Sunday, October 15, 2006
Month 5 Update
Well, it's not really the whole month, because I did post on his first solid food. A lot more has happened since then.
Crawling
It started off slow, but he's been picking up the pace. It started with moving a couple feet here and there. Now he's pulling disappearing acts daily. He's still crawling more like a turtle (lots of belly on the floor), but he's slowly starting to come to his knees more and more.
Eating
What started out with rice mush, it now quite a variety of food. The packaged baby food here is terribly expensive. Gerber bottles are somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 a bottle. He costs more to feed than me. Therefore, Moon is making most of his food. He's eating a lot of rice, pumpkin, sweet potato, zucchini, and even a little meat and some baby crackers. He'll take whatever we've got. He's a machine. A sign of things to 
come :) He's also falling in love with his new sippy cup. He's not great at it yet, but he'll
Laughing and "Talking"
He's gone from a chuckle here and there, to all out bouts of laughter. He finds Moon hilarious. I'm not surprised...I always have :)
He's making a lot more sounds now. He's beginning to work his lips and voicing. He sounds like he's gearing up for P's and B's. Of course the side effect is just a whole lot of sputtering spit.
North Korea
Sammy is probably one of the youngest tourists to hit North Korea in history. I'm not going to detail the trip too much here, but needless to say, it was interesting.
We went with a tour through the DMZ to the southeast coast of the country. There is a famous mountain called Kumgangsan, which has been host to tourists for the last 5 or so years. I think that it is part of an engagement policy this is obviously not working so well.
Sammy gets a lot of attention here, much to the chagrin of his mom and dad. It's not just ooh's and aah's; it's also touching, grabbing, holding, and so forth. Anyone who knows how anal (no pun intended, though welcomed) I am about germs could probably guess that this freaks me out. I'm really convinced that 90% of the population doesn't wash their hands after going to the bathroom and they're going to touch MY Sammy! Hell no! It's made us a couple of enemies in the neighborhood. They, like you now, think we're crazy.
That was a long lead in to, if you think the South Koreans go crazy over Sammy, you gotta see the North Koreans. They didn't know what to make of Sammy. This half-alien baby was just too much for some. He just left them with mouths gaping. Others swarmed. We couldn't go in the shops without haven't at least 5-10 employees crowd around. It was absolutely surreal.
Of course he doesn't help matters any. He can go from crying and fussing to flirting with a pretty admirer at a moments notice. He's such a terrible flirt. He's part of the problem. Damn cute kid :)
The whole trip he traveled in style. He sat and slept in a backpack all the way to the top of the mountains. I don't know if he really did like it that much, but we did get some great pictures (to be posted soon).
Check out this Quicktime Movie of Moon, Sammy, and the Mountain
I'm sure that I'm missing something, but I can't think about it now. A couple things have happened in the first week of his 6th month that are interesting as well, so I'll have to get that up soon.
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