He was up around 6:30 again, I believe. Skyped with Cherie in the morning. When I got up I made oatmeal and strawberries and we shared that for breakfast. I made a Q out of Duplo fence pieces for him at one point and he really liked that, and had to stand in it.
A little before 11 we headed to his class, with Carly. That is always a treat. It was pretty much the same Christmas class as last year – they put on antlers and red capes (well, August didn’t do the cape at all) and got to ride in ‘sleighs’ made out of plastic bins that we pulled around. Then they hung decorations on felt trees she had hung on the wall. She gave each student a pair of Pororo socks, and of course we did stickers at the end. At the beginning of class, with Carly there, Jihong’s mom was asking him where his mama was, knowing that he says “Mama home, no… mama work.” He landed on “Mama in closet” and kept saying that. Also, at one point when he was walking around he pointed to another kid who had zebras on his shirt and said “zebra!” And when he got the antlers we were surprised to hear him say “A for antlers”, as that isn’t a line in a song or anything.
After class we went down and shopped at Home Plus. He walked around much of the time, often carrying the basket. It was the first time Carly has really experienced that.
Went home, had lunch, he took a long nap, and Carly woke him up about 3. We went for a walk with him in the backpack in the afternoon, heading south to the park with the playground shaped like a tree. Did a lot of writing in the sand there – in fact, that was one of the first playgrounds where that was a really big thing. He also did a lot of climbing, with help, on the climbing hill thing. He liked sweeping of the caterpillar thing, then when he saw a girl sitting on it he wanted to sit on it too. Turned out he wanted to sit in the same spot. And he wasn’t too patient as we made him wait. This was the first time he’s really done that, wanting something another kid has. At one point he wanted to go up in the tree structure. He was disappointed to find the bridge didn’t shake, but the rope sides of it did and we pretended the bridge shook and he really liked that.
Played there for quite awhile until we started to get a bit chilly and it was starting to get dark. Walked home and had dinner – Carly made more zucchini and I made dongatsu (from the freezer) that August had and liked for the first time. Carly is finishing up her lovely Christmas tree on the closet door. Taking an idea from class, August started putting his magnets on the tree like Christmas ornaments.
He then started turning the light in the closet on and off. He’s done that before, but today he wanted the door open. He would turn on the light, flop down off the couch, look in the closet to see the light on, then climb back up and turn it off, flop down again, look in the closet, etc.
I gave him a bath and Carly nursed and then read to him a lot. We ended the evening all playing with the Duplos. Carly made a really tall tower with them, which he really liked. I brought Angeles in with us, and August was really into the pattern and texture of the Duplo mat and the rug, and wanted Angeles to experience it as well.
We got him to head to bed, and after a little hanging out there he headed to sleep around 9:30.
New words/phrases: backwards 2, mama’s running, mun (door in korean)
Standing in the Q:
Class:
Shopping:
Tree playground:
Qing his five Qs:
Home:
Mama’s tower:
Showing Angeles the pattern:
