A day at the park.

"Hmmm..I wonder if I can push these trees apart?"

"Ok...Here goes!"

"ARRGGG!!! I'm DOING IT! I'M DOING IT!"

"Heeheee..I'm so strong.."

-little asian girl

Rotavirus.

**Please note that in this post, the different colored words are just to show my sheer ANNOYANCE with yet another pointless, annoying baby illness and not a link to another wonderfully delightful post from the past.**

What is Rotavirus you ask? It's another pointless, annoying baby illness that has plagued my house in the recent days. YAY! An illness that babies actually get vaccinated for, but still get anyway (RETARDED I KNOW!) It causes projectile vomiting and diarrhea in massive and frequent amounts along with all the crankiness, irritability and 24/7 clingy-ness that we mommas just LOVE! And as with all pointless, annoying baby illnesses, there is no medication, treatment or cure for the damn thing. Just "let it run its course." YOU BETCHA!

*&%($(@!#&$^%*^9)@(!*&%*^((#*@&^^@%**#&$^!*))$)*&^%$#!@#$$%*(^)@@*&&!!!!!!

*pHew* glad I got that off my chest.

Basically I've been vomited or pooped on at least three times everyday for the past 4 days. I also have had to do laundry three days in a row to wash all the clothes that were either, being worn at the time, just changed into from the most recent bodily fluid incident or were near the vicinity of the bodily fluid incident.

And apparently this thing could last for ANOTHER week. Wonderful.

Let's get scientific here people. Rotavirus, is basically what we adults call the "stomach flu" or "stomach bug". It is a virus that attacks and destroys the lining of your intestines and damages the enzymes that your body needs to break down lactose and protein. AWESOME! The virus, when looked at with a microscope, looks like a ball with spikes. It is those "spikes" that CLING onto your intestinal wall making it hard for your body to eradicate and get rid of. Also, since the intestines are being damaged, the digestion of food slows down to a near halt and therefore you either vomit the undigested food or pass it through your colon in liquid form, aka diarrhea. WHOO HOO! Consumption of any type of dairy or protein makes the symptoms, especially the diarrhea, worse because not only is your body not digesting but it is also not breaking down the dairy/protein in any way.

Now comes the best part...

This virus is HIGHLY contagious and can linger in your body for MONTHS after symptoms have gone. SWEET! It is also like the cold virus, in that it has many strains so if you get it once you can still get it again. LOVELY! Adults can also catch the virus from the infected children, although in adults, the symptoms are less severe and we get over it much more quickly.

DIDN'T KNOW I WAS A DOCTOR IN MY SPARE TIME DID YA! BOOM!

So the moral of the story is...if you come into contact with a child who has vomiting, diarrhea, or especially a combination of both....

RUN AWAY. RUN FAR FAR AWAY. Heed the words of Jenny in Forrest Gump. "RUUUNN FORREST!! RUUUNNN!!!" and stay away for the next 162.75 months. Or until the child turns 5. Whichever keeps you away longer.

-little asian girl currently not covered in vomit or poop. holla~

" It's a diamond."

Could it be?

Did little asian baby just say her first sentence at 16 months old?

Is she already showing that she truly is a girly girl, and while others are saying "circle, square, triangle!" she says "diamond"?

Is little asian baby truly.........a genius??????

?????....

ok probably not.

It was probably just a coincidence that when Mickey Mouse was asking "What shape is this?" while holding up a diamond. Little asian baby just "happened" to utter some babbling words that sounded VERY DISTINCTLY like " It's a diamond!" It was so clear, that both asian hubby and I looked at each other with shock and amazement. I also laughed, but I usually laugh at everything baby says. Can't help it. I just think it's funny. Anyways, yeah, it was probably just a "big coincidence" as Elaine from Seinfeld said to the character Rava as they stood there fighting in the elevator about whether or not there are BIG coincidences or if all coincidences are just coincidences regardless of their size. (phEw tHat was a RealLy LoNg rUn On seNtence! GramMar cHecK aNyOne???? don't know why I just typed like that. I'm tired. And coincidences is a hard word to say and spell many times in a row. Try it. This must be the longest section of type within parenthesis ever.)

So long pointless story short! Little asian baby is proving that she already knows what an important role diamonds play in a girl's life, so she might as well recognize them as early!

Good girl.

-little asian girl

What else did I need???

Oh yeah...milk. 1%, low fat, whole? 

Who knows! At least I got the veggie sticks!

-little asian girl

That's growth people! That's growth!

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my crazy shower incident with little asian baby. So today when I decided to take yet another shower sans asian husband at home, (apparently I didn't learn my lesson the first time!) I proceeded with caution. And also made some changes to my approach.

First, there was no announcement of my intentions to take a shower like the last time. There was no "OK...mommy is going to take a shower now.. Look, look here..mommy will be right in here ok?? I'll leave the door open so you can find me! If you get scared I'll be right here! Come find me!!" 

nope. none of that. 

Like the little mice in Cinderella trying to sneak pass Lucifer the cat, I made my way past little asian baby without so much a peep. (or should I say squeak?)

Secondly, when little asian baby found me in the bathroom, I didn't engage her in any way. I mean I tried to make the situation as boring and normal as possible. NOTHING TO SEE HERE BABY. NOTHING TO SEE! I mean yess, yess, I know mommy taking a shower in the middle of the day is not something you see happening quite often..but NOTHING TO SEE!

Thirdly, I made sure to keep the soap AWAY from my eyes!

