He woke up at 5:50. I was still in bed and heard him say ‘Q’ as he was getting off the bed. He went out to Carly and fell back to sleep in the reading area, then woke up again around 8. They Skyped with Chuck and Cherie for a bit in the morning. He was really into Qs. I was reading with him in the reading area, and he wanted to “Look for Qs.” He was also requesting “another book.” We were reading Sir Cedric, the book that Carly’s grandmother gave us, and he liked that. He started making the ‘more’ sign after finishing it once. He rarely pulls out the sign language now.
We did a lot more coloring (we had the big set of crayons, and when we started using another one he would say “nice color”), then headed out, going to Hoegi to hang out at our favorite coffee shop, 8 Street. On the walk from the subway to the campus, he was singing the “A is for…” song to himself, but started to make up lines, such as “P is for people.” In the song, P is for pig, and while we’ve made up lines together, this was entirely of his own making. He also spotted Qs in a magnifying glass icon on the front of a store.
Took quite awhile for him to fall asleep, so we walked around the Kyunghee campus. He finally fell asleep and slept from 2:11 to 3:19. We got beverages and sat on the second floor of the coffee shop. When he woke up, we took turns with him, going downstairs to see the fish, art, and dog. He really wanted to touch things, and I was clear what he couldn’t (the tiny plants for sale) and could (the aquariums, pumice stones in a big plant pot) touch. He was then very careful with his touching as he felt the texture of the pumice, etc. He Qed the dog, but only after trying to get me to do it. When Carly took him down, they gave him jerky snacks to feed to the dog. Again, he tried to get Carly to do it, but did one piece himself.
He then sat on a chair and we drew together on the iPad for quite awhile. He started drawing Ws for the first time. Carly also had her iPad from work. August saw it and called it “Boring.” Carly was getting hungry, and when we asked if we should eat there or find food on the way back, August said “stay here” and was also saying “mama hungry.” So we got a strawberry smoothing and sandwich. Unfortunately, the sandwich had pesto on it, so Carly didn’t have any.
On our way out, August visited with the dog again. He found the dog’s ball in a corner and took it to the dog. Then, when we said goodbye, August picked up the ball and put it back in the other room where he found it.
On the walk back, August started singing “R is for Ryan” as well. Then, he pointed to another sign and said “Pattern Ws”, then “Pattern Vs.”
At home we went straight back to the drawing. There was a lot of that in the evening. Carly was feeling worse (stomach ache), so went to bed. August did a good job staying out with me, for the most part. He had me writing a lot. Tonight was the first night where he was really telling me to write words and phrases, and use a lot of cursive. He had me write ‘cold outside’ several times, as well as ‘patience, grasshopper.”
At one point, when Carly was awake, he was running up and down the hall, almost actually running, if not quite. Very much on his tip toes, at least.
More August humor: when in the reading area, he hit me on the side and immediately said “sorry.” He did that 4 times in a row. And while playing with Baby Q he would gently touch her eyes, then seriously say “Noooo” because you aren’t supposed to touch a real baby’s eyes. After his correct new lines of ‘A is for…’, he started to also do incorrect ones, like saying “A is for wawa, cold cold wawa” and finding them funny.
Anyway, he finally, finally fell asleep just after 11.
A couple of interesting misunderstandings today:
Before we left, I had a pair of August’s socks and hit him with one as I asked “are you ready to go to Hoegi?” He thought that was funny, and grabbed a sock and kind of put it on his nose, and hit himself and me with it, saying “Hoegi” each time. He repeated this at some point later in the day.
With Carly doing art, she was coloring in shapes, and said something like “Do you like it?” He took ‘like it’, it seems, to mean ‘coloring in shapes’. So anytime he or one of us would color something in he would say “like it.”
New words/phrases: look for Qs, another book, nice color, gold, silver, boring, pumice, mama hungry, stay here, mama needs her backpack (pulling her backpack down the hall when she was sleeping)
Walkjng in Hoegi. Do you see the Qs?
Getting sleepy?
8 Street:
Pumice:
“Pattern W…V”:
Home:
Using all the papers:
