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Aerin, Claire, Comang, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

First Child Syndrome

Jun 29. 2011

Lately I have been losing my patience with Comang. So much so, that the thought of giving him away has entered my mind on more than a few occasions.  :-( Our beloved shih-tzu has a classic case of first child syndrome. He is insanely jealous of the attention that Claire receives and is adding undue stress to my life. Please don't get me wrong — he has never acted out against Claire and I am certain that he won't. Instead, he acts out toward me, his mommy and his favorite person in the world. Whenever I am sitting anywhere with Claire, he will try to squeeze himself between us. When I am doing something with Claire that requires most of my attention, such...

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Baby, Claire, Comang, Cute, Motherhood, Personal

Claire Learns to Wave Bye

Jun 28. 2011

J and I took Claire to visit some friends over the weekend, and when we were all saying our respective goodbyes, Claire started waving bye too! Immediately J and I looked at each other with raised eyebrows. We hadn't been trying to teach her how to wave, so we thought it might just be some coincidental arm motions. But long after we had returned home, Claire continued to wave bye whenever we asked her to, and we knew that this had to something she had picked up just from observing the world around her. I finally managed to take a short video of it today. I stupidly aimed the Flip too high to get her first waves in the frame, but you can...

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Claire, Comang, Cute, Geek, Personal, Reviews, Star Wars

Star Wars Costumes (126 Days Until Halloween)

Jun 27. 2011

Last week, BuyStarWarsCostumes.com contacted me and asked if I would be interested in reviewing a couple of their costumes. If you're thinking that I would be stupid to turn down such an offer, you are correct. I chose the Toddler Princess Leia costume for Claire and the Darth Vader Dog costume for Comang. The costumes arrived over the weekend and now, for the first time in years, I am looking forward to Halloween! I had chosen the Princess Leia costume in the toddler size, thinking that Claire might be too big for the infant size once October 31st rolls around. However, the toddler size is huge! I think that a 2 or even a 3 year old would fit comfortably in it. After looking over...

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Aerin, Claire, Korean, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

My Mother’s Birth Story, Abridged

Jun 24. 2011

It is no secret that my father loves his two daughters and openly tells people over and over again how having two girls has taught him to be more sensitive, more responsible, and a better man in general. And as it was with Claire, it was he who was the happiest to hear the news that we are expecting another girl. However, I know that this was not always the case. I know that having lived most of his life in Korea — formerly a strongly patriarchal society — he must have had bouts of disappointment at not having sired a boy. (Surveys now show that for the first time in Korean society, parents prefer to have girls over boys. This is a...

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Laughing at Mommy Already

Jun 22. 2011

Sometimes I can't decide if Claire is incredibly lazy, extremely stubborn, exceptionally clever, or all of the above. Case in point: she never rolls anymore. I know that she is physically capable of doing it, because I have seen her purposely roll both ways several times. But I also know that she does not enjoy it. Hence, whenever she is in a horizontal position — whether on her back or stomach — she will only withstand it for however long she pleases...

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