August was up at 6:30. Original thought was to go to Dobongsan, but since it is cooler now I figured we’d go in the afternoon. We’ play at home in the morning and go to Home Plus, then take his nap before going.
So we did a lot in the morning. he was playing with an ‘art’ and setting it on Angeles’s head. We skyped with Gramma and Grampa, but that didn’t last too long due to connection issues. We read the Sandra Boynton Snoozers book, and he really got into the “Night Sounds” poem, learning all of the snoring noises. Played a little Night Night Circus on the iPad, then made a mango banana smoothie.
At one point I had my back turned and he got down off his stool. I turned back around to find him rubbing his head. I asked him what happened. He looked at me, very serious and said “bumped head…counter.”
He really got into sweeping today and finding hairs to throw away, later getting both brooms out and insisting I sweep with the other.
Around 10 we went out to go to Home Plus. First stopped in the park and played. He worked on climbing the play structure and went down the slide. He went over to the dinosaurs and said “biiiiig dinosaur”. He was also fascinated by a saw he kept hearing off in the distance.
At Home Plus we spent at least a half hour on the first basement floor. He had the basket and was walking around. Did really well, although obviously I had to keep an eye on him and keep him from touching a few things. Before we got there, he said “go to see lizard”. Spent most of the time looking at the animals and their supplies. In particular he liked the empty pre-furnished aquariums. I noticed this at the zoo too, where he also likes the empty cages, looking at the plants, pieces of wood, and concrete structures.
Finished our shopping there and went down to groceries. Put him in the carrier and finished shopping.
At home, he finished off his smoothie and wanted more. When I changed him he said on his own “bye bye Auggie poop.” Tried to get him to sleep without the carrier. No luck. Spent about 40 minutes on it. He would only lie down for a second and kept wanting to walk around. Finally gave up and put him in the carrier and went for a little walk and he fell asleep. Slept 1:35 to 3:25. Around 3 I went in to see if he would wake up. No luck. So I lay down next to him to rest. When he woke up, I think he thought I was Carly and was upset when she wasn’t around.
He ate some more, then we went out to the closest playground in the apartment complex on our walk to the bridge over the river. Played there about an hour, climbing up the stairs and going down the slide. Both he did with my help at first, but he went down the slide twice on his own without wanting to hold my finger.
There was a man with two kids there. Girl a little older than August, boy a couple years. We had the tennis ball out by then, and they played with him with the ball for about 10 minutes. A little much for August (particularly the boy) and eventually he said “all done. Broom. Broom. More sweep.” and went back to sweeping the playground until Carly and Megan showed up and we went home.
A standard evening. He and Carly did some good Duplo playing. I took over at some point and could tell what word Carly was using with him while playing: he kept saying “idea” and “now what?”
I gave him a bath. He was eager to get in the water as it was filling. Told him we had to take off his clothes and then pee in the toilet. He replied with “pee bathtub”.
He stayed up until about 9:30. He tries to stay up by requesting each of his stuff animals, and by popping up and saying “more dada” or “more wawa”. And saying “all done nurse.”
New words/phrases: dada get it (ball under table), bumped head counter, go to see lizard, idea, now what?, sweet, pee in bathtub, octopus, sail, kangaroo (langahop), all done nurse
Waking up:
At the playground:
Home Plus:
Loving the empty aquariums:
Smoothie:
Playground:
Home:
Reading the new Korean counting book:
