He was awake around 8. In the morning, when writing sentences for him, I got him saying “Dada is the best,” then “Mama is the best.” Later, he wanted me to help him do a forward roll. Did a couple, then he just lay there looking up at the ceiling and the Christmas lights. He started saying “Hangeul D”, referring to the shape they made around the room.
Carly went to the clinic at the hospital to see about getting an appointment today for her stomach pains. August and I stayed at home and ate lunch. I made a turkey sandwich, and he had fun helping make it (putting pieces of cheese and turkey on the bread) and picking the cheese and potatoes off the plate to eat.
He went to the reading area and pulled out the Puff book to read. We read it while sitting with Puff.
We then skyped with my family at Dee and Grant’s for Christmas. Although as soon as he saw Skype, August started missing Carly and went and stood at the door, sad. After a few minutes, I went down to try and get him, and he said, real sad, “Miss mama.”
Carly came home right then, with him still at the door, having made an appointment for 4. Skyped for a few more minutes, but couldn’t really hear their end of the conversation anyway. August fell asleep right after we hung up, pretty much, a couple minutes before 1. He slept until about 2:20. Carly had made vegetable soup, and he ate some of that after he woke up.
About 3:30 we all left. Walked Carly to her appointment, then continued on to the park. He started saying “miss mama” right away, but played well at the park for awhile, writing letters at first, then getting up on the play structure. Carly called to update and August heard that, then he got upset that I wouldn’t let him go down the climbing wall. Also, I think his hands were getting cold. That was the end, and he was pretty upset by the time I got him back in the backpack and boots (he’t not a fan of the boots yet, and wouldn’t wear them in the park. Luckily, I had brought his shoes in case that happened).
We went back to the hospital and played on the iPad while waiting for Carly. When she was done we all walked home. He ate some of the rice and beans from my burritos (and probably something from Carly) and did a lot more coloring/writing throughout the day and into the evening. I gave him a bath around 7. In the bath, he started spelling ‘cat’ on his own. I then found out he could spell ‘dog’, ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ (although sometimes he just says M A or D A once), and ‘is’. We had never practiced is, but I use it in a lot of the sentences I write for him. Then, as I was getting him dressed he spelled ‘poop’ (but he usually only says one ‘o’).
While Carly was taking a shower we were doing more drawing, and I ate a Frango. August looked at me and did is ‘ahh’ thing, like the dentist asking you to open your mouth. I was busted. He knew I was eating something and went into the kitchen, saying “more”. I gave in and gave him most of a Frango as a treat. He tried for “More treat” when done, but was allayed when I told him mama was going to make popcorn.
He ate a ton of popcorn (plain) with Carly, and came up with the line “P is for popcorn.” That just shows that he really has the ‘P’ sound down, as he keeps coming up with these “P is for…” lines with words we’ve never spelled together: people, play area, and now popcorn.
He was doing some writing on the floor, so I told him we needed to put the crayons away. He got upset, and Carly took him. He was clearly tired, and fell asleep instantly – like the fastest ever, right at 9:00.
New words/phrases: back and forth, cardboard, August becoming a big kid, cleaning, clean on the floor, mama’s clothes
Can spell: cat, dog, Zinnie, mama, dada, is, poop (spelled pop)
On our walk:
‘Cardboard’ he gets from the back cover of his drawing notebooks. No idea how he decided to incorporate it into a song:
Similarly, Endless Reader has nothing to do with Korean:
At the park:
