We practiced this for weeks…


Omigosh….I’m so proud. Hahaha… She’s like my little protege.

Sorry I haven’t posted anything about my little “?”. Man. I still don’t know what to call the little booger. *sigh* So I’m now at week 20 but I’ll give you a quick recap.

Week 18
This is the first week I felt the baby kick. No fluttering this time around like when I was prego with Zoe. It’s just straight up kicking.This is also the week that my tailbone started to hurt. When it hurts it’s pretty bad. And it especially happens if I’ve been on my feet for a while. This SUCKS.

  

Week 19
This is the week that my belly button started to metamorphasize into something strange. This is also the week that I was on the phone with my sister and I was telling her how the 2nd time around was sooOOOO not exciting and then the little one kicked me. It felt like a jab where I groaned and held onto my desk for support. It’s LISTENIING!!!!

Week 20
C felt the baby kick for the first time sunday night. I think he got weirded out. But this is also the day he was holding Zoe and she was really being cute at the moment and he said “You know, i kinda want another girl.” 

And for those of you who want to know how fat I got….
 
I just weighed myself this morning. I started off at 98lbs and now I’m 111. I’ve gained 5 in about 3 weeks.

Zoe’s Daddy’s Funny:
Yesterday C was lying on the couch and Zoe ran up to him, climbed on top of him, and then jumped on him I heard him say “Zoe, how are you so girly but then when you play with daddy you play all butchy?”

:: 06.13.10 :: Dim Sum!
I have been on the hunt for a LOCAL dim sum place. I know about Silver Pond in Fort Lee but I wasn’t impressed. I think I’ll give it another shot but I think it’s just our timing. However I did find a new spot and I really like it. Plus I LOVE the area it’s located in. It’s a nice town to walk around on a beatiful summer’s day. We usually get anything shrimp and we always get the sticky rice. Those are like the definite must haves. Zoe seemed to enjoy her first dim sum experience too.

Dim Sum Dynasty
75 Franklin Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450

                                     







While we were dining it started to rain outside. However none of us wanted to go home yet so we went to their local Haagen Dazs. You know the word ‘Haagen Dazs’ doesn’t mean anything? It’s a made up word. I learned that on tv. I smartly.

                                  
       

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
Zoe now points at stop signs and yells out “Look mommy! An octagon!!!”

:: 05.31.10 :: Day Three :: Strasburg Railroad
If you have a boy or just a kid that loves trains I’m sure they’ll love this place. They have one store which looked like a Thomas shrine when you walked in. For those of you with children who love Thomas you may want to time your trip so that you can be there when they have a ‘Day Out With Thomas’ scheduled. Zoe doesn’t watch Thomas but she does like trains. This was actually the hottest day out of the trip. It was just really humid and uncomfortable but Zoe was a good trooper.
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
 
 
       
 
 
 
 
 

Here is a video of her on the train singing princess songs. The first one is from Sleeping Beauty…
 
 
                                        
 
       
 

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
I was in my home office this morning trying to edit some photos of my friend’s son before work so that she could have it before father’s day. Zoe climbed onto the chair and squeezed in behind me and the back part of the chair. She put her arms around my neck to give me a hug and her face was next to mine. So cute. Then she saw my ultrasound photos on top of the table…

(The entire time we are having this conversation she is still hugging me while looking at the photos with her free hand)
Zoe: Can I see the baby picture?
Me: Sure (passing it to her)
Zoe: Mommy do you see the baby?
Me: Yes I see it. Do you see it?
Zoe: Yes. The baby is soooo cute.
Me: It is cute.
Zoe: Mommy do you remember the baby?
Me: Yes I remember the baby. Do you remember the baby?
Zoe: Yes I remember. Mommy the baby kick you? (I had told her that the baby kicked me earlier this week)
Me: Yes but I’m ok.
Zoe: Why the baby kick you?
Me: Oh Zoe. It’s not because the baby is bad. Sometimes babies kick cause they’re excited or happy.
Zoe: The baby is happy?
Me: I think so.

Then she leans over my shoulder to get a look at my belly below and says to the belly…

Zoe: Baby don’t kick mommy. Okay?! It’s not nice. Be good.

:: 05.30.10 :: Day Two :: Dutch Wonderland
 
                                                  





                                                
 
                                                   

          


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Zoe’s Daily Funny:
Last night the hubs was helping out with getting Zoe ready for bed cause I wasn’t feeling well. I read her half of her Lion King book while she was drinking her milk and then after she was done we shut off the lights and I was trying to watch a little tv. Zoe turns on her side to face her daddy and so he turns on his side to face her and they’re cuddling. I was watching tv but listening to their conversation and laughing.

Zoe: Daddy?
C: Yes honey?
Zoe: Daddy are you black?
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
C: Hahaha what?
Zoe: Daddy are you black?
C: Hahaha no
Zoe: Daddy are you brown?
C: Haha no I’m tanned.
Zoe: Oh. Ten?
C: Tanned
Zoe: Tanned?
C: Yes.

Then a moment or two goes by and I hear him go…

C: Zoe do you want to hold daddy’s hand?
Zoe: No…(reaching behind her to find my hand)…I wanna hold mommy’s hand
C: (looking at her with this blank look) Zoe, you just killed the mood. Fine then, you can look at my back all night (and then he turned to his other side)

Oh the love between them is so pweshus!

:: 05.29.10 :: Day One :: Dutch Wonderland
So we went on a saturday and came back on monday. We loved Dutch Wonderland. The husband swears that he will never set foot at Sesame Place ever again but he’s willing to go back to Dutch Wonderland any time. Plus it’s clean. It’s about 2 1/2-e hours from NYC. We got there by mid afternoon, checked into our hotel and then went straight to Dutch Wonderland. With the tickets that we got that evening we were able to get in again with them the next day. Zoe had a blast! I think 2 and up is the perfect age to go. I think it’s $35 per head and kids under 2 get in for free.

