I found an application on Facebook that'll give you all your status updates for the year, so I copied and saved mine. It's like a snapshot of the whole year. Well, a rather long series of snapshots, I guess. I did trim it down but it's still pretty long. So I won't feel bad if no one actually reads this, but I just felt compelled to post it.
(These should be read with "Helena" at the beginning. If I'm not using that as part of the sentence, I'll usually separate it with dashes.)
January
is wondering whether she should go to church tomorrow or keep the baby home for another week.
is enjoying a raspberry yogurt.
is thankful for afternoon naps and a husband who cooks.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
If you're happy and you know it
Just a bunch of random pictures from before Christmas. (I'm dating this earlier so it'll show up at the end of December.)
Baby Tad was one of Kate's Christmas presents when she was Andy's age. We pulled him out got him some new batteries, and Kate and Andy had some fun playing with him together. One of the songs he sings is "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." Andy started clapping.
I think this is just so cute.
Opening the advent calendar. (Only $1.00 from Trader Joe's!) Kate enjoyed doing that after lunch every day, and eating the little chocolate candy for dessert.
Andy watches Kate drawing on the back porch.
She drew a castle and a fire breathing dragon, and a knight on a white horse. That's a sky up above, with snow falling.
Making cookies! This Does Not Happen Often, so I thought we should get pictures. Kate was quite intrigued and had to taste all the ingredients.
I had to show her how to lick the beaters, because she'd never done it before. Poor deprived child.
We made up three plates of cookies to take to our neighbors, and none of them were home!
Andy conked out on the bed. We were amused by the way he had his fingers laced together.
Baby Tad was one of Kate's Christmas presents when she was Andy's age. We pulled him out got him some new batteries, and Kate and Andy had some fun playing with him together. One of the songs he sings is "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." Andy started clapping.
I think this is just so cute.
Opening the advent calendar. (Only $1.00 from Trader Joe's!) Kate enjoyed doing that after lunch every day, and eating the little chocolate candy for dessert.
Andy watches Kate drawing on the back porch.
She drew a castle and a fire breathing dragon, and a knight on a white horse. That's a sky up above, with snow falling.
Making cookies! This Does Not Happen Often, so I thought we should get pictures. Kate was quite intrigued and had to taste all the ingredients.
I had to show her how to lick the beaters, because she'd never done it before. Poor deprived child.
We made up three plates of cookies to take to our neighbors, and none of them were home!
Andy conked out on the bed. We were amused by the way he had his fingers laced together.
Makes sense to me.
Andy had his check-up yesterday. He's 29" tall and weighs 17 pounds, 5 ounces. He got five shots, poor baby, and then came home and slept a loooong time.
Monday night we went out to I Love Bento with the Garys. (We wanted to do something nice for them, after they babysat our car for us.) I brought along some toasted laver seaweed to eat with the meal. Marianne asked about it, and I said, "It's called kim in Korea, and nori in Japan."
So Kate asked, "What is it called in Tacoma?"
Brilliant.
Monday night we went out to I Love Bento with the Garys. (We wanted to do something nice for them, after they babysat our car for us.) I brought along some toasted laver seaweed to eat with the meal. Marianne asked about it, and I said, "It's called kim in Korea, and nori in Japan."
So Kate asked, "What is it called in Tacoma?"
Brilliant.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Andy's Tol
After opening presents we had Andy's Tol. This is a Korean custom for a child's first birthday. (Doug doesn't see much point in doing this, since we're not Korean, but I think it's kind of fun.) In case you missed it, here's Kate's Tol.
Here's the table, laid with various items representing different things:
The book was one of Andy's presents that I didn't wrap up but saved out for this, so he hadn't seen it yet.
Andy gets pointed in the right direction...
approaches table...
It looked like he was going to go for the food, but he didn't actually pick it up.
He took off after Kate's dinosaur, so Doug steered him back to the table,
whereupon he immediately picked up a coin and put it in his mouth.
Doug rescued the coin, and Andy moved on and picked up the knife.
And then back to the food!
The first and second items a child chooses are considered significant. I don't think Kate had a second item at all--after picking the food she just climbed up on the table and sat.
Money represents financial aptitude, and choosing the knife is supposed to mean that he'll be a good cook. Perhaps a culinary career?
첫돌축하해요!
Here's the table, laid with various items representing different things:
The book was one of Andy's presents that I didn't wrap up but saved out for this, so he hadn't seen it yet.
Andy gets pointed in the right direction...
approaches table...
It looked like he was going to go for the food, but he didn't actually pick it up.
He took off after Kate's dinosaur, so Doug steered him back to the table,
whereupon he immediately picked up a coin and put it in his mouth.
Doug rescued the coin, and Andy moved on and picked up the knife.
And then back to the food!
The first and second items a child chooses are considered significant. I don't think Kate had a second item at all--after picking the food she just climbed up on the table and sat.
Money represents financial aptitude, and choosing the knife is supposed to mean that he'll be a good cook. Perhaps a culinary career?
