One of the things he said last night in his sleep, or as he slightly woke up to nurse, was ‘heeby jeeby’.
In the morning, he sang some songs with Cherie. “Row row row your boat” was his favorite, with the back and forth body movements. He also helped me make a smoothie and we read a lot of books before we left, particularly Mother Goose and Hop on Pop. He is working on the full Jim/him and ‘we see a bee’ lines.
We left a little before 10 to Itaewon. After our transfer, the train was pretty empty so we got 4 seats together. I took August out and he enjoyed sitting between me and Cherie. When we got to Itaewon we came out by the Hamilton Hotel. August was still out, but a bit upset at first because he wanted to just walk around. We headed up to the foreign food places where I was able to let him explore outside a little, then got him in the backpack and things went smoothly from there.
From the foreign food marts we took a walk past the mosque then back down the hill. August fell asleep, so I went and got a coffee and read in Caffe Bene, while Chuck and Cherie went to a hummus place for lunch. August slept 45 minutes and woke up soon after they showed up at the coffee place.
We went to a playground close to there, and August and I ate and we played on the playground. He really liked the play structure for the first time, and played on it first with Chuck, then with Cherie and me, throwing his shovel off the platform and into the rope webbing area.
We said bye/thank you playground as we left, and went to High Street Market. August was getting a little antsy after awhile, so we made a game of trying to find Oma and Opa, but I would point at cheese, or in a fridge and ask if they were there. He picked up on it and started pointing at random things and laughing. We then tried to head to the used book store. Unfortunately, it was closed.
So we then walked west across Itaewon. We walked the street behind the Hamilton Hotel and then went to Whatthebook. We looked awhile there, and August enjoyed sitting on the stools, but nothing jumped out to us to buy. Before leaving, I had to change him again – the third time on the trip. The first two were at the playground. This was in the bathroom of the book store. While I set up, August kept himself busy in there by using a small broom to sweep the bathroom.
I put August in the backpack and we walked back to the station and then headed home. As we got to Hagye we got a text from Carly asking if we could get a few things, so Chuck and Cherie headed to Home Plus. August and I stopped at the pink building to get frozen fruit, then went home.
August really wanted the mango, so I was thawing some and he was eating it. He had been upset when we got home and Carly wasn’t there, then got a bit upset when Chuck and Cherie showed up and it wasn’t her, but he recovered quickly.
Carly did get home soon after that, as August and I were finishing up mixing the banana bread. Chuck went for a walk by himself along the stream/river. We ate dinner, but August wasn’t into eating dinner. He did eat some of Cherie’s sagwa (apple), some pineapple, and a good amount of avocado (first time he’s really liked that). And of course he ate two slices of banana bread when it was done. He also did a lot of drawing, and went to bed around 8.
New words: Dream, bubbe band, pig, ah-gee hoo-haa (baby noodle – for a small piece of string cheese):
Heading to Itaewon:
Playground:
Book store:
Sweeping the bathroom:
Headed home:
Back home:
Banana bread:
