I would like to have a family section on our newsletter but they're already so long I feel bad about making it even longer. My parents say that not writing about personal things is better. I, however, always like the more personal parts of the missionary updates that I receive so I can see the human side too and not just the work side. I wonder if it's a cultural thing or a generational thing? Maybe just a personal preference? What do you think?
Anyway, so a few updates on our beautiful two kids. :)
Sungjae at just over 8 months:
Sungjae started crawling a few weeks after we moved to Japan and he's now crawling very fast, standing, "cruising" (walking sideways while holding onto things) and can walk around in his walker. He loves pulling off the dish rag from the hanger by the sink and playing under the dining room table. The only problem with that is that he's now too tall and keeps on bumping/scraping his head on the top! He's also now tall enough to touch the on/off controls on our gas stove...
When he's in his walker he opens up the bottom part of our two-tier trash can (top for combustibles, bottom for recyclables) and takes things out. When he's crawling, he pushes the foot pedal for the top part of our two-tier trash can and tries to take things out of the bottom part but can't - yet.
Everything still goes straight to his mouth. He's a great eater and eats a rice bowl full of baby food plus dessert (usually fruit) 3 times a day, snacks on cheerios and nurses 5 times per day too. When I asked the doctor how much he weighed at his first appointment here in Japan, the doctor said "8.7kg. Heavy."
He loves giving big slobbering kisses. Sometimes he misses and ends up eating our nose. =D
He has the cutest smile and loves laughing. He has two types of laughs - one is an outright giggle type laugh and the other one is a gasping type laugh. They're both really cute. :)
Unfortunately, he loves using kerosene heaters as a prop for standing and likes banging on them too. It's one of the few things he gets in trouble for.
He's figuring out how to open our sliding doors - not good! He also knows that with some of our doors, he just needs to push slightly and it'll open. One in particular we need to be very careful of because it leads to our "doma" which is an outside area kind of inside our home but it's just a concrete floor with one concrete step leading down to it so if he ever opened the door and fell down, that would not be good!
When we lift him up he makes running motions with his legs. =D
When big sister has no one else to play dress up with, he becomes her model. =P
By the time he was 6 months old, he'd been on 4 flights and been in 3 different time zones (not including pre-birth). Hopefully we won't be flying anywhere or changing time zones again till after he's at least one!
Juhee at just over 3 years of age:
From when she was 10 months old till just before she turned 3, Juhee went on 22 flights, 5 of them being flights lasting over 10 hours. She's been to lots of churches and attended 3 different schools in the US in 2 different states. She's been a real trooper and we're very grateful for her flexibility, outgoing extroverted personality and adaptability. Hopefully we'll be able to provide her with a more stable life now that God has brought us here (well, at least until we go on furlough).
Earlier this week, after watching a DVD on "building words", Juhee wanted to spell out her name using the fridge magnet letters we received in a care package from Auntie Lynn & Uncle Aaron. After spelling her full name, she said she wanted to also write "The End". I was very surprised, and I asked her "You know how to write "The End"?" "Uh huh. Mommy, where's the D? (looking inside the ziploc bag full of letters)" "Here." "Oh (puts D on fridge). (Looks through bag again.) And here's the N. Look! See! D N. See!" :)After dinner, Peter was playing with Juhee. He held her upside down then flipped her up and then back down again, swinging her in between his legs. Then he put her down and then she would crawl through his legs and then run around one side. She was sooo happy and having so much fun! We could tell by her laughter but she also told us so in her own words: "Daddy, your legs are so much fun!" =DDD
A Korean lady who attends Koyo Chapel gave us a series of children's Korean books that her teenage children have outgrown. I have been reading them to her now and again and it seems to have helped Juhee's Korean to improve. She's actually speaking more Korean now than when we lived with my mom, even though she's hearing it less. Hopefully Juhee will continue to love reading as this will be key in her learning Japanese quickly and correctly and later on, in her being trilingual.
Juhee loves dressing up, singing and dancing, playing with blocks, playing outside, going through her "study" books, playing in her kitchen, helping me in the kitchen (she's getting better ;)), Skype-ing with friends and family back home, reading books, and lots of other things too. :)
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