The 1st birthday

Okay.. It took forever for me to post my baby SJ's birthday. Because we had to run to the hospital again. He had an infection in his "secret" (private) area and my husband insisted to go to the BEST hospital in town for that. We had to stay few nights at my in-laws because the hospital was a little too far from our house. While we were there, we found an amazing pediatrician for baby SJ so we stayed one more night so that he would be up to date with his immunizations. And... it took me almost two weeks to import all my picture from my SD card to my computer.. yeah.. I needed some rest after the party. 

Baby SJ's first birthday was a huge success. Everything went really well... except our house was too small or maybe we invited too many people? But everyone loved the party and enjoyed baby SJ's cuteness very much!

We had Korean traditional clothes on with traditional decorations. Even though my baby was born in the States, he is Korean before American and I want him to know and feel that way.

In the Korean culture, there is one thing that they do for the baby's first birthday. They lay out items and let the baby pick one item. Each item represents something and the item the baby picks will tell us what the baby will do when they grow up.

 And my baby picked the mallet! He will become a judge! Well.. my hubby thinks it's a hammer and he will go into construction! 

We got him a birthday cake of course!

We all thought he would jump into the cake and start destroying it but he was so delicate with the cake.

So, my mother-in-law pushed his head into the cake and he got soooooooo upset!

He was like, "my caaaaaaaaakkkkeeeeeee" hahahahahaha

Little dragon, representing the year of his birth.

 Wall of his first 100 days

His first gold ring. Another Korean tradition. We get babies who turn 1 gold of something. It can be a ring, necklace, bracelet or pig pendant.

Well! He IS one! As much as I want to deny it, he is one. From now on, I am not going to blink my eyes because another blink of an eye, he will turn two.

These two are MINE

I hope everyone had the best Valentine's Day.

At the Parks, we have two sick boys (still... ugh!). I was so busy and exhausted looking after these two boys, I could not plan anything for today. But I sure gave them lots of kisses, loves and hugs! My little boy seemed a little annoyed. Well, too bad! you are just too kissable!

Pray for us

We are at the hospital. My baby SJ is very sick. He was diagnosed as pneumonia with ear infection, both side. Keep us in your prayers please! And please stay away from being sick! It's not fun

snowstorm brought 2 feet of snow

When we woke up in the morning, the first thing my husband checked was how much snow fell. We were expecting snow and was expecting a lot to come. When we opened the blinds, we were shocked! Schools and work had been cancelled. All the cars on the road were struggling.

SJ woke up with a fever and heavy coughing. It is going to be another week with sick baby... He took a few short naps. During one of the naps, Eus and I decided to go out and make snow angels! I always wanted to do it but my no-fun-old husband always said, "no". So, I made him do it with me ;)

I was giving my husband some attitude that he was not fun! Come on!

As soon as I touched the snow, I got so cold and stood up right away. Our angels do not look like angels. hehe The one on the right is mine and the one on the left is Eus's. He totally ruined his. Eus said these aren't angels but just imprints of our body... What a party pooper

And I enjoyed hot chocolate.

I love this kind of a day.

Our little trip to Boston

My whole day is occupied with this one little busy body who never stops for one second, I don't think I can write about our road trip in very detail that we took with my mom and sister. I don't know how other moms with two or three kids even function. Well, instead I will just post few pictures and describe shortly.

That's all of us on the very first night together. We were all in pajamas with bad hair and smudged make-up! hahahaha we watched Korean drama together every night.

On the way to Boston, we stopped by NYC.
We all loved NYC! We will always love that city for one and the only reason: shopping! My husband almost got a $500 parking ticket. He was waiting in the car with SJ on 60th and Lexington while my mom, sister and I were shopping in Bloomingdales. He was freaking out and cursing the whole time but we still love NYC (and shopping!) We stopped by Bryant Park to eat at Celcius (outdoor restaurant) but there was a private event so we had Korean food. It all turned out great. We all secretly missed and craved Korean food.

 Our rockstar SJ!  He was so fraustrated that he couldn't move in the car for so long. As soon as we got to the hotel, he would crawl around the whole room and get tired.

We abosolutly loved Boston. It was very beautiful and cute.

We all were really excited to visit Harvard as well!

I am not going to lie. It was pretty hard to go on a trip with this little one in the cold weather. No one knew the roads, it was hard finding a single place, even with the iPhone. Every now and then we had to stop to feed SJ, nurse him and change him. When we went out, we had to bundle him up in a blanket so that he wouldn't get cold, take the stroller out and do/undo the stroller and car seat. We couldn't do much at night since SJ had to go to bed, so we would always have to come back to the hotel by a certain time to put him down. It's true that it would have been a lot easier without a baby, but without him the road trip wouldn't be as fun and memorable.

Good start of the week

My baby is all better and well! SO... we took him to the toy store to grab him some new toys for our family night! It was really cold but it was so good to be outside. He spent so much time there with so many different toys. His definite favorite was LEGO. And they had bigger pieces for babies. And we had to get it.

We were all bundled up everywhere we go!

ELEVEN

Eleven it is. Baby SJ turned eleven month today. Wow. One more month and he will be turning one. I am totally not ready for this, so I demand that time stop now. Right NOW!

Wow. Eleven months. I wish there were more months in a year so that he wouldn't turn one for a few more months. One day he will start talking to me, one day I will be making his lunch and take him to school, one day I will be calling to say hi when he's at college, and one day I will be dancing with him at his wedding reception and one day I will be holding his first baby and tell him the baby looks just like his did. I am getting so emotional and I can already tell that the month of February will be very hard on me.

He is definitely growing fast and learning even faster. He is completely walking.. He has been walking for 2 months now and mastered it. He's almost running now. His little legs moves so cute, I almost wanna bite them off! (hehehehehe well, he bites my nose all the time so maybe I can bite his leg? ) He only crawls when he goes up and down the stairs. He is a very determined baby... almost stubborn. If he wants to touch something, he will do everything he could to touch it, no matter how long it takes. As soon as Eus and I forget we were trying to keep him from touching something, SJ would strike to make his move and go for it! He is very talkative. I get so curious what he's saying. One time he was standing in front of the fireplace and yelled for 10 minutes. His expression was so funny. He was waving both hands and had a very angry look on his face. His favorite fruits are banana, orange and perssaman. He would always want to eat whatever Eus and I are eating. He knows what we eat tastes better than his bland food.

Oh.. I can talk about my baby for hours and look at him/his picture for days...