This morning August managed to climb onto the brown chair for the first time, and made it look easy.
We skyped with my parents, as they were about to leave for Everett for 9 days. We then Skyped with Peter, although August only put in a small appearance as he was being shy.
We then headed to Hoegi. We walked the back road and the rest of them got sandwiches at Subway. I got a salmon bagel sandwich at Mono Cheese Cafe. We walked into Kyunghee University, and looked for a children’s park that shows up on Google Maps. Alas, it doesn’t seem to exist. So we ate lunch sitting on the grass to the left of the church on campus. But before we put August’s shoes on he stepped in some sort of poop, causing quite an incident.
That cleaned up and done with lunch, we walked in front of the church (August liked going up and down the stairs with Cherie, and she would say ‘uff-da’ with ), then across the pedestrian bridge and down the hill on the other side. There were big leaves on the hill and he liked stomping on them.
We stopped and changed him on the grass, then put him in the backpack and started walking. He fell asleep on the way up to the art building. We looked around up there at all the outdoor sculptures, then headed back down the hill and out of the university and went to 8 Street, the coffee place we really like. I tried the Saigon Cafe today (basically a fancy Vietnamese coffee – last time I think I had the Vienna drink) and we went and sat upstairs for the first time. When August woke up about 1:20 (50-some minutes), I took him around to see some of the art (the gallery downstairs was all photographs of animals) and to meet the big fluffy dog, which was sitting outside the front door at the time. He spent a few minutes with the dog, and petted it a little, but he really loved the small aquariums, particularly the water flowing in the top and the bubbles it would make on the surface of the water.
We were there quite awhile, then headed home. At home, he played throwing the ball off the couch, spent some time studying the insects on his pajamas, lay down on the floor a couple of times, and read the baby book – he surprised me by being able to identify several of the babies on the emotions page (happy baby, etc.)
He and I then went with Carly to the pink building to get pho for dinner and a couple of groceries. We came and ate dinner, and then at 6:30 Megan and Torrey came over and we all went down to Baskin Robbins for ice cream. August got to eat a lot of ice cream, mainly from Cherie and some from Megan.
We came back home and played some more. At one point he was sitting on the edge of the table holding his water bottle. He went to slide off, but lost his balance while doing so. He kind of rolled to the floor, but got up, still holding his water bottle pinned to the side of his head, like it was a football and he was trying not to fumble.
I gave him a bath and then he went to bed a little before 8.
Home: ball off table, studying his pajamas, lying down on floor couple times, baby book
Twice today he went and lay on the changing pad when we simply asked him to. Also, sometime before bed he requested the ABC song on the computer. So we pulled it up on YouTube. The video is hosted by Eep the Mouse, and he could identify Eep by name. And when playing with his spatula, blocks, and a frying pan he was saying ‘sizzle, sizzle, sizzle’.
New words/phrases: water, got the icky, water bottle, hi tweet, mama get it, sit on mama, grumpy baby, happy baby, sleeping baby, tired baby, more Google, soak-Joon (korean for sprout), Eep
Eating some of Mama’s sandoo:
At 8 Street:
Headed home:
Home:
Ice cream:
Home. His new comb from Oma:
