35....For A Moment....

Today Joe celebrated his 35th birthday. Jae-min and I spent the morning baking a cake and wrapping Joe's gifts. As the day went on Jae-min grew more and more excited for Joe to come home from work so we could celebrate. He kept walking by the gifts and squealing and doing this little happy dance!!!
After nap Jae-min couldn't wait to give daddy his gifts and help him open them. And of course daddy loved them all!!!! Especially the colored Elmo picture made by someone very special!!!

Jae-min has been practicing singing happy birthday by putting things into other things like candles. Like putting straws into the playdough, or his veggie sticks sticking out of his sandwich and then "singing" happy birthday and blowing out the candle. Very very cute!!!

Happy happy birthday Joe. We love you!!!

Aaachoo!!!!!!!!!!!

The last several nights Jae-min has been waking halfway through the night, crying. We go in to comfort him and he settles down immediately. The only problem is when he senses you leaving the room again he begins crying again. So.... we've been staying in his room until he falls back to sleep. Now this could take a few minutes or several hours!!! That leaves one of us sleeping all squished up in his chair or on the floor.

Our little gem wanted company at around midnight last night and enjoyed this company for about an hour and a half. Ugh!!! So...this morning Joe and I were laying groggily in our bed listening to Jae-min sing and talk to his bedtime buddies before we could pull our sleepy selves up to start the day. All of the sudden Joe let out a huge sneeze and from the next room we heard this adorable lttle voice say..........."BLESS YOU"

Joe and I started laughing. Oy, this one really knows how to score those points early in the morning after requesting "company" in the middle of the night!!!

Cool Dude!!!

Have you seen this cool dude? He's cool, he's cute, he's ADORABLE (and we think he knows it!!!)Watch out ladies!!!! He's coming for you!!!!!

You Are My Sunshine.....

My only sunshine,

You make me happy,

When skies are gray.You'll never know dear,

How much I love you.
So please don't take my
SUNSHINE away!!!!!!

Before.....

Before there was you there were tears and heartbreak.

Before there was you there were days filled with loneliness.

Before there was you there were worries and emptiness.Before there was me there was a brave woman who gave you life.

Before there was me there was a woman who made an ultimate sacrifice.

Before there was me there was a loving and caring woman who took good care of you.

Before there was me there was a family who kept you safe.

Today we celebrate Mother's Day.

A day to celebrate all of the mother's in your life.

A day to celebrate all of the "before's".

Before you came to our lives and became our son.

Happy Childrens Day!!

Today in Korea is a holiday, Children's Day, in which the country celebrates the children. Children are celebrated with gifts, parades, and festivities. So..today we will do something fun with our little man to celebrate. How proud we feel to be raising one of Korea's children!!!! It makes us happy to know that they are so valued and loved, just like this little guy.We still feel so proud to have been giving the opportunity to parent this amazing little one. We thank Korea and all its people every day and hope we are doing them proud!!!!

Explosions!!!!

We've been having 2 major Explosions at our house lately!!! First, spring is in full bloom and the flowers and trees are exploding in color. Jae-min has been enjoying spending time outdoors investigating all the flowers, bugs, and trees. Our second explosion has to do with Jae=min's vocabulary lately....its EXPLODING!!!! He is using so many new words and putting words together to make short phrases. Its so funny to actually be able to have a converstion with him and to have him answer questions with his words. He's so so smart (we're not biased or anything) Haha and loves to talk with anyone who will listen. When he sees the camera he now says "cheese" and hams it up. Jae-min knows how to use his language with so much expression too. With this exploding language and his sense of humor, it makes days spent with him a very big hoot. His sense of humor is still so funny.

So...add an explosion of trees to an explosion of words and what do you get? Beautiful days spent with a very special little boy!!!!