Well, little asian baby did find me in the shower after about 30 seconds, but this time she just said "TA DA!!!" gave me a slightly confused look and walked out. No attempts to touch the water, no toys were thrown in the tub and DEFINITELY NO TOILET PAPER! (THANK GOODNESS!!!! TA DA!!)  

Now I'm not sure if I can credit my new tactics or if little asian baby now knows "oh, mommy taking shower. ok. bye bye." but all I can say is...

That's growth people! That's growth!

-little asian girl

Thanksgiving 2012

"My mom says, they'll just come to OUR house for Thanksgiving." asian husband said.

"Oh." is what I said.

"No, no, no. Oh NO..uh oh." is what little asian baby said. (well, ok she didn't say that, but she DOES say those words VEry VERY often, so it could have been true.)

And that's how this year, Thanksgiving ended up being at our house. NOT that I really minded. I mean yes, our house is just a small 2 bedroom condo, with only one oven that the 18lb turkey which cooked for 4 hours had to share with all the sides and fixin's. And once my 7 year old niece asked me why I didn't want a "bigger" house, BUT I have been called the "asian" Martha Stewart, so hosting parties of any sort is well...
kinda my thing~

Actually.

It's REALLY my thing.

I LOVE HOSTING!!!

I LOVE the planning, the shopping, the cooking, the putting out of platters and pretty plates. I LOVE setting the table and making table decorations, rolling the silverware in a napkin and tying it with a pretty ribbon....*siGh* I just LOVE it all! (Can you tell I really LOVE it?!) If I really did have a bigger house with enough chairs for more than 6 people and more than one area of the house to congregate in, I would host parties ALL THE TIME! So even though it took me 1 whole day of shopping, 2 days of prep, and 3 straight hours of actual cooking which didn't include the 4 hours for the turkey to cook (and a partridge in a pear tree!!! Oh wait, wrong holiday..)

I STILL LOVED IT ALL!!!

Here are some pictures of the glorious day~

Mini turkey decorations for the table

Table settings.

Full Thanksgiving spread, wine included!

Hope your Thanksgivings were as wonderful as ours was this year! 

-little asian girl

Happy Birthday to Me!

So it was my birthday.

My 30th birthday.

I know it's suppose to be one of those "milestone" birthdays, since it's the day when you leave your young, free, irresponsible 20's behind and enter into your more responsible, grown up, show up to work on time and don't duck out early 30's... and whether you enter your 30's kicking and screaming, singing and dancing or drunk and delusional (my personal favorite!) you should do it in style!

However, I've never been one to make a big TA DA about birthdays. (says the girl who actually had TWO celebrations this year.)

One with my side of the family

and one with asian husband's side.

You can tell the kids REALLY enjoy taking family photos~

I don't really care to have a party or a special "get together". All I really want for a birthday, all I really want for any day actually, is cake. And maybe a present or two...or three...or 14689. Just give me sugar and stuff and I'm good!

So my birthday really was just like any other normal day.

In the morning little asian baby FINALLY pooped, a big one, after like 5 days of not pooping.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Then I opened the fridge to find that the milk carton had been slowly leaking since yesterday when I bought it so the entire shelf was covered in milk. (and of course the bottom of everything that was on that shelf had milk on it too.) awesome.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

THEN while I was eating dinner, I looked down at my leg (because that's what I do when I'm eating dinner apparently) and found a huge bruise on my shin. I don't even know how I got it! It just appeared! TA DA!! (as little asian baby would say) The odd thing is, it's not even the first time I've gotten a GIGANTIC bruise on my leg without noticing. Apparently I'm a clutz with amnesia.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I also rolled over the baby's sunglasses that were on the floor while playing with little asian baby and probably have a bruise on my back too. I'll probably forget by tomorrow how I got it though, so if you see me remind me to re-read this post. Thanks friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

And at the end of the day I sat on the couch watching Mickey Mouse and his friends try and earn their camp out badges for the 100th time with little asian baby and asian husband and I thought....

this really is a happy birthday to me. =)

- now 30 year old little asian girl

"She is asian you know..."

Wise words spoken by Auntie S at dinner last week.

We were at a restaurant and little asian baby was playing with chopsticks. I was commenting on the fact that little asian baby LOVES playing with chopsticks and Auntie S said...

"She is asian you know."

hahaha. I guess that's true. I have often wondered if because, we're asian, we're drawn toward things that are asian. You know like chopsticks, white rice, sushi, math problems... Come to think of it, little asian baby used to love eating just plain white rice. She would listen intently when someone spoke Chinese. And some of the few words that she does actually, say, know or understand are Chinese as well. Not to mention that a lot of her babbling words sound like words you would say in Korean or Chinese and people who speak either Korean or Chinese sometimes interpret her "words" as those two languages.

FOR example..We went to the doctor's office one day (our dr. is Korean) and when the Dr. came in, little asian baby started screaming and saying "ahh nee ya" which actually does mean kind of like "No, I don't like"  and the Dr. was like "OH, ahh nee ya? Ok, Ok sorry!" and once my grandmother tried giving little asian baby a bite of yam and she said "Ahn muh guh" which means " I don't want to eat that". So weird, because I don't really speak Korean to little asian baby. Asian husband doesn't speak Chinese to her either, but she picks up words like "Hao Pahng!" which means like "Super!".

Oh well, like I've said before, I guess little asian baby is a genius! (It must be because she's "double" asian like asian husband always says. haha.)

Mensa here we come!!

-little asian girl

little asian baby using chopsticks as drumsticks. SHE'S SO SMART AND CUTE!!!