When August woke up at 8:10 he didn’t make a noise. He opened the door and walked out. Didn’t really cry, but wondered where Mama and Opa were. He then saw my shirt (Strangers) and started naming of all the letters, correctly. He then did some yoga with Oma and was playing with Duplos for quite awhile until he started throwing them. We moved to trucks, then he helped me crack eggs for breakfast. He sat in his chair and ate breakfast while listening to the Andrea Bocelli album with “Funiculi, Funicula” on it; a couple times he would say ‘more’ when a song was over.
Chuck had left early in the morning to go to Incheon to watch a golf tournament. When August woke up I told him “Opa is at golf.” 45 or 60 minutes later, August walked down the hall and looked into their room and said “Opa golf.”
We left the house around 10:30 with the intention of going to a park over by the school until the carnival. But we heard a marching band over in the park and went to investigate. It was a Hanguel Parade, and the park was its staging area. We stayed there for over an hour, watching acts rehearse and start down the parade route. August wanted to go into the art museum, so we went in for awhile and showed Cherie the sharks, etc., and then a little later went down stairs to the children’s area.
Finally we walked over towards the school, stopping at the park by Wolgye Station. We’d only played there once before and it has sand. August played there for awhile. I had to change him at the beginning because he had leaked, and then again before we left. He really gnawed on a big carrot that Cherie had, but would spit out the pieces. At one point we were sitting on the bench, and he turned to me and said “nuzzle noses”, and so we nuzzled noses (that is from the Kiss Goodnight book we have).
Got to the school at about 1. Found Carly then went down to the carnival. She took August in to nurse, and I helped set up the booth she was to supervise. It was giant Jenga, made out of styrofoam, so it really didn’t work in the wind, so we cancelled it.
Went up and found Carly, Cherie, and August. Changed him again, then went down to the carnival. We ate on the bleacher steps, then walked around. He spent most of the time playing with the little and big rubber duckies in a kiddie pool area. A 6th grader, Sophia, played with him awhile (he had pinched her nose once when I first brought him to visit APIS sometime last year), and he also got to see Anna.
At 2:45 the middle school carnival was over, so we left. August was hyper and I didn’t think he was going to fall asleep before home. But as we went under Wolgye Station he crashed. So he napped at the same park we had played at earlier, for just under and hour, waking up at 4:07.
When he woke up I changed him again (#4). Carly and Cherie were going to leave school soon, so we arranged to meet at Jill and Derek’s, as Carly had to drop more stuff off. August and I got there first to find Jill and Logan playing in the playground by their building. We had Logan and August on the seesaws at the same time, then I had August on the slide. He kept going down it by himself. It was like he had forgotten how much he liked the slide.
Carly and Cherie showed up, and we all went up to the apartment. I got to hold Rosie, who, at 7 pounds something, is smaller than August ever was.
We left and walked home. He performed a little more yoga for us, and sat on the couch with Oma and Opa and watched videos of the parade and of the trees they cut down. Carly gave him a bath and put him to sleep around the usual time.
New words/phrases: Opa golf, pinch, garbage truck, fire truck, armored truck, leaf, sweatshirt, jammies, dragonfly, watch, counter
Morning yoga:
Parade:
Pointing to his pineapple cookie a woman gave him:
Park:
Carnival:
With Anna. She played peekaboo with him last year at the carnival, and did this year as well:
Walking home and seeing a sign along the way:
At the park. He knows the letters in ‘osprey’ really well by now:
Playing with Logan:
Home:
A little more yoga:
Watching parade and tree cutting videos with Oma and Opa:
