Monday, August 29, 2011

First day of 1st Grade/Girl Fun

Logan looked mighty handsome for his first day of school! He was really excited to go especially sporting the fohawk!
Ms. Yoshida is super organized, clean, and experienced.
He has been anxious to use his new camo backpack and shoes so we had to show them off.

We have had a fun summer and I'm sad to see him off again but I know it is best and time.
I sure love these kiddos! Logan we will miss you.
We drove Logan to school this morning and had fun seeing all his new classmates. On the drive over we sang Dads song he taught us..."Today is a wonderful day for we are going away, not to the circus not to the zoo, don't you know we're going to SCHOOL!" Logan seemed pretty relaxed. But then while we were standing and waiting for Ms. Yoshida to pick up the class we saw girls crying and then I noticed he started to pick his fingernails. (I think this is a nervous thing he does.)
Hugs and kisses and he was off and I was praying for a good day and YEAR!
While our men were off to work and school the girls had fun! We went out to breakfast and Addysen was so happy to have most of my attention. I got her green and purple grapes from the buffet and she was hilarious she said "Mom these green grapes are BAD where are all the purple grapes?" I guess I always buy purple so she didn't even know green grapes existed and they must have been bad. (I think she might be a bit biased toward the color!)
Then we were off for hair cuts.
Sadie always gets snatched up whether she likes it or not. She tolerates it for a little while but then if she sees me she starts to whimper and reach out for me.
Just so Daddy doesn't have a heart attack it was just a trim! :-)
While at the Dragon we of course rode the carousel and played at the playground.
One of her many faces.
She has grown up so much while living in Korea. I remember when we first moved here she was barely walking and now she is running and climbing with all the big kids.

It was a pleasant surprise to see a smiling face when he got off the bus. A huge difference from last year. He was full of good, positive comments. He told me his teacher was so nice and that he was excited to go to school tomorrow.
Our friends invited us for ice cream from the nearest 7-11. The kids love the Korean strawberry on the outside and apple flavor on the inside popsicles. It was a fun way to celebrate the first day of school. We sure live in a great place!
And of course we can't forget our sweet Sadie always along for any new adventure. This sweet baby gets dragged all over the place. Here she has found her thumb and she doesn't really suck but gnaws on it every now and again.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Happy Birthday Logan!!!

6 years ago today in Orem Utah, Logan joined our family and changed our lives forever. for some cut baby pics, click here. Logan we love you so much. We love your silly personality, the way you talk and laugh. We are so proud of how smart you are and how hard you try in everything you try. We love how "new food is an adventure." and how you are a "fan" of somethings and "not a fan" of other things. This year you have started reading and doing addition. You are also an awesome swimmer, you touched the bottom of a 10.5 foot pool. You can jump off the diving board and swim to the side by yourself. You can hit a baseball and catch one too. And today you almost mastered tying your own shoes (goodbye Velcro). We love the way you try to speak Korean and the way you have such a great attitude about being far away from your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends in America. We love how you can recognize mustangs, volvos, GTOs, S2000s and Jeeps. We love it when you dance to good music. Most of all we love you as a pal and as a big brother. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!
Logan was so happy to have to use both hands to show us how old he was turning.
I love my cute kids.
Thanks to grandma, Logan gets to enjoy some classic toys. Ninja turtles circa early 1990s.
Matching shirts for best pals.
And a mom got a great deal on WOOT.com for a new big boy camera.
Daddy unfortunately got called in to work for a few hours, so Logan and Addy got to work on the new lego set. Logan is getting so good at following the instructions and paying attention to the details.
At night, we set up the kiddy tent and surprised Logan and Addy with headlamps. Just to make sure they worked, we did some late night froggin. The lamps worked great but the frogs were nowhere to be found.... too hot during August in Korea.
Logan got a new bird book.
These kids are champion campers... now someday we need to try camping outside.

Autobot cake

Since coming to Korea we have done a few custom cakes: Minnie, Mickey, Mario and now Autobots!
This one was Logan's choice and was a lot of fun to make.







Logan's bowling party

Thank you to all of Logan's friends who were able to come out bowling with us. He had a wonderful time!



After bowling and pizza it was time for cake.



We absolutely loved Samantha's card!