What a nice surprise!

I know I don't look so good in this picture. I was cooking and my hair was all messed up from wrestling with Matt all day.. then Sean came home with this lovely bouquet of my favorite flowers... I was touched. I think the last time Sean brought home flowers for me was like two years ago. So it was a very nice surprise. 

Thank you, Sean. I love you. 

So beautiful!

My New Haircut

I did it. I cut my hair pretty short. My hair hasn't been this short since I was like 20 years old. ha ha

I love Matt in this picture.

What do you think?

Please don't tell me you don't like it... I'd feel too bad... :)

Update

It's been a while since I updated this blog... I feel so lazy! Here is a picture I took this morning with Matt. We were all ready to go to church, can you tell? A lot of things have been happening lately. There's a little unpleasant thing going on in the family but it's helped me think a lot about the gospel and the importance of my own family, my role as a mother and a wife, and my own spirituality as well. I am grateful to have a husband who is spiritually strong and stable.

We have discovered what a smart boy Matthew is. He has been playing with his Thomas laptop toy and one day, we realized that he knows most of the letters. He's been teaching himself the letters and surprised us by pointing out most of the letters accurately on the keyboard. When I ask him where the letter "Q" is, he will say "Q" and point the letter on the keyboard. It is crazy! Today, I wrote down a few letters on a piece of paper and asked him if he knew what those letters were and he will say the letters accurately. It's amazing. So I have a new goal to teach him how to read by the time he turns 3. I know it's not impossible because I learned how to read by the time I was 3 too. So we'll see.

Other than that, things are pretty much the same. We are living in a house and looking for a house to purchase. If nothing, we will probably at least get a rental house by next year. That would be wonderful. We now have a new dining table set, washer & dryer, and a fridge. Now we need to buy a few more furniture but at least we haven't used any credit cards or loans to buy our furniture. We haven't used a single credit card in a year. We have been paying off our debt and only have a little bit now. We expect to pay it all off in a few months. We'd be debt free!! That's the day I am looking forward to. :)

We've been trying to get pregnant but no luck as of yet. I know it will happen when it is the right time. I am anxious but I know I need to be patient...

Well, that's about it. Hopefully I will post more often... But this little update will do for now. :)

Childlike - that's what I want to be.

Do you see that huge bruise on his beautiful forehead? He got it last Sunday while he was playing with his cousins. Matt loves his cousins Nate and Alex and they adore him too. They play around a little wild sometimes and well, this time, they put Matt on a blanket and dragged the blanket around the house and boom! Matt fell right on his face.... It was sad, yes, but the boys felt so bad for him that they cried with Matt. It was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen. When Matt was done crying, he left my arms and went straight over to Nate and Alex and said "Hi, Sasa (Alex)" "Hi Nate" and played with them like nothing ever happened. It made me think about that one scripture where Jesus says "Be like children" be quick to forgive and forget.. I wish I was like Matt. So innocent and forgiving. We made sure he didn't have a concussion that night. He is fine. He is actually proud of his little bump and he also makes me kiss it better every five seconds. :)

I love him. 

Good News

Things are going well for us. Sean was just offered a fantastic job at Sutter Health and he'll be starting his first day two weeks from now. He also got a very good raise so we're happy. I'm excited about the fantastic healthcare benefit he'll be getting through Sutter. Luckily we had Matthew while Sean was interning at Sutter 2 years ago so we didn't have to pay a dime on the C-section and other procedures that I had for birthing. So maybe now that we have the Sutter insurance again, we'll get pregnant again soon. Hopefully. :)

What a slacker I am!

I've been slacking off lately and not posting anything new for almost a month! Shame on me! We got to go on a little family vacation to Tahoe last week and it was a lot of fun! We stayed at a very nice condo in a penthouse and loved it. We came home earlier than expected because of the snow storm that was going to hit while we were there but we liked our little getaway.

Cute Pictures of Matt

Those are 3D glasses that we got when we went and saw Avatar (which was a really good movie, by the way). Matthew loves putting those glasses on. He looks hilarious in them, doesn't he?

He was wearing Sean's hat. So cute, I thought.

He knows what a remote is for but he likes to play with it like a phone. :)

That's me and Matthew.

He likes to sit at the desk like his mommy.

I love this smile.. It kind of reminds me of.... well, me! 

We've been going for walks every afternoon since the weather has been so nice out. When I say, "Let's go out", he climbs up in his stroller. 

He's all ready to go out. :)

Matt has been trying to talk more lately. He understands a lot! I think he understands about 80% of all I say to him. It's lovely to be able to communicate with Matthew using words. He responds well, too. When I ask him to do something, he'll do it. He says "Yeah" "Uh-huh" all the time, which is just so dang cute!! I don't really talk to him in Korean much but I really want to. But whenever I do, he seems to be so confused. I don't want to delay his verbal skills but at the same time, I don't know what's best. If you have any suggestions, feel free to advise me on this. Is right now a good time to start teaching him both languages or later? I know people say when they are younger but I know that also delays their verbal and communication skills.. What to do?