Saturday Snapshot

Here we come to save the day!

Grandma sent us a surprise in the envelope with Shelby Grace's ticket in it today. Her OWN superhero cape. She loves to wear Zachary's and now has her own. I love it! What girl doesn't need a purple superhero cape?

Super Shelby Grace

Hey, you've got one too?

Off to save the world!

Korea is safe in their hands. :)

Surfin' ROK

Zachary thought a new way to use our Malian chair- his surfboard or snowboard or mudboard, it was each kind at some point this morning. Shelby Grace being little sister that she is of course has to copy any thing big brother does.

Surfin' Momma

Who is behind that board?

Wii Fit

Our friend let us borrow their Wii Fit for a few days. I can say we are hooked! Video games plus exersizing, it can't get any better than that. It is so much fun too!

Zachary riding a bike

Zachary is in this stage where he doesn't like the camera unless he is in the mood to take pictures. When he has that right mood, he is such a little model. He makes up his own poses.
I love my handsome man!

Big Girl Bows

We have begun a whole new world of big girl bows. Mommy has made the big ones so far. I think she is pretty cute. What do you think?

Shelby Grace bent down on her own just to show me her bow. How nice of her!

Shelby Grace enjoys reading books. It looks like she is sitting on a toilet but it is just a stool.

Po-po for daddy

Just a little bit of sweetness

Skyping with Grandma

This is how you take a picture with Grandma when she is on the other side of the world.

Bouncing with Grandma

Chattin'

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Moving on Up

While sitting in our living room this morning, we were startled by a ladder creeping by our 7th story window. Luckily, we have seen enough people moving in Korea to know what this was. To move in and out of apartments, you have to go through the windows and out versus through the too small elevators and stairways. One of the ingenuous Korean inventions is the moving lift. A truck pulls up to the side of the building, raises a ladder to the moving apartment and then sends a lift up and down the ladder to either remove items from the apartment or send something up.

The kids were very intrigued watching the lift go up and down.

Short clips of the lift moving up and down.

My Little Giant

Dr. Shelby Grace

I think we have been sick way too often because Shelby Grace is now an expert with the thermometer.

What is your temperature Shelby Grace?

Yeah! 98.6, no fever!

Dress Up Time

I bought some dress up clothes for Shelby Grace from a friend leaving TCIS this year. She wasn't too much into the clothes yet but enjoyed the jewelry and the shoes.




I had bought some board games for Zachary but can you tell what he enjoyed more? I only wish he had let me take a picture of him in the shoes!

We are in TR-OU-U-U-BLE!

I have no pictures to show you why were are in trouble because I was too on guard making sure that my 17 month old child didn't hurt herself. While out on the playground in our apartment complex today, Shelby Grace independently climbed up to the second level of the playing equipment and slide down the largest slide by herself over and over again. She loved it! She shows absolutely no fear. After watching Zachary's buddy Tavin climb up the horizontal climbing bars that have no wall behind them, she proceeded to try it herself. The girl doesn't stop! I don't know what we are in for but I am sure that there will be a few broken bones or busted lips in the process.

Shelby Grace's Borrowed Song

We have borrowed Aunt Sheri's song for Shelby Grace. Here is our little dance party in the kitchen. I was videotaping with Photo Booth on the computer so Shelby Grace is watching herself and kind of got distracted a bit. Either way, she is really funny to watch.

"Sherry" by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons

Once again another good example of the kimchee squat!

A TCK's piggy bank

We love living in Korea and giving our children then opportunity to experience another culture. They have the special privilege of being a Third Culture Kid (TCK) that brings many joyful experiences in their lives as well as hard ones which help define who they are as a person. One of the hard things about living overseas is having family living so far away. We go through times when Skype, as wonderful as it is, just isn't enough. Zachary has been asking for awhile if Grandma and Papa were coming to Korea or if it was time to go to the beach house in NC. Today was one of those moments in the life of a TCK that broke your heart but made you laugh at the same time with the 4 year old mentality.

Thanks to Korea's lovely fascination with taping unnecessary items to your food items, we received a very unique piggy bank. It actually signifies Zachary very well because it is the shape of his favorite drink, banana milk. He's been saving the few coins he finds or we give him for what I thought would be a new Lego toy. But today, he brought me the bank and asked if he had enough money in his bank for Grandma to buy a plane ticket to come see him. He had '9 monies' as he calls it and he was for sure it was enough. Of course, it was only 2,100 won which equals less than $2.00. It was worth a shot though.

We called Grandma and Papa to see if it was enough money. Then we found another bank he had with more coins to see if that was enough. Zachary has a TCK piggy bank all right. It included 7, 950 won, $0.58, and 5 Thai baht. His bank may not have enough money for a plane ticket but it sure has enough cultures represented inside!