Wiping away some of the dust of this weblog. Really wish I could remotivate myself to write more. Crystal is growing up and she has begun to crawl in the last few weeks although very slowly. She still hasn't quite gotten it down but she's still learning.

March 2nd was Madeline's 1st Birthday and we spent some time over at Pil and Gina's. She can already walk while Crystal can only crawl, sit and lay down. In the mean time we are doing our best to plan for Crystal's Dol in just a couple of short weeks.

She is 6 months and I already miss the smaller days. The joys of having a baby really do erase memories of long sleepless nights. Just today or yesterday she began to really straighten out her leg to the point where she could support most of her bodyweight while we are holding her. She also intentionally pushed my hand away 3 times this morning as I was laying right next to her, which has me a bit worried things are going to get a lot harder now that she gradually exert her own will.

Yesterday, we all met with Brian in DC for a food truck festival, and afterwardy stopped by the office showing her around. Everyone kept commenting on how cute she was and how much she takes after me. Her face is thinning out but her cheeks are still as chubby as ever...almost bulldog style.

Today is Crystal's 100th day of life. It's just amazing how much of a blessing she has been in our lives. She is one chubby baby and nearly everyone that sees her comments on how big her cheeks are. My parents are even a little worried that she's getting too fat and want us to try and control her milk intake. All the pediatricians recommend giving her as much as she wants though. She has been an angel and I seriously couldn't expect to have it any easier. She hardly cries and is so well behaved. I just hope it stays like that =D

I absolutely LOVE the mornings when she's sleeping or just waking up. I absolutely cherish those moments and makes going to work so much more difficult. Yesterday Cathy bought a lot of dduk and we went around our condo building giving out dduk to friends and Korean people too. Supposedly the more dduk that you give the more blessings she'll receive. But I also found out that people receiving the dduk is supposed to return the favor by giving money or something. A couple of the older Koreans that we gave dduk to mentioned that they felt terrible because it was in bad manners to receive dduk without giving something back. One even had us waiting at the door as she tried to scavenge some money to give to us. I love the concept of giving dduk out to everyone as a celebration of life, but for everyone to feel obligated to give something in return is somewhat sad. It should be a celebration of life, not inadvertantly making people feel bad because they have nothing to give in return.

Also yesterday at church I was sitting down listening to the sermon in the lobby where they had some overflow chair setup. I looked back and saw this lady holding her baby and thought to myself...gosh she looks a lot like this Amy I knew back in college....like some 10 years ago. I look away as not to appear like I'm staring...but I had to do a double take...and when I stared back at her again with the puzzled look, she did exactly the same thing to me!!! A smile begins to come across both our faces, and it was then that I knew it was her. ha ha ha. Talk about random. She introduces me to her son Christopher and later to her husband Richard. They still live in Pittsburgh and occassionally come down to the Northern Virginia area for Korean food and shopping!!! After church we went to Il-Mee buffet for lunch. It was a rather quick lunch because the place was uncomfortably hot especially for our kids...so after a quick lunch we went over to Shilla Bakery for some cold pot-bing-soo.