August was restless last night and has a stuffy nose. He was okay when he woke up, but after Carly left his nose was running, which he finds upsetting. He then was coughing on phlegm and had two small throw ups. After he calmed down, he had a nice time with Cherie skyping with Cassie and Vivi and then watching videos of songs on YouTube, particularly the ABC song and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
He has been learning more of the tunes to Itsy Bitsy, Baa Baa, and ABC and spent much of today singing nonsense words or portions of them. But he is also applying random words. For example, after someone said ‘okay’, he sang much of the ABC song using only the word ‘okay’ over and over.
He was doing really well watching videos but got overwhelmed. When he calmed down again, he and I did a lot of reading. He surprised me by saying the name of the author of the Hole in the King’s Sock – I say it every time I read the cover. The author’s name is Dot Meharry – he says it one word, ‘Dotharry’. He also started requesting the Under the Sea with Me book by saying “Under the sea me”.
Before we left for his class, he was lying on the rug, on his back, and Cherie lay down next to him and was singing to him.
Chuck and Cherie went with us to his class. It went really well. It was the Chuseok class, so they put on traditional clothes (well, strips of felt) and a hat (August did not wear his) and did some drumming, then did traditional games, with four stations. So, his first time throwing the arrows in a bucket. Except, the kids turned it into all picking up the arrows and putting them away in the bucket. But his favorite was throwing the bean bags into the board with holes in it. Oh, and the teacher gave them songpyeon – a rice cake dumpling with a filling. It was a big hit with all of the kids, who were all tasting it for the first time.
After class, Chuck went over to 2001 Outlet, and the rest of us went to Home Plus. Cherie did most of the shopping. I grabbed soy milk and ethernet cables and headed home. August fell asleep on the way home and I was able to lay him down. Just barely, as he did a lot of whimpering, but his eyes didn’t open.
He slept for 66 minutes. We ate and played and then the Beautiful Store showed up just before 3 to pick up the donations. After that, Chuck and I took August on a walk. We walked up to Nowon, through the streets around the station, and then back down, stopping at a park August and I found in May or so. We played there for about 45 minutes. August with his shovel, of course, for much of it. There was an older boy with a baseball bat and mitt that Chuck ended up playing catch with. August loved this, so we got his ball out and we played with it a lot.
We came home at 5:35. Carly wasn’t home, so August and I went back down. We found her a few minutes later as she walked up to the building.
Cherie had made spaghetti for dinner; August ate a ton, along with broccoli. Carly gave him a bath – he was not in a good mood about that. He went to sleep around 8 again.
New words/phrases: hot tea, Dot Meharry (Dotharry), crab, Under the Sea with Me (under the sea me), clock, big (fish noise), sand shoe (sand in his shoes), get dada (about to pour sand on my foot)
Morning:
Class:
Eating songpyeon:
Shopping:
On our walk with Chuck:
Looking at fish:
