Probably a short entry, as I’m ready for bed. We got back from Natalie’s house for a early kid’s New Year’s Eve party a little after 8. Feeling pretty exhausted, so lay in on the bed with them while August fell asleep.
He was awake about 7:40. We did a lot of art, some reading, and watching of Teuni Teuni in the morning. He didn’t express much interest in food, but kept eating strawberries and then cheerios/milk in the morning as I fed them to him. Oh, and as his notebooks are filling up with drawing, I taught him the concept/word ‘tracing’ today, and he took to that, although he wanted me to do all the tracing throughout the day. And on the iPad I introduced him to the ‘fill command’ in the mew art program (Sketchbook) I downloaded. He liked that, but unfortunately difficult to access in all the menus.
We went to his Teuni Teuni class at 11. They had these round bouncy mats set up, and he was instantly into it like never before. He let the teacher put him through multiple forward roles, several times. Class was all about kimchi, so first they picked cabbage (‘caboo’ to him) and put it in a box. Then they poured salt (styrofoam things) on big cabbage pictures, then they used plastic hands to beat cabbage leaves – the leaves were attached to each end of one of those sticks (like a bracelet) that you hit in the middle and it rolls up. He was much more interested in this because it looked, to him, like a capital ‘I’, and he kept showing it to everyone around him, saying “I I I!” He was also Qing everyone and everything, starting with those round bouncy matts, but including other kids’ heads, etc.
We went down and did some shopping. He did fine with that, then we headed home.
He napped from 1 to 1:50. After that, he wanted to nurse, but there was the blanket I was using sitting on the couch. He pulled it off, saying “No. Nope.” Did this multiple times. When it was in the reading area, he did the same thing. I was asking him where it could go, and he pointed towards the door to the parlor and said “Over there.” I set it on top of his high chair, and he came and pulled it off again, saying the same thing. So I put it in on ‘Oma’s chair.’ After he was done nursing, I said I wanted the blanket, and asked if he could get it, telling him it was on Oma’s chair. He went and grabbed it and pulled it in to me.
We are still working on the coloring on the floor thing, and today I pointed at it and said “Who did that?” He kept using that sentence throughout the day. Luckily, no lying, and eventually he would say “Zinnie do that.” He was also excited by the concept of ‘question’ and I think he ‘got it’ when I pointed out that was a questions, and he excitedly said “Q for question!” He also was saying “Who did that?” it at the party, and on our way back when we were stopped at a crosswalk and he pointed to the crosswalk, saying “Who did that?” He then said “11”, because the stripes looked like an 11.
He was being a bit difficult by the time we left the house at 5. We think it has to do with the fact that we almost always go out somewhere in the afternoon, and today it was late. Once he was outside he was just fine, and he did very well at the party. Lots of singing of numbers on the way there and back. Left him in the backpack both directions, just 4 stops, and he played Endless Academy on the cell phone.
We were the first people at the party for about 45 minutes. So he got to explore and play a bit with Chloe, and have a pear and honey popsicle and drink our mango juice. More drawing, and a lot of food tasting, mainly liking the lentil chips from Costco and the mushrooms in the stew. They also had some small puzzles, which he was excited about, having learned ‘puzzles’ in the Very Hungry Caterpillar app the last couple of days. But there was so much excitement it was hard or him to focus on much.
Before we left, Nathalie found little transforming ‘Q’ thing and gave it to him.
Carly gave him a quick bath when we got home, as we had totally forgotten to change him before we left and he was leaking. He wasn’t happy about that, and he was asleep about a quarter to 9.
New words/phrases: tracing, fill, puzzles,who did that?
Class:
New Year’s Eve party:
Getting the transforming Q:
