August woke up and started spelling words like ”mama”. They had a big Skype call with Opa and Glecy and Vivi and Jeff and maybe other people, then skyped with Cherie a little after 10.
Today was the day we decided he felt 2. And, actually, I’ve been meaning to mention that his Korean age, as of January 1st, is 3. So we shouldn’t be surprised he’s at least acting like a two-year old. One example of this was coloring on the floor. When he does it, he has always answered the question ‘Where do you color?” with “On paper.” Well, today he started to answer ”on the floor.” Also, later in the day, he convinced me to give him back a crayon after he had colored on the floor. I looked at me, reached down, and drew a perfect Z, the sign of Zinnie, on the floor at his feet. They were put away after that.
In the morning Carly took him to Home Plus for some grocery shopping. They came home and August took a nap and Carly made chicken soup for me. I was feeling better, so no longer wanted to go to the doctor, but wanted to get an expectorant and a humidifier. So Carly went to a couple of the pharmacies on the 2nd floor and succeeded with the drug. That took two trips, and she left August behind. He did not handle these 5 to 10 minute absences too well. He’s very used to having mama around right now.
In the late afternoon, about 4, they went out again. They first went to Home Plus where they managed to buy an Incredible Hulk humidifier. They then went and played in the dirt in the park again, writing a lot of Spanish words this time. Again when it was too cold for Carly (but not August – he never seems to have a stopping point) they left, walking up to Starbucks and hanging out there again. Carly has a nice gift card from a student that she’s making use of. When they were leaving, August came up with his latest testing-the-limits game. He was wandering away, and Carly said “stay here.” He would then scoot away, seeing how far he could get before she said it again, then come back, repeat.
Back home around 6, he and I were singing A is for… song. His new line was ‘C is for caterpillar’, and new joke was saying several letters are for ice cream. He was playing on my laptop as we finished, and clicked on a little map icon and recognized what popped up as a map. He was then trying to touch the screen, which he then follows with a sad “no touchscreen”, and at ‘x’ he said ‘x is for touchscreen’.
After that he was testing the screaming limits, and Carly had to take him to the screaming room a couple times.
He came out and wanted to read Frog on a Log?, which is one of his favorite books now. But every time he grabs it, he sadly says “No Qs.” After that, we read Pigeon finds a Hotdog. But he joked about Pigeon finds a Q, so we read the whole story, substituting Q for ‘hotdog’ overtime.
Later, we were writing letters together, then he was working on his own, scribbling with the blue. Carly calls it his Jackson Pollock look, where he stands up, then reaches down to draw. He said “ABC. In Order here.” Carly answered “Mama or Dada?” Without missing a beat, he said “Mama. Dada sick.”
On there trip to Home Plus, Carly bought me a humidifier. They only had cartoon-themed ones, so instead of Disney, she went with the Incredible Hulk. It is pretty cool.
New words/phrases: leche, c for caterpillar