첫돌축하해요!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Birthday! Birthday!
Our first joint birthday party! I went up to Artco on Saturday and got some balloons--five pink and one blue. We took some pictures with them that night because I wasn't sure if they would last.
(I didn't want to overwhelm this post with balloon pictures, so I just stuck them all together.)
Sunday morning we let Kate pick one present to open before church. She picked the animal coloring book from Barb and Kyle, because she liked the frog wrapping paper.
After church Andy let us know it was time for his nap, so we had a quick lunch and got things ready while waiting for him to wake up.
Scott came over for the festivities, and brought Kate yet another dinosaur.
We decided to go the slab-of-panettone route again. (We're just not cake people, generally.)
We sang Happy Birthday to Kate first.
It took her a few tries to blow out her candles.
And then we sang Happy Birthday to Andy! (That's Scott's hand.) Kate helped him blow out his candle.
I wasn't really happy with these pictures of Andy, and I realized that I had forgotten the "baby's first birthday" bib, so I re-staged this part the next day. (Mimi says, "Of course, it's the afterfeast of his birthday, totally acceptable!") I had, conveniently, done laundry early, so his clothes were clean again. The light was a bit different, though!
"Ooh, what's this?"
Andy loved the panettone (both times) and just gobbled it up.
Opening presents!
It's Nessie! (Playmobil seamonster, from my parents.) She was so excited about this.
Andy gets some help with his present.
My sister Barb made this ball. I love the colors. And it jingles! Very cool.
Joint present from my parents.
"It's an Elephant and Piggie book!" (Hooray!)
Happy birthday, kids! It's been quite a year. Here's to many more!
(I didn't want to overwhelm this post with balloon pictures, so I just stuck them all together.)
Sunday morning we let Kate pick one present to open before church. She picked the animal coloring book from Barb and Kyle, because she liked the frog wrapping paper.
After church Andy let us know it was time for his nap, so we had a quick lunch and got things ready while waiting for him to wake up.
Scott came over for the festivities, and brought Kate yet another dinosaur.
We decided to go the slab-of-panettone route again. (We're just not cake people, generally.)
We sang Happy Birthday to Kate first.
It took her a few tries to blow out her candles.
And then we sang Happy Birthday to Andy! (That's Scott's hand.) Kate helped him blow out his candle.
I wasn't really happy with these pictures of Andy, and I realized that I had forgotten the "baby's first birthday" bib, so I re-staged this part the next day. (Mimi says, "Of course, it's the afterfeast of his birthday, totally acceptable!") I had, conveniently, done laundry early, so his clothes were clean again. The light was a bit different, though!
"Ooh, what's this?"
Andy loved the panettone (both times) and just gobbled it up.
Opening presents!
It's Nessie! (Playmobil seamonster, from my parents.) She was so excited about this.
Andy gets some help with his present.
My sister Barb made this ball. I love the colors. And it jingles! Very cool.
Joint present from my parents.
"It's an Elephant and Piggie book!" (Hooray!)
Happy birthday, kids! It's been quite a year. Here's to many more!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Andy at 52 weeks
The last Saturday of Andy's first year--one day before his birthday!
The light in these is quite different from the previous week's. I had a hard time with the color correction.
Poor boy's been pretty snotty the past few days. He hates having his nose wiped and hates the snot-sucker, but cheers right back up as soon as the torture is over.
The light in these is quite different from the previous week's. I had a hard time with the color correction.
Poor boy's been pretty snotty the past few days. He hates having his nose wiped and hates the snot-sucker, but cheers right back up as soon as the torture is over.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Christmas, Christmas time is here....
I remembered to get a picture of Andy with the "Baby's First Christmas" bib. (I completely forgot Thanksgiving, and didn't even think of it till a few days later. Alas!)
The day before Christmas it occurred to me that we should get a "Baby's First Christmas" ornament for Andy, too. Doug and Kate were going out, so I asked them to look for one. Here's what they found:
(When Doug was describing it to me over the phone, I asked, "Is it creepy? It sounds creepy.")
Grandma Mary sent these ornaments that she made for the kids.
We had a big dinosaur Christmas a couple of years ago, and this year was definitely a dinosaur year too. Kate got two dinosaur toys (the Playskool walking triceratops, which she'd been asking for since summer, and the Playmobil brachiosaurus), and for a joint present I found a Scholastic DVD of dinosaur stories.
Kate named her triceratops Blue. (Most of her names tend to be color-related, or descriptive along the lines of Chompy, Toothy, or Beaky.)
Like our matching pajamas? (Especially in front of the Ugly Couch. Yowza!)
It was a pretty low-key kind of day. We had our own little ham dinner and watched The Grinch (the animated one, of course) and Lady and the Tramp (which begins and ends at Christmas). I got a little more done on my scrapping project which I still haven't finished. I wish we lived closer to our families--it would be nice to be able to get together for holidays.
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