August woke up at 5:40, which didn’t bode well for staying awake until class. He made it, although he was a little loopy and fragile in class, and stayed up long past that.
In the morning, we played some Endless Numbers (up to 12), made a mango smoothing, played Duplos (August was pushing around a car and making car noises for the first time, and driving the car on me. I was also putting the Duplo girl down the slide and catching her at the bottom. August thought this was funny, and was saying “dada caught her”), did some coloring, made letters and shapes out of play dough, and did some August-led yoga (with August having fun tunneling under my legs).
August was getting sleepy as early as 10, and said as much. He kept lying down on the rug or on the bed. When I gave him the option of class or home, however, he said “Class. Jungbean. Seongsangnem.” We left about 10:40 and made a quick grocery trip first for rice and a couple things.
Shopping went fine. We were quick, got a sagwa free sample, and paid with August out of the carrier the entire time. August started to show his toddler-ness though as I bagged groceries. He wanted a grape. I told him I’d get him some when we got up to his class. He saw me put the grapes in a bag and pick it up. Frustrated, he held his hands out and gave one loud yell.
Class was about colors, using different colored peas in pea pods. It was only August and Jungbean for the first two songs and start of bubbles before two other kids showed up. August had fun, but was most happy playing with the mat. But he did like throwing the peas around, and was really intrigued when the teacher gave us tongs to use to pick up the peas and put them in a tray. He was really working to get the pinching motion down. Example of an activity that just could have been longer, as he was just starting to grasp it (literally) as it ended.
After class he was sleepy, and I thought I’d be able to get him to sleep back at home – sitting up like last week, if need be. It was not to be. More toddler-ness: when I tried to make him lie down or keep him from standing up, he would do more yelling than crying. Eventually, I gave in and we went out in the wind in the carrier. The wind bothered him, making it harder to get him to sleep, but it didn’t take too long. He finally fell asleep at 1:50, basically 8 hours.
He had a nice long nap until 3:27. As slow as some of out movements had been earlier in the day (getting out of the house had been slow, since he was acting tired), what came next was one of our smoothest, fastest trips ever. Despite him very much missing mama when he woke up, he calmed down and we left the house about 3:45. We took the subway, walked to Costco, and explored the toys on the first floor, all with him in my arms or walking.
We then headed downstairs where we got our feta and cheddar cheeses, and free samples of kiwi, colby cheese, and a whole miniature chocolate bread thing (that August loved). We paid, then went and got food at the food court to take home. August saw the people in front of us get a smoothie (pineapple), so we got one as well.
At this point I finally put him in the carrier for the ride home. We headed back, drinking our smoothie, which he loved. On the platform, August was fascinated by a van somewhere overhead that was rattling. He kept looking up and pointing at it, saying “rattly fan”. On the train, August whined at first about standing (but barely), prompting another woman to jump up. I politely declined, then was shocked when she literally grabbed my arm (the one holding on to a handle) and started dragging me to the seat. I loudly said no in English and Korean to her and pulled away. She went back and laughed it off with another woman.
Anyway, we also stopped at Tous les Jours for bread on the way back and still made it back to the house right at 5:30: a full Costco trip in just over an hour and a half, with a toddler who wasn’t in a carrier for most of the time.
August had refused his sweatshirt on the way down (temperature was on the edge – about 60, but sunny and he was in long sleeves, pants, socks – so I didn’t push it), but on the way back we stopped by the family sculpture outside Costco (this is where I put him in the carrier). Noticeably cooler now, and August accepted the sweatshirt without a whimper.
Carly had worked a little later due to a meeting. When I didn’t let August play with the bread, he remembered she wasn’t home. So I said we could go play by the elevators until she got home. We went down (with his blue broom, of course) and played for 15 minutes until she got home just before 6.
She gave him a bath (more poop fun, as he pooped while she had him peeing at the toilet, and she didn’t realize it at first) and we did a lot of Duplo playing and the other usual evening stuff. First attempt to put him to sleep after 8:30 didn’t work. He bounced up for awhile, but was asleep a little after 9.
New words/phrases: frozen mango, help again, xylophone, shapes, squares (pointing to squares on drawer handles), come on Zinnie Dada class, sleepy time, night night area, I got my librarian, fan up there, “for the mama” (from Baa Baa Black Sheep)
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Costco trip:
Waiting for mama by the elevators:
Evening:
