The first month

It's hard to believe that Josh and I, with Gabriel, have been in South Korea one month today! Time has gone by so fast, it's kind of scary! If I think that there is only 11 more of these months left it doesn't sound like that long, especially if they go by this fast, but then if I then we're going to be here for a year it sounds plenty long! 

In our first month here Gabriel has become a champion sitter. He still falls over now and then but Mommy is always there to catch him, if not a pillow:) Gabriel is also very close to crawling. He is getting around just fine without the crawling, he will get his knees up underneath him and then push. I try to teach him to put his arms up too but that never last very long, he likes his way and that is what he is going to do! He also has 5 teeth now, he's my little buck tooth =D 

Josh and I are still enjoying ourselves. Josh still likes teaching at the school. He is a lot more used to it now and is even more comfortable with it. We're trying to learn some Korean but it's not the easiest language in the whole world! Plus it doesn't help that their alphabet is COMPLETELY different so you can't read anything. When I have traveled to other countries I can usually figure out what things say, but not here, there is really nothing that is similar. I know thank you and cute and a old and/or married woman... I'm slow, I know! 

Over all, things here are fun and exciting. We're excited to see what the rest of our time here will bring!

Somebody loves Strawberries!

Seriously...

Need I say more?

Farmer's Market and Children's Day

Today was Children's Day in South Korea and it was also the day for the farmer's market! Children's Day is all about the kids. It's kind of like Mother's and Father's day in America. The school was holding a celebration and they had face painting, balloon animals, puppets and more. They also had this on Sunday for the people that couldn't make it today. Josh had to work on Sunday but today he got the day off, so we went out and had some fun!

On Sunday I took Gabriel around and he got his face painted and a tattoo on his forehead. He didn't stay very still so the circles ended up lopsided and choppy...

Mommy and Daddy were also bad and gave Gabriel a taste of ice cream...

Today Gabriel was very excited to go out and discover everything...

Josh and I took Gabriel around the school and he got to see everything that was going on...

We also took him into town and went to the farmer's market...

This is some of the most disgusting fish I have ever seen and it was just sitting out like all the fish here and had big honkin' flies sitting all over it...

Some more stuff one of the farmers was selling...

Mommy and Daddy were bad again and gave Gabriel a taste of ice cream... he thought it was pretty fantastic...

It was a fun day and it was very hot out! Well, it wasn't that awful but we're from Minnesota and we are defiantly not used to 80+ degree weather! It was nice for Josh to have a day off in the middle of the week so we could have some fun!

Nature Baby

Gabriel loves to be outside! I never thought that I would have a baby that just loves the outdoors as Josh and I aren't super outdoorsy people. Not saying Josh and I don't love to be outside, but we're just not that extreme about it. Gabriel on the other hand just loves it. 

If Gabriel is fussy we can just sit him in the window and he will be perfectly fine. He can spend forever sitting in front of windows looking outside. Most times there is nothing going on outside, just trees,  but it still fascinates him! 

One day Gabriel was kind of cranky so I thought I would take him outside for a walk. The minute he was outside he went from fussing to flat out laughing, it was so cute! We take him outside a lot if he gets cranky, unless it's cold out and then we have to resort to letting him sit in the window. I try to get out a couple a times a day just because I know he loves it, though I will admit there are some days we don't go out at all. 

It's really cute because inside he is just all over the place, he gets into everything even though he can't quite crawl yet, he's a good scooter. When we go outside he just kind of sits there and looks, content as content could be just looking around. Though lately he's got this thing for grass=D

Darn Squash

Yesterday was Saturday and I decided to make baby food for Gabriel as we were getting low on our supply. Making baby food is not my most favorite thing in the whole world, but it's not that bad either. 

First I decided to make peaches, they were the easiest of everything since you just had to take them out of the can and blend them, no extra water, no steaming them, just blend. I then decided to make squash, it was the hardest. Squash is super hard to cut up, I always have to have Josh help me and then you have to gut it and cut into small enough pieces so that it will fit in my steamer. Then even after cutting it up into small junks it's kind of like a puzzle trying to get all of it into the steamer at once, then after it cooked you have to skin it which is a pain. 

So I chopped, steamed and skinned all the squash, YAY almost done. I then go to blend the squash, which isn't the easiest job either as it is very thick and you must add water to it constantly. I had gotten all the squash blended and had it to the right consistency for Gabriel and was about to turn off the blender when I noticed something. Something that was NOT good. The squash was starting to come out of the bottom of the blender... CRAP! I frantically turn the blender off and without thinking immediately decided to lift up the blender "cup" (you know there is a motor and then there is the big cup thing that you put all the food in to blend it that has the choppers in it) so that squash wouldn't get into the motor. When I lifted up the blender cup the bottom decided to fall out completely and all my hard earned mushy squash mushroomed over the bottom part of the blender. NOOOO!!!!!! 

I have to admit I probably said a few things that I shouldn't have while I was running around the kitchen trying to find a container so I could save at least some squash, but as you might remember from my previous post about my cups, they didn't give us much when we moved in so finding a container that didn't exist wasn't easy or practical. In the end I was able to save a little bit of squash, but the majority of it was all over my counter and blender=(