He was up before 6 again. So we had a lot of play time in the morning. The first order of business was taking more of his animals in the fort and playing with them. We then Skyped with Cassie, Colin, and Vivi. Or, more correctly, Vivi and August skyped, as they did most of the interacting. August was completely focused on Vivi for the first 20 minutes or so, just lying on the floor, watching her. After that he got more animated and would move around. Vivian was using her dinosaur cup, so I got August’s, and he used it for the rest of the day.
That lasted for just shy of an hour. Then we made eggs for breakfast. I needed to hang up laundry, and he kept trying to grab my hand and take me to the fort. Instead of getting really upset, he told himself “patience grasshopper”. He has done this a few times now, including this morning when he was waiting for me to slice the cheese.
He then wanted to draw, and I remembered I’d received a cheap stylus when we ordered the iPad case. So I got that, and we drew on the iPad (while sitting in the fort, of course) for probably 30+ minutes. He loved that.
While changing him, he requested “Pizza Hut, gooey”, which is a song we hadn’t sung for some time.
Also, he has started ‘flying’. I’ve kind of caught this in a few videos where he runs around with his arms stretched back. A couple days ago, he said “flying” while doing it. Carly also told me he was doing it last night. He did more today. This would be an imagination thing, as I don’t remember calling it that myself before he did.
Finally, I was amused when he tried to pull out my chair and instead knocked it over. He said “Uh-oh dada’s chair”.
So then we went to Home Plus. We did all of our shopping with August walking, not holding my hand. I figured out a trick: walk fast enough that he doesn’t have time to stop and get distracted.
Then to class. Only us at first. No Jungbean, and as class was starting, August started saying “more Jungbean, more Jungbean”. I told him Jungbean was probably sleeping, so later, after class, August was saying “Jungbean sleeping”. Class was about the wind and sun. The main activity was using big fans (the kind you wave) to blow around scarves. August loved this, although mainly pushed his around. But he was really excited when she had us put all the scarves in the center and all fan them at the same time – it causes all of the scarves to jump into the air and swirl around.
He was asleep by the time I got home, but woke as I tried to set him down. He was instantly up, first upset, then wanting to playing in the fort. So we ate lunch (a salmon sandwich), then I tried again by putting him in the stroller and walking up past the women’s center and back. He was very quiet, and I thought falling asleep, but as we neared Brownstone again, he was suddenly hyper, pointing to birds. So we went home and gave up on a nap.
He wanted to draw more on the iPad so we did that, then wanted to do the Montessorium Letters app, where you trace letters. Up to this point, he has only done the tapping on the letters part himself (and even this is relatively new, as they say “tap ‘sss’” and you’re supposed to tap the correct letter – he would ignore the instruction and just tap all the letters until getting the correct one). For the tracing of the letters he would grab my finger and have me do it. Today, that changed. Not that he was good at it, but he decided to start trying it himself, using the stylus.
Finally, we went back out in the backpack, headed north to Daiso and to the stationary store. He fell asleep as we approached the stream. So we sat in the park by the hospital. During his nap, a guy from Kwangwoon University interviewed me for a class project.
August was asleep 3:08 to 4:15. When he woke up I put the backpack back on and we went to Daiso and did our shopping: new little brooms and a notebook and crayons (so I thought – turned out to be pencils) for the backpack for art on the go.
August was fine, then got upset as I tried to pay. Thought he wanted a broom, but that didn’t help, then I thought he wanted out, but that didn’t help. Finally, I let him take his coat off, and he calmed down. He was actually too warm this time.
We went to the stationary store to get its exact location for Caroline. Then ran into Mr. Ann from APIS and found out he is moving back to Seattle, retired.
We walked home and waited for Carly and Megan by Tom and Tom Coffee. August was reading off all the letters and then I read off the letters of the sign. August immediately said ‘coffee’. It may have been a coincidence, as he then looked in the window and pointed at the people and their coffee. But a few minutes later, when I asked him what ‘coffee’ spells in front of Carly, he said ‘coffee’.
We came home and he played a lot with the tongs which we had also bought at Daiso. He ate chicken soup for dinner, then Carly gave him a bath. He wasn’t really into it today. He stayed up a bit longer, but went to sleep around 8:30.
Oh, a mystery solved. It had sounded like he had also been calling the fort a ‘cabin’. He would say ‘more cabin’ while pointing to it. Finally, I figured out he was saying ‘clapping’, as he likes to just sit under the sheet or blanket and clap. The clapping started with the Endless games, copying the clapping on them, but he now just does it without.
New words/phrases: salmon sandoo, triangle, square, rectangle, cabin, puzzle, duyu (may have listed before), sunshine, right there, on changing pad, tongs, broth
Skyping with Vivi:
Rest of the morning:
Home Plus and class:
Not sleeping:
Walk to Nowon and back:
Starbucks letters:
Using his new broom while we wait for a light:
Evening: