Oh what a day. August woke up at 3:15 or thereabouts. Carly got up with him, then I got up a little after 4 and let her go to sleep. August went back to sleep somewhere around 5:30. Then he woke back up for good at 6:50. In between, he woke up a couple of times, once crawling over to me, and once opening the door. You would think something was wrong, but besides the weird sleeping, he acting completely normal and, in fact, was pretty amazing in class.
His #1 activity now is pushing the plastic letters into the play dough. We did this when he was up at 4am. We did this when he woke up at 6:50. We did this after his nap. We did this in the evening. I also let him play the iPad in the morning while I drank coffee and tea and woke up.
We did take some time out from all that to play with the Duplos. He had the animals eating from the bricks again, and he chose what each piece was: yellow was mango, other yellow was banana, light green was green soup, dark green was green apple, red was red apple, and blue was “blue wawa.” I’m not even sure where he got the idea that water is represented with blue. I’ve only ever drawn boat pictures in the sand.
It looked like he might sleep around 8:30, but he didn’t. He made it to 10:30 and so we packed up and headed to class. And he was amazing in class. He bowed on his own for the first time, both at the beginning and end of class. And he danced a lot to the songs. Class today was about circles, and snails eating foods and pooping the same color (Korea for you). She was teaching them to make circles in the air and saying “bing-gul” (round and round), and August then demonstrated and said “bing-gul” loudly. And while she was showing the class the snails, August entertained everyone by spinning in circles and getting dizzy.
At the end of class, I found out we can retake the class, and the books and activities will be different, and that Jungbean might do that. So, August will be taking a Tuesday and Friday class next term.
After class, we went home, put August in the stroller, and went for a quick walk to put him to sleep. Took him back, and reclined him in the stroller. He only slept from 12:34 to 1:11 before waking. I held him and he cried for close to 10 minutes and fell back to sleep. He then napped on me until 2:40. I dozed a little and got some reading and emailing done.
After he woke up, we went for a walk as the weather was so nice. We walked up some back streets and then the stream (I pointed out some of the art, then August would point to the next piece and call “More art!”) to the Sanggye Station area, and tried to go to the Nowon Children’s Library. Turns out it is closed on Tuesday. But we played in the playground instead, writing in the dirt and playing in the leaves. We then walked home, and just happened to get to the elevators at the same time as Carly.
More play dough and letters in the evening, and he had a lot of fun in the bath with Carly. We read Kipper stories on the bed. He really likes the balloons in the story about his birthday, so we read that one multiple times. Fell asleep sometime after 8. Hard to tell exactly, as Carly fell asleep as well.
New words/phrases: piggies says trough, wet hand, chusoyo, make a ‘b’ in uh bathroom, 7 in a circle, 7 zero (actually a no left turn sign), heavy backpack (as we were walking), pagoda, badger, badger hole, slipper (from Kipper stories)
4am:
Morning #2:
Class:
An intro to Tia’s favorite kind of gymnastics:
I was helping with the stacking, but he’s gotten better:
Right before going out in the stroller and falling asleep:
Asleep:
Our walk to Sanggye and back:
Headed home:
Home:
