August and I had a lot of things to finish up this morning, and he helped with all of them. And he was a character while doing it. Early on I looked up to find him standing on the table. He’s been trying to do this for weeks. I took him off and he said “I did it. I did it. A-ha!”
A while later he was walking around creepily saying “no more dada”
And he really liked helping take apart crib
Another funny phrase he was repeating was “Yummy goat poop” Later, we had this exchange:
Me: What do you want to eat?
A: Goat poop. Eat goat poop.
To be clear, he had never eaten goat poop. I think.
Finally, he has taken to calling himself ZZ. Although if you ask his name he says Auggie.
Finally, he surprised me by Humming (na na na na) and conducting a song with his fingers to show he wanted me to play the piano.
At close to 10 we headed up to the stream at Dobongsan. As soon as we got there, he started working on ‘at’, as in ‘at mul area’.
He played in the water for quite awhile, scrambling from rock to rock. Then he made a game of throwing his ball and shovel and I would recover. Here he started working in saying “Give me ball/shovel” (and we started working on adding ‘please’ at the end). He surprised me at one point by pointing up at the waterfall and saying something. He had spotted a chipmunk and was saying ‘chipmunk’. Big surprise as I haven’t really taught him that word – the few times we’ve seen them I’ve been undecided on whether to call them chipmunks or squirrels (a word he already knows).
He was getting tired and I changed him. As I was putting stuff away, he was trying to climb into my arms, saying ‘sit’. So I sat and he cuddled in my arms for a few minutes and said ‘sleepy’.
But the.b he was back up and wanted to walk on his own to see the sculpture we could see from where we were sitting.
Anyway, put him in the backpack and did our usual walk down the stream and he did his usual falling asleep along the way and we sat on our usual bench overlooking the river and he took his usual 35 minute nap (which felt long after the last two days).
We walked to the station and got off at Nowon. Shopped at Daiso for a screwdriver for the fan, a bag for his toys in the backpack, and a few other things. Took the bus home. We did some eating and then went to the pink building and then Home Plus. On the way out, August was walking on his own in the elevator, and then at the bottom exited, went out the doors and down the hall and out the doors all on his own, waving at people as he went. I just followed.
Got back at 4:20ish and Carly was home and then I went to get the bus to go to the airport. Got them and we just got on the bus headed back at 7. A little traffic on the way home but not bad. Home a little before 9. Had a little time to visit and get the presents from Glecy before going to sleep: a shirt from Sierra Leone and a Gaudi shirt from Barcelona, and a book about Picasso. August is going to look great in both of the shirts.
Helping with the crib:
Dr. Seuss. Or Shirt:
On our way. Using Camel as a pillow:
At the stream:
Cuddle time:
At home:
