Celebrating Seollal

We had a great time celebrating the Korean Lunar New Year both yesterday and today. For the second year in a row, we had dinner at a Korean BBQ restaurant with our friends. We always enjoy getting together and celebrating our children and their Korean heritage. It's like an extended family, and I love it.




The boys entertained themselves with trains, cars, books, and of course, chopsticks.
 


 
Yum! All you can eat meat. Too bad she's a vegetarian.
 
This little cutie just came home last month. It was amazing to look down at the end of the table and see him celebrating with us!


Noodles were slurped, traditional tteok guk soup was consumed, and my bi bim bap was practically inhaled.

 
 
After we ate, we let the boys run around a little, and then took a group photo of them. It didn't turn out too badly!



 

We had fun today coloring and wearing these cool dragon masks from Leapfrog Lane. 


We also put Joel in his hanbok and attempted some photos. You can see how happy he was about that.

 Sae hae bok mani badeuseyo! May you receive many blessings in the new year!

Wordless Wednesday: Snow

Spring in January

We've had some unusually warm weather lately around here. Today was one of the warmest--it was around 50. We've been spending as much time outside as possible, and today was no exception.

First on our agenda this morning was touring a preschool that we are interested in for the coming school year. Registration is in February, so we need to decide as soon as possible. We really loved it and were very impressed with so many things. Joel had a great time trying out all the toys, paint, play-doh, and showing off for the teachers. Our friend's son (who is also Korean) goes to this preschool, and B happened to be in the bathroom when we first came into his classroom. One of the boys pointed at Joel and said, "Look! A new B!" :)

After seeing the preschool, we headed to the park. Joel enjoyed running around and being outside, as you can clearly see.

We are definitely loving this spring-like weather! But what we are loving even more is the 3-5 inches of snow expected to arrive tomorrow. So, the next post you see from me will hopefully involve a cute little boy playing in the snow!

Happy New Year!

It's 2012, and we are hoping for many happy times with this handsome boy. We're also hoping for the appearance of our next little one. :)

May you receive many blessings in the New Year!