Memorial Day weekend 2007

The band

This is old (from March 7) but cute.

Philly visit

May 16 to 19.
We got to my dad's place on Wed evening. Very frantic getting to the airport, heavy rainstorm, traffic and almost missing the plane. Ugh.
Laura managed to amuse herself by sticking Curious George stickers on her head.
We went out to lunch with an old friend of my parents and Laura took a nap on the cartrip home.

I took her to the playground that my mom and I had taken her during Easter week.

Ymo came on Thursday night.

The rest of the weekend was spent visiting and helping my aunt (dad's sister) in the DC area who was hospitalized (she's ok) so it was hectic. We met up with my bro and had lunch before coming back up to Philly and then catching a late flight back. It was gorgeous in DC on Saturday.

Girly

After her swimming class, Laura came home, went up to her room, took off her pants and put on this skirt. Then she told me she wanted to go outside and play and wore appropriate comfortable shoes to run around in.
Big night out. Laura got all dressed up to go to PF Changs for dinner. She picked out the dress (thanks Min suh).

Very lady like. She then proceeded to wipe all the sauce on her sleeve.

Bouncy ball

The park and pizza date

breakfast is the most important meal of the day

I feed Laura Marijuana for breakfast and she likes it.

Nice weather

Breakfast

This morning Laura and I were eating some cereal for breakfast.

Me: Laura, do you want a banana?
Laura: No
Me: Do you want an apple?
Laura: No
Me: What fruit do you want?
Laura: I want ketchup.

Playground

The weather has been nice lately and we made plans to meet up with Thomas at the playground. When we got there, Laura tripped on the sidewalk and landed on her face. She got a nosebleed and was distraught. After I cleaned her up, we went inside the playground and I had to hold her for about 30 minutes. She finally got around to playing with Thomas but then we had to leave (I was freezing cold b/c I didn't have a jacket (she bled all over it)) and she had to pee. She had a meltdown because she didn't want to go so I ended up screaming at her and putting her in the corner when we got home. Not a good day.

Smile

Videos

When I put a video on for Laura to watch, she drags her plastic chair in from her play room and sits there and watches the whole video instead of cuddling in the comfy chair that's right next to her. She must be concerned about her posture.

The bag lady

I don't know what it is about these shoes but Laura keeps wanting to wear them, likely b/c they are so girly (I wonder who she's getting that from? Her Ymo?). I yelled at her and told he she couldn't wear them in the house so the first chance she had to go outside, they were right back on her feet. She lugged all her plastic chairs, her Dora luggage, her ball and of course her sunglasses on the deck. I had to put my foot down when she started dragging her table onto the deck.

Kai and Noah's birthday party

Laura enjoyed a night at Kai, Noah and Maya's house for a combined birthday party. Here are the highlights.

Normalcy

I went back to work this week. The beginning of the week was gorgeous and we had some time to enjoy the outdoors. Taking care of Laura does help in keeping me busy and distracted.

Is there anything that could be better than a sunny day, a lollipop and bubbles? Here is Laura with our neighbor's kids across the street enjoying the weather.

The funeral

The past 2 weeks have been a blur. All of us were sleep deprived, forgetful, grieving, crying and just filled with sorrow. The wake and the funeral/burial was actually very beautiful. There were so many flowers that the church smelled like a garden in springtime. There were hundreds of people and it was really touching to see so many people who came to pay their respects. It was also so good to see our relatives, especially my mother's family who came all the way from Korea and who I have not seen in so many years. Laura was such a good girl and really brightened the whole mood and she was such a good escape from the sorrow. She is still too young to understand. It fills me with such sadness that she will not know my mother.