Author: Ryan/Dada

Today we went hiking in Bukhansan National Park. We covered a lot of the territory that Carly and I have already hiked, but we also headed farther up a stream bed past a couple of temples I hadn’t seen before. 

Highlights include:

Drinking water from a water bottle for the first time: 

Our tradional walking video:

And playing with the rope along the side of the trail:

And, of course, we saw a lot of pretty stuff:

And ate an interesting Korean (late) lunch:

And went to the iris garden for a bit before heading home. You can see Bukhansan National Park in the background:

Today August took our first stay-at-home dad and son walk in Seoul, visiting two parks. More on them later. For now, check out this amazing video showcasing a few of August’s talents:

Rice cereal has now joined squash, apple sauce, and carrots on the list of solid(er) foods August has eaten. He really enjoyed his rice cereal today, and has even learned that if he keeps his hands away from the spoon and bowl, that he gets food faster. After eating most of it, however, he did want to take a turn at feeding himself:

As you can tell, he enjoyed it:

He loved it so much, he wanted to eat it from the box:

Being the last day of her Chuseok break, Carly wanted to maximize her time with August. So the two of them stayed home and my parents and I went to the National Museum for the day. 

But I was around enough to see:

 

August do some more sitting/lounging practice: 

Eat some apple sauce and rice cereal:

And get hyper before bedtime looking at the mobile (which I just missed with the video) and a picture that he really likes of these dog-things on the wall:

August has been wanting to crawl for the last 4+ months. So we kind of expected that to be his next big accomplishment. But then I’m reading the book What’s Going On in There? And am reminded that sitting generally comes first.

He’s been siting quite well in his high chair thing, but we haven’t focused on giving him time to really work on sitting on his own. So, I did, and here’s how he is doing: 

He was doing pretty well without the boppy pillow before the video, but I needed both my hands to make sure he didn’t fall over; that made it difficult to film. So, bobby pillow with the assist. 

We walked to Daiso today to see if we could find anything that would work as toys for August. We found some good stuff, including a smiley wooden spoon, an oven mitt, and a few other things:

On Tuesday we went out to Korean BBQ for dinner. This was a big event for August as they gave him his first high chair to sit in. He was fascinated and spent at least the next 20 minutes staring at everything and everyone, mouth agape. He only got a bit fussy when he realized everyone but him was eating:

August decided to celebrate his six month mark by sort of starting to move forward with his crawling, as opposed to just backwards or in a circle. There was more to it than this, but I just caught the last one on video as he was getting tired out. In hindsight, it probably would have looked more impressive shot from the side: