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A busy weekend! On Saturday we went to Children’s Grand Park, while on Sunday we hopped a bus and explored a part of our own neighborhood (Junggye-dong) we had never seen. 

Saturday:

Before going to the park and zoo, we walked around Sejong University, bought some lunch, and ate it by the pond in the university:

The park was packed, but we still had a lot of fun (and people watching was a major part of that). August’s favorite part, however, was watching the fountain:

Just hanging:

Getting silly as we are leaving:

We had our most insane baby entourage experience. It started in te station as we waited for a train. Out of nowhere a crowd of a dozen people or so people formed, with people sort of competing for his attention. 

Much of that crowd joined us on the packed subway for the entire 30 minute ride. Luckily, these kids were really quite nice and kept August entertained. The two girls were his biggest fans, and the boy in the blue shirt didn’t seem to mind August playing with his hair: 

There were festivities in the park when we got home, so we hung around and spent some time up on the museum:

Back home that evening and the next morning August continued to work hard on crawling and playing and eating:

Sunday:

 

Sunday, we hopped a bus headed northeast to the neighborhood at the foot of the hills. We hung out in a little park next to the performing arts center and wandered a nice set of windy streets: 

This is a school. How is that for the setting for a school?

More fun back home:

He has been saying ‘da da da’ more and more regularly over the last couple weeks. To the point that I kinda sorta think that he is sometimes using it to refer to me. 

‘Ma ma ma’ has suddenly shown up more regularly the last couple days, with the same sort of proto-word feel: 

First, his first bite of broccoli:

Then, we went up to the hills northeast of us, and wandered the roads/paths up to Seoul Trail. We found a very secluded and quiet spring where we set out the blanket, ate lunch, and played for an hour or two.

We then hiked up an insanely steep road, then some stairs, to get to a Buddhist temple. We were running late, so had to turn right around to head back down. 

Our site:

Our view from the blanket:

View from the Buddhist temple:

Holding onto my headphone cable while asleep on the bus home:

Back at home, he got to sit up on his own in the bath for the first time, splash in the water, and play with some bath toys:

When August first experienced grass in Chelan and Centralia, he didn’t really know what to do with it. Now he loves it, at you can see in the photos from Cheonggyecheon stream and on top of the apartment building earlier this week. But he hasn’t had much experience with dirt until today. 

Normally I make him have his pacifier in if he is playing with anything that he might be able to put in his mouth. It want in for this video, so I had to quickly stop him a couple of times. Right after this, I put in his pacifier, but then he just wanted to play with his rattle.  

We left the apartment three times today:

Once before his first nap to walk around the apartment complex south of us:

We saw two cats above the benches:

And he liked the trunks:

A second time just to the park across the street to try to meet up withr a friend and his son:

And a third time to go to the carnival that was being held at the school:

Here he is with one of the middle school students that really likes him:

Here he is watching Carly ‘work’. If he could talk, he would have a very odd idea of what she does for work, as he saw her picking up cans and plastic bottles:

His first gun:

Watching the excitement:

It has gone so fast…

This might not seem to different from the drawers of yesterday, but he was playing with three differently, and he quickly caught on to pushing the clothes:

I figured Wednesday was going to be a light day in terms of photos and videos. I was wrong:

Watching the washing machine:

Falling asleep holding a straw for both his naps:

Doing circles in the bouncy chair:

Saying ‘da da’:

Figuring out his sleeve:

One of the 5th grade teachers is connecting his students with older students and adults to help them with their writing. So I need to create a little in two video of myself. So August and I went atop the apartment building across the park from us and spent a couple hours filming be and just playing:

He enjoyed pulling pieces off the old plants. Note the grass re somehow got stuck to his pacifier:

in he evening, he got really excited for the apple sauce Carly was feeding him: