Sick Daddy and 12 week up-date

Brad and Brandon getting some fresh air on a hot day

On Saturday we spent the day shopping at E-mart, a large store with everything from food to household goods. We bought a 'Winnie the Pooh' border for Brandon's room since he still seems to love looking at Winnie the Pooh characters. And we finally found a digital scale so we can weigh him properly, he's weighing in at 6.5kgs. We somehow managed to spend most of the day at E-mart and we stocked up on lots of groceries. Much to Brad's delight, he found a sausage counter in the store. He was very happy to be able to buy a pack of oddly coloured sausages - green, red, pink and orange ones and he decided he wanted sausages and mash for dinner. Well, as you can guess, he spent most of Saturday night being sick and felt absolutely terrible all of Sunday. Today (Monday) he's still complaining about a headache. I haven't been sick, so either he ate a dud sausage or they were seasoned with shrimp flakes or something like that. So, needless to say, the rest of the sausages are heading to the dustbin today.

In Brandon news - the little tot slept through on Friday night, we were thrilled and since then he's been waking up at about 4:00 or 5:00 for a feed. We are optimistic that it is the start of more sleep for us. Yay! Here are some up-dated photos - he's loving his jolly jumper at the moment although he hasn't quite got the hang of jumping. He likes to turn himself in circles since he only moves one foot.

I'm deep in concentration: How do I get myself to bounce?

The world looks different when I'm upright

mmmm - what's this in front of me?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa

Clever Dog

Yesterday the windows of the complex were cleaned. It's always a big job with men in harnesses absailing around the building and washing down the very dirty windows. The problem is that we have to make sure Storm is inside since (a) it gets very wet outside and (b) the gate between our garden and the neighbour's gets opened. If Storm gets into the neighbour's garden she can get onto the road. Once the window cleaning was finished I meant to go and close the gate but got a bit distracted with Brandon and the daily goings-on in the house. A little later, Brad was busy bathing Brandon when Storm came running in all excited and proud of herself and we knew she must have been exploring in the neighbour's garden. I thought I should close the gate but once again got distracted by things and about half an hour later we realised we hadn't seen Storm for a while. We searched the house, our garden and the neigbour's but there was no sign of her. Luckily, as Brad opened the front door to go looking for her, there she was waiting patiently at the door. She must have got out of the neighbour's garden and when she realised she couldn't get back in she ran around the corner into the apartment block's garage and up the stairs to our apartment. What a clever dog!

Mother's Day

Brad only arrived home from Germany on Sunday morning (mother's day). He got home smack on 7 o' clock, just as Brandon and I were waking up for Brandon's morning feed. Brad came rushing through to the room and, in a loud voice, said, "good morning" and scooped Brandon up in his arms. The look on Brandon's face was priceless - after 5 days of only mommy the last thing he was expecting was daddy. Brad had planned a picnic for us, so we headed out to Yongsan Family Park and had some smoked salmon, smoked ham and brie with french bread. Brad had also bought me a gorgeous Swarovski braclet (it was also for my 30th - I had told him I wanted jewellery but wanted to wait until we were travelling so I could look at Duty Free -his trip to Germany gave him the perfect opportunity to get me a surprise gift). Storm got lots of attention from one group of people and they kept coming over to pat her. We were lucky we got to the park early since it started getting busy at about lunch time (good weather in Korea means that everyone heads outdoors). We decided it was time to go when it started getting more crowded and the people who had been giving Storm all the attention kindly gave us some kimbab to take with us (kimbab is typical Korean picnic food and is made up of vegetables that are specially prepared and then rolled in rice and seaweed - I love it but Brad won't touch it since he had a bout of food poisoning from it when he first arrived in Korea). All in all we had a lovely day out.

The first to tuck in at the picnic was Brandon (I love his little feet sticking out of the blanket)

Still drinking

Why should a dog sit on ground when there's a nice warm body to sit on?

The best seat of the day!

9 &10 weeks

It is hard to believe that Brandon is already 11 weeks old. He is doing well and getting so big. He loves talking to the Winnie the Pooh characters on the wall and every day he sits in his bouncy chair and has a chat to Pooh and friends. He is still waking once every night for a feed but the hours are erratic; sometimes it will be at 4:45 and other times it will be 2:30. I've joined a playgroup that meets on Tuesday mornings, I went yesterday and got to see lots of other babies - Brandon seems to have a very big head in comparison to other babies his age. The babies at the playgroup ranged from between 1 week old to 6 months.

Here are some shots of him at 9 and 10 weeks.

I can lift my head

Hey dad, I'm pointing at you!

Enough with the photos already - I won't smile!

Me and my buddies

Dad, you're funny!

Hooray!

Are you looking at my double chin?

Did someone say bath time?

Lets go - hurry up!

Bath time is so relaxing