Madeline - 15 months old

Madeline had her weight check this week and she now weighs 18 lbs 3.5 oz and is 31 inches long. That puts her in the just about the third percentile for weight and around the 75th percentile for height. Shocking, I know.
In other Madeline news, I thought you might like to see a picture of Madeline's first curl. It's in the center of the back of her head. If I have to make a prediction, I would say that her hair has Josh's coloring (duh) and Andrew's texture. It'll be another six months by our genetic calculations before she has enough hair to give a definitive answer.

At 15 months, she will follow a two step command like: "Go find Bunny and take her for a walk in your stroller." She will walk around the house calling for Bunny, "Bun! Bunny!" Which really sounds more like "Mun! Munny!" But she's into the calling for people thing because last weekend at the pool, Madeline and I were in the kiddie pool and the boys were in the big pool. She saw Daddy across the way and put her hands over her mouth and started calling, "Daaaaadddyyyy! Daaaaaaadddddy!" It was hilarious.

Calendar Men

Andrew and Josh keep their own calendars hanging next to their beds. They keep all of their important events on the calendars, like birthdays and pizza night. But there are some other important dates to remember:

For example, in March, Andrew was a dancing machine. As you can see, he was scheduled to "dans" everyday for about 2 weeks.

Or, the "Pig Mick" which was scheduled for yesterday. Andrew meant the Kindergarten "picnic" for the last day of school.



Our personal favorite is when the kids make an entry like on May 3:That is called "Mad Dad." Apparently, the kids got yelled at that day by Ainsley. Not to be confused with "Mad Mom" which happened on March 21 according to Josh's calendar which is on a boat to America.

Last Day of School!

So long, Osan American Elementary!

We'll miss Andrew's teacher, Mrs. Alcott. She's moving this summer, too. Check out Andrew's hat.
And the teacher's aide, Mrs. Tichota was super sweet, too.

So long, CDC!

Wordless Wednesday

When you have Big Brothers...

they share their clothes with you:

Lunch with Andrew

from l to r: Eddie, Andrew, Johnny (Andrew's best buddy), Marcus and Matthew

Parents can meet their children for lunch in the school cafeteria. Ainsley went a couple of months ago and today was my turn.

For $2. 05 I had cheese pizza, oranges, and chocolate milk. There was also a salad that came with that, but I passed. It was fun to get another peek into Andrew's life at school.

To the Tower, to the Tower....

Today we spent the day sightseeing in Seoul and went up to the top of the Seoul Tower. We did one of those sightseeing tour buses which is pretty much the only way to do it with three kids. (Even then, Madeline screamed in the car while we sat in Seoul traffic on the drive up there for forty minutes straight and Josh had a meltdown on the bus when it wasn't his turn to sit next to Daddy, but I digress.)

The hill to walk up to the tower is STEEP, especially with a fully loaded stroller. The pictures do not do it justice. Once we got to the top, we had a little picnic lunch . and then went up the tower.

There is a 360 degree view of Seoul and on each of the windows they have which foreign city you are looking towards and how far away you are. Here we are 9, 596.52 km from Angela's "home" (Los Angeles).

And, look! Only 193.60 km from Pyongyang! That's always reassuring.

When we were done, we went back down to the plaza from some pineapple on a stick, or as Everland calls it, pineapple coochi.

There are coin operated heat lamps:

And, Angela encounters her first squatty potty:

(which was thankfully across the way from a regular Western toilet.)