Happy Orange and Black!!!

Depends on how you look at it. It's Halloween and the Giants beat the Rangers this evening! In the spirit of Halloween and the Giants being in the World Series, my costume this year was Brian Wilson from the Giants. Mama spent saturday morning making my costume while papa took me out for coffee. She even made me a black beard, but I indeed, feared the beard. While mama was sewing the letters, she later noticed that she had reversed the colors. So, please disregard this minor detail.
p.s. notice the shirt unbuttoned.



Practicing my pitching stance.


Fear the Beard!






Here's Zane (our neighhor) in his awesome eagle costume! Zane and his parents made it!


Then we went trick-or-treating to couple houses in our neighborhood together, just to get enough candy for papa.



We also visited a pumpkin patch here in the city. The pickin's were slim, but I still enjoyed seeing all the pumpkins!





Having a moment with mama.




This one was light enough for me to carry!

I told her I was going to wear this!

On a side note, here's an update of what I can do now!!!

I'm now almost 1 year and 2 months, aka 14 months for those that are moms. I now say in sign: milk, all done/finished, more (sometimes), airplane.

I know what is a cow, dog, ball, and airplane. When someone says the word, I grab for the object. Mama even thinks that I try to "moo" and "woof" and even "vroom" when I roll a car or plane on the floor.

I shake my head "no" to the story/nursery rhyme "8 silly monkeys" when the doctor says, "no more monkeys jumping on the bed".

And I no longer crawl, I walk everywhere!!!

I've been also known to mimick you now. So, if you do something I find funny, I will copy you...ask my auntie!

Stinson Beach

Took a trip up to Stinson Beach, mama as usual got really nauseous on the drive up. Once we got there, we enjoyed walking along the beach and hearing the waves. And since it was so sunny, mama tied a shirt on my head because we didn't think to bring a hat for me. I had my first experience playing with the sand! I really enjoyed it. I think I could have stayed there for a very long time feeling the little tiny pieces.







I can't stop staring at the sand! I want to build a sand castle!!!



Papa says this is like a ATT commercial...think "bars".



They like to plop me anywhere and take photos. I don't find much fun in this.





Then we went to a restaurant in Point Reyes and I met Paul from Brooklyn, NY. We wanted to hold hands.

Real vs. Fake

I'm still very sensitive to dairy, so mama found some vegan cheese at the market. I do enjoy it, but I hear that it doesn't really taste like the real stuff. So one evening, we ordered a pizza and I really wanted to try what everyone else was having, so papa made this for me.

We LOVE brunch!

We took a Sunday stroll to Hayes Valley and decided to have brunch at Suppenkuche. While waiting for our food to come, in came the Hansen family, minus one of their sons who was at a slumber party.



Then mama let me take some photos. I don't know what I'm doing, but I do know that I like to push all the little buttons.



Rich playing with my fingers.



Three generations of the Blue men (waiting for our food to come).

Doljanchi

Mama and papa wanted to throw me a traditional Korean 1st birthday, aka Doljanchi. They also wanted to have it at Crissy Fields, that means, papa and grandpa had to claim the tables early in the morning at 5:30AM. It was dark, and all they could see were flickering lights attached to runners and hear the fog horns blaring. Good thing they went early because it soon became busy since this is a hotspot to have bbq's and parties. The weather was a bit cloudy, but the sun broke through a few times.

Here's us setting up.





Putting on the hanbok. Three against one! Not fair!!!



Starting to get nervous, if you could only see my view.



Yep, I'm officially upset.



Papa trying to calm me down.



Then it was time for the Doljabi, which is a traditional ceremony where I'm suppose to pick an item that represents my destiny. Obviously these are not the traditional items, mama and papa just wanted to have fun with them.

Mama showing me each one, but I was frozen scared.



Then cousin Olivia thought maybe she could calm me down by sitting next to me.



But of course....





After time has passed, I began to feel a little bit more comfortable with people surrounding me, and with much anticipation, I chose...



And with excitement, everyone yelled "yay"!!! And I got scared again!



But as people were gathering things and getting ready to leave, I was able to sit down with Halmoni and have some late lunch.



Thank you everyone for coming and celebrating my Doljanchi!



Papa designed this poster for anyone to take at the party. Here's a shot while they were being printed.



p.s. mama and papa didn't get a chance to take much photos, if anyone would like to send them, please do! Oh! Thank you Gary for helping us take some photos!

Austin + Lida

While in LA, we got a chance to hang out with papa's college professor Austin Lowrey and his wife Lida. Oh! and I can't forget, their grandbaby Frances!



Relaxing in their hammock. Mama was lovin' my shadow.



Mama and I in front of Austin's painting on the wall.




There was so much to see at their home, Austin is an organized collector, and Lida is a painter.

Austin's side of the house:







Lida's side of the house:







Frances giving me some love



Lida giving us an awesome gift...one of her paintings!!! Thank you Lida!