August managed to sleep in until 8. Close to 12 hours. He ate a bunch of eggs that Oma made him for breakfast. While playing with Duplos, he sang a new song: “Got my Duplos, got my zookeeper.”
We left around 10 and headed up to Dobongsan. I took August out of the backpack each way so he could sit next to Oma and Opa. Up at Dobongsan we quickly stopped so I could buy a hat, then continued to walk on up and into the park. We hiked past the first temple you always go past as you enter the park, up to the temple that August and I went to on Buddha’s Birthday, walking past the old swimming hole where he took a nap. August was really noticing the lions at both of the temples.
We then turned around and headed back down to the stream area. It was a little past 11 but still in the shade. When I took August out and set him down he said “cold rocks, cold rocks.” And the water seemed freezing at first. But we spent close to two hours there. Cherie played with August in the stream, helping him get rocks. She also taught him ‘wowzer’, ’superwozer’, and ‘awesome’. By the time we left, the sun was hitting most of the stream and August and I had been wading back and forth through the stream with no problem. So probably an afternoon activity for the last few weeks before we give it up for the winter.
We left after I changed him, and we walked down the stream. He fell asleep, and we all sat on our usual set of benches by the river. August slept close to an hour, waking up about 2:40, then we walked to Suraksan Station and came home.
I changed him and we played for a few minutes, then we all went over to Sing Sing Mart to get chicken and a few other things, then stopped at Tous les Jours and got the black bean bread.
Carly got home soon after, then Megan came down a half hour later. She and August made cards for the two babies born here in the last week: Garvey and Rosie, and Carly (with help from Megan) made enchiladas for Jill and Derek.
Carly gave August a bath, and he played in the bathtub for a long time after. He still won’t actually sit in the tub, crouching instead. Carly’s first attempt to put him to sleep didn’t work, but the second attempt, sometime after 8, did, and they both fell asleep.
New words/phrases: beep Oma nose, out the window, awesome, person, wowzer, super wowzer, popcorn (looking at a photo of himself eating popcorn), chukahaeyo (‘congratulations’ in Korean; Megan looked it up for the card; he repeated it on his own in the bath), blue car (in the bath)
Waking up:
At the stream:
Biiig rock:
Uffta:
Awesome:
Super wowzer:
Sweeping Haechi in the subway station:
Cards and food with Megan:
Duplos with Opa:
