August turned 20 months old today. He woke up at 7:44. Kind of the normal wake up for him now, where he hangs out at the door until he calms down, then decides he wants to play.
We had oatmeal and blackberries again for breakfast, and then skyped with my parents for a long time. Started to make some Hawaii plans. August also did plenty of drawing and playing of Endless Reader for them.
We got to class a little early, so sat at the tables outside and drew in his notebook. Jungbean and his mom were there this week, so I talked to her before class, and we picked a class they could take together next session.
Class was about scarecrows and birds. It was kind of a tough class for August. He was hungry at the start, and also playing with his zebra Duplo, which he had brought along. So he just wanted to have the Zebra eat from the Cheerios instead of participating in the first couple songs. He did like the hand clapper toys, but was sad when he had to give them back to the teacher (but he did it anyway). And he liked the parachute activity at the end, but didn’t want to sit on it and be turned.
After class we sat out on the chairs for awhile longer, having more of a snack and watching the kids videos on the screen they have out there. Then we went downstairs where we did our shopping. No use of a carrier, just August walking around, sometimes holding my hand. We got string cheese and he really wanted string cheese. Luckily, I had one in the backpack, so we went and sat at the Lotteria and ate that. And he got a little frustrated at the end, as he saw noodles (hoo-ha) on a shelf and wanted them. I told him we had noodles at home, and we went to pay. As I was putting groceries in the bags, he was standing next to me, and did a couple frustrated yells, but not very loud ones. When I asked what was wrong, he said “more hoo-has, more hoo-has.”
We made it home and took a few awhile to put things away and play. Then got our shoes and coats back on and put him in the stroller and went out to put him to sleep. Happened very quickly, and he slept 2:11 to 3:21. He didn’t look too comfortable in the stroller, so I tried to put him on the bed. He woke up, and ended up falling back to sleep on my shoulder. Luckily, I was able to set him down.
At some point during the day he randomly said “Thank you mama for sailboat.” We weren’t playing with the sailboat at the time.
After he woke up, we walked down to the playground with the play structure that looks like a tree. Got there about 4 and stayed until about 5:15. Almost all of that time was spent writing in the sand, although we did play hide-and-seek around the slide a couple times. He was really into ‘Q’ today, and while he requested all sorts of other things (writing ‘Cassie’ is still his favorite word), he also liked turning everything I drew, particularly hexagons, into Qs, saying “turn Q” as he did so. It was getting colder as the sun went down, so I put his sweatshirt on under his vest. He has gotten used to his socks and shoes and coats now, and rarely fusses about them.
We met Meg and Carly as they came across the bridge and walked home together. A fun evening, as he was in top form. He spent a lot of time in his chair eating dinner, and hid played peek-a-boo, simply hiding behind his hands. Carly started his bath, and I finished. Later, he was climbing between me in the reading area and Carly on the couch, doing yogas (leaning backwards over the arm, or putting his legs up on the arm and lying on his stomach on my leg) as he did so. We also played a lot with balloons (he told me to “blow air in”, and started to pretend to blow up the balloons himself), and he also got out the medicine dispenser and drank water from it, and had fun squirting it on the counter. Finally fell asleep about 10.
He’s really been into right shoe and left shoe, and gets them correct most of the time. He as identifying and requesting “Hangeul M” today, so making slow progress with Korean.
New words/phrases: left shoe, right shoe, scarecrow, hexagon, Hangeul M, squirt, blow air in
Class:
A snack while shopping. He’s giving some to the zebra:
Home:
Playground:
Tasting the bus-ut (mushroom):
Home:
