Woke up a little after 8. Did his usual tired/upset that mama is gone routine, but very quickly. Made eggs and broccoli and toast for breakfast. Ate it all, then he wanted more, so made one more egg and piece of toast.
Didn’t leave the house until close to 11, getting to Ttukseum Park before 11:30. On the way to the subway he was talking a lot about letter and numbers, and drawing on my sweatshirt and back of my neck. He would do this several times through the day.
Spent 15 minutes or so playing on a low play structure area that had things that turned and moved. August liked making me move things. From there, we went over to the sand area and spent most of our time writing in the sand. About 12:30 he started getting very cuddly, first lying next to me on the bench and writing in the sand below us, then just resting next to me.
About 1 I got ready to change him. At this point, he suddenly took an interest in the play structure, and ran off and started climbing a ladder. He made it up to the top, then wanted me up there with him.
Around 1:30 we had him changed and packed up, and we took off walking. As we walked, he was chanting “S H, shhhhh.” We walked down along the river and he fell asleep, 1:52 to 2:38. I got a coffee in the J-shaped building and went up to the 3rd floor for his nap. A woman that came to work the information desk up there was very concerned that he was sleeping in the backpack. She wanted me to take him down on the cushions in the library (you could see it over the railing). Using Google Translate I told her he’d wake up if I took him out, and he sleeps like this all the time. She wasn’t convinced. Finally, I just had to go back to typing and she gave it up.
When he woke up we went and saw the crayfish in the tank. Actually saw one quite well today. Then looked at the beetles and fish and crab before leaving.
We first went downstairs, where I gave him the option of outside or the library. He chose the library. We were looking at books in there and found an I Spy book. There was a toy shovel in it, so he wanted his shovel. So we got his shovel, but it was really dirty, so we took it to the bathroom and washed it off.
Coming back, we saw the woman and two kids that had been with us in the children’s area by the elevators. We walked back in the library to find a phone sitting in the children’s area. I tried to run back to the elevators but it had gone. Went back and got August, and we ran down to the first floor to look for them. No luck. So we went back up, packed up, left the phone behind, and went down to the ground level and looked around outside. Even went to the playground. Still no luck. Finally gave up. It was a little after 4, so we headed home.
Before we left, we were looking at the signs about the font of Seoul. They have big pictures of the Hangeul characters. He was starting to identify more of them, like ‘h’. Earlier, when playing in the sand, he requested “Hangeul Q”. I told them there was no such thing, and he started saying, in a sad voice “No Hangeul Q.”
We got home a little before 5. While in the apartment, August said “Thank you mama.” I said “Thank you for what?” He said “Thank you for sailboat.” Then he went on to say “Thank you for toothpaste” and “Thank you for Duplos.”
Didn’t eat much for dinner. A lot of playing with balloons and a little play dough. And a lot of nursing in the evening. Bath went well. Before his bath, he peed in the normal toilet, then realized he needed to pee more. He figured out how to kneel on his own toilet so that the pee would go in the container. Afterwards, he said “I did it!” He then wanted to keep going on his toilet again and again.
He fell asleep a few minutes after 8.
He was all about the possessive pronouns today, and learning that other people have mamas. First, at the playground he was pointing to a big kid, and then a woman sitting across from us. I said “That is probably her mama.” So then he was saying “her mama” and pointing a lot. Later, when we were trying to return the cell phone, I said it belonged to the boy’s mama. August then kept calling the phone “his mama’s”, also getting the second possessive correct.
New words/phrases: leaves falling, motorbikes over there, stylus, her mama, Dapper Dan (monster in Endless games), kids books, his mama’s, are you serious? (I said this out loud when looking at the map of the subway station and realizing the only bathrooms were way on the other end of the station, and up and down stairs. He kept repeating it.)
Park:
Climbing:
Not a bad place to fall asleep:
After his nap:
Library:
