funny face

Would you believe this cutie pie face could turn like this??

Praying baby

Ok, I know that this is the third entry of the day, but I had to tell everyone this fact. Alden learned how to pray sometime ago, and he can now put his hands together. (We’re still working on the kneeling and closing the eyes). He doesn’t usually wait and have his hands gathered for the whole prayer, but he can tell when a prayer is about to begin in sacrament meetings now. Before we even tell him that they’ll be saying a prayer, he puts his hands together after the opening/closing and the sacrament hymns. He even puts his hands together after the bread has passed without being told because he knows that they’ll now bless the water. It’s so neat! :D and he’s so cute!!

I don’t have a picture to go with this entry so I’ll just put a random picture.

Alden, getting into the cupboards in the kitchen.

Using the chopsticks to pick up his food. :D True Korean baby.

Cutest Yoda

Alden was Yoda for Halloween as you could probably guess from his birthday present. We tried it on one day and took some pictures. He’s really enjoying his time, isn’t he? For Halloween, Joe dressed up as a Jedi (Yearim and I made a Jedi costume for him), and I dressed up as Princess Leia. I had to go to the DI to look for the material, and I think it turned out really well. When we went trick or treating, he wasn’t in a very good mood and was really tired. We had to keep him awake for the trick-or-treating because that was the only excuse we had to get candy for ourselves. lol. We first drove up to a neighborhood with bigger houses to check out what they had. We were less than disappointed when half of the houses turned out to be empty. Alden liked pushing the doorbell, so we went to about 5 houses. Then we decided to go to our own neighborhood, in our ward boundaries. It was a big success because many people knew me as I was growing up and were very happy to see our family, especially the little Yoda. He was very popular and we even got extra candy for the “parents.” Joe’s favorite was the bishop’s house. He gave us an airhead. lol. It was actually my first time going trick-or-treating, and it was a lot of fun. I just wish it could’ve been warmer!

With family

We love spending time with our extended families. Below are some examples. :D This Saturday, we’ll again get to go to the BYU game with Tom and Laura while mom and John babysit for us. They are great! We are excited to have them over for the day, and can’t wait to play the Super Mario Bros on the wii with them. :)

At the last BYU home game with Laura and Tom.

Celebrating mom’s homecoming at Chili’s.
”I want my baby back, baby back, baby back..”

Alden’s trying to learn from Sophie’s examples. lol.

New Moon

A couple weeks ago, Joe heard on the radio that Mix 107.9 was giving out tickets to the New Moon’s opening night. He drove straight there and got a raffle ticket to win the tickets for me. :D He eventually had to go so I drove down there with Alden to wait for the drawing. And WE WON! So we have a fun date planned for this Friday. Anybody want to babysit for us? lol.

Joe, waiting for the drawing and me.

Getting our raffle tickets.
 

Waiting and waiting…
 

Yay! Our tickets and a free haircut!

These pictures are from their website.

Learning the alphabet

Alden is learning the letter B with mommy. This is a much more effective way than sesame street, I think.

1st Birthday Party

Okay.. Yeah.. i know these pictures are so late. Lol. We had two birthday parties for Alden. One during the Priesthood session of the General Conference for friends (cupcake party) and another one for the family the next day. Not a lot of people came for his actual birthday party. Many people ended up being sick that day, but we still had lots of fun. :D

I make a balloon arch to take pictures with. :)
(He’s eating gummy bears in the picture)

Yummy chocolate chip cookies!
 

  Cupcakes to decorate
 
I was holding Katelyn while Jessica ate, and Alden got really jealous. But he just stood around and hovered over me. As soon as Jessica took Katelyn back, Alden came to me and held me tight.

Nathan helped us open the presents.

Alden got a Yoda costume for his birthday.

Decorated cupcakes. :D

Then the next day, we had our family over for a Korean style birthday party. After cooking all day, it was fun to have people come over and have a fun time.

Cute cousins in Korean outfit. :D

Playing w/ the toy Megan gave us.