Bike, Scooters, and Snow

A few weeks ago Amber's friend gave her the idea of filling a jar with cotton balls for every time that the kids listened and obeyed the first time. Last week when the jar was half full, we went to the aquarium. Today it was full so we decided that even though it was cold outside, we needed to go to the track and let the kids play with their new bike and scooters.
Here is Amber at 35 weeks.
Today was actually a beautiful day, and when the wind wasn't blowing, it was not too cold either.
Addy and Logan got some new outside toys from Santa this year, but because of the cold winter, they have only been able to ride them up and down our hallway.
Logan's new scooter is crazy fast.
And Addy did a few laps on her Strider bike. She is getting pretty fast. She tried out Logan's old scooter but could not figure out how to make it turn so she kept riding off the track into the snow.
I sure love weekends, spending time with Amber and the kids is my favorite thing to do.
We sure love the 'helicopter' park, Logan did soccer and baseball here last year.
Mom prepared well and brought us each our own cup of hot cocoa.
After about an hour of playing around, everyone's noses were running so we left for home.

Lunch with Ronnie and Una

A couple of weeks ago we got bundled up and headed underground to the subway.
A few stops later and we arrived at the restaurant to meet up with Una and our friend from Maryland, Ronnie. Ronnie was one of Logan's favorite friends because she has a pair of silly cats. It was fun to catch up on old times and eat the good food.

Logan's First Kindergarten Field Trip

I had the great pleasure to go with Logan on his field trip to the Samsung Children's Museum. We have been once before with some friends and Logan was excited to go back. My sweet friend and neighbor from church Motoko was able to take Addy for the day. It was strange leaving Addysen for a whole day but she did great and so did we.
Logan buddy it was so fun having a day just for you and me! I sure do love you and your sweet smile. (32 weeks pregnant)
We had lunch together it was so nice to sit and visit. Yes, we had to document the chairs in which we sat in. They were a perfect Korean sized chair. I love all these "little" things and hope we never forget our time here in Korea.
I was so proud of Logan he waited in a line this long for his chance to run the crane. It's one of his favorite parts of the this place, but it is so slow you have to be patient.
William was our friend we kept with us all day. They had fun peddling these bikes to make air to blow the balls out of the tubes.
Logan thought this was super great because he was able to do an ultrasound for this lady. (I thought a bit random to have in this museum but he thought it was cool to see the baby moving on the screen.) I am sure it meant more to him than most because he actually knew what was happening. He was pointing out all the different parts of the baby up on the screen.
This was a blast...playing a bunch of different instruments and making music that was played on a big screen in front.
A little Korean statue?
Logan was a news anchor.
We had a fun day together. I really enjoyed having this one on one time with Logan. Everyone loves Logan, it was fun to see him interact with his friends.

Sting

Tuesday night, Diana came over to watch the kids and we went to the Sting concert. It was kind of a crazy trip getting there. We rode a packed subway for over an hour till we realized that we missed our transfer. By then it was too late (so we thought) to head back on the subway so we tested fate in a taxi. It started to snow and the traffic was terrible. We pre-ordered our tickets and were supposed to pick them up 30 minutes prior to the show. We were still stuck in traffic about 2 kilometers from the gymnasium 15 minutes before the concert was to start. Finally we told the taxi we would just run the rest of the way, got out and started jogging in the snow. I ran ahead to get the tickets and luckily I was not the only one caught in the storm, I got the tickets, found Amber and we got to our seats about a minute before the orchestra came out.
Our seats were not the greatest but it was an awesome concert. The show went for about 1.5 hours and then had an intermission. Then he continued for another 1.5 hours. He came out for 4 encores! The last one he came in noticeably ready to leave (coat, scarf...) the orchestra did not have any more songs to play so he just sang without accompaniment. It was amazing. What a talented guy, he played his harmonica, a guitar, a base... it was a blast to hear all the songs we love.
On our long trip back on the subway, we noticed this.... during the day someone creeps in through that little door to sell drinks, candy and newspapers... I would love a picture of that:)

New negative scanner

For Christmas from my parents we got a scanner. Last trip home we finally found all of our Bob Boyd wedding negatives. We wanted to get them all "digitized" but it was too expensive so we decided a scanner would do the trick. Unfortunately, not all of the negatives are 35mm so we had to do a little research to find one that could deal with Medium format film negatives. Today we finally got around to hooking it up and trying it out. I am going to tweak a few of the settings, and we are going to pick up some compressed air to blow the dust between each scan but, I think this is going to be great. Once we get them all scanned I am going to put together a photo book.