Sarah’s Dol-bok (Hanbok)

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The entire Oh family drove to Flushing, Queens to purchase a Dol-bok, a traditional Korean dress, for Sarah’s 1st birthday. We had several dresses to choose from and in the end, it was picked unanimously by Sarah, Blanka and myself.

The traditional dress came complete with dress, purse, headpiece and even booties. The ladies in the store also through in a long piece of string. Apparently my folks were desperately looking to buy this string, which signified long life and didn’t know where to get one. It was by sheer luck that the store had it and threw it in for free. Sarah also got a new pillow filled with buckwheat husks so that grandpa didn’t have to share his pillow with her.

After the dress shop, we drove to a jeweler on Northern Blvd. and got Sarah a gold ring to give her on her b-day. This too was a traditional item that my parents told us we needed to get.

All in all, it was a quick day filled with a lot of shopping. We accomplished a lot of what needed to be done for Sarah’s first b-day and were happy we got to spend time together during a wonderfully sunny day.

Pictures can be found here.

Some Random Pics

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Here are some random pics.

Sarah didn’t enjoy going to visit the accountant for the first time. I’ll have to agree with her and next year, we’ll probably find ourselves a new one.

Sarah trying on some snow boots.

One of Sarah’s favorite foods is blueberry pancake.

Perfect Spring Day

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Wouldn’t you know it. After one of the biggest snow storms in recent memory, we had a perfect spring day one week later. It was so nice that Sarah went outside in her fleece sleeper to play. She didn’t even want to change first! While she hated being outside in the snow in her snowsuit, she LOVED being out in the 60 degree weather. She crawled around the front yard. She did some “gardening” by chewing on mulch and playing with some left over leaves in the flower garden and just enjoyed the day.

Big Snowstorm

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We got a big snowstorm on March 2nd. We received a total of 11 inches here on the island and it was enough to close my office for the first time since I started working there over 11 years ago. We hung out indoors in the morning and then headed outside to clear off the snow before it froze over.

Sarah didn’t particularly enjoy being in her snow suit.

She didn’t particularly like being out in the snow either.

The good thing about being outdoors. I got to try out my new Canon Hf10 camcorder outside and even made a short video of our adventure outside.

Sarah Playing in the Snow from BOH on Vimeo.

Standing and Walking

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Sarah loves standing up while watching TV. She doesn’t like sitting around like a couch potato while watching her Dora the Explorer on the Noggin network. She stands great and never appears to get tired of just standing around. She’s standing on her own and can balance really well. She’s walking around holding onto stuff and is able to walk relatively well holding onto one of mommy or daddy’s hands.

Climbing the Stairs

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I know it’s been a while, but lets see if I can update over a month’s worth of blog posts in the next few hours.  Sarah has been crawling around the house and has learned to standup, walk with assistance and even to climb our stairs to get to the bedrooms.   While I have a gate to prevent her from falling down the stairs to my parents apartment, I have yet to find a suitable gate to keep Sarah from going upstairs.  I guess the search will have to continue with due diligence.