I think I forgot to mention yesterday a moment when we were reading his Baby’s Busy World book and he saw a photo of a baby with a watering can. He pointed and said “Oma and Opa’s”, remembering the watering can at their house.
Anyway, today we made trips to Home Plus and eMart to get a lot of errands and shopping done.
In the morning, after he had slept almost 12 hours and woke up close to 8:30, Carly opened the set of beach toys that we bought on sale a few weeks ago. August was very excited, and he loves the rake and shovel. He said “Thank you mama” and “Thank you mama, dada” several times during the day.
Also in the morning, he wanted to set up the fort. I told him to go get mama’s blanket, and he walked into the bedroom and got it. I heard him saying “No, no, no…yes, yes”, as he got the blanket, presumably talking about whether he could find it, or whether he could pull it out of the room.
And when I was trying to eat breakfast, he wouldn’t let me eat. We had been reading Snoozers and Fox in Socks, and he kept wanting to read them again and again.
Finally, around noon we headed to Home Plus, with August in the stroller. We got more pillows for the reading area along with groceries, socks, etc. August took both his new rake and shovel with him, and carried them the entire time. We were in the store quite awhile, but he stayed pretty content in the stroller.
We went home, and he continued to play with his rake and shovel. I got his wooden blocks out and we used the rake and shovel to scoop them up and put them in the bucket. We did this several times during the day.
His imaginative play seems to be developing. After playing more with his stuffed animals lately, today, he folded up the corner of the rug, then started lining all the animals up along it to have them eat. He then moved a bunch of them up on the blocks, where he also said they were eating. In the evening, he did something similar with Carly, using the wooden blocks as food. August chose what most of the blocks were: green being yummy green soup.
He took a 45ish minute nap. And in the late afternoon, we put him back in the stroller, put a blanket we wanted cleaned underneath, and walked to Home Plus. There, we dropped off the blanket and did some shopping for things we can’t find at Home Plus. Got a pair of pants for August, and a pair of snow pants. The clothing section is right next to the computers, and there was a sign saying ‘Windows’. While in the stroller, August said “Letters over there” and I said, “Yes. They spell Windows.” Several minutes later (maybe 10), I had let him out and he was walking around. He stunned Carly when he walked up to the letters, said, “S W I D N…windows!” Really looked like he was reading it. Still, impressive that he had remembered what I had said just once several minutes earlier.
After paying, we sat at a table by the doors and he ate his broccoli and tofu. We then walked towards home, and walked over to McDonalds to pick up some dinner. While waiting for food, I walked around the stroller and said “Hi, August”. I swear he said “Hi, Ryan” back to me.
We came home, and had a busy evening. As in August not going to sleep until 11. Finally, Carly went to bed, and I was up with him the last 45 minutes or so. We played with his blocks, then spent the last chunk of time reading books in the fort. When we were done, we had a stack of 12 books we had read – many of them several times.
Oh, and I got a few Dr. Seuss books on the iPad today, as I wanted to read all of Hop on Pop and Fox in Socks. He really likes One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and immediately started trying to recite it. He also got to show Carly the Hanguel app today, and doing some of the puzzles to make Korean sentences.
New words/phrases: Fox in Sox, chicks, Snoozers, blanket, plus, horsey, they’re eating, French fries, rake, raking, onions, green tea, farm animal, Kipper, Sock Thing, Big Owl
Home Plus:
Home:
Shirt we saw on the way to eMart. That is an ‘L’ at the end. Eerily, we found ourselves following the exact same mother/daughter on the way home, in the exact same spot:
eMart:
Home:
