August woke up at 4 something. Carly got up with him- I didn’t notice a thing. They skyped with Chuck and Cherie. August was typing messages to them. He now knows to hit ‘return’ to send his random letters. He also knows how to push the power button to put her computer to sleep. He did it twice while they were skyping.
He then fell back to sleep as I was getting up around 7. When he woke up an hour later we had a usual morning, then headed to Costco. When we got to the subway station at the other end, he was walking. He started counting the steps as he went up. After 7 his counting started to be slower than his steps, so I helped him count the rest. He would then start counting on each flight of stairs.
At one point he walked in front of a woman, and he heard me say ‘sorry’ to her. The rest of the time we walked through the station he kept kind of waving to people and saying “sorry”.
At Costco we first went to the toys. Carly and I wee looking at books when we realized he was looking at something and saying “for Zinnie”. And so it begins. We did get a box of hangeul cards to match our English and Spanish ones, then headed downstairs.
Downstairs was crowded. Maybe because it was Friday. Around the usual time that August and I go to Costco, but I’ve never seen it that busy. I was carrying August round, but he was getting frustrated and kept wanting down among the carts. But when I offered to put him in the carrier, he eagerly accepted, and was happy with that arrangement for the rest of our time there.
We did our shopping and got a few samples, of course. Carly paid, while August and I went and got food. We found a table and ate – August ate all the olives off my pizza.
On the way there, we were forcing August to wear his hood when we were outside. And he was not happy about it. But on the way home he tolerated it, wearing it to the subway station, and then from the subway to home. That is a happy development.
Also, as we left Costco he found a little paper cup. It became his favorite toy for awhile, until the subway, and was even singing a song about it as we walked to the subway.
It was fun to have him in the carrier again. Haven’t used it at all in a few weeks. He held my fingers, and I got him to flap his arms and make bird noises. And he did the ‘rocky, rocky, rocky, like a chimpanzee’ thing as we got close to home.
He took a long after noon nap (probably too long). After that, Carly was letting him type in Word. I showed him how to use the caps lock.
At 6, Megan and Torrey came over. We had planned to order pizza, but they surprised us with homemade chicken soup and chocolate pudding. Delicious chicken soup and chocolate pudding. They were here until 8:30. August loved it, especially when Megan let him eat big bites of her pudding.
August started looking and acting tired around 9:30 or 10. One sign is when he stops paying attention when I sing to him, instead continuing his own talking or singing. But he didn’t fall asleep until close to 11:30. We read a lot of Kipper. Finally, we turned off the lights and forced him on the bed. A lot of crying, but 5 minutes later was asleep.
He was also really into his alphabet books today. He got a Sandra Boynton book out, and noticed that it showed a book on the back with ‘A Z’ on the cover. I told him we actually had that book and we got it out. He had never shown much interest in that book before. I got the rest of the alphabet books out so he could find them more easily.
New words/phrases: mama back, nurse on train, next stop, for Zinnie, type a…, castle, sunflower
Costco:
Home:
With Megan and Torrey:
