Well last night we found ourselves looking through old videos and pictures on our phones of the kids (the kids…still weird to say). I totally realize the absurdity of my natural reflex to say things like, “Look, Judah looks like a baby!” at every picture when he is basically still a baby. I can only imagine how small our kids will look to us in those videos when they are say, out of diapers? Teenagers? In college?

Judah

Judah’s vocabulary continues to expand daily, which has lead us to a major milestone in parenting…Judah has learned the word “no”. It happened this week when Judah was touching the TV and I sternly told him no. He looked at me, paused, and said “no”. HA. I am finding that half of parenting at this stage is learning not to laugh at things that are completely inappropriate yet really hilarious.

We have been really surprised by how much Judah loves to be around Asher. When he wakes up, the first thing he does is run to go find him. He will hold his arms out asking to hold Asher. Let’s be real though, at a year and a half old, loving your little brother and hating your little brother look very similar. Eye pokes, slaps in the head, finding (pinching) brother’s nose. Asher is a trooper. We figure we will give it a year or so before letting Judah babysit.

Judah hasn’t really learned proper paci-etiquette. Like the paci always goes in the mouth, never the eye. And if you give a screaming baby the paci and they stop crying, leave the paci in their mouth…

He also hasn’t lost any of his adventurous nature. The other day we were at the playground at the school where we work and Judah kept getting really close to the edge. I told Isaac there was no way he would just try to walk off…I really hate having to eat my words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYZseqDTZM

Judah be all like…

He is also in a phase to where anything he eats needs to have some sort of dip to go with it. We can thank Isaac for this. One day we realized he liked cucumbers, so Isaac let him try it with some ranch…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf1O84brMLw

…so now, be it ketchup, ranch, guacamole, salsa, even yogurt, everything must be dipped.

Asher

Asher is awesome. He is becoming a bit more fussy; we fear he is colicky, but it is so fun to have a little baby back in the house. We especially love the snuggles, seeing how Judah gave up sitting still a long time ago. We may have therein created a child that doesn’t want to be put down but…c’est la vie. We fully believe there are worse things in life than having to hold a cuddly baby (please see: why I never have a spare hand to blog). The baby wrap has become a necessity in our house.

  
He is starting to be more alert, coo a bit, and even smile. It is THE best. Moments like these are what keep me from moving to the funny farm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z59E8eJjY6o

I have been *trying* to avoid dairy to see if helps Asher. Sadly (for me) I think it may, but I am the worst at avoiding dairy. I mean really, what is life without it? I don’t even think about it; no sooner have I said, “I’m trying to avoid dairy”, have I ordered a latte…sorry bud, I’m trying!

I do need to make a brief public service announcement. Should you be avoiding dairy for any reason, do not, I repeat, do NOT try to make scrambled eggs with almond milk. Just forgo the milk and risk non-fluffy eggs, otherwise you will just have eggs that smell/taste like almonds. I assure you it’s way worse than is sounds.

And it is worth mentioning that this baby has some dark hair! A child that actually resembles both of us!!

And just in case you were worrying that Asher wasn’t getting enough attention…

  

Well that’s all for now.

Yours truly,

The lowly parents of Korean royalty

P.S. Go Rebels. Beat Bama Again. Fins Up.