He woke up at 8:10 and opened the door and came out, going pretty much directly for his two brooms. We made a smoothie for breakfast. We left the house a little before 11, taking a subway two stops south to Taerung, then a bus east to the area of the old Hwarangdae train station area. We then:
– Tried to walk into the Korea Military Academy to go to the Army Museum. The guard we talked to didn’t speak Korean, but we got that it is only open certain days.
– Found a wood carving workshop area at the old train station. We got to see a lot of carvings they had out (August liked the fish and turtle). They also have an indoor wooden playground, but it too was not open today.
– Walked into Seoul Women’s University. We sat next to a fountain and ate lunch (he again took Dada’s sandoo when we divided the sandwich), then played in the sand and dirt and rocks in two different spots. He is still into “Dada do C” and every other letter.
– Sat in Solbat Community Park while August took a 70+ minute nap from 1:42 to close to 3.
– Played in the nearby Chengsol Children’s Park. A lot more letter drawing, but we also climbed over the play structure and went down a slide together. He then went down a slide on his own. As we left, we found a nearby play structure in the apartment complex that was pretty cool, so we climbed on it for a few minutes and August picked out the animals on the side.
– Walked north to Songlim (Pine Tree?) Children’s Park and played with the biiig rocks, mainly stacking them on a bigger rock for a few minutes.
– Stopped at the SeoulTech Art Museum as we walked home. This is where we went with my parents to the Arttoys exhibit. We still have the program from that exhibit and he looks at it a lot (BB is his favorite figure in it). Anyway, we didn’t stay long (and it is small), but August’s favorite was a collection of objects that look like eggs.
– Walked home, arriving just after Carly.
I then went to my writing group meeting. When I got home a couple minutes after 8:30 I was surprised to find Carly putting August to sleep – his earliest evening in quite awhile. While I was gone they’d played Duplos and made a pretty impressive structure in the middle of the rug. When August is working on his Duplos like that he is very focused for a surprisingly long time, finds it funny when the fall over, saying things like “uh-oh, spaghetti-Os”.
New words/phrases: net, goose, house, want to go outside, soy milk, duyu (korean for soy milk), more eggS, dada find big rock
Seoul Women’s University:
Pine cone:
Bark:
Children’s park after his nap:
Second children’s park:
Carly and August’s creation:
