He woke up at 8:20, a nice long night of sleep. He played and ate eggs (that Chuck made) with Cherie. Afterward, when Cherie brought him his water bottle, he said ‘Thank you, Oma’. And at some point he got the little broom out of the backpack and was walking around sweeping everything, saying “sweep, sweep, sweep.”
It was a little after 10 that we all got going. Chuck and Cherie were going to Costco, so got off the subway before us. August is repeating more of the train stations after he hears them on the loudspeaker. Today he said ‘Yongmasan, Junghwa, and Taerung’.
We made it to Children’s Grand Park and headed to the zoo. We walked through the folk tale/robot area as all of the little streams and fountains were back on for some reason. He identified the conservatory from even farther away, pointing and saying “(fish sounds) there, go there”. So we first went to the conservatory. I let him down earlier, letting him walk around the conservatory and look at the fish and waterfall. We then went and looked at the outside portion.
From there it was to the animals. First the horses and goats (there are now two baby goats), then to the waterfall and in the building. He identified the lemurs by name immediately, even though they were curled up sleeping. And he said “lemurs sleepy.” Other animals he referred to by name included the goats, crocodile, turtle, and gibbon. And when we saw the big cats later, he really liked the names ‘serval’ and ‘puma’.
Anyway, we spent some time in the top of that building (birds, gibbon, crocodile, turtles), then went out on the square and sat in our usual spot and ate. At one point, he decided he was done and walked off on his own and then started up the big tall steps on his own.
From there we went and saw the water birds. Here he was into saying ‘egret’ and ‘pelican’. He spent a lot of time just staring in at the birds.
I needed to change him, so up to our usual set of bathrooms, and then trying to put him to sleep. It was a little early, but he woke up late and it was already past noon. Took a little longer, but he was asleep at 1:13. He slept until 2:11 at the coffee shop.
After he woke up we found that counting book with the elevator and read/played with that. I then gave him the option of playground or more animals. He kept choosing animals.
So we went and saw the big cats and dogs. He is really into tigers now, so that was the draw, but the tiger was asleep on a rock. So we spent most of our time with the lions and leopards. A leopard was walking back and forth by the glass, and August tried to beep its nose a few times. He really liked the word ‘serval’, and was saying ‘hi serval’ and bye bye serval’. The same with ‘puma’ (which he chose over ‘cougar’ when I gave him an option).
We headed home, walking through the robot/little stream/folk tale area, changed him again by the front entrance, and headed home, getting home around 4:45.
Chuck and Cherie had bought him a set of cool cars/trucks at Costco and he was very excited by that. I ate a little and Carly got home. I then headed to my writing group meeting over at Lotte Castle at 6. When I got back a little after 8, he was asleep.
New words/phrases: scorpion (pointed it out on his pajamas when I was hanging laundry), family, push it, yellow truck, bulldozer
Morning. Playing with his lion but taking a moment to eat Oma’s breakfast:
CGP:
Baby goats:
People watching from the steps after he started to walk away from lunch:
Beeping the leopard’s nose (do not try this at home):
Singing “Hungry, hungry baa baa” (hands on his head is the sun drying up all the rain):
Headed home:
New cars/trucks from Oma and Opa: