First Birthday Party aka Dol

This past weekend we celebrated Jayden's 1st birthday (Dol in Korean) in Maryland with lots of friends and family. She was so great wearing her traditional Korean garb. Michelle even joined in and wore her aunt's traditional dress. Part of the tradition is placing several symbolic items in front of the baby and let her grab at one. Jayden chose the pencil, which symbolizes scholarly work.

So close, yet so far

As she is fast approaching 1 year, Jayden is almost starting to walk. We practice with just a few steps at a time. With this session she was consistently taking a few steps towards Matt. Of course when the video camera came out, Jayden was not interested in performing. We think she'll be walking any day now.

Yummy, yummy, some of it gets in her tummy

Here are a few videos of Jayden eating. The spaghetti one is from a week or so ago and the cantaloupe ones are from mid January.

Cruising and Moving

Jayden officially can't sit still. She is always crawling somewhere around the house, which has garnered her another nickname - Adventure Girl. If she's not crawling then she is getting really good at standing up while holding coffee tables, bookshelves, etc. This video shows Jayden "walking her dinosaur".

National Football Championship Weekend

With the help of Jayden's unstoppable cuteness, Matt was able to win 4 tickets plus airfare and hotel to the BCS National Championship game. Good thing Grandpa Larry and Halmoni came to help take care of things, while Michelle was hard at work. Matt had a great time with Geoff, Scott and Joe. We were happy when he finally came home.

Xmas in Maryland

Although we celebrated Xmas a few days late, Jayden didn't seem to mind. We had a great time seeing friends and family. Our trip back to Ohio was a little too much adventure though. At least the Matrix is driving very well now. Here are two videos from our trip.

Happy Holidays

This is way overdue, but it's a nice holiday video. Disregard the singing, I didn't have a chance to properly warm up.



She literally started crawling yesterday. Here is some video proof.