After Church Picture

Kelli is currently 26 and a half weeks pregnant. Per the request of some family members here is a picture of Kelli's belly. It is pretty much in the same position as the last one for easy comparison. Taking pictures after church seem to work well. Since we are dressed decently. We tend to spend a lot of time hanging out in sweats. The color is off a little bit so the pic is not great. I think the light coming in the window behind us made the pic very dark.

Yes, We live in a Rice Paddy!

For anyone who doesn't know our apartment building is surrounded by rice paddies, as are most things in Korea. It is the time of year where they harvest that rice. Yesterday we saw this very interesting piece of equipment harvesting the rice by our building. It shears the rice stalks and sends them back along a conveyer where it shakes the rice off into bags (on the other side of the machine), then dumps the stalks out the back of the machine. Notice the man is standing up the whole time ( I guess they don't believe in seats on equipment over here). There is a saying over here in the military. OINK! Which means Only IN Korea! Apprently posting these interesting culture differences is going to be a new trend on the blog, so stay tuned for more OINK moments!

Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

Over the past year in Korea Andy and I have learned that there isn't too much that surprises us anymore. Koreans tend to go about doing things in a very different way that Americans would. They tend to be less worried about safety. For example, one of my Korean friends has a 2 daughters; one of them is 2 and the other is 4. Often the 4 year old is in a car seat (most likely unbuckled) and the 2 year old is roaming around the car. I am not sure if there is a law, but if so it definitely isn't adhered to very well. Anyhow, on Friday we were driving down the dirt path to our apartment building. We were talking about the colors they were painting the new building behind our apartment building. All of the sudden I noticed HOW they were painting the building. The man is sitting on what appears to be similar to a seat of a swing that has a rope attached to it. He is wearing no safety gear at all! He began at the top and was lowered down as he was painting the building with a paint roller. Then there was a man on the inside painting the outer window ledge. If you click on the picture it will enlarge it so you can see it better.

Mission Accomplished!

This weekend we traveled to some bases up North to see what of our "big" baby items we could find. We needed to do this early so if we needed to order them through the PX we had time to do so. We lucked out and found all three items that we needed that could not be shipped from the states. In addition to the stroller, infant carrier, and pack and play, we were able to find a few other smaller items! We got lucky to find matching patterns as we bought the stroller and infant carrier at one PX and the pack and play at a totally separate location. When we got home today we got everything put together to make sure all the parts were there and not broken. It is now just waiting til Caden arrives in January:)

The Stroller

The Infant Carrier, which snaps onto the stroller or into the car base.

The pack and play that came with a bassinet and diaper changing station. It also has music that can play and vibration mechanism to help soothe the baby to sleep.

What A Day!!

Today was quite an exciting day at the Hospital. Kelli is now 25 weeks and 2 days. She had her glucose test first. We should have the results in 2-3 days. Don't worry it gets better from there. Then we went for her Level II ultrasound. We also opted to have the 4D Ultrasound at the same time! The video shows Caden smiling and blinking his eye. Below are a ton of pictures from the ultrasound. I put them in a slideshow because there are sooooo many! He has all his fingers and toes and vital organs. He appears to be very healthy and quite energetic. The technician was laughing at how much he was moving around. While we were having the ultrasound the international clinic liason came in and said a local tv crew was there and wanted to interview and do a piece on international patients in the hospital. So after the real ultrasound, we staged one(where Kelli was a little more covered) for the camera. Then they followed us around the hospital as we went to the doctor to have the results reviewed. While we were waiting for the doctor they interviewed us. Too bad we don't know when or what channel it will be on!

P.S. The technician and the liason both think Caden looks like me!

24 1/2 Weeks

Since my belly seems to be growing a good bit these days, I thought I would update you with another picture! I have my next doctor's appointment on Friday for the Glucose Screening Test and a level 2 ultrasound. Hopefully we will get some better pictures of the little guy that we can post :) I know the ones from the regular ultrasound are sometimes a little hard to identify. Next weekend we are heading out to do some baby shopping. That should be fun!

Our "Beamer"

Well here are the pics of our recently purchased car in Korea. The best way to describe it is in a list:
Automatic Transmission - Yes
Power Brakes - Yes
Power Steering - No
Heat - Yes
A/C -Technically Yes(I think there's a leak.)
Power Windows - Yes
Power Doors - No
Tape deck -Yes Radio- No ( Antenna is broken)

Yes the bumper is sprayed painted(along with the hub caps). The interior is dark blue.(How this goes with silver and black outside not sure?) It has over 242,000 KMs on it. So far it has been a pretty reliable car though. The BMW sticker on the trunk was there when we bought it. (along with a BMW Steering Knob on the Inside.)

So there you go. Just as promised. Soon we will be adding a car seat to it! That's the only addition I have planned for customizing this beater.

23 Weeks

For all of you that don't get to see me on a daily basis, here are some pictures for you. I will have to admit I am not very fond of these preggo pictures, but I guess I will have to get used to them. I am very critical of pics of myself and these just aren't really doing anything for me.....but hopefully you will enjoy them. Since it is now obvious that I look pregnant (opposed to just looking like a gain 15 pounds) I will try and post pictures somewhat frequently. Enjoy!