Tooth Count 1 Week Later...

FOUR!

Love, Love, Love

This picture just about says it all. Two of my favorite times of the day are when Emma's daddy comes home from school and Emma lights up with a big smile, and when I get to watch Eric read bedtime stories to Emma. It has been so neat to watch their relationship grow. In the 1st few months of her life, Emma was NOT comforted by Eric at ALL whenever she was upset and especially at bedtime. But recently, it's been so neat to see Emma truly come to LOVE her daddy. She loves spending time with him, is comforted by him when strangers make her cry (and um... pretty much all MEN make her cry these days), and she "crawls" all over him during story-time and lays her head on his shoulder or chest when she's tired. Priceless!

Tylenol Kid

It's been a bit of a rough week around here, as evidenced by my daughter, who's favorite toy is now the bottle of Tylenol. No, seriously, the other day after giving her a dose of it, she grabbed the bottle (with a tightly screwed on lid) out of my hands and started sucking on the top of it like a pacifier. She also likes to chew on it. Teething... aigoo.

Happy TWOsday!

As the ticker above says, We have now been married 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days!

Nice!

And to celebrate... yesterday Emma showed us that she has TWO teeth!

Slow Week

... picture-wise anyway. Sorry for not blogging much this last week. I guess there wasn't much to take pictures of. I decided to clean off the pics on the camera this morning and there were only 15 on there from the entire week. (For us that is NOT a lot of pics). And below are the best of the lot. Not terribly interesting, but... this is my life right now. :)

Used my food mill for the 1st time to make peas into baby food. I was pretty excited about that. The food mill worked great AND out of 7 years in Korea, this is the 1st that I have ever found frozen peas! (And I can't find them anymore, so the package in our freezer is pretty precious). :)

The other day I was trying so hard to get Emma's hair to fit into a clip... for real. It's just not quite long enough. But I got a cute pic out of the deal.

Yes, I am sitting on the toilet in the bathroom in this one. :) Emma wore this dress yesterday that my mom had bought her and I had forgotten all day to take a picture of it. So, Eric snapped this picture RIGHT before Emma's bathtime. In fact, the buttons in the back are already undone. Whew! Almost missed it! This one's for you, Mom!

Korean-American Friendship Festival

This weekend our town, Songtan, held its annual Korean-American Friendship Festival. Basically there are a lot of booths (to buy food, give out information, or experience cultural art-making), a lot of carnival-like kid games, and big stage performances... All in the name of LOVE. :) haha! This year our school decided to have a booth to sell cookies and popcorn to raise money for a new playground as well as get our name out there and hopefully recruit some more students. All of the teachers and a lot of students signed up to work for a couple of hours each. Overall, I'd say it was pretty successful. Here are some photos of our booth and... Emma. Ok, so I just can't choose sometime so I have to show them ALL!

Pyongtaek-International Christian School

Some of my former 5th grade students (now in 8th grade) selling cookies.

More cookie selling. Oh, and Aunt Debbie, you'll be happy to know that your chocolate chip cookie recipe was a HIT! The bag closest to you in the picture has some of your cookies in it!

It was a bright day... hence the hat.

Emma checking out Isaac in the back.

The Zanger clan sporting our ICS gear.

And... one seriously cute little girl!

Game Day AND 1/2 Birthday!

Saturday was Emma's 6 Month Birthday and we celebrated by going to another one of Daddy's baseball games! Here a few pics from the event. (Have I mentioned that I LOVE our new camera???)

Exersaucer

Check out Emma's new toy!

Daily pics for Daddy

Everyday (ok, at least 2-3 times a week) I get out the camera and take some cute pics of Emma, then e-mail them to Eric at school. He LOVES getting to see his little girl throughout the day. He also always resets his computer background screen to whatever the daily pic is and then shows it off to whatever students are currently in his classroom. I think this is pretty sweet. Here are some of our recent favorites including several that I took and sent off this morning at the end!

Enjoy!

A playdate + A real date = A GREAT Day!

Want to know why? Because a playdate in the morning makes the day go SO much faster when you are a stay-at-home Mommy. And it's really nice for both Emma and I to get some social interaction in. :) Then, a REAL date with my husband gives me some much needed away time with him.

Yesterday, both of these things happened and it was a GREAT DAY! (Oh, and I highly recommend the movie, "Mr. Popper's Penguins." Nevermind that it was the only English movie showing... we BOTH really enjoyed the show!)