That just happened.

After laying Parker down for his nap, he rolled around from one end of the bed to the other and everywhere in between like he was on fire, all while he giggled and talked to himself.  Then, I heard him cry out and I just knew that it was a "I'm hurt" cry.  

When I ran into his room, I saw his leg sticking out of his bed between two rails.  His thigh was stuck and was not coming loose.  I tried everything I could do without hurting him to get it out, but it was not budging.  I even tried what I did when he did this same thing a couple days ago...pushing one rail and pulling the next to give him some space to free his leg, but it did not work this time.  I was prepared to break that rail in two to get him out.  A momma's gotta do what a momma's gotta do.

With that in mind, I hurried to the kitchen and returned shortly to Parker's room with a tub of butter in hand.  Yes, I'm serious.  I scooped some out with my fingers and rubbed it all over his thigh.  After lathering him in butter, I pulled on one of the rails and pushed on his leg.  Finally, it came loose!  

Oh. My. Word.  I really just did that. I literally buttered up my baby's thigh.  That just happened.  For real.


Here's the crime scene (the blanket is sticking out of the two rails where his thigh was stuck).

And here's Parker with his hero.  :)

The butter is now safe in the fridge again, waiting on a call from a slice of toast...or Parker's right thigh.  Like I said, a momma's gotta do what a momma's gotta do.

Dongbaek Island & APEC House

Because I didn't start this blog until a few weeks into our Korean adventure, I have yet to blog about all of the amazing memories from our first two weeks in Busan, South Korea.  As this blog serves as a written history of our family's adventures, it's important that I backtrack a bit and do some posts from our first two weeks here.  Enjoy!


At the end of Haeundae Beach, where we live, there is a small peninsula called Dongbaek Island where you can hike up one side or walk up the other.  I'm sure you're wondering how it can be a peninsula and an island at the same time.  Well it's not actually an island anymore.  Over time, a land bridge formed connecting it to the mainland. 

As you hike up the Haeundae Beach side of Dongbaek (starting at the foot of the stairs by the Westin Chosun Hotel), you'll spy a mermaid statue on the rocks below on the shore.  According to legend, this mermaid was married off to a king, and she missed home so much that she would go out at night and gaze at the view of her home reflected in her golden ball on every full moon.  The statue is of her holding the ball and looking out towards the sea.

Once you reach the tip of the island that juts out into the water, you'll see the Nurimaru APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) House.  The name is created by combining the Korean words nuri (“world”) and maru (“summit”).  Thus, APEC House collectively means “a house where the world summit leaders gather together for an APEC meeting.”  Korea hosted the annual APEC meeting in 2005 and built this lovely place especially for it. 

We decided to put on our tennis shoes and head over for a morning hike.  We did this with two toddlers, which was a little difficult for us and great fun for them to go up and down tons of wooden stairs and even a small suspension bridge.  God bless Talton who carried the stroller the whole way so we'd have somewhere to put the boys when we got on the other side of Dongbaek to walk back down.

watching "Caillou" after breakfast before heading out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The special Korean clothes all of the leaders wore.  I love this kind of stuff!

 

This is what they served the leaders for dinner that day:
steamed king prawn, grilled beef served with pine mushroom, scallop and ginseng salad, chestnut porridge, side dishes: kimchi, white kimchi, beef boiled in soy sauce seasoned vegetable, fried kelp, steamed rice in black bean/pine nut/black rice and red bean with "Sin-Sun-Ro", assorted Korean pastries, pear and citron punch

Well that's one way to put it.

 

 

 

The walk back down the other side of Dongbaek Island.  Great walk downhill!

 

 

Talton & Connar were hanging out on the balcony people watching, boat watching, and enjoying some one on one time.  :)

sinking our toes in the Korean water for the 1st time

Because I didn't start this blog until a few weeks into our Korean adventure, I have yet to blog about all of the amazing memories from our first two weeks in Busan, South Korea.  As this blog serves as a written history of our family's adventures, it's important that I backtrack a bit and do some posts from our first two weeks here.  Enjoy!


This was our second day in Busan.  With our body clocks still off, the boys' worse than mine and my mom's, we woke up early again and took a nap somewhere in there.  We hung out in the morning and then decided to go for a walk up and down the boardwalk of the beach where we live.  We sank our toes into Korean sand and water for the first time, and for Parker, this was his first time at a beach ever.  The water was freezing!  Then, we found a really cool slide on the beach that the boys had a ball playing on.  We also came across a small park area full of trees and walking trails.  There's not much grass around here, so we pushed our stroller over tons of rocks, sand, and pine cones.  Great first afternoon at the beach!

Connar's train   :)

Boy, it was nice having Daddy around again to push those heavy little guys in that stroller.  :)  This is on the ground floor of our building.

 

 

Haeundae's motto: "Sun & Fun"!  It's written everywhere, even on drains.

basically big iPads you can rent/use on the boardwalk

They were setting up for some sort of wrestling competition.  I'm sad I missed that.

The Aquarium is on the boardwalk, and this is a stairway that leads down to the food court there.

 This is just hilarious!  Parker kept messing with Connar from the back seat of the stroller.  :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connar preparing to race his daddy -- love that stance!

 

 

 

 

 

Look at all the attention these two little white boys were getting!  So funny!  It's like they were celebrities.  People literally stopped to stare at them.

I kind of wish I liked real Korean food to just go and sit in one of these little booths.  So neat!

The car dealerships go UP, not out like in Houston.  There's not much room to build sideways.  It's all very crammed.

 

Haaaa!!  Parker was messing with Connar AGAIN!  It's no wonder Connar wanted to start sitting in the back for a while after this day.  :)

 

 

They have these pictures on the boardwalk that you can pose with, as if you're in the picture yourself.  When we walk by them now, Connar and Parker want to go pose next to them too, since they've watched people do just that for months now every time we stroll by this area.

 

 

 

 

Sleeping in the stroller almost never happens.  We must've worn him out this afternoon, on top of the jet lag.