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Oma started getting August used to being on his tummy a few days ago. Here are a couple photos of him:

And videos:

Today we went to Seoul Dream Forest, a great park about 10 minutes west of us by taxi. The temperature was around 60 degrees and it was sunny, so everyone was in the park.

We met up with our friend Elaine there who just got a huge dog from a rescue shelter yesterday. Every kid in that park had to come and pet, point at, or get scared by him. We kind of liked that as people didn’t pay much attention to us with August, although we still had a few people peaking in the stroller and saying how cute he is. (Click on the photo to see more.)

And in case you’re curious, here’s a taste of the sort of attention you draw when you have a big dog in a crowded park in Korea:

In case you missed it or want to see it again, here is the video of our return home from the birthing center and Carly finding her surprise:

I figured he’d be smart, but this is kind of crazy. Between sleeping and eating and crying and dirtying diapers, he has figured out how to sign up for Twitter. You should follow him @augustzinn.

His first morning, we made the first round of Skype calls. Cassie and Vivian got to be the first to see and hear August, followed by Cherie and my parents and brother and the whole Althauser clan at Steve and Claremay’s. I snapped screenshots during the calls. In hindsight, I should have actually had everyone ‘pose’ with August. Maybe in our next calls. Click on the image below to see the others.

Carly was asleep in the bedroom, so August and I napped out on the couch for a couple hours last night:

At first, March 10th doesn’t sound like a very exciting day for a birthday. But it turns out to be a pretty cool day in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10. The Battle of the Aegates Islands? Maximian marching into Carthage? Alexander Graham Bell making the first successful phone call? The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? The arrest of Gandhi? Batista leading a coup in Cuba? 300,000 Tibetans surrounding the palace of the Dalai Lama to protect him?

Okay, it is a little violent (I skipped the fire bombing of Tokyo), but still cool.

But the best thing about March 10th? Just this Monday XKCD ran a comic about March 10th:

So take THAT everyone with the other 365 possible birthdays.

While Carly was taking a break, August and I simply hung out for about two hours. During that time I played this song on the computer and he immediately stopped whatever squirming he was doing at the time. We listened to it seven times before he finally started to fall asleep.

The band, Lullatone, makes really cool, modern, not-cheesy music for babies or any human. They are on a cool indie label out of Portland called Audio Dregs that releases all sorts of cool melodic music. Each album is only $6. Check out the whole label on Bandcamp and support a cool band, label, and platform (Bandcamp).

And here are the videos. We have a YouTube account, but we are posting our videos ‘unlisted’, which means you can’t see them just by going to our account. We’ll try to post them all here though.