Up at 7:08, just a few minutes after Carly left. He didn’t want me to touch him, and spent about 8 minutes crying at the door. If I tried to touch or comfort him, he would pull me back to the little step and make me sit. He would then go back to the door and hang on the handle some more. He would then come to me and push my shoulder, as if he wanted me to leave.
Eventually, he calmed down and went to the parlor and spent several minutes looking at his cards (“little X, big X…”).
After that, we did some drawing, Endless Reader, made oatmeal for breakfast, brushed his teeth really well while he watched his class video (he seemed to get the turtle and bunny story a bit more, saying “turtle slooow”).
I let him play Endless Reader while I got snacks together. Or at least that was the plan: he kept coming and getting me and pulling me by the finger to come and sit with him.
Finally, we got things together and headed out exactly at 10.
He yelled once (although not too loud, and no crying, but enough to draw attention) and was trying to squirm out of the straps, which was causing no small amount of muttering and concern from those around us, although concern that he was stuck or concern that he would get unstuck I couldn’t tell, so we got off one stop early and walked. He chose to go to the playground, no deer, and then chose the playground with sand.
We played in the sand, writing words, shapes, etc. He mainly requests ‘Cassie’ and ‘coffee’, and can identify ‘art’ pretty well. We also dig a hole, which he liked standing in, and enjoyed filling when we were done.
We went in and changed him. Stopped by the stuffed animals to say, but he was tired and wanted in the backpack. Walked the corner of the park near the playgrounds to put him to sleep. A nice walk down small paths with the leaves changing. He slept in Dream Cafe from 12:31 to 1:28, and when he woke up he pointed to the kid/books area and said “book cafe over there.”
In the book cafe we did some coloring and played Endless Spanish and Montessorium Math – both new. When we were done with those, there was an older boy that was playing with him. August was both captivated and scared, especially since the boy was acting like a tiger at times. A few times August said “hi big kid.”
We left the park and walked towards APIS. To this point it had been pretty warm – August had just been in long sleeves and jeans, I was in short sleeves and jeans. But it was getting cloudier and windy. We stopped at a park we had seen before. August kept asking for his ball, so I thought he was going to throw it or kick it. But when I gave it to him, he just used it for drawing letters. In particular, we focused on drawing C, turning it into an O, and then into a Q, and also turning Cs into banana moons. I even went on the swings, and he came over and giggled like crazy when I made him swing with me, but then he was “all done” and wanted to go back to the sand. We dug a hole, and then I did get him up on the play structure for awhile. He really liked a kaleidoscope attached to the railing.
We continued on and met Carly and Megan near school and walked home. He finds he every entertaining. We avoided the rain that was supposed to hit at any time.
He played more with the alphabet cards. He fully knows both the capital and lower case letters now, and 18 of the 26 words on one side of the cards. At the park today I told him we could keep doing letters, but were going to do more words from now one.
We ordered pizza for dinner for the first time, eating some stir fry to hold us over. We also played with the bricks, making a circular path for him to walk on. Just finishing up his bath now.
New words/phrases: thank you mama for sailboat, sand feel better, more digging, I feel better, cheek rub, someone (favorite word nowadays), hi big kid, most of “warm kitty” song, chin, toe-gee and gu-buh-ge (rabbit and turtle), song, comfy
Waking up:
Dream Forest:
He was going to say ‘sailboat’, but got distracted by an N:
Inside:
Gangbuk Park:
Home:
