When he woke up he really wanted mama again, and ended up standing at the front door trying to get out. I sat down on the little step, and he calmed down a little and sat down next to me. I did “This little piggy” with his toes and he started laughing. He was then looking at our shoes, and could tell all of them apart (which belonged to Opa, etc.). For his own, he said “ZZ shoes, Auggie shoes, August shoes”. He then wandered into Chuck and Cherie’s bedroom, where he found a water bottle. Chuck said it was Oma’s, so August took it into the other room to her.
I made eggs for breakfast, but he ate some Cheerios, and then a lot of broccoli and cheese as I was making them, so he didn’t eat my eggs. When Cherie made eggs for herself later, however, he was happy to eat some.
He then played with Chuck on the bed, putting credit and other cards into a travel pouch, then went downstairs with me to do recycling. I let him put the milk cartons in the big bag one-by-one, and later wanted to take a carton out the front door.
Cherie was going to a yoga class with Atsuko and then she and Chuck were planning to go to Nowon. So August and I went to Children’s Grand Park by ourselves. At the zoo we first went to the conservatory, because when we were walking by it August pointed to it and seemed to say “go there” a couple times, then started making fish sounds. We went in and saw the fish and waterfall, then went to the outside area with the little streams and ponds. I let him out, and he liked looking at the fish. Then he managed to throw a little rock in the pond and got upset that there were no more to throw. We walked around a little more, but I then realized he was wet. So we walked up to our usual restroom and changed him.
Then back to the animals, stopping at the goats and rabbits as a zookeeper was feeding them. Then in to see the horses and meerkats, then to the tropical building where we spent most of our time, with the lizards and snakes and turtles, primarily.
He was getting tired but hadn’t yet eaten, so we went up to our picnic place. He was too tired though, so we got back in the backpack and he ate some sandwich in there as we walked and then he fell asleep, sleeping for 80 minutes and waking up at the cafe at 1:50.
From there we went to the Adventureland Playground and played there for the next hour and a half+. Mainly with sand, using his shovel and the ambulance and his little spoon and piece of a shuttlecock, but also going over to the musical instruments, hanging on a fence, and throwing things into the bushes. There was a school group from a Canadian international school at the park. We ran into them 3 times, the last at the playground. August would have liked hanging around them at the playground, but they were leaving as we got there.
We headed home, and stopped at the pink building for a couple groceries then headed home. He likes the little prints of paintings they have in the elevators, and I always tell him who the painter is. Leaving the elevator today, he said ‘bye bye Millet’. When we got home I took him out of the backpack and he laid on the floor. I laid down next to him and we lay their for a few minutes – at one point he said ‘more dada’.
We were home about 4:50. Chuck and Cherie were home a few minutes later. August was a little upset that Carly wasn’t with him. We started to get his shoes on to go look for her, but he calmed down and got distracted so we didn’t have to go.
He was making up a lot of songs today, including the Oma Opa song, the Uncle Dee Dee song, and No Wawa song, and the I Got My Dada song.
In the evening he was really into giving things to Cherie: First, he was giving her all the crayons. Later, he started handing her Duple animals one-by-one. She cooked some eggs, and he stole her fork and was doing a pretty good job of eating eggs with it. When he ate a piece of egg, she would say ‘Amazing!’ and he would laugh. He was then in on the bed with Chuck, dumping things out of a bag, and chuck would say ‘Yippee!’ August was laughing hysterically and almost rolling off the bed.
Carly gave him a bath and he went to bed around 8. Before going to bed he really got into putting his Duplos away.
New words/phrases: for Oma, I see a baa baa, hook, driver, Eric Carle, see a stork, go here (?), hear wawa (hears waterfall), baba light, chip (he’s used it for awhile – don’t know if I mentioned it), alligator (al-gay-ter), cook egg, my dinosaur (and other Duplo animals), washcloth, fall down, yippee (Chuck taught it to him)
On our way. He spots this sign in the subway stations and calls out “dada’s sandoo”:
Zoo:
Hanging on the railing as he watches the meerkats:
Sleepy time:
After his nap:
At the playground:
Headed home:
Back home:
