talking on the phone

Before the little one would just listen when playing with the phone, when I pretended to talk on the phone. Now he puts the phone or any similar sized object next to his ear (usually turned out the wrong way) and is starting to have pretend conversations. He does this while walking back and forth and it sounds like he is asking questions to the pretend person he is speaking to cause his inflections go up as he talks.

passport photo adventure

So we went to walgreen's to get our little one's passport photo taken. It's only $7.99 so a good deal. After what we went through to get the picture, they should of charged us more. The mgr had to help take the picture, and the little one wouldn't sit still of course. First we tried holding him still on a stool. That didn't work so then we tried standing him on the ground, nope. I tried putting him on my shoulders, he was a wiggle worm. We took a few breaks and let him roam around the store. Then he wanted to sit in the shopping cart, and it occurred to me that we could try to get his picture while he was seated this way. I rolled him to where the white backdrop was and the mgr was able to take his pic. Whew hoo! Now if only I had the foresight to wipe his face before he got the picture taken...

Affectionate little one

Little one the other morning woke up and gave me two big kisses. When he does this, he has this half-open mouth and says "ahhhh" as he goes in to give a kiss. So cute. He also gave his daddy a kiss and gave his teacher hugs today. Very affectionate day.

Green giant vs. the hulk

My hubby mentioned a good point, it's hard to tell the difference between the green giant and the hulk. Maybe we can use this similarity to entice our little one to eat more veggies, hehe.

Sea monster

Ok, so the little one is obsessed with seaweed consumption. But then again he is an aquarius so maybe that explains it. Taking care of his diapers AFTER seaweed consumption is another matter. I make him tiny "sushi" rolls, basically tiny seaweed squares with a few grains of cooked white rice. He makes a sticky mess out of them and it sticks to his clothes but he's like a moving snack car cause I can pick off some rice on his shirt as a snack later.

Easter Egg Hunt

So there was a egg hunt at a local park for the little ones so we took ours and missed the 1 year old hunt. So the next one was for the 3 year olds and as soon as they blew the whistle, all the toddlers were hurriedly picking up all the eggs and did so so quickly that the lawn was clear within just a few minutes. We barely managed to grab one egg for our little one and he displayed it proudly as I snapped a key pic. So the lesson of the day is that even 3 year olds have a competitive instinct in themselves, not to be underestimated.

Easter bunny adventures

Once the little one started to take a few steps, within a month he is walking everywhere. Took him to the mall to get his pic taken with the easter bunny. Should of brought my own camera to take additional pictures. He had fun climbing onto the giant pastel colored fake eggs. He tried to the pet the giant costumed-bunny and then had a fit almost as soon as I put him on the bunny's lap.

Paci behavior

Little one knows when it's time to take the paci out of his mouth. For instance, he takes it out of his mouth right before he sneezes and then he puts it back in his mouth afterwards. You would think at such a young age he would just sneeze and let the paci fall out.
I guess when you are a first time parent you get to appreciate the smaller developments children display and get true happiness out of it.

doljanchi

We celebrated our little one's b-day the traditional Korean way by wearing hanbok and serving Korean food. We also did doljabee where we layed out objects representing different potential occupations and he picked a book first (scholar), and then a football (football player). Instead of a cake, we custom order a huge round rice cake filled with beans, peas, and other sweet stuff. The korean food consisted of kalbi, marinated cucumber, seafood with broccoli, sweet/sour chicken, veggie tempuras, kimchi, rice, tofu, american sandwich platter, cherry pie, rhubarb pie, chapchae etc.