Games with Grandma

I have memories with both of my Grandmas playing games.

With my Grandma Cain we would play Dominos and Uno.

She would pretend to be forgetful and cheat. 

Well we never actually figured out if she was

cheating or truly forgetful of the rules.

Either way you had to keep a pretty close eye on her.

With Grandma Nielson we would play Aggravation.

Now we don't play the wimpy store version of this game.

Our family has a more brutal version - its WAY more fun.

Sometimes you love each other after...no not really,

 but somehow you still grow closer!

Grandma would always say

"Oh sweetie, I have to kill your person. I feel just terrible." 

And she did, but she would go ahead and kill you anyways.

My mom is a Grandma of the 21st century. 

My kids like to play Nintendo with Grandma.

She is getting William started out at a very early age.

I hope my kids will remember these times with my mom

when they have their own kids!

Korean New Year

Last year on Korean New Year we didn't eat our "Duk Guk".

Duk Guk is rice cake soup.  Koreans eat it every year on

New Years to bring them good luck.

Last year we missed it, and we had kindof a crappy year! 

This year we didn't want to take any chances so we invited

 Soung Jo and Jee Hoon over and ate lots and lots of good luck soup.

Of course we had to have lots and lots of other food as well!

Yummy! We were all stuffed. I am looking forward to a really

lucky year now.  You better not fail me little rice cakes!

My Little Man

My little man Liam makes sure that I never have a boring day.

Actually he makes sure I don't ever have a boring moment.

Here are some things he has been up to this week.

There are some perks to being very small.

One of them is that a 1x1x1 foot box is not too small to play in.

He was in there for a long time just having a blast.

If you weigh the same as a 4 month old, then I guess you

should be able to play in the baby swing too.

The funny part is watching him climb in there!

Here he is taking a brief nap.

He looks OH SO comfortable.

Much to my dismay he is trying to cut out his naps.

I went into his room this afternoon

when he should have been sleeping.

He had pulled every stuffed animal off of his shelf and

all of his clothes/diapers out of the changing table, and he was

dancing in circles with his stuffed dog in the middle of the room.

Everyday after his "nap" he goes to

Grandma's house to eat a banana.

This tradition is one that we cannot miss for any reason!

A banana a day keeps the monkeys at bay.

There is no rule that says you have to use hands to eat a banana.

If you eat bananas with Liam's method it frees

up your hands for more playing.

*Please note the completely shaved head.  I did not do that to him,

I put that all on his father.  Soungsik loves it, I am not so sure,

and my parents hate it.  My mom thinks it looks like we did it because

he had lice in his hair.  I had to explain to her that it wasn't a lice

problem, but a rice problem!*

Liam wants the best of both worlds.

He wants to be a small enough for the baby swing,

yet big enough for the "big kid" table.

He is starting to rebel against tippy cups and the high chair.

He was mad here because Isabelle has frosting on her sweet rolls,

and his didn't have any.  We aren't going

to be able to pull things like that over on him anymore!

Even though he never stops moving

I wouldn't change a minute of it!

We love you Liam!