We're still alive!

Sorry, I haven't been really keeping up with the blog lately... A lot of things have happened, I guess. First of all, we moved. Joe and I were trying to get people to sublease our apartment so that we wouldn't have to move everything out, mainly the furniture, but we couldn't find any people in time. At Wymount Terrace, if you don't submit your 60 day notice, you are responsible for the rent for those 60 days. Well, we hadn't put in our notice because we were hoping to find people to live in our apartment for the summer, so we were in a tough position. We didn't think we could afford to pay two months' rent. Well, one of our neighbors had shown interest in moving into our apartment before, so we were hoping that they'd move into our apartment. They would be "transferring" apartments, and would not have to pay the penalty for moving and leaving their apartment empty, and we wouldn't have to worry about our apartment anymore!

So they came to look at our apartment, and being the nice person I am, I let them use our tape measure to measure the rooms, etc. They were excited to have the extra storage room and a larger pantry, and they went home, trying to figure out how to arrange their furniture in the new apartment. Well, 10 minutes later, they called us and told us that they decided not to move in after all. In turns out, after measuring the dimentions of the apartments, they figured out that the rooms were the same size, and the only difference in the two apartments were that we had an extra storage room. I guess that wasn't enough to have to move everything. Well, that night, I had an almost-anxiety attack and couldn't sleep so I turned and tossed about in bed all night.

So in the morning, I asked Joe to call our neighbors again and beg them to move into our apartment. He talked to our neighbors and told them about the penalty we'd have to pay the rent for the 60 days. Well, after discussing with each other for like 5 seconds, they told us that they would move in! I was so happy and excited and thankful. Anyway, they wanted to move in the next Monday before school started on Tuesday for them. That would mean that we had to move out that same day or the next day (Monday the week before) in order to give enough time to give Wymount Terrace inspect and clean the apartment! Well, Joe had to get off work and come home right away, and we called Uhaul and some friends up. Alden was feeling sick, so we desparately needed a baby sitter. We had about 4 friends volunteer to help. Well, in a few hours, we had moved most of stuff out of the apartment and into my mom's garage and the pingpong room. Joe and I had to spend that Monday and Tuesday packing, moving, and cleaning. Anyway, we got it done....

Well... We thought everything was going smoothly... But.... As we were trying to put in our move-out notice online, we noticed that our move out date was set to September 1!!! So the website wouldn't let us change it to an earlier date... Joe had to make phone calls after calls to try to resolve the issue. It took days to fix the problem, and by the end of the weekend, they told us that the apartment could only be available to move on Wednesday! I felt horrible that our friends would have to go through so much inconvenience. But then, Joe got another call from the Wymount Office. Apparently, there was a couple that were leaving Wymount to go on an internship or something, and had put in their move-out notice. Their apartment was already taken by another family, and they were getting ready to move out. Well, they found out that they were pregnant, and changed their plans. I guess they called the Wymount Office and asked if there were any apartments for them to move in, and the office remembered our apartment and had called us. Anyway, we let them move in, and so our nice friends no longer have to move anymore.

Anyway... While all that was going on, lots of other things were going on as well. Alden had gotten sick for the first time, with fever, runny nose, and coughs. Luckily, it wasn't too bad, and he never really had bad congestion, so he didn't have too much of a hard time eating or sleeping. I was also suffering from light cold symptoms like dry throat, and Joe was suffering from allergic reaction to a new cat my family got last week. Besides, we had no time to properly pack and move, so i had to go through all the boxes and reorganize everything....

We are still trying to get ready to go to Korea. We already sent 50 pounds of gifts with my cousin that left last week. Lol. We also figured out that Alden had been teething this whole time. I felt a tooth on the top (one next to the right incisor) a couple days ago, and this morning, I felt more on the bottom, and saw three coming in! It's so exciting. He's also improved much with his eating skills, like picking up food and feeding himself. He really likes to eat peas, and he's really really good at eating cheerios. He can do a lot of tricks with cheerios like flipping them in his hands like coins or passing it back and forth between hands. And like all boys, he's found pleasure in violence, he gets the biggest "kicks" out of kicking daddy and having him get knocked off. He's also learning how to flip the lights on and off, and he really likes to get his grape flavored vitamin drops. He also figured out that grandma gives him whatever he wants, so now she's his favorite person in the whole wide world.

Well, enough said, I will post pictures soon. Thanks for your patience!

Internship in Korea

As you may already know by now, Joe got accepted to an internship in Korea with Hyundai Heavy Industries. We are so excited to go to Korea this summer. It's my first time in 8 years, and Joe's first time in 13 years!!! I am sure everything has changed so much. I just hope the language stayed the same at least the last 8 years so we can still communicate and get around when we get there. lol.

