Dinosaur play

Not sure what was transpiring here. I thought it looked very cute.

I guess the "smaller" dino's wanted to gang up on the one, lonely "big" dinosaur.

Monsoon Season

As most of my few readers know, it is monsoon season here in Korea. Some days it rains and rains and rains. Today was an exception. It was just plain hot and humid. A day to spend at the pool or indoors. I chose the later after swim lessons today. Here are a few pictures.

This is what the monsoon season brings you.

This is what 3 days of being spent inside look like. We went outside to play. They saw the BIG puddles. How can a Mom resist telling a kid to NOT play in the big puddles. I just said....go ahead, get soaked. They had so much fun. The after that it was bath time. Too much mud, dirt and grass.This pull up just had TOO much!!Korean bunny ears for Brodie...ten for Creed.

September 11th

I know it's July, but when a question is asked about September 11th I had to blog about it. Here in Seoul, we have 5 star lodging. In the main entrance area, there is a sign that has a ribbon and September 11, 2001. Jenna was under the assumption that was the date the lodging was built. In my heart, I knew this day would come. Jenna and Brodie were discussing that date and still were assuming that was the date the lodging was built. I had to correct them and find a way to not terrorize them into thinking the world is full of mean, terrible, terrible people. I know the world is FULL of these people. However, I would like my children to remain innocent for as long as possible. I don't think Brodie "gets" it as much as Jenna does. Jenna is smart, she's reading in a 3rd grade level, she investigates and researches things.

How it broke my heart that I had to tell, knowing that they will never understand what it did to our nation as a whole. Jenna was about 3 weeks old when the planes hit the towers, pentagon and field. I was supposed to fly the following week to visit my family. Of course plans were changed and I had to fly later than I wanted. I wondered how this would affect my husband, what would become of his job and where he would end up. How my heart broke for all those people, families, friends, co-workers and parents who had their lives taken too soon.

All I know is, this terrible thing happened. I want my kids innocence for as long as possible. So, I told them that some bad men took control of airplanes that hit the towers, the pentagon and field. I didn't go further into what exactly happened. They were happy with the answer Mommy was able to give them....for now.

Emergency 911

Does this title remind any of you of that show?? I guess that dates me and tells others just exactly how old I am. On with the show or story I should say. Of my three children, I have one sweet one that tends to faint at the sight of her own blood. Yes, this has happened on a few occassions, one time even at the playground. I know what to do in these instances. I prop her feet up, keep talking to her to have her look at me, get some orange juice. Once she's come to, she's completely fine. It's pretty much gotten to the point where she knows she's going to faint and can tell me/us. It still gets the heart racing, but we know what to do, so really it's not that big of a deal.

Yesterday Jenna went over to her friends house, I guess I can be techincal and say apartment, since we're living in an apartment building. She'd been gone for a little bit. I know where she's at, no big deal. I guess her friend was at art class at our local arts and crafts shop. Her friends Mom had Jenna walk down to get her friend. Friends mom said that they bring the friend out to the parking lot so Mom doesn't have to go in with her 1 year old twins. They waited and waited. Finally someone came out and said that the friend had dropped some ceramic thing she was working on and cut herself. From my understanding, there was a nurse there(not sure if she was just there or worked there) and was getting the glass pulled out of friends fingers. Jenna was walking around and said she wanted friend to see her and then saw...BLOOD! Of course all the talk about bleeding didn't help. She called out to friends mom and then down she went. Friends Mom was completely freaked out. She called me and said that Jenna was on the floor and wouldn't wake up or get up and that she had called 911. I had no clue what was going on, so I gather up the boys, speed over there to find the EMT's loading her up on a gurney. I found out that friend was bleeding and what had happened. Jenna fainted at her friends blood. She's fainted at her own blood, but not anyone elses.

At the hospital they asked me all these questions. I told them that I've taken her to the Dr. for that in particular and there is nothing medically wrong with her. That's just how she deals with blood and pain. I should have know this would happen to at least one of my children since their father will faint when he has blood taken and his Mom faints as well.

I talked to friends mom and now she knows what to do when this happens. Hopefully it won't happen again on her watch.

E-mart

Today we ventured out into the city and went to E-mart. It's within walking distance, so we don't have to take the car out into the city. The downfall is, we can't buy too much or we'd have to take a taxi back to the gate. I guess that's not too much of a problem.

When we arrived to E-mart, it reminded us of Wal-mart, Target at Christmas. Very crowded with people. I'm sure that it's not that crowded during the weekdays. I'm sure I'll find out at some point. We got some things and then made the trip back to post.

On the way back, we noticed this alley. I turned and looked at Bill, saying something to the effect of, "Is that a hooker back there?" He said that it looked like some of the alley around CP Casey when he was here 13 years ago. I told him that I didn't notice it on the way to E-mart, neither did he. He also said something to the effect of "I bet that area is off limits." I'm pretty sure that it is. Unless you want to take a visit to the Dr. shortly after. Reminded me of a story he told me when we got here. The first time he came to Korea, we weren't married, actually didn't even know one another then. So, he was by himself. A guy had just arrived to Korea and was told about the "red light" district. He was told that was asking Bill about the water here. He said that it hurt everytime he peed. Bill knew where he'd been by just that one comment. Bill told the guy he needed to go to the Dr.

Next time I go, I'll try to remember the camera. Then I'll have some pictures to show you all.

We're moved in

Well, we finally moved in last Friday. I promise to post pictures of our new place when it's presentable enough. I'm sure it will get done sometime this long weekend.

Here's some pictures of our view at dusk. I must say, we do have a much better view than our last place. Our view there was some barracks and the class six shoppette. For those of you non military...the liquor store. We could tell you just how many beers were going to be consumed on any given weekend. Of course pay days were better because they all had money!

Here's a view of E-mart. I've talked about this store before. We like to shop there.

These are just some pictures of the view around. Not really sure what type of buildings they are. Either apartments or office buildings I'm sure.