Lauren is growing up to be such a sweet little girl with the most endearing qualities. She loves company and loves to be held. She will automatically smile whenever mommy, or daddy, or big brother enter the room. Oh yes, she has LOTS of moments where she turns into a screaming little monster...but from looking at her pictures you would never know.
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| On her 8 month birthday... |
She developed her fine motor skills so much faster than Ryan...ever since 6 or 7 months she has been eyeing the smallest particles and the tiniest crumbs on our carpet...unfortunately, to eat it! She wants to eat adult food all the time instead of her baby food. She still doesn't roll over but she is starting to crawl. She is also excellent at doing situps...and I see this is probably due to the fact that she doesn't roll over. She will do her famous V shaped pilates move by trying to sit up from a laying down position without rolling over. Toys are generally wasted on her ... she is more interested in juice boxes, storage bins, and food. But the cutest thing she does is tilt her head to the side to smile at you .... ahhh... it just melts our heart!!
Now on to the older brother ... and I must say, Ryan is an excellent older brother to Lauren. He puts up with all her crazy antics like pulling his hair, scratching his face, destroying his legos, etc. Just excellent.
Also, Ryan has been having many epiphanies lately...
Epiphany #1: He has realized (with the assistance of a globe that he got last Christmas) that he is just a little speck in this big universe and that he lives in California which is a state in North America and that there are lots of other places like Australia, China, etc. He likes to see all the other countries on the globe and asks questions like:
"Are there people in Russia?"
"My friend's mommy and daddy went to China. Remember that time you left me with halmoni (grandma) by myself ... did you go to China too?" [Apparently, he thinks you can go to China in just a couple hours]
"Kangaroos live in Australia. Do kangaroos live in Russia?"
For some reason, he always likes to talk about Russia, Australia, and China.
Epiphany #2: He figured out how to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the keyboard by himself through trial and error. He shocked me with this one.
Epiphany #3: He understands the concept of languages and has started asking how to say things in various languages. We can thank "Dora the Explorer" for teaching him Spanish and "Ni Hao Kai Lan" for teaching him Chinese. He probably knows Korean the least because both mommy and daddy are horribly inadequate in the subject. I was sure he didn't even know how to say "Hello" in Korean because every time we made him bow and say "AhnYoungHaSehYoh" at church he would never do it. But yesterday he told me: "I know how to say hi in korean. It's AhnYoungHaSehYoh." So, he knew this whole time and he is purposely refusing to say it. The upside is that he says he will say it from now on. Well, we shall see if this is true at church tomorrow.
This month some of the things we did include visiting California Academy of Sciences, which was way cool. We attended a baby shower and 2 birthday parties and also had a short weekend trip to LA.
Here is a clip from a birthday party ...
And here is Lauren and Ryan being silly. I need to figure out how to flip this video.
2 comments:
Young, your commentary is hilarious. Come down again! I want to see the kiddies!
What a fun and engaging post. Young, you have a gift for writing. :)
By the way, how could it be possible Ryan doesn't know Korean?!? I thought Chang spoke excellent Korean.
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