A Playdate, A Parade, And A HoHo Sighting!!!!

On Friday we went into the city for a follow up appointment with one of Jae-min's specialists. The appointment went great and then we got to meet up with one of Jae-min's little buddies. Miss Allie (from Korea) and her family met us for lunch and then the kids had some fun playtime. We love getting the kids together and its so fun to watch them now as they are now interacting more. And what's even more fun is that recently we've been talking to Jae-min about being born in Korea. Now when asked "where were you born?" He squeals "KOREA"!!! and he knows his friends Allie, Ryan, and Auntie Kim were also born there. We love having these connections for him.
On Saturday we attended our town's annual Thanksgiving day parade. Jae-min had a ball and all we heard were......
"more shoot" for the guns going off
"Jae-min turn drums" yup was going to run into the street to play the drums
"hug Elmo, Cookie" sadly Elmo walked right by and Jae-min still talks about the snub!!!
"Cool, awesome" could be heard for just about everything else.

Here is the little man waiting for the parade to start. He was excited for the "marching feet" and had fun demonstrating his own.

This float was very unexpected but very beautiful. The figures are actually living people made to look like statues. It was such a wonderful reminder of how well our little boys 2 countries get along. Korea and America, united!!!! It makes us eager to visit the war museum on our return trip to Korea. We hear its great, a great tribute to our loyalty to each other.This sweet Panda came all the way across the street to snuggle our little man, and totally make his day!!

Jae-min was enjoying the entire parade until he saw the BIG man in red coming. Oh boy a Hoho (Santa) sighting!!!

There's the big man himself. We've been very good this year Santa.

On Sunday we actually went and saw Santa arrive in a sleigh in an outdoor mall area near our house. We told Jae-min to yell to Santa what he wanted. All of sudden we hear "Hi Hoho, Choo choo trains, crayons and scissors"

Um Santa did you get all that?