  


  
   
 
 
            
          
 



                                    
        
 


                                           

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
So in the morning after I dress and put on my face and then dress Zoe, I head downstairs by myself to get her lunchbag ready. I leave her upstairs with he dad so that he can brush her teeth after he’s done getting ready and sometimes I hear them arguing a lot or just chatting together.

So last thursday morning they came down together and she’s in a great mood. He puts her on the floor and she runs off to the living room. He says to me…

Hubs: You know what this one said to me this morning?
Me: What?
Hubs: I ask her “Do you love daddy?” she goes “No. I love mommy!” Jerk.
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Then he starts talking to Zoe from across the room…

Hubs: Zoe do you love daddy?
Zoe: (busy playing) yes.
Hubs: Say “Ahbah is handsome.”
Zoe: Ahbah is handsome mommy!

Notice how she threw in the “mommy”? Like as if she was reminding me in case I had forgotten. I know he’s handsome. He’s only ugly when when HE claims he’s handsome.

So on thursday Zoe and I had our first giggling episode where we both can’t stop laughing. *sigh* It was so funny. We were sitting on the living room floor and I was feeding her dduk gook (korean rice cake soup) and she had her mouth full and said something like “Where is Shrek?” but it sounded more like “wheihtrekt?” So I was pretending my mouth was full and I said “What? WEHIHTRECKT?!” and she just started giggling. And every time she’d stop it’s as if she was thinking about what I just said and just burst out giggling again and again. So I started laughing too and everytime we’d stop we’d make eye contact and start laughing again. Hahaha dude she cracks me up. 

:: 06.06.10 :: Fort Lee Fair
Our church Bethany Well participated in the Fort Lee Fair 2 sundays ago so we headed out to support them. It was way too hot and after about an hour or two I couldn’t take the heat anymore plus we had to take the lil one home and put her down for her nap. I didn’t take a lot of photos cause I was just too hot so here are a few that I did take.




:: 05.06.10 :: Daddy-time

2 ripe bananas
2 cups of strawberries
1 8oz vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup of milk

Throw everything into a blender on high speed for 1 minute. (3 servings)
You can of course alter the amount of fruit you put in. I tend to like strawberries more than bananas.

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
I’m trying to get the best deal at a hotel for a conference I’m trying to set up for in July. So I called 3 hotels and they all know they’re competing against each other. So one of them hand delivered their proposal and gave a mini chalkboard with a pen and pencil case as a little bonus. PSH! You can’t buy me lady. I was sold. hahaha I took it home to give it to Zoe. I bought sidewalk chalk (because I couldn’t find regular chalk). She drew all weekend. Sunday after her nap we took her chalk outside to draw. She was drawing all over my Picasa-esque drawings. Hello? Rudeness.

Zoe: I drawing like mommy.
Me: Oh yeah? I drawing like Zoe. Zoe can I have the yellow chalk?
Zoe: OF COURSE!
Me: Hahahahaha (I’ve never heard her say that so I had some fun with it). Zoe can I have the pink one?
Zoe: OF COURSE!
Me: Can I have blue?
Zoe: OF COURSE!
Me: What about pur…no forget it.
Zoe: What mommy?
Me: Can I have purple?
Zoe: OF COURSE!

It’s how she said it which was funny to me. Like “You’re so silly, OF COURSE, DUH” type of of course. Ya know?


Yesterday morning I wanted to kick her ass. I know, it’s not a motherly thing to say but this is how I felt. So friggin whiney. Like geeze. I think I’m lucky since her terrible two’s hit that she’s not the tantrummy type but dude the whining is SO annoying! It’s like deafening. I try to ignore it (I don’t know how some of you mothers could) but I can’t and then after a while I just get SUPER ANNOYED! It’s really draining on me.
You know, we’ve been trying to plan a Jung Family Vacation 2010 Extravaganza. I’ve been really looking foward to it. Just with the baby coming and with me going back to work it’s just something really nice to look foward to. So we’ve been trying to plan a  cruise to Bermuda with our friends and APPARENTLY you need a doctor’s note to board a ship if you’re prego stating your due date. If you are 24 or more they won’t let you board. WHAT DA EFFIN A!? You know I also found out that this is pretty standard for all major cruise lines. WHAT DA EFFIN A?! I called my doctor to see if she’d lie for me. She said no. AHHHHH! So frustrating! So now we are planning a separate vacation without our friends. I’m really bummed because I was looking foward to going on a trip with other people and these were like the perfect people to do our first one with. Sorry Oliver clan. In the baby’s best interest I can’t. I would feel soooo shitty if something happened to the baby. So it’s a risk not worth taking. So the search is still on the Jung Family Vacation 2010 Extravaganza…dun dun DUN!

This week we got Lion King in the mail. I’m surprised sometimes at how much Zoe can understand. Yesterday she was watching it and Scar (Mustafa’s brother) came out and she said “Scar is like Jafar (for you non Disney supporters, he’s the sultan’s advisor) mommy.”  So I said “Why is he like Jafar, Zoe?” She responded “Because they’re both baaaaad.”

Zoe’s Daily Funny:
The conversation going on behind me with Zoe and the sun while driving to work today.

Zoe: C’mon sun! Follow me. I go to school. It’s Mustard Seed. Come with me and Mommy. Okay?! You no listen?! Ok, time out sun! One minute! I don’t care.

:: 05.22.10 ::  So Jiwon Invited us over for a playdate a few weeks ago. I should have taken more photos but I haven’t seen her in so long so we were busy chatting up a storm. Plus these two crazies were busy running around anyways so they couldn’t care less about us.