August was up nice and early. He and Carly group skyped with Vivi and Chuck and Cherie, then at 8:30 I had my book group meeting via Skype, discussing Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. One of the few books we all really liked. That lasted until about 10:30, then I popped downstairs to get my hair cut. While I was gone, August had been helping Carly build towers out of the cardboard bricks, counting the bricks as he handed them to her. They also set them up as dominoes.
After his nap, we all went for a walk. He rode in the backpack. We walked up the stream, stopping at the women’s business center to get a coffee. Continued on to Madeul Park, saying hi to the horse statues and looking at some of the exhibits. Walked over to the exercise equipment and took him out there. Spent quite awhile climbing on the exercise equipment, then went over to the playground. Did some writing in the sand and dirt, and went up on the play structure and walked across the shaky bridge. Carly was on a swing, and August wanted on the other one. I was getting him to hold on while I pushed him for awhile. Before we left Carly went to the bathroom. While we waited for her, he climbed on the exercise equipment some more and just sat on top for several minutes, watching soccer.
We walked home along the other side of the stream, checking out progress on the apartment complex that is close to done. We all went to the pink building and ordered from the Vietnamese place. I headed home with August. One of the Spanish books she bought is called ‘100 Palabras’. Until now, August always points at it and says “numbers” because of the ‘100’ on the cover. But today when we got home, he saw it and started saying “palabras, words” on his own.
Carly did some shopping and picked up the food and brought it home and we all ate. She then headed over to Home Plus for more grocery shopping (and to get August’s present). After she got home, we gave him a bath and I left about 8 to go meet up with Derek. I walked across the river to meet him, making the first real use of the wireless headphones I had backed on Kickstarter a couple years ago and just got a couple days ago. Very nice to not have cords.
We hopped the bus and took it most of the way to Hyehwa, getting off a few stops early to go to the bank. We then walked to Hyehwa, stopping to get chicken on a stick along the way. In Hyehwa we found the restaurant he wanted to review, but they were full. So we went instead to his favorite Korean barbecue place, where we ate way too much food. We stopped at the 1999 place for awhile, then I took off so as to make it home not too insanely late after midnight (and so I could take a bus home instead of having to take a taxi).
August had been heading to bed when I left, and fell asleep about 8:15. While I was gone, Carly made the very yummy peanut pasta recipe she got from Cherie.
New words/phrases: mama dada says that, marshy in the bed, dinosaur oh my goodness, jam, Yoshi, Tuttle, palabras
Playing with his horse (neigh neigh):
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