He woke up at 4:20, and Carly got up with him. He was singing ‘ABCDEFG’ and as they left the room he said ‘Dada sleeping’. He went back to sleep a little after 6.
He woke up again at 7, asking for water but clearly wanted to nurse and go back to sleep. He kept pointing back into the room and saying ‘more’ but wouldn’t go in. I took him back in on the bed and sang to him and he calmed down and actually lay down for several minutes. We were in there for 20 minutes before he first started looking for Green Monster and then wanted to see Oma and Opa. By then he was very happy. He got his spatula and wanted a bowl, then went and played with his blocks with them. We spent time naming things on the blocks – now working on snail and violin as he knows most of the others.
Oma shared eggs with him again, which he really liked. And he played with tape with me as I fixed his poster. He was then playing with Duplos with Chuck and putting them all away. Then came out and put things away in kitchen and living room.
We read Curious George Goes to the Aquarium and he was flapping arms like a penguin when Curious George does it. Then, he surprised me by saying “Play soccer”. He then got a ball out and was saying “kick” a lot. Finally, he has been repeating words he hears in songs. Today he kept repeating “summer” and “April” in a Jason Webley song, “My Love Left Me in April”.
Cherie had gone to the store and then came home and was chopping vegetables for dinner. August got a lime from her, and was pretending it was an egg, trying to crack it everywhere. She decided to not come along, so the three of us left about 10:30. We went to Dobangson and first hiked up towards the peak, towards the temple I went to with Derek. Went about halfway, then went back down and continued the loop we’ve done several times, walking up into the first temple for the view. August fell asleep, and we walked back and sat by the stream area. He slept 51 minutes, from 12:37 to 1:28. Chuck came back from looking at the shops just as he woke up.
August was wet so I changed him, then he pooped, so I changed him again, then his nose was running, then a random woman tried to hug him/pick him up. We got through that, and he ended up playing with Opa and me in the stream for over an hour. He wanted to play on the downhill side from the concrete block bridge we walk across. It is sloped, so there are kind of waterfalls and little pools. The main thing was throwing his ball and rocks in the water and splashing us. He also really liked knocking down rock towers I tried to build. After a couple of those, he said “happy”. At one point, his foot was itching, and Chuck showed him how to splash water on his foot. August got really in to this, and a few times said “feels good”, which Chuck had said.
Anna, the student that likes to play with August, had to do homework, but Chuck wanted to walk home with Carly, so we went anyway. We walked down the stream and took line 1 at Dobong Station, then transferred to the 1161. We arrived a little early, so went to GS25 for a drink, then went and saw Carly at 4:25.
August really enjoyed pushing in the chairs on her desks, and he had a lot to do as Chuck and I helped rearranged the desks after her Culture Club.
We all walked home, then ate the delicious rice/lime/chicken dish that Cherie made. August took a bath and looked to be going to bed around 7, but finally came back out of the room, running to me, saying a mystery word: davo. We read some more, particularly the Head to Toe book. I accidentally skipped the seal page, and he noticed, clapping at the end of the book (that’s what the seal does). So we went back and he thought it was hilarious. He kept finding that page over and over. We also played with the cat hand puppet. He took it from me, put it on his hand and was saying ‘meow’. He was then rubbing it on his head and making a purring noise, which is what I do to him.
He wanted to go to bed around 8, but first had to come out and get his water. He then wanted the cat hand puppet, so I took that in to him.
Dada’s sandoo on subway poster
New words/phrases: dada sleeping, ABCDEFG, green monster (gree gonsta), blocks (bla), cook, rubber band (rub bee-uh), fork (thork), block, rooster (ooster), cock-a-doodle-doo (cock-a-doo), street cleaner (saw a truck out the window), swimsuit, crack (trying to crack a lime), house (hou-suh at first; in tree kangaroo book), wawa pipe, fishes (pointing to my shirt)
seeing a a street cleaner truck:
Cracking a lime:
At Dobongsan with Opa:
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