Two outings today with August today. One to the pink building and then into the park for the Halloween carnival thing. That was before his nap. After, we walked over to Lotte Mart and Toys R Us and played in a park.
He was awake at 8ish. In the morning we skyped with my parents. During it, August got the blanket we use for ‘ickys’ and dragged it into the other room. He then was pulling it up on the low table we just brought in, and saying “waterfall”. He started this a bit yesterday, calling the blanket a “mul area” (water area) and pretending it is a waterfall when it drapes off something. Not sure how this idea came to him. Pretty cool though.
Before his nap, we went over to the pink building for grocery shopping. August wanted to touch everything, so he and I went over to the park and started looking around the festival there. Supposedly a comics festival (it was in the name), but didn’t see anything related to comics. Anyway, Carly showed up a few minutes later.
Just then, the two sisters who have played with us a couple times in the park and said hi a couple times, walked up, this time with their parents. So we met them. Their stepdad, Patrick, is from New York. I talked to him for awhile while the girls played with August, and Carly talked to his wife, Jiyun. We then looked around a bit more. A lot of interesting stuff, and a lot of random costumes – a lot of it was definitely inspired by cosplay/manga. And there were a lot of guys in military costumes.
We went home and August took his nap. In the afternoon, we put him in the backpack and headed out. We went to LotteMart and bought boots for him using the gift certificate Carly had. We also looked in the pet store a little bit. We then went just north to the park (the one where my parents and I ate our Quiznos sandwiches). The play structure there is small, but there was good sand for letter writing. He was also really into So we did some of that. I’d say plenty, but August definitely wanted more. The sun was going down and it was windy, so we walked home along the stream. But August kept pointing at the dirt along the trail and saying “more letters”.
It was feeling really cold, so we put socks on his hands and put on his hat. He wasn’t too happy about this, but he found being called ‘sock hands’ funny. He tolerated them all for a few minutes before pulling off the hat and socks.
For dinner, I was dipping bread in the green soup. August really liked this, and said perhaps his longest phrase yet, “more bread and yummy green soup.”
While Carly took a shower, August requested a mandarin orange. But then he didn’t want to eat it. Instead, he fed it to me, and inspected my mouth as I chewed each piece. He took a long shower, playing a lot. He also pretended to write letters in the water on the glass. We spent a lot of time stacking the stacking cups and knocking them down.
He then helped me make the bed. He liked pushing the edges of the sheets over the edges of the mattress. So after putting on the fitted sheet, he kept saying “more helping”. So we put on the top sheet and a blanket.
New words/phrases: more looking (looking at art in bedroom), dada mountain, dada sweep on bed, pumpkin, tattoo, more bread and yummy green soup (that’s a long phrase)
With Mikaela and Claudia:
Halloween festival:
Park:
Headed home:
Home:
Peeking out at mama:
Bath:
