A new session of classes started today. He has his 5-TOUCH class again today, and his new class on Thursday.
Carly and I heard him talking about letters in his sleep before we woke up today. Something like “More letters.”
He woke up at 8:14. The first thing he said after ‘mama’ was ‘Endless Reader’, and then ‘iPad’. But I got him distracted by reading Kipper on the bed instead. We had oatmeal and strawberries together for breakfast, then I let him do some Endless Reader/Numbers while I did some cleaning. That didn’t last long, however, as when I got out the vacuum he wanted to help. I’d just planned on doing the living room, but he kept wanting us to vacuum, so we did most of the house.
We read a bunch more Kipper before heading off to his class. We had a little time beforehand, so we went down to the first basement and got a couple things, then went up to class. We saw his teacher out in the hall, and he got really excited about class, saying “Sangsaengnim there. See Jungbin.” And when we first walked in he went exploring around the room and walking up to everyone.
But class turned out to be a bit difficult. He seemed to be getting overwhelmed, and after 10 or 15 minutes he was done. We took a break out in the hall and talked about it. And he agreed there were “too many peoples.” There were 8 other kids in there, and we have been used to starting with 2 or 3 in the room. That first break took place during the wearing-a-penguin-outfit activity. We went back in as they were putting them away, and he happily returned the outfit to the teacher. The next activity involved catching shrimp on a magnetic fishing pole. He started that activity, going right to the center of the action, then was done after a minute. We took another break, but he happily helped clean up all the shrimp at the end, and stood patiently next to her with his fishing pole until she collected it. But then he went to the door again, declaring “all done class.” I held him during the last activity, which was story time, as she showed a book about a penguin (class was all about penguins today). He had also been acting tired, and saying “Sleepy. nap.” So I wasn’t positive he meant/knew what he was saying with “too many people.” But when we ended class with the same song we have every time since last winter, and we bring them close together, he kept saying “too many peoples.”
We went down and got a few groceries, then headed home. At home we ate lunch and were then getting ready for a nap when he spotted the wooden car puzzle my aunt gave him for Christmas last year. It has been up on a shelf, as he would put it in his mouth, and the bright colors would bleed off. He spotted it, and came and grabbed my finger, brought me over, and wanted up. He was admiring it and reading the letters (CAR), then said “hold it.” I got it down and he happily spent the next 15 or 20 minutes playing with it, carrying the pieces back and forth from one room to the other.
We were over 5 hours from waking up, so I tried to get him to sleep. He was agreeable to nap time, and went in on the bed, where he wanted to read Kipper. But then he wouldn’t sleep. I held him for a long time and stood in the room and he just cried. Out in the hall he calmed down (we did some breathing, even) but he was still too distracted by/thinking about letters and numbers. Finally, I put him in the carrier and walked around the 8th floor. He twisted to the side and sat there quietly for a good 20 minutes before finally falling asleep.
He was asleep 2:29 to 3:22 and wasn’t too happy to wake up. After that I tried to take him down to get a flu shot, but they just told me to come back on the 10th for his appointment. Came back to the apartment but we needed to get out, so we got in the backpack and walked up to Madeul Stadium. Walked around, looking at many of the new geographic history displays they have installed (on history of the earth, continental drift, mass extinctions, etc.) Went to the playground and played for about 15 minutes. Not long enough, as he wanted to dig a hole and write more letters. But got him back in the backpack and headed home to Carly.
We got home at 5:40 and she wasn’t there yet. I was prepping him for the possibility she might not be there, and he lasted for a minutes (saying “mama soon”), but once he was out of the backpack he started to lose it, so we put our shoes back on and went out to the elevators where we greeted her coming off a few minutes later.
He was very happy and hyper once she was home. A lot of singing letters and numbers very loudly while playing on the couch. In fact, he’s pretty much ignored every other song except singing ABCs and our number song. I kept trying to get him to sing “Warm Kitty” today, but the only time he did it was when I asked him in front of Carly.
He ate broccoli and tofu and some orange for dinner (but was still talking about chicken soup). Continues to say “becoming big kid” when we change him, because it was the pull up diapers that started that thing.
A very happy and loud bath, followed by all of us playing on the bed and reading Kipper stories. Seemed like he might be ready to fall asleep, but it was only 8:30. Turns out he wasn’t ready to fall asleep, as when he went out to the living room he started playing on the couch: he would slide off the side of the couch over the arm, superman style, and land on the reading area. As he got up he would say “I did it! I did it!” Repeat. About 10 minutes of that and then he grabbed his stool and took it in on the rug, where he then proceeded to climb all over it and stand and take steps off of it. We also spent time writing the alphabet on the whiteboard. He knows ‘in order’, so I taught him mixed up by writing them all over the board. He would request the next set of letter by saying “Lowe case mixed up.”
A little after 9 he made the call that he was ready to nurse again and they headed to bed. He fought sleep a little, but was asleep around 9:15 or so.
New words/phrases: Arnold, don’t you think? (both from Kipper), no touchscreen (referring to the laptop, which doesn’t have one), too many peoples, dalgi for home (taking strawberries out of the stroller from the grocery store), Zinnie sleep soon(?), hold it, flying giraffe (he said it himself as he was paying with Sophie in the bath), mixed up
Class. Not dressing like a penguin and heading towards the door:
Looking at signs in the grocery store:
Wood car:
Falling asleep:
Park. Picking up a ginkgo berry:
Home:
