We got August out of the house twice today. We swapped off so that we could each get some work down. In the morning (10 to noon), Carly took him to the kid play area next door in the pink building. Haven’t been back there since he turned 13 months old. In the afternoon, I took him up to the playground at Madeul Stadium.
Carly heard him say “espanol” in his sleep last night. He didn’t wake up until a little after 8 – well over 11 hours of sleep. Ate breakfast, brushed his teeth, and made letters out of Duplos, then Carly took him next door at 10. There, he spent a lot of his time pretending to cook. He wouldn’t go on the spinning octopus thing we used to put him on all the time. They played with the balls, but he seemed to think he was helping clean them up, saying “help mama.” He wasn’t interested in going on the trampoline part to begin with, but after another girl did he got interested. He would throw a ball off of it, then slide down the ramp part.
They came back a little after noon. We had an hour or so in there where we ate lunch, then played. He wanted to play iPad. I categorized his apps (Letters, Numbers, Videos, Books) to get him thinking about categories. He really got into Loopimals, an app that introducing looping and rhythm in music, and also playing the instruments in GarageBand.
He fell asleep between 1 and 1:30. Carly woke him up close to 3, as we didn’t want him sleeping too late. After he woke up, we all took off for a walk. Carly walked with us along the stream, then turned back to head home. August and I walked around the stadium, then to the exercise equipment. As we walked down the back side of the stadium, he said “cold” and held his left hand forward so I could hold it. Then, when I got him out of the backpack he climbed on the exercise equipment and sat next to me, cuddling and letting me hold his hands. He let me put his hat on and he wore it a few minutes, but after he was moving and warmed up he refused to wear his hat or mittens anymore. We played around the exercise equipment, then looked at the map, then went over to the little ’Sejong Park’ area that has little metal statues of Hangeul characters. He was naming all of them, and there is also (randomly) a triangle. He was first calling it a ‘Hangeul M’, but then I pointed out it only had 3 sides instead of 4 (Hangeul M is a square), so he started calling it ‘triangle M’.
From there we went back to the exercise equipment, then to the playground for a little while, where we drew letters in the sand and I jumped between a woman and August before she could mess with his hood, after he took his hat off and wouldn’t let me put it back on. His hood is pretty useless and falls off after 3 seconds, and he certainly wouldn’t have appreciated a stranger trying to put it on after I had just been annoying him with a hat.
We wrote a little Hangeul, then I said “Let’s head home to mama.” He took off down the path towards home, and I had to go catch him to go back and put him in the backpack.
We headed home, and bought strawberries from our now-usual spot, then stopped and got milk. Carly had ordered pizza and it came soon after we got home. August ate pizza, then Carly cooked zucchini and he ate a bunch of that and a little strawberry.
In the evening we all did plenty of drawing, some music with the drum, some Loopimals, and a whole lot of reading in the reading area and on the bed. Oh, and he was practicing counting by 2s, and now goes from 2 to 16. Carly gave him a bath around 8, then it looked like he might go to sleep. He didn’t, so he was up with me reading and doing the drumming while Carly took a shower and then laid down for a bit. He finally gave in and went to bed about a quarter after 9.
New words/phrases: yeti (in Loopimals), turn around, apps, I here (pointing on the map at the playground), someone else coming (after I answered the door for pizza but it was someone collecting donations – he was very intrigued, and didn’t seem scared, by people coming to the door), 2 to 16 (counting by 2s), manzana
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