Look What You Missed Daddy/Thought It Might Never Happen!!

Well though Chris discovered the renegade tooth first, he missed the actual removal...so hehehe!! And the "Thought It Might Never Happen" statement refers to the fact that her mother still has 4 baby teeth...no typos, you read that correctly. They are perfectly happy and set "in their ways" so much that they might never come out, or if they do it'll be when I'm 80 and already losing all my other teeth so Chris won't find me so hideous!! ;) Anyway, she was very brave and kinda thought the whole process was kinda exciting (in a I'm 2 seconds away from crying kind of exciting) but nowhere near as cool as her brother thought it was!! Dalin was standing there the whole time thinking that this was the most gross/totally wicked thing he'd ever seen!! So keep those bats away from my son or he might try to recreate this event on himself slightly prematurely!! ;)

Some Final Decorations!!

Just a few more extra shots of my door and inner entryway with all the stockings on it....mainly for Mom since she can't just come down the elevator and have a look!! ;)

The Night of Nickolstaag

Well I got this email recently from a friend explaining a tradition that their family has kept up for some 13 years and it's a German (I think) custom of the children shining their shoes and leaving them outside their door on the night of December 5th and St. Nickolas would visit them and leave gifts in their shoes, though they don't actually get to see "him" until Christmas Day. Traditional gifts include oranges/fruits, small candies, etc. And also he leaves twigs in their other shoe to remind them to be even better next year!! So anyway, we decided to participate (could only find one shoe for Kyle so it was a stuffed little shoe with twigs and candy in it!! Anyway, and the other picture is of the friend's house that started it all!! Their whole floor participated as well...how fun!!

A Slight Blast from the Past!!

Well I just saw these pictures again when I uploaded tonight, but thought my mom might like them....through the time we've been here the cute little cobblestone path that you see in these pictures has progressed from a very uneven (which it still is) muddy puddly dirt walkway to this bricked nice little path. So I have to hand it to Koreans in some ways..they sure can build something fast, just not necessarily correctly or accurately, (like I said the pathway is still VERY uneven!!)

A Sicky Baby!!

Well after making what I would even categorize as a "beautimous" looking cheesecake for the dessert social today....as luck would have it Kyle throws up 5 minutes before we are to go and afterwards he seemed to be feeling a smidge better so we try and get ready 10 minutes later and sure enough as soon as we get to the door, another barage of upchuck (actually it was only water thank goodness since he hasn't eaten anything today) so we decided it was the spirits so to say telling us to stay put and so the older two and I tried to make Christmas cookies that I would've taken pictures of if Chris hadn't taken my "do everything for you, can be a complete idiot and still operate it" camera and left me with his "do everthing manually, most people could probably operate but not me" camera. So you'll just have to imagine!! They were okay I guess in between trying to make them and calm the ever-crying and tired baby that is of the present laying on my lap face up, eyes wide open but not moving an inch. Do you think I should worry?? Oh wait, I felt a finger move....whoooh....that must mean we're in the clear!! ;)

Well though the profile picture I've had on our site since I began this blog some 6-12 months ago (I don't remember..stop giving me a hard time!!) was great because it was a family picture which honestly we don't seem to get alot of here because I guess that would involve alot of conversations that went like this:
US: "Excuse me, could you take our picture please??"
THE KOREANS:"Blank stare"...no those words would not be spoken, they would just be given very freely from their facial expressions.
And yes you might be saying, "But I thought your husband spoke Korean??" Why yes that's true but he's even more afraid that if he asked them in Korean that they'd run off with his camera. Yeah I don't know either!! Anyway, I digress yet again....Kyle was like 6 months old in that picture and since my strapping little *almost* 2 year has grown so much, I figured our profile picture should "grow" too!! So this was a pretty decent picture of us all from Halloween (minus Dalin's sideways face) and besides it shows our creative and fun-loving side right!! ;)

December 2nd Advent Happenings

Well nothing too thought provoking here, but we had a tree lighting here at the Base theater and we attended that tonight so that was our activity for tonight....and tomorrow's will probably be to go see the Harlem Globetrotters. But maybe after that I'll have some that might give you some inspiration!! ;) Sorry for the dark pictures, but the lights were pretty nonetheless.