More Korean Excitement!

This week has been CRAZY!!!!!!!!!

Jim couldn't come down to Seoul this past weekend, so me and the boys drove north to stay the weekend up there very close to the DMZ. Jim lives in a 15'x15' room that has a kitchenette, dinette set, bed, desk, dressers, and a small nasty bathroom. It's only one small step up from our 9'x9' trailers in Iraq! Anyhow, we visitted and went bowling and out to eat at the Golf Course. Searching for entertainment for the boys - there is only so much you can drag with you in a Toyota Tercel for the weekend - we found that they fit rather well into Jim's laundry basket, so here's Joey. Unfortunately a little later, Jimmy was in it and leaned himself forward and bonked his forehead. Seems like Jimmy always has a bruise on his poor forehead. You just can't always be in between him and everything harder than a sofa.

These are my men. Aren't they handsome? This is actually from a couple of weeks ago, but my pictures are pretty sadly organized and I just "found" it and wanted to share...... ;)
Here is Jimmy getting into mild trouble, working on chewing on his daddy's shower shoe. It's nearly as big as he is!
And, look what I found on sale at OLD NAVY.COM!!!
And, Santa stopped through Seoul the other day, so we went and hit him up for some teeth and noisy toys and better balance........!
Happy Holidays if I don't get back on here before then!!!

A Long December

Hey Everybody! It's December... yuck.

There, that's the extent of my creativity - hope you aren't colorblind. So, who can name the boy below this text? You can't see his left ear, which is one of the give-aways, but you can see his fourhead and, yes, there is no cowlick, so this is Jimmy! Did you guess right? He's sitting in one of our Sherpani Kid Backpacks and trying to eat a little Chuck Taylor key chain while we eat very good Greek Food in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea. The restaurant is called Santorini and if you're in the neighborhood, getcha some yummy lamb dinner... Germany is still the "mecca" of Greek food for me (not having been to actual Greece), but this place was a very pleasant surprise. None too cheap since good quality meat is expensive here, but worth a splurge now and then. Greek is probably my favorite food. Anyhow... the cutie...

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And the cutie's cute brother, Joey, also in the restaurant sitting in a Sherpani Backpack. In keeping with our habit of having two of just about everything, he even has his own Chuck Taylor shoe keychain. We had those given to us by some friendly store clerks at the Chuck store in Myongdong, Seoul, South Korea a couple months back. Koreans seem to really love our boys since twins are generally pretty rare in Asian societies and certainly ones that look like ours are! Can't wait to take them to the Great Wall with their Gramma and Grampa this spring!

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Here is a shot of our balcony. It's really pretty large for such a sprawling metropolis as Seoul. It was a nice day, so Jim is feeding them lunch out on the balcony. The kitchen chair is absolutely not my style, either, it's Army-issue furniture. Ours is in storage in Oklahoma.

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When Jim is down to visit, we bathe them at the same time, in the big bathtub. They like the bubbles and duckies and boats. Mostly, though, they like trying to tackle the wet slippery baby that is in the tub with them! (Joey left, Jimmy right)

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This shot is GREEEEEAT! Joey, totally spontaneously, grabbed hold of the handhold while riding the subway a couple weeks ago! He's on my (Tina's) back in the backpack. I didn't know he was even doing it until I went to move and thought I was caught on something. He looks like such a little urban commuter! Help! We need to get these boys our in the woods with some rifles and wild animals! Well, I guess we can wait a couple of years for that... :)
MORE LATER... Take care.