*sigh*
My mom forwarded some mail to us and likes to throw in some stuff for me. We drink decaffeinated tea because Dan is cutting down and trying to shed his caffeine addiction and I'm still breastfeeding. One of the teas we drink is Celestial Seasonings Decaf Chai. I've dried other Chais and this is the one I like best. So apparently, my mom couldn't find it and she just remembered Chai and sent us caffeinated Chai. Oh and she likes to send me chocolate every time she sends us a package, except I don't eat dark chocolate and she keeps sending me dark chocolate. This is probably my 5th bag of Dove dark chocolate. I keep telling her that I don't eat dark chocolate... so I'm thankful for the package, except I won't eat the chocolate or drink the tea. I guess I know what my class is getting tonight.

I'm still around, still alive and not posting very much. I feel like I really should start again, and not just post pictures of Alex (as amazingly cute as he is). However, I find that LJ has some issues when I want to log in. Oh well, we'll see.

I still have letters to write from 9 months ago. I still have Thank You cards to send out from this summer. My mother is planning on coming to Korea twice in the next six months because she misses her grandson so much. This is the best time to really spend with him since he's changing so much. So Alex update:

He is 6 1/2 months old. He is crawling. He can pull himself to a standing position from the sitting position. He can walk a little if he's holding onto something. He doesn't talk yet, and is not very vocal at all. Thankfully, this means he also does not cry very much unless he's very crabby and tired.

At 3 months he was sleeping through the night, like 9pm-6am. Since we flew back to Korea, he hasn't been sleeping through the night, in fact he wakes up 2-3 times a night waking me at 12am, 2pm, 4:30am and then usually awake for the day around 5:30-6:30am. Not fun since I'm back at work, and working a second job editing science papers for non-native speakers. Let me tell you that I need ALL of my brain cells to work on these. It requires so much concentration that if I'm not well rested, I can't work on them.

We've been in the new apt for 6 weeks now and it's great. We're so much closer to everything and I love it. We've been dumpster diving some furniture. Our neighbors throw out decent stuff. Hey it's free, if we don't like it, we'll just throw it back out. Oh, we don't have a bed. We're sleeping on the floor using traditional Korean bedding which involves mats. We've doubled up on ours since I wanted more padding and I've accustomed my body to sleeping on the floor on a much harder surface. Alex sleeps on his own mat next to us. He moves around a lot in his sleep and dislikes the crib immensely.

Back to cross stitching, but mostly evenings after I'm done editing for the day and after Alex is asleep. Taking a break from reading for a few weeks after binging. I'm really excited that I can check out Kindle books for my iPad through Hennepin Country (my library is still valid). I like being able to support my library.

I set Alex down on his stomach on a blanket while I went to grab some water. When I turned him over I saw that he had spit up all over the blanket and managed to rub his face in it. My first instinct was to take his picture before wiping his face off. Does this make me a bad mother?
Oh, and of course I laughed while wiping off his face.

I don't post so much anymore, I do FB, but mostly I just update pictures of Alex.
Since my mom went back to the US I've spent most of my time holding Alex or feeding him or keeping him entertained or trying to keep him entertained - which is difficult to do with a 2 1/2 month old who has a hernia. He'll have surgery for the hernia on Monday, finally!

Here's a recent picture of my future prize fighter.

My mom watches The Good Wife so I downloaded it for her to watch while she's here. I'm not going into the plot, but three people are running for State Attorney. They're trying to dig up dirt on each other. The dirt one digs up on another is that he doesn't have a Swedish nanny afterall because the nanny is black. Seriously? I've been to Sweden. There are black people there.

I've been playing airplane with Alex recently. I pick him up and basically bench press him above me. Last night he decided to tell me that he didn't like it so much by throwing up all over my face when he was suspended above me. Thankfully I wear glasses, so I didn't get any in my eye.

Alex is 10.5 lbs now, he has gained 4lbs in 6 weeks. He's getting HUGE! Dan finds him very entertaining.

Don't you love the expression on his face when I kiss him?

Born 4:30AM, March 8, 2011

March is an important month for me.

March 5 Adoption Anniversary

Marh 16 Baby due date

March 30 my birthday

Everything is spaced out pretty well I think.