STRAIN
We were lying on the bed watching Castaway with Tom Hanks. It was just after the part where Helen Hunt decides she has to go back to her family rather than leave with the love of her life (Hanks).
AMY: "If you were her, you would have gone with him."
ME: "... Where do you get this? What does that mean?"
AMY: "What?"
ME: "You're saying I'd just take off? She's married with two kids. I'm married and I have two kids and you don't see me running away in the rain and abandoning my family, do you?"
AMY: "I just meant you'd follow your heart."
ME: " ... "
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PLAYER VS. PLAYER
Sun Su adjusted to having a little baby sister amazingly well ... for the first hour. He was fascinated by her little red face and sleeping head.
But once he saw this new baby sucking on his momma's teat, well, you can imagine the man in him came out. He would roar in possessive protest and try to physically separate said teat from pink little baby.
When Sun Su gets attention, he's okay. He'll even pet Ooseung and want to hold her. But a couple of times he has slapped Ooseung with a hand or foot. Ooseung doesn't seem as much phased as annoyed by this. In fact, I think I've seen her roll her eyes in response.
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BUTTERCUP
Our little Ooseung is around three weeks old now. Like most babies her age, she doesn't do much. So far her two most noticeable personality traits are (1) she likes being held, and (2) she doesn't like having her arms restrained by the blanket wrap. I am sure there is more to her personality than just those two things but I am just not seeing it yet.
Oh, and after getting wapped by jealous Sun Su almost daily, she finally wapped him back with her little mittened fist the other day.
Daddy was so proud.
(Although I comforted Sun Su right after. The cute ones always hurt you the most, Sun Su.)
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SWEETEST THING
I laugh while Amy holds Ooseung in her arms and lifts her up to her face as if the baby is kissing Amy's cheek.
"Ooseung, why you kissing umma?" Amy will say in mock protest while setting her down.
Then Amy will lift baby up to her cheek again for another faux kiss,
"I don't want any more kisses Ooseung."
Then she'll steal yet another kiss from the baby bandit,
"Stop kissing me Ooseung."
And again.
When I walk by, I see that Ooseung's eyes are closed tight in sleep, completely oblivious to the kissing charade her umma is playing with her.
"I don't have time for this Ooseung," Amy says again as I leave.
Still makes me laugh.
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PATTERN RECOGNITION
My dad used to be a truck driver. When my brother or I were little, we would point to Jones Transfer trucks and yell "daddy."
Amy tells me whenever she takes Sun Su to the mall, he will run into the video game stores and yell "appah" (which means "daddy").
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STEREOTYPICAL
I think I am becoming a stereotypical father figure, in that I do not talk to Sun Su as much as Amy does. Instead, we tend to communicate a lot visually.
I love looking into Sun Su's eyes.
When he stares back and giggles and snugly rests his head into my shoulder, I know that he knows exactly what I am telling him.
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