He was up 6:15ish. Carly was making toast and eggs, and hew as doing butter and toast chants as she made it and buttered it. He was eating toast while sitting on the table and making yummy noises. I asked what he thought of the toast and he responded “Well, I can’t say anything.” Carly sneezed and he told her “Maybe you should take some medicine.” They then went in and read one of the Little House for a good amount of time before nursing. That turned into a silly time, as he was making the reading area slide out. At some point he said “I want to smurf Green Eggs and Ham.” But we read Smurfs, reading most of Gargamel and the Smurfs. He then spent time putting Duplos away with Carly, starting to pack them into a big cube to take up as little room as possible.
I took a shower, and when I came out Carly was vacuuming. He had closed himself in the parlor and kept opening the door and asking “Are you done yet?” He was wanting some alone time, and when I came up to him he said “Go away. Please.” and pushed me back to the bathroom.
We were then cleaning more stuff out. He and Carly in particular made progress cleaning out the art supplies and consolidating containers. Out of nowhere he said “I want to stop eating food and be a big kid…I don’t want to grow…I want to be a kid.” Then, as we was sitting on the floor, playing around: “That toe is very dirty. We should wash you. I want to take a bath…tomorrow.” He then played with the white stick and one of the purple things from that Teuni spinning thing and said “I’m not sure how this works and I’m going to find out.” He went to the bathroom. Not sure what he was talking about, but he said “I’m going to put the broken pieces in the toilet and suck them up with my penis.”
At 11:30 we went and got Dippin’ Dots at Home Plus. He’s been mentioning doing this with mama for weeks, so hopefully I’ll hear a bit less of it during the week. August chose rainbow flavor. We went over to the park and sat on a bench and ate them. He wasn’t disappointed. When he was done he went and played with a couple of kids by some rocks for a minute, then ran off to the sculpture area and ran around there. He came back and tried going under a rope that was keeping people out of some plants. He didn’t understand why he couldn’t step on them, and when we stopped him he was saying “Leave me alone.”
We got going over to Home Plus. Down on the first basement August stopped to look at the little vending machines. Carly went on to start shopping. August watched a boy actually get two bouncy balls out of one. I thought he was going to want to do it himself now, but that was apparently enough for him. We went down and found Carly by the fruits. He had some watermelon samples, then we finished up and headed home for lunch.
Carly cut up a bunch of the watermelon and gave him a bowl. He went and grabbed a big fork and used that to eat it. He asked Carly if it was her fork, and she said that both her and me use it, and now him. He seemed to like that. I made potato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich and we shared that. August and I read Baby Smurf. Carly was making her enchiladas and realized she’d forgotten yogurt (aka ‘sour cream’ here). I went to Lucky Mart to get that and tortillas.
When I came home he was playing with the Listerine for a long time, shaking it for the bubbles. He then just sort of sat on the floor with it and the two pillows from the couch and talked about it. I then went and vacuumed under the bed, finding the missing Bob book. He helped Carly with some of her cooking.
We talked about moving the beds, as we likely need to move the queen bed back into the master bedroom before we leave. Carly asked how he felt about rolling off the bed. He replied “I don’t like rolling off the bed because if I roll off the bed I fall. I want to balance.” I took the hangers off the wall, including the ones that were put on with some rather permanent adhesive. They took off the new paint we had had painted. So I got out the leftover paint and painted the spots on the light paint. August was very intrigued with the whole process, from opening the cans to painting the wall. After that, he was following around the apartment and it turned into a game of follow the leader for awhile. When he was getting tired with it though he said “in starting to get smurfed up with following Dada.”
We all headed out to Hangeulbi Park at 4:20. We first saw a dad and two kids flying a small drone. He talked about it flying up to space and I explained it didn’t have enough power to go that high. He was then saying “Didn’t have enough power to go to space?” We walked, or tried to, back to the playground, but he wanted to go play in the bathroom, turning the sink on and watching water go down the drain for a minute.
Carly had sat down and he went and climbed on her, and did a flip in her lap. Did that several times, and he was asking “The gravity is pulling Zinnie right now?” We made it back to the playground and they went on the swings. We also played on the play structure, with him climbing up the round platforms with no problems now. He was doing the sliding down on my head thing, but started stomping/kicking me. He kept doing it, and eventually we had to stop. He went around to the different kinds of exercise equipment and tried them all out for awhile and spent a little more time on the swings. But he wanted Carly’s, and kept walking in front of/behind her and got hit once.
We headed home and had enchilada for dinner. He liked his without sauce. Carly was cleaning through the bathroom stuff and he played with a hairdryer for a bit. He then helped me make banana bread. I gave him a bath. We watched the Baby Smurf episode of Smurfs. Odd, because the story was very different from the comic book, as it involves Gargamel turning himself into a baby to infiltrate the village. But it takes some of the lines and jokes from the comic book. I know there was an actual Baby Smurf in the TV show at some point, but this wasn’t it.
Anyway, he really liked the potions that Gargamel and Papa Smurf made, and when he was out from his bath he was with Carly and changed her into Gargamel and into Azrael.
Took him to bed and he was asleep about 7:15.
Photos. Toast on the table:
Watermelon:
Bubbles:
Helping:
At the park. Flip:
Exercise:
