Just eat your kimchi.

As the upcoming Korea move vapidly approaches, things to have gotten more and more hectic. I'd love to blame the third (3!) international move in four (4!) years for my lack of blog posting, but we all know that just isn't the case. In reality, I have a very active 7 month old and a poor sense of blog follow-through.

As for the latest and greatest in the Nystrom household, Abby is keeping us on our toes these days. After about four months of cranky, drooling, any minute now, pissed off baby teething behavior it appeared. The first tooth! She was chewing on a rubber duck pirate bath toy in her highchair when her gums started bleeding and we knew for sure the end was nigh. Sure enough, it came to the surface the next day and we had a much happier baby a few days later. Then she surprised us with an out of nowhere second tooth on her 7 month birthday. Which, I would like to point out means she's SEVEN MONTHS OLD! More than half a year! We've managed to keep her alive, in relatively good condition, and away from the various sharp implements and hatchets strewn throughout the house. Thank goodness everything gets packed up in a few weeks and we can pretend that we don't need to childproof for a little while longer. As it stands now, our house is a small child death trap/dangerous wonderland and frankly we're just too lazy to child proof.

Ironically, one of the things I registered for before Abby was born and before we had left Germany were some of the childproof electrical outlet covers. Not knowing what kind of house we'd be living in soon, I didn't worry about any of the cabinet locks or toilet lid things. But electrical outlets? Every house has those! How can I go wrong?! I did not account for a move to Korea, where they most definitely are not going to fit the outlets there. Oh well, we'll use them eventually...

Speaking of the move to Korea, we actually have plane tickets so I think the Army might be serious about us leaving this time. We even have dates for movers to come, which I might add are rapidly upon us. Army regulations state that we can only move half of our normal weight allowance to Korea, and the rest will be staying stateside in government storage. This really isn't that big of a deal, but now we face the task of deciding what stuff is important enough to take with us , what stuff can we live without, and what stuff is stupid to even consider taking (i.e. most of our 110 volt kitchen appliances). We'll be able to get loaner furniture from the Army and a lot of the apartments there actually come semi or fully furnished. After some typical chaos, we have it settled to where the dog and the cat will be able to fly to Korea with us. Our original airline was unwilling to fly any pets over 70 lbs, dog and crate included, which promptly knocked out flying Cody with us and shipping him cargo was just not an option. But that's squared away, so I can breathe a little easier.

And because you, dear reader, have been a trooper and read all my ramblings, I leave you with a picture of an adorable baby with super squishy cheeks!