Today we went up to Sanggye to go back to the children’s library which was closed last Tuesday. Before that, we had to get his sleep straightened out for the day. He woke up at 5:30, less than 7 hours after going to sleep. Seemed pretty tired several times in the morning, but did fall asleep. We ate oatmeal and strawberries for breakfast and did a lot of writing on the whiteboard.
He finally got really tired a little after nine and just let me hold him as he fell asleep – first time that has happened in quite awhile. Managed to set him (he stirred and said a couple things, but went back to sleep) and he slept from 9:24 to 10:48. When he woke up he wasn’t ready to and kept saying “sleep” and “more sleep”. After holding him for 15 minutes or so he finally woke up.
He ate a big lunch of thawed mango, fresh strawberries, banana chips, and grilled cheese (his first grilled cheese, as far as I know). We were ready to leave, but he wanted to read Kipper, so we spent a long time reading the Kipper book. He requested two stories by name: “Kipper Birthday” and “Kipper’s Toybox.”
So we finally left around 12:30. Walked up the stream to Sanggye and the children’s library. Went in and looked around. He played around the sitting area in the infant’s reading room for awhile, then we went out into the lounge to play with stickers and color since he was a bit to wound up for reading. We then went out to the playground, playing a little with it, but mainly writing letters and words in the dirt. He was getting hungry, so we sat on the bench and had a snack: banana chips, string cheese, and some strawberries.
We then went back into the library and got some books. Read a dull Eric Carle book, The Bee and the Robber, the Mo Williems book The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, and a really nice illustrated version of Puff the Magic Dragon. August really liked the last one and had me read it three times.
From there we changed him and headed out. They didn’t have a changing table in the library bathrooms, so I changed him standing up, as we have pull-up diapers now. The first time doing so, and it felt like a very big kid thing to do. I said something to him, and he repeated “becoming big kid.” He liked that idea, and was repeating it in the evening as well. I didn’t expect him to take another nap, but suddenly he fell asleep at 4:10. Could have stopped at a coffeeshop, but wanted to get home and didn’t want to encourage a long nap. Walked to Daiso in Nowon and bought a case to hold the whiteboard markers and eraser. August woke up at 4:46 as I was in line to pay.
On our way back I gave August the option of taking the bus or walking home. He chose ‘bus’ several times. So we went and caught the bus and headed home, getting home a few minutes after Carly.
He played and nursed a lot with Carly. With me we played a little more Duplo guy driving the car and wrote on the whiteboard. Gave him some iPad time. He pretty much has Endless Alphabet completely figured out. All that is left for him is understanding the words themselves. And he now knows all the Korean consonants. Just need to work on the vowels and how they form syllables. That’s the trickiest part.
Didn’t know how the second nap would affect his sleeping, but he fell asleep a little before 9:30, so not too bad. Bath and everything went smoothly. Only difficulty was that he was addicted to Fox in Socks on the iPad before leaving to go to bed, so wasn’t happy with having to part ways with it.
New words/phrases: erase, erasing, my lid, Mick Inkpen, Kipper birthday, Kipper’s Toybox, hear music, someone else’s, home right there, cups, what that say?, alley cat, witch
Listening to me read in the morning:
He’s really aware of the outside world now. Says “hear something” and looks outside all the time. Here he is trying to locate a saw noise:
Asleep on my shoulder:
First time in library:
Infant room:
Stickers in the lobby:
Outside:
Feeding me:
Puff the Magic Dragon:
Home:
