Waaay Back When

Chris was looking at old media on his cell phone. He happened upon this video that he forgot about and I had never seen. Reina is 30 minutes old! She had just gotten the "goop" put in her eyes and it was Chris' first time holding her. Crazy how small she was.

Whereever Blankie is...

Reina has been caught more than once sucking her thumb. However, it has recently been brought to our attention that if her blankie is nearby, she will go to it and immediately put her thumb into her mouth. Granddad and Romeni sent us some new blankies (for back up purposes). As soon as they were out of the box, Reina immediately found her thumb and put her head down. So sweet. I will miss these days.

We also had a recent meeting with the folks who are helping us buy our house. Good news: the land has been bought! We will go in for a final approval of the plans on Monday and then they will be submitted to the city for permits. There's no turning back now!

PS - Happy Halloween! Will we be dressing up? No. Next year for sure.

She has feet!

And they taste good! Need I say more?

Our Brown Eyed Girl

I have finally accepted that Reina will have brown eyes and hair. I figured she'd have brown eyes, but I was certain she'd have bleach blond hair like her mama, when she was a kid.

I've uploaded my next masterpiece. Chris and I took footage from the real video camera (versus the still camera) so the quality should be better, but I can't promise the editing is any better! It was fun looking at all of the things Reina can do now.

Anything new with Reina? Well, she's been torturing me by waking up in the middle of the night. I'm not quite sure what that's about, but I miss my 11hour sleeping baby. Hopefully she'll be back soon. She is very close to having 6 teeth, is still working on walking, and is still LOVING her tomatoes! Chris insisted upon documentation of Reina's first Laker game with him. I think he enjoyed in more than she did.

"Ready, set...NO!"

Reina has learned a new trick. The infamous head shake. She seems to randomly do it though, so I am not convinced that she actually shakes her head to mean "no." But its quite funny. I think Chris is convinced she does it when you ask a question, any question. Here's a short clip of her disagreeing with some of our questioning. Also included some pics of her when she was supposed to be napping. At least she won't need her two front teeth for Christmas, because she's got those covered!

We're Going to be Friends

I just put a few clips together and played a bit more with iMovie. Just Reina being Reina, nothing special - although we did get some good shots of her teeth. She's got a top and bottom one she likes to grind (yikes) and the top and bottom ones next to it are coming in too. I can see more on the way. Reina also learned how to shake her head from side to side. She doesn't do it meaning "no," though, she just seems to do it randomly. We ended up getting the best footage right after her nap today. She slept so hard (figuratively and literally) that she woke up with her blanket imprinted on her face.

Future visits? Granddad and Romeni are coming for Thanks-giving and we're going to fly over to Seoul for Christmas.

Over the tatami and under the table

Reina has become quite the climber. In addition to jumping and climbing all over our couch, she has taken quite a liking to our little coffee table. She can crawl under it quite easily. You can also see Reina's new BIG front tooth coming in, and the one next to it is close behind. Reina has taking pretty well to this whole teething business (knock on wood), although she did decide to get up at 12 last night. I'm not sure if that was teething or 9month growth spurt. We'll see what tomorrow night holds. But she is definitely working on getting 2 new teeth through. The teeth make her look much older; no more gummy smiles :(

Reina officially turns 9months today. Wow! She has gotten old so quickly. New stats? She is still at 19lbs and 26.5 inches. This puts her in the 10th percentile for height and the 25-50th for weight.