I had my book group meeting in the morning – 8:30 now since the US did that fall back thing. Lasted until about 10. During that time August slept pretty late and Carly skyped with her parents in Mexico.
After that, we started getting ready to head downtown to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. We took the #9 bus and then the subway. August sat on Carly’s lap on the subway and they did Endless Spanish and some of the other apps together.
It was raining all day today. Pretty light when we got down there, but enough already for everything to be nice and wet. Near the subway exit, there was a piece of plexiglas that was covered with water. August was very intrigued by this. He wanted me to touch it first, then he got into playing with it, brushing water on the ground and attacking me and Carly and wiping water on our pants. He could have stayed there for a long time, but we wanted to keep moving.
So we kept walking to the museum. He saw the sandy dirt behind the museum and wanted to write letters. Made it inside and went straight to the nursing room, as it was time for his nap. He fell asleep on Carly. I read for awhile, then went and started on the museum. Carly texted me when he woke up. I got back and we fed him lunch. Then to the museum.
Only 3 galleries had exhibits. The first was just black and white ink painting. August started a trend of wanting to sit/lie on the ground, but wanting us to come down with him. When we wouldn’t, he would get upset. It was probably the roughest museum exhibit we’ve had. The second exhibit, work by Ahn Kyuchul, went better. He liked the gold fish in the circular aquariums, and going up and down the stairs to the scribe observatory. There was also a piece called ’64 Rooms’, which is little square rooms surrounded by dark blue velvet curtains. We went in and sat on the floor with him for several minutes. Very much like his fort at home, only darker. He would keep peeking out at the people outside. We stayed in there for several minutes.
The third gallery had a show called ‘New Romance’, with works by Korean and Australian artists inspired by Gibson’s book ‘Neuromancer’. A lot of weird/disturbing stuff. Carly and I really liked it. August lasted for a little while, and I think he would have liked a few things downstairs, but he kept wanting to sit on the busy floor. When I tried to stay with him so Carly could go see art, he would get really upset.
So that was about it. We grabbed a sandwich and bread thing at the coffee place by the food court, then went back to the nursing room so he could nurse one more time and get ready to go. It was raining harder when we got outside, so stopped and put the rain cover on August and the backpack, and I wore my hat and raincoat. Our first full deployment of the rain system.
Stopped at Daiso by the subway station. Got August some stickers and a few other things.
Felt like it took a long time to take home. Had to switch trains on line 1 as one didn’t go all the way through. This was August’s best part of the trip, as he took it all in stride.
When we got home, Carly went next door to get some groceries and food from the pho place. August and I went up. He was fine for a couple minutes. He walked straight into the back room in the dark and turned on the lamp. But then he realized mama was gone and got upset.
Carly made him zucchini for dinner and he shared my pork and chicken fried rice. He took a good bath. He seemed to really know the routine: he needed to have his diaper changed around 7:30, so he wanted that done. I then suggested he take a bath. He then said something about “grampa’s shirt on”, knowing we’d put his pajamas on after the bath, etc.
He was up until 9:30 or so. A lot of playing with the bricks (walking a path of them) and Duplos (we built a zoo together, complete with a class of kids on a field trip, just like we always see at the zoo). Also a lot of reading Kipper stories and drawing in the notebook and on the big paper.
New words/phrases: left and right (although he doesn’t necessarily know the difference – when I am putting on his shoes he will guess “left shoe” or “right shoe”), more Spanish (Carly is teaching him body parts), piano, warthog, camera van, twelve, hedgehog, seems like there were plenty of new phrases during the day, but didn’t get them down
MMCA:
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