Bad dream at 11. I took him out to Carly. Nursed from 5:30 to 6 before getting up. He was rather stuffy through the night. Think he watched some Pink Panther again. When I got up he was doing some Hangeul – he said “Dada doesn’t like this one?” He remembered that I don’t like it because it just teaches you all these names of musicians and songs. Luckily, he switched to Animal Doctor and we did that together. Carly had made him oatmeal with banana for breakfast. He didn’t want Carly to leave for work, so we walked her to the elevator and he did a good job of waving and saying bye to her there.
Went back and changed him and got sweatshirts on as he wanted to go outside. He played the queens box game, lifting boxes and dropping them in the ocean, as we put on our shoes. We headed back outside at 7:20.
We went out and walked laps around the park, singing We all sing with the same voice, I don’t want to live on the moon, and What’s the name of that song? He kept singing parts of the last one as we played around after that. At the dinosaurs he said “I want to measure that neck.” We went back across the bridge to the east side and right at 8, as they opened, we went to Dunkin Donuts.
There, we settled on a cheese bagel and cream cheese and a little pack of four donuts. The pack of four donuts had a little pink donut that he really wanted. We made a deal that we would just eat one donut each right now and save the others for later. He agreed. While we waited for our food, he was dancing to the music playing and said he was “Dancing like a jellyfish.”
When we were done eating he was thirsty. We went across to the faucets in the park across the street and I held him up so he could drink from a faucet. He then found a blue straw on the ground and we spent a lot of time sticking it up the faucet and having the water come out. He got water down his sleeve so took the coat off. Luckily, it was warmer now.
We crossed the street and then he needed the bathroom. Still didn’t want to go home, so we used the bathroom in the park. Then stopped at the water faucets close to us and played more in the water. I had kept the straw to recycle, so he had that to play with. We got home right at 9:20, two hours after we left.
We ate the second set of donuts, and then watched a video on how donuts are made. He then watched his ink video and I exercised. We then built things out of Duplos, and he destroyed them as we listened to Concrete Blonde. We also listened to the Musica Secreta album Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter that I had read about a couple months ago and he added one of the tracks to his playlist. And a Tom Petty song later, as well.
I left him playing iPad and went to take a shower. But he came in right away and waited impatiently for me to come out. He had found the fingernail clippers and wanted to know how to use them. After that, he put Duplos down his shirt, then he put animals and other Duplos down my shirt.
We skyped with my parents. They asked him to sing a song and he sang the Smurf theme song for them. After that we had salmon, crackers, and cream cheese for a snack. Carly had left her work shoes here, as she was going with students on a retreat today, and so he was playing with them and hugged one of her shoes. Finally, he played with the calculator on the iPad before we got going to Teuni Teuni class.
He was in constant motion at class. The first part of class had them wearing tool belts and hats. They walked around a walking course and picked up a new tool for their tool belt each time. There was a series of squishy semicircles as part of the walking path, and August did a good job of walking across it on his own over and over. Then it switched to a travel theme. They got suitcases with monsters on them, then put little objects in them, sort of a puzzle. Then they all walked in circles around the room, pulling their suitcases. They then went through security, with the teacher using a metal detector on them. Sometimes he would have it detect something, and he would take something out of their suitcases.
After class we went looking for lunch. We went down to the first basement and looked at the restaurants. Once place had dongatsu and August decided he really wanted dongatsu. It was pricey there though, so I suggested we go someplace else. And I had the idea of checking out what was in the 2001 Outlet building. We left the bike outside the building and went up to the eighth floor. But no pictures on the menu. I could generally make out what things were, but didn’t know what sides there were, or what a set included, etc. So we headed back out and went to Noodle Tree in Brownstone.
There, we got the soup and dongatsu set. Had fun with that. August used a fork to eat the dongatsu, and he continued to eat the broth of the soup even after the kimchi mixed in and made it medium spicy. He needed to use the bathroom, so we headed home at 2:40.
We almost went right back out, but decided to rest for a bit. We read Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight and I was resting on the reading area. August rolled onto one of the pillows and said “I rolled on mama’s germ pillow.” I assumed this was something that Carly had called it for some reason, but later I asked her and she said she hadn’t called it that. He wanted the keyboard hooked up, and we did some GarageBand. We made samples together, and made an interesting one of both of us saying something. We were making a little song out of it when the iPad froze. He turned it upside down so he didn’t have to see the apple.
He wanted to head outside, so we got going. Which was good as it was time for Poli class. We were singing “I don’t want to live on the moon.” A couple times today, if I made a mistake with the words or the tune he would say “That’s not right.” Class went fine. August was into the reading (He loudly read ‘Welcome to the Circus’ when he saw it on the screen) and the songs at the beginning. The middle activity dragged, as usual. August was controlled by eating crackers. When it came to the new book and doing the stickers, he was very concerned about getting the stickers in the exact right spot.
After class we went down to Home Plus. August jumped off the bike right after we walked into the store. The attendant came and made me leave the bike out. We’ve taken the bike in dozens of times now and it’s never been an issue. May have been a miscommunication, and he was just trying to be helpful, but when I tried saying “It’s okay” and walking away he kept following me and being very persistent. We went and got a few groceries, and a bag of dried blueberries to try. He needed to go to the bathroom so we paid. The bathroom on the second basement was busy, so we went up to the first basement.
We then went back in Home Plus on the first basement. Stopped at the sample toys and played with them. First the horrible plastic train set that kept coming apart. Can’t imagine how letting people actually use that train set would make anyone want to buy it. There were then a couple of remote controlled cars that didn’t work because the batteries were dead. August was using the antenna on the controllers as a sort of crane and using them to lift up the cars by the security tags around them. I was standing right there when a boy, maybe eight or so, walked up and grabbed a car right out of August’s hands. I grabbed it right back and sent him on his way. When he was done with that, we headed back down to the grocery level and got these little tetrahedron-shaped packs of M&Ms and a box of choco pies for Carly.
Carly had said she would probably be back at 7, so we planned to go home, eat dinner, watch the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth, and take a bath before he arrived. After he got upset when Carly was a little late yesterday, I was afraid he was going to do the same today. Although he’d mentioned her a few times, he hadn’t gotten upset when I talked about our evening plans or her being later. Didn’t have to tes
t it further though, as we walked in the house a couple minutes after 6, and Carly walked in a minute later.
They nursed, watched Beethoven’s Ninth, and I got him some food for dinner. He ate that, then Carly took him in for a bath and I did dishes. He was upset about her washing his hair. We took him in to get ready for bed, and he started Qing things before bed. We talked about Qing things outside tomorrow, and he said he wanted a place with a lot of trees. Maybe Dobongson. He was asleep by 7:30.
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