August slept late, until 9:30. When he woke up, Carly opened the door, but he got down off the bed, walked out into the living room, and climbed up on the couch. Soon, he saw the iPad and said “want to play baa baa”. Let him play Endless Alphabet for a bit instead. I made French toast for breakfast. The rest of the morning involved a lot of sweeping (“dada sweep!” “mama sweep!” “sweep here!”), looking at wood grain (“more grain!”), and playing with the alphabet cards. He also spent some time poking an apple core with his plastic fork.
We then took him for a walk over to Hanguelbi Park, the park SE of Toys R Us with the playground set back in the middle of apartment buildings and a school. He did some climbing on the play structure and went down some slides. He then went down a big twisty slide with Carly a couple times.
We came home and he took a good nap, not waking up until close to 4. After his nap, we all went to Home Plus. He spent more time carrying around the basket and looking at the aquariums. We went downstairs and we did our grocery shopping. We waited with the baskets while Carly went to find something. He had fun looking at the groceries and stacking them. Got a bit upset though when we had to leave and then pay for the groceries, as he wanted to keep playing and touching everything.
Carly came home and started working on the curry dish. August and I played in the corner of the park by Carly’s bus stop: picking up crab apples, carrying around big rocks, and sitting on the ‘3’ and eating snacks.
We came home for awhile to change August, then went back out to the park in the dark around 6:30 to the playground. Ran into the sisters Claudia and Mikayla for a minute. Did some seesawing, sliding, and climbing on the structure. August had three falls: got knocked over by a girl by the slide, fell over the seesaw bar, and fell to his knees walking across the bridge at the end. Only the last hurt him, as he scraped his knees on the concrete. While out there he had figured out how to climb over the seesaw bar, worked on climbing up the bars to the structure (but still asked for help to get up), and worked hard climbing up the stairs to the bridge.
Came home and ate dinner. Had a good bath. Went to sleep at 10 after reading Many Nations a few times.
New words/phrases: all gone mama’s French toast, sweep here, want to play baa baa, more down slide, now what do?, now what to do?, flounder, dada whee (when he wants me to swing him by the arms when we walk), nurse (full word)
Hangeulbi Park:
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