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Carly had grading to get done, so in the afternoon August and I went for a walk up to Nowon. We were looking for bubbles (failed) and the location of the Little Prince kids cafe for later reference (success). 

A few highlights of the day:

Playing with blocks: 

Skyping with Glecy and being fascinated by her friend’s cat:

Looking at the dots on the blanket and playing peekaboo with it:

Watching the barber poles on our walk:

Yawning:

Wearing duck pants:

Playing with the pots and pans:

And he helped with the laundry by picking every item out of the laundry basket one piece at a time. Although he has started offering us items, they are often joke offers in that he won’t actually let go, or will pull it back. So it was with the laundry, which I had to pull out of his hand every time:

We spent much of the morning and early afternoon cooking: Carly made creamy spinach soup and I made two loaves of banana bread. When we needed a few more things from the store August and I walked over to Home Plus. 

We walked to our friends Derek and Jill’s place for dinner. It wasn’t big – six adults and two babies total. But it was exciting enough to wear August out around eight and we walked home. 

We opened one of the toys we bought at Toys R Us awhile ago. Of course, August preferred the box over the push lion: 

He got excited by the fish at Home Plus. He seems to be slightly less excited by the bananas, as he is finding other things around the store to excite him:

Some clips of the party:

Photos from the party. I didn’t do a good job of getting everyone:

Back home, looking a little worn out:

August got his flu booster shot in the morning. During the day we went shopping at Home Plus. And in the late afternoon I went to my PT appointment. 

Eating an apple: 

Being checked by the doctor:

Fun new talking noises:

Reading one of the new books with mom:

Standing (almost) by himself:

Funny face:

Eating tofu/apple/banana mush:

And, just because, our lovely nachos for dinner:

This time it is the same tooth but on the top right. It is already visible. 

Having some technical difficulty posting to YouTube, so will catch up on that tomorrow. 

Can’t say we did anything related to Thanksgiving today. But Carly had the day off, so we went downtown with four friends from APIS, mainly to go to the Bauhaus theatre exhibit at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. 

August got really excited about the sculptures, and in particular about a couple of the Bauhaus costumes.  

Playing in the kitchen in the morning:

At the museum:

He really liked the one on the left. My theory is that the face reminded him of Iron Man. There was a life size Iron Man statue at Toys R Us and then an Iron Man toy at the bookstore last weekend that he could play with. He really liked both of them:

Yummy beer and pizza for lunch at a place called Beezza:

Playing with the hand of one of our friends on the way home:

Back home:

Chewing on a drawer: 

Trying on his snow suit (alas, it looks like it will be too small for him before the end of the winter):

We went to APIS to see the fifth grade musical (Geology Rocks) and to visit Carly. We then came home and August just kept staying awake. He blew yesterday’s record out of the water by staying awake 5 hours and 50 minutes before he went to sleep. The big highlight here was that he learned how to play peekaboo by himself. You need to check out that video below. 

He slept for a bit less than two hours. When he woke up, we walked half way to APIS and met Carly walking home so we could walk with her on the way back. 

First wake up: 

APIS:

Not sleeping:

And the coolest thing. He just started pulling the pillow case over his face and playing peekaboo:

Walking to meet Carly and coming home:

In the evening:

August slept late (7:50) and then was up for close to 5 hours – the longest he has ever been awake for his first stint. He then turned around and took a two hour and forty minute nap. Possibly his longest nap since I have been watching him. 

That didn’t leave much time for adventuring. So we just went for a walk south and east of Home Plus, stopped for a few things at Home Plus, and then played in the playground on the way home. 

All the time around the house made for some good photos.  

During the day: 

Teeth! Two of them, at least:

Not falling asleep for a nap:

Finally:

After the nap:

On our walk:

He seems to be into the color yellow, as demonstrated by his excitement of yellow things on our walk. Many of these are reenactment (you can see me turning around so he can see them again) so he was often even more excited the first time:

Three of my favorite photos of him:

We had the APIS Thanksgiving celebration today in the evening at the buffet restaurant in the building next door. In the afternoon we had a nice walk over to APIS so I could go to PT. 

During the day:

He fell asleep soon before we got to APIS. I managed to tranfer him to the chairs so he could keep sleeping. Until the bell rang, that is:

As I was leaving APIS, I realized I couldn’t find August’s bear hat. I was pretty sure I had put it in my pocket. After PT I retraced my steps home and found it a couple blocks from home. It may have just fallen out, or August may have pulled it out. He did that once before but held it in the air:

At Todai Carly and I took turns holding him while the other ate. He loved looking at everything in the dining room, but particularly all of the plastic fruit and vegetables sitting everywhere and the bubbling container of blue lemonade. A few people held him. This is Brittany:

He liked the novelty of sitting in the high chair, but grew frustrated when we wouldn’t move him forward enough so he could grab things off the table:

August was invited to his first birthday party. It was for one of the babies born to an APIS family last year. 

On our way to the party: 

Fun at the party:

There were six of the babies at the party. We lined them up from oldest on the left (Ripley, the birthday boy) to youngest in the right (Kinsey, six months):

They performed a traditional toljiabee ceremony:

People were amused when Carly held August like this:

We walked home and on the way found a slide. Here is evidence of how he loves the slide:

Leaves on the playground:

Our evening walk. We said hi to most of his sculpture friends, of course, including the family statue:

August has a third tooth coming in. I thought it was his top right canine, but the internets tell me it is more likely his lateral incisor (the tooth between the canine and the front tooth). Although this is also (supposedly) slightly unusual because the top front teeth usually come in next. 

The tooth is quite elusive so far and I have been unable to catch a glimpse of it. It is definitely there though. 

More details as they develop.