I think today was the first day of break that a.) Carly and I were up at the same time and b.) we were up before August. That was a little before 8, and August woke up 8:30ish.
Carly Skyped with her mom at one point, and when reading/singing Puff the Magic Dragon, August surprised my by knowing a full line – I think it was “Noble kings and princes…”
A little after 10, Chuck skyped from Derek and Andrea’s new house. We got to see them and take a tour. August saw one of their chairs and thought it looked like a Hangeul N (basically and L shape). And when I gave him a slice of orange, he thought it looked like a C, then turned it around, saying “backwards C, upside down C.” Had to cut the call a little short though, as we had to get ready and leave for his class. Turned out that August didn’t want to leave the house for once – in part because he still wanted to play with his comb, and because he wanted to nurse. He was pretty unhappy until I got him to calm down in the park singing the “A is for…” song.
But he definitely wasn’t into class to start with, spending a lot of time standing by the door. But he started to get drawn in, first when the teacher was acting like a bear hibernating (and then the kids got to do the same), but definitely so when she brought out the tunnels for them to crawl through. He liked those, and crawled through one once, but preferred to pull them apart, saying “together, apart.”
His favorite part definitely came though when she brought out a big stuffed bear with a blanket. He kept patting the bear and feeling its fur, and kind of hugging it. We warned him when it would be put away, and he said “bye, bye” but still got a little upset. But then the teacher was holding it and a couple of the kids came up to see it again. He went up and hugged it and said “bye, bye” again.
We came home and had some time before his nap as he woke up late. He wanted to play with the closet again, asking “Please” very nicely. I opened the door for him, then he wanted his socks off, so he could feel the cold metal strip with his feet. When I changed him once, he took a crayon with him and started drawing all over his hand and leg. I told him he should go show mama, but he didn’t do it right away. But a few minutes later he walked in to her in the other room and said “show mama.” We then made a smoothie, after which he fell asleep from about 1:50 to close to 3.
Carly and I started watching The Martian while he was asleep. After he woke up, we headed out for a walk. Carly had to stop at the hospital to rearrange an appointment, and while she did that August and I walked around a few back streets. He had said “iPad” when we first entered the hospital with Carly, because we had played iPad while waiting for her yesterday, but then we left. As soon as we were out the door he started saying “Miss Mama.” We walked around for 10 minutes or so, then headed inside to get warm before the walk back. Had some time, so we did play iPad. When Carly was done he wasn’t too worked up about missing her though, and in fact was saying “Miss mama” when she was right there.
We walked home. In the evening there was a lot of coloring and some iPad time. He played with the closet again, again asking to get his socks off. We hadn’t brushed his teeth in the morning so we watched some Teuni Teuni and did that. I made up a bowl of mashed potatoes and vegetables and one of rice, turkey, and vegetable soup, and August and I shared those for dinner.
He was being creative with his “Becoming…” joke this afternoon/evening, using “play in the sand,” “pig,” “Teuni Teuni,” and “color the paper crayon”
Carly gave him a bath that went pretty well, then she read Picasso’s Trousers, a book that Glecy got him, a couple times. He started really liking it a day or two ago, and finds it funny. She also tried translating it into Spanish for him, and reading The Going to Bed Book to him in Spanish. She also has a Spanish book called 100 Palabres (Words). Since the beginning he has expected it to have numbers in it, since he sees ‘100’ on the cover. Now it is a joke, where he still claims the name of the book is ‘Numbers’ if you ask him.
Some more coloring, then he wanted to play with the closet again, using his cutest “please” a couple times, but was sad when we wouldn’t let him. Carly took him in to bed and he was asleep about 8:50. Carly and I finished watching the Martian, which was great, except for the gratuitous 5 minutes at the end.
New words/phrases: get more, says Vivi, dada eat the bread, Zinnie eat it, mama ate it
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