I've never been great at punctuality (but I'm improving), which explains why Abby's one year post is a month late. Opps! It doesn't help that my once adorable and helpless baby is now an adorable, feisty, mischievous girl on the go. She no longer sits in one place or takes a few steps here and there before falling. She RUNS. Quickly and with purpose. Towards anything she shouldn't be running towards. Some of her favorite things to get into right now are the dishwasher (magic box of intrigue!), the bathroom trashcan (fun new toys!), and her closet (coolest room EVER!). Needless to say, baby gates and closed doors have become an important feature in our house. She's not quite as good about eating anything we give her anymore, but she's still a champ when it comes to food. Currently, she would do almost anything for a banana and often looks longingly at the fruit bowl on the counter while saying "na-na?" Don't let her fool you though, this is usually after she's had more than her fair share. We're not starving her, though her past growth curve might have suggested that we were! She eats, I swear! She did finally start putting on weight though and now weighs in at a whopping 18.4 lbs at 13 months. By "whopping," I mean she's finally on the growth scale at the 4th percentile! She's 30 inches tall (about 55th percentile) and I forget her head size, but it was giant and measured in the 84th percentile. It's a good thing she has that giant head to hold all those brains for that Ivy league education we're going to force upon her. That's our retirement plan, right there! Which more than likely means that she'll either go through a lot of schooling and then work in the non-profit sector (see also: crappy pay sector). On a completely unrelated sidenote, she has discovered tantrums. My one year old child can throw a pretty mean tantrum when you tell her not to play in the dog water and remove from the situation. Thusly, we're officially screwed.
Anyways, Korea is still as much of an adventure as ever. Now it's just a bitterly cold adventure. We haven't had to much of a chance to explore beyond a lot of day trips to Seoul. But Seoul... oh what a city! I truly love that place. It's so alive and bustling and filled with the most ridiculous and fun things. The street vendors there sell the most random things you would ever expect to find. Ironically I've seen more Swedish Dala horse items than anywhere but Lindsborg, KS and that even includes a previous trip to Sweden. The restaurants in Seoul are one of my favorite things though. You can probably find just about any kind or ethnicity of food you can imagine. Jared and I had dinner at a Bulgarian restaurant awhile ago that was indescribably delicious and impressively affordable as well. But the very best type of food in Seoul, hands down, is the street food. At night time, they line the shopping districts with their carts and cook some of the best and craziest looking food you've ever seen. I'm not sure what a lot of it is, but so far everything has been delicious. Think NYC hot dog carts but with freshly made dumplings and skewers of marinated beef and chicken grilled right in from of you. This one was a local street food vendor, but delicious none the less:
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