Evening Routine

Cheers! from serenity johnson on Vimeo.


Race? from serenity johnson on Vimeo.

Another Video for the Grandparents

Peter and the Woof from serenity johnson on Vimeo.
Joash reads me a naptime story.

Another Picture Post

This time with the addition of the belly baby's dad. See here our first use of candy as bribery in an effort to get Joash to sit and look at the camera.

Just Dancing from serenity johnson on Vimeo.
My mom is away on a trip right now, and I'm supposed to be stocking my dad up with snippets of his grandson. I'm doing a terrible job and forgot to post this video from last week! It really is only a video a grandparent is going to want to watch, as it's just 3 minutes of a kid dancing to a song, but it's a cute kid, and it's a Jackson Browne song.

Something Sweeter

All it took was two nights in the crib, and the poor kid's back to normal. Sometimes you don't realize you're rushing your baby out of babyhood until he tells you he's just not quite a big boy yet. And I'm pretty sure that's every mother's dream.

Anyhow, it's hot like fire outside these days, so, while we do our playground hour in the afternoon shade of the high rise apartments (seriously, we have to wait until 1:30 so the apartment adjacent to the park casts a long enough shadow to cool down all the slides), we also spend plenty of time sitting on the floor in front of a fan. I rarely leave the house with any intention of being looked at, but I had to meet Dan for lunch so we could apply for the Go Eun Mom Card. I still don't understand why, but Korea gives all mothers in the country a debit card with free money on it, even immigrant mothers, to offset the costs of pre-natal care and delivery. I make-upped my face for the occasion, and I decided to take advantage of it once we got home by taking some belly shots. Joash was really excited about the tripod and the "pickuhs, pickuhs," so he's in some too. 

This girl belly (here between 33 and 34 weeks) is so much bigger than my boy belly was, and I am amazed how differently they've behaved as fetal babies. Joash was like shoes tumbling in a dryer, but the girl is more like an inside-out massage chair. And she always seems to be awake! Every watch of the night, she's in there kicking around. Maybe it's cause Joash is so noisy. I think she's already getting used to rough housing because her brother is constantly climbing up onto my chest and sliding down my belly. He sure does love a baby, though. We were at a friend's house, and she was wearing her baby as she fell asleep, and Joash reached up and said, "share?," which is what he says when he wants to take a turn. He's about to have plenty of turns. I hope he's ready for it.