ended up holding the camel through most of his class and shopping, and we later clipped it to the backpack and took it when we went to the park.
His class today went well. He likes the more active songs and we got to play with a musical instrument thing after bubble time. The class was about colors, and we got a set of felt objects to play with. August was mainly interested in putting cleaning up and putting them back in the plastic bag. And when the teacher walked away from hers, he went over and picked up all of her pieces and put them away as well. Then, they got these flower hats to put on. He, of course, rejected it. But then I pointed to Jungbean and said that he was wearing his. Almost immediately, August picked up the hat himself and tried putting it on. There are now 6 other kids in the class, and at least 2 of the parents speak English.
We stopped at the rice burger (bap burger) place on the way home after doing a little extra walking since he seemed sleepy (but he didn’t fall asleep). We took our bap burgers up to the apartment and ate them for lunch. August really liked them. Unfortunately, I realized they aren’t nearly as health as the kimbap, but they are easier for him to eat.
He seemed tired, and on a couple of occasions laid down on the floor with Marshy, or went in on the bed when I asked when he was tired. But he wasn’t falling asleep. So I put him in the carrier and we went down and walked over towards the park. That worked. We came home and he slept for 70 minutes, until 3:15.
After he got up, we were getting ready to go to a park. I couldn’t find the camel to take with us, so I asked him where it was. He looked around, then started calling ‘Camel? Camel?’ So funny. We then looked around the house and he kept doing it, or saying ‘bye bye, Camel’. Finally, we found it (behind the bedroom door) and were on our way.
We went to Junghyeong Children’s Park (중현어린이공원 – one of the few not named after an animal or plant, but maybe Google just doesn’t translate it properly). It is the park where I once took a walking video of him in the carrier and he threw up. We played there, mainly in the sand, and then in the bushes. Then he saw some cats so we went and looked at them, but he didn’t try to get really close. Then back to the sand area, where he played with the ball, and was then excited when I started drawing letters in the sand.
A little after 5 Carly let us know she was walking home with Megan. So we walked and met them on the other side of the river and walked home together.
He had spaghetti again for dinner, after which he took a bath. He was awake until about 9. Before that, there was a lot of reading and just a little Nighty Night. In the evening he was randomly saying ‘no more soup’ for no apparent reason. Also, he is really into the Maisy books now, and when he sees Cyril with say ‘hi Cyril’. And when he saw the jam jar he called it ‘salsa’ in his high sing-songy voice.
Earlier in the day, he had been picking up on words in songs we were listening to. Listening to “Puff the Magic Dragon”, for example, he would repeat ‘by the sea’ after they sang it.
New words/phrases: by the sea (Puff), honk (car outside), toucan (goo-cah), hi Cyril, hide and seek, Charley, bap burger, I did it (after Carly said ‘you did it’), Sophie, no more soup, bread (beet), itchy (bug bite on leg)
Fresh banana bread:
Taking his ‘camel’ to class:
Class:
At the park:
Cats (we saw a total of four):
Drawing letters and things in the sand. Me, not him:
Evening: