This is a test.

I'm testing out the new "email posting" capabillity that blogger has made an option for me.  I wonder how it works...

 

It says all I have to do is email this email address and it will post to my blog automatically.  Fascinating!

 

So it's a test.

 

Yesterday, Tay started to say bah-bah, bah-bah, and I thought she was saying Appa, or baa baa from "baa baa black sheep"...nope.  I was wrong.  She was actually saying "Bye-bye"...:)  In the sweetest little innocent voice...this morning as we left the house, she waved back into the house and said "bah-bye" and blew a flying kiss.  :)  I can't believe how lovable my little baby is...she's growing so fast and even more quickly, she is learning things at light-speed.  It's truly incredible how quickly children absorb and learn everything around them.  I really need to continue speaking Korean to her more and more...I truly want her to be bilingual...it's so very important to me.  I want her to be able to communicate freely in both languages.  I must enable her. 

 

I love her.  She makes me smile every single day...a thousand times!

 

Who can't smile at this beautiful face...

 

Easter and Insadong

Well, it's been an interesting past couple weeks...

Tay turned 13 months old, Appa went off on a business trip - the longest we have EVER been apart since we started dating in 2004, and Tay experience her first Easter.

Easter had the potential for being a flop because Appa was going to be gone, but he made it special for us anyway.

The Saturday before Easter, the Easter egg hunt was a HUGE success. I got some great pictures of Tay running around trying to gather all the eggs. The day before that, when she almost met the Easter Bunny, she completely freaked out and cried and screamed. I can understand why, though...it was a really big bunny jumping off a really large fire truck with its flashing lights. She really enjoyed the easter egg hunt...but it really wasn't much of a "hunt" because there were just millions of eggs everywhere over the astro-turf field. After a while, Tay was like...what's the point. I can't get them all anyway...it's like she knew it was ridiculous...We probably spent a good two hours at the egg hunt and then headed back home for a nap. She racked out in the car. The day was so beautiful...I just wish Appa could have been there. Steve and Becky and Aiden were there this morning, too, so we got some good pics of the two little ones together. Tay gave Aiden a hug and tried to give him a kiss too, but he fell over before she could give him one. She just blew them flying kisses. After the nap, we just stuck around the house and relaxed...we ate pasta with cheese for lunch and she practiced using a fork. She's much more successful at getting food on the fork, but then she pulls the food off the fork with her hand and eats it...ah well. I'm sure she'll get it eventually. :) She made quite the mess so we decided to play with some water in the tub, so I filled a small basin with warm water and let her sit in the tub with it and splash it everywhere. She really got a kick out of that and we blew a lot of bubbles, too. We quickly rinsed off with a little bathwash and played around the house until she started getting tired again around 2:30, so we took another nap. Woke up around 4 and lazed around the house some more...until we decided to take a walk down our neighborhood and pick up some more contacts for me. When we got back, we cooked dinner and had some fish, rice, and kimchee...she ate so much. I cooked two fish and she ate all of hers and half of mine! We had strawberry yoghurt drinks for dessert. She liked drinking it out of the big girl cup. She poured half of it down her shirt, too...:)

Easter Sunday, we went to Easter Mass over in my childhood church around noon. We did go to breakfast before heading to mass and met up with Aiden and his parents (the Cortezes) again. We ate, came home to change, got dressed, and headed out to Duncheondong. When we arrived, we had mass in the children's room, which was highly distracting, but Shingil did well. It eventually got so hot, we left the children's room after the offering basket when by. Then we hung out in the lobby area until the rest of the family came down. We went out to lunch all together, relaxed a bit afterward at their house, and then Tay and I came home to nap.

That was our busy busy Easter weekend.

This weekend was our second weekend without Appa. Tita Beth came over this morning and the three of us girls went out to Insadong. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the flowers were in full bloom. Tay was a little tired this morning, but after lunch and her "ice cream cone," she felt much better and enjoyed the rest of the time looking at the funny statues and beautiful flowers.