Had a card for a free drink at our favorite coffee place, 8st. Also got a lot of packing done today – basically everything is ready to go: our bags, the donations, and the stuff for the movers. August seemed his most stressed out today, which made the trip coming home from the coffee shop rather difficult.
At some point during the night August turned sideways and was sleeping against the headboard, then took over my pillow with one of his legs and I had to move him off of it.
He was up just before 7. At some point, while he was on the toilet, I think, he wanted Carly to be an escalator and she didn’t know how to respond to that. She made him yogurt with fruit and honey for breakfast. He really, really liked that, mainly of course because of the honey. He likes it on top, not mixed in though, which Carly learned the hard way.
When I got up I started making banana bread, and he helped with that. I mentioned before him finishing our sentences. We were talking about the bananas and I said “That’s okay because it gets…” He finished “smooshed up?” I got back at him a minute later when was talking about it: “I’m doing mama and dada’s…” “sentences”. Carly was packing her bags and he crawled in the open suitcase and said “I’m clothes. I’m clothes mama. You can wear me.” He spent a good amount of time playing in the sink. Carly was hungry but didn’t know what to eat and said “I hate food.” August started repeating the sentence over and over.
I took him out at 10. As he was getting on his bike in the hall, a neighbor was bring in their dog. August saw it, still a ways a way and didn’t want it to lick him: “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” He repeated that until the neighbor stopped bring the dog closer and I picked him up. Then, when we headed out, we saw Megan on the first floor. I was going to the ATM to pay our final internet bill, but August didn’t want to get off the bike, so we had to walk back around to take another path and we saw her again. That ATM didn’t work, so we walked over to the pink building and went to our actual branch and it worked there.
We then went to the park past the pink building. He had wanted juice at the Lee Toast and Juice place, and I told him we were going to a coffee shop with mama later. He didn’t forget, so while he found a little bottle and wanted to fill it with sand (settling for the dirt and what now, also using our sand toys), that didn’t last long and he wanted to go home to mama and go to a coffee shop, singing a song about it. So we were home at 10:45.
He had some banana bread, then sat in the basically full changing room and played with the coffee maker and rice cooker awaiting their trip to Israel. Played on his own for quite awhile.
We left at 11:40. We needed to stop for food and were going to get bop burgers, but it was closed. So we went to Mama Juice and got a couple corndogs. Carly got the cheddar one and I got the squid ink (오징어먹물치즈핫도그). We went and caught the Nowon 9 bus to Kwangwoon. On the train he sat next to a smaller boy, and August talked about wanting to be a toddler: “I want to be that kid…I want to be that size.” August also said “Can I play with you?”
August was more of a rule breaker today, which started a bit on the way there, as he didn’t want to hold hands going down stairs, etc. but it wasn’t too bad.
At 8st Coffee I got a Viennese coffee, he got a blueberry smoothie again, and Carly got her mocha frappe. We went up to the second floor and August drank his smoothie and kind of just sat in a daze. But then he said “I like warm things, not cold things.” Lots of opinions on things, including me. He was then dancing to music and making some noise. Carly took him to the bathroom, then when they came back he had wanted to play in a sink, so I was going to take him. We never made it though, as he found the an old espresso machine and coffee grinder and we played with them for a long time, pretending to make coffee. Sadly, he said “I want to play with it every time we come here.” A Moi Caprice song came on and I identified it – had already heard it somewhere and added it to iTunes. Perhaps it was last time we were here. We switched and Carly played with it with him.
We then got going. They went to the bathroom again. I saw a woman with a shirt that simply said ‘puberty silent’. Then August played out front for quite awhile with the hose and watering can, which dripped a little water. And Carly had him smell the mint and other plants they had out front. And he simply lay on the ground for awhile.
Then the long walk home. It started with him spitting from the backpack and when we told him he needed to stop he kept spitting. So I got him out of the backpack to talk, which he didn’t like. He then didn’t want to be carried, and wanted to walk and was not holding our hands, running away in the train station, etc.
Got on a train at 2:50. A guy touched him, and August got off the seat but Carly got him back on. He sat in a trance again, then was touching and hitting the guy. Carly said the guy might touch him back if he did that, and August squealed “No! Don’t touch you back!” and jumped off the seat. But generally he was having fun with it.
At Kwangwoon Station he was spitting in the drains and Carly chased him around a bit. Took the bus home, then Carly wanted to go to Lucky Mart. August wanted to go too, so I took him and she did the shopping. We got home at 3:45. We were working on various things, but August was kind of bouncing off of everything, so Carly took him out for awhile while I worked on things.
They went to the Bye Fuzzy playground. There was a boy his age who was playing at being a monster. August was a little scared of him. August was a monster too. They chased each other around, and at one point were holding hands. And August walked the ledge. Never went up on the actual play structure though. There was also a little girl that he went and said hi to. And of course he was spitting in the grates.
They came home after 5. I gave him a bath. We watched th bathtub and million customer Pink Panther episodes then washed him. He had a good play time in the bath for his last bath in Korea.
He drank a bunch of milk before going to bed, and said “I can’t have enough milk…You keep growing?” He was asleep after 7:30.