1) You love music and being sang to.
2) How you move your feet when you are happy or excited
3) Your very cheesy all-lower-gums smile
4) How you yelp or squeal for any food that looks enticing
5) How you smile and are in a good mood so often, and so often upon waking up!
6) How you love standing
7) How it took you so long to crawl and you hated being on your stomach
8) Your straight hair
9) Your funny eyelashes - some stick straight, a couple curly. Your lower lashes on the right eye stick straight into your eye.
10) How you love carbs, junk food, and sweets
11) Profuse sweating during sleep. That is one trait that has been passed unfortunately to both kids.
12) How we didn't actually witness you roll over until 10 months old
13) Your smell - somehow you often smell kind of like candy.
14) How you have loved TV since 4 months of age
15) Your loooove of the pacifier (and therefore our love of it!)
16) How you wake up so darn easily to any noise, and how you will not stay asleep in the carseat when moved.
17) How you love clapping and doing "jam jam" in Korean
18) How you have huge front teeth with a large diastema between them, and how #F was hanging out by itself for a while, making you look like a country boy!
19) How during every meal, like clockwork, you strain for a BM
20) Your blue 'band aid' looking birth mark on your left ankle.
21) How you hate grass and will lift a leg and keep it elevated in order to avoid contact.
22) Your ability to put anything into your mouth. We've got to keep an eye on you!
We had a first birthday celebration, Korean-style for Olin's bday and Dae's mom went all out with the food. I should have taken a picture but totally forgot. We invited over our one and only set of friends here (Kelly and fam) and they toted along her dad, Alex's parents, and we invited our neighbor and Dae's parents friends. My dad came straight from the airport a couple hours later and we had a nice time in the backyard.
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| Koreans really know how to celebrate the First year birthday |
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| Suspicion |
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| Funny thing - this white cake in front mistakenly said "Happy 100 Days" in Korean, so Dae's mom and friend just re-arranged the raisins and had it spell "Happy 1 Year" instead. Hence the brown stain around the raisins! |
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| This cake. Oh my goodness. The amount of stress that went into thinking about and executing this cake. I snapped at Leelee probably 25 times today when he tried to touch it while I was frosting it. I have learned a LOT of lessons about cake-frosting. (And the first lesson is I will probably not frost another cake again. haha!) The main takeaway lessons for next time: 1) Buy more than I think I will need, of everything, which includes the plastic frosting bags, and the food dye. You can't really tell but the cake was more pink because I ran out of red food dye. 2) Do not have kids in the near vicinity when I am frosting. There was a lot of "Ugh!" and "Shoot!" and frosting falling and flying everywhere 3) Devote a solid 2 hours to do a good job. I whipped this up in about 1 hour because I was so rushed, and I definitely cut corners and didn't do everything the instructions said to do. I would like to actually make and frost a cake where I do everything corrently. |
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| Dr. Washington & Sue |
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| Mr. Eng (neighbor) and Mr. Kim (friend of Dae's parents) |
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| Adrienne, Kelly, Alex |
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| Alex's parents Kim & Jim |
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| Leelee loves pushing any of the Safranski girls in the Kettler bike |
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| Jo & Leelee |
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| Pre-cake |
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| Older kids were more than happy to help blow candles and eat! |
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| 5 more minutes, Ma! |
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| Major face-stuffing happening. All the other kids have black teeth because they delved in too. |
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| Surprisingly he was done after a few minutes. I suspect he didn't like being dirty and I truly do not know where that comes from - Dae and I have no problems being dirty! |
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| Nel & Adrienne stuffing cupcake onto their face, per their request. |
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| Jo wanted in on the action too. |
What a grand way to celebrate 1st birthday, the Korean way! Fun!
ReplyDeleteAh so nice!
ReplyDeleteMelanie...I LOVE how you capture the every-day details... your boys will be so very grateful one day (or at least their wives will!)!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to you both!
holy cow, that cake was amazing! i thought it was professionally made til i read your comments. i'm impressed! and you look amazing, as usual. oh - i didn't know you were going to dmb at the gorge... that sounds like so much fun! our friends went and i was tempted to buy tickets as well. maybe next year...
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