I booked our plane tickets last night. We will be leaving on May 6th and coming back on August 26th. Yes, we will be celebrating Joe's birthday in Korea with his mom. It will be so much fun.

We are planning to visit lots of relatives, tourist sites, etc. We are still trying to think of a way to be more active (instead of being couch potatoes as we are now) so that we can get out more and be immersed in the culture and language, especially for Joe. We're hoping that his Korean will improve much over the summer (I have my fingers crossed). If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

We heard that John is doing much better. That is such a great news! We pray for him every night. :)

Alden loves daddy!

Because Joe is so busy with school and work, he hardly gets to spend time with Alden. So whenever he has some free time, he likes to hang out with our cute baby boy. :D Alden enjoys the man-to-boy time with daddy.

Alden likes to grab and eat whatever he can get his hands on. The next two are pictures of him trying to eat the camera. :D

Look how he attacks the camera. Also notice how the lens gets blurry after he puts it in his mouth. Don't worry! We have a water-proof camera. :D

Blowing Raspberries

Alden's been blowing raspberries. It's very messy and slobbery, but he's so cute. :D

Today was his 6 month check up. He is 18 pounds and 26 inches long. His height and weight are average, but his head circumference is on the 80th percentile! Hopefully that'll mean that he'll be smart. lol. Now he can... play the piano (more like bang the keys), grab and shake a rattle, grab and eat whatever he can get his hands on, say a-da-da-da, squeal loudly and high-pitched (especially in sacrament), etc., etc. We love Alden! :D

Prodigy

Alden's been learning how to play the piano. :) He's actually quite good at it. lol. And he's been trying to learn how to type on the computer keyboard as well.

h m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m,,o v v ,; 8t tjmhn,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, n 6 ghbbbbbbbbb m 6 ㅠ 5ㅊ

Nice typing skills, eh?

Here's a video of his piano skills.

Eating habits

Alden has discovered that everytime the spoon goes in his mouth, he gets food. So now he will grab the spoon when I try to feed him and won't let go of it. He just keeps chewing and sucking on his spoon. And if I try to take it back to give him some more food, he will scream and cry.... So I gave up giving him food and just let him eat the spoon.

Today, I was trying to be clever, and I pulled out TWO spoons. I gave him one spoon and used the other one to feed him some rice porridge. Well, he used his free hand, grabbed the second spoon, and shoved both spoons in his mouth.

Oh, well...

Confused Daddy

So last night, I was reading late in bed after Joe had already gone to sleep. All of a sudden, I was surprised to find Joe, sitting up on the bed, glaring down at me. I thought maybe he was upset at me for reading so late at night. I timidly said,

"Hi."

He looked at me for another few seconds, and laid back down and closed his eyes. So thinking that he was really upset at me, I asked,

"Can I kiss you?"

His answer was,

"Mmm."

But his face was angled down so that I couldn't kiss his lips. So after giving him a kiss on his cheek, I asked again,

"Can I kiss your lips?"

"Mm.."

So I tried kissing his lips, but he wouldn't let me. He kept avoiding my lips. After a few failed attemps, I asked again.

"May I please, please kiss your lips?"

"Mmm."

"Well... I love you."

"Mmm."

So I finally gave up and started reading again. Several minutes later, I found Joe, again, glaring down at me with a scary face.

"Hi."

He laid back down and closed his eyes back up.

"Can I kiss you on the lips?"

"Mmm."

"Why?"

"Mmm."

So I tried a few more times with no avail. So I started to get so confused and upset.

"Why can't I kiss you on the lips?"

"Mmm."

"I love you."

"Mmm."

Well, I wasn't going to take this without an answer so I demanded him an explanation.

"Tell me why I can't kiss you on the lips."

Still half asleep, he muttered something like this,

"Because... You..... I.... You... Can't... Get sick..."

Finally I realized that this whole time, he was thinking that one of us was sick with the cold. (Whenever one of us gets sick, Joe doesn't let me kiss him on the lips.)

"Hey! But I'm not sick. You're not sick. None of us will get sick!"

"Wha... what? That soundns iffy..."

Keep in mind, he is still about 70, 80% asleeep.....

Anyway, so I gave up trying to kiss him and let him sleep.

After I had finished reading, I turned off the lights and cuddled up to Joe.

"Hey, I'm going to kiss you on the lips."

This time, he didn't give an answer so I just kissed him on the lips. Still very confused, he asked the final question that made me laugh, rolling on the bed.

"Why couldn't I earlier?"

Don't we all love Joseph Rigby... :D