We’ve got a walker! Â Hazel started walking about a week and a half ago. Â We actually missed the first time that she walked – I got home from work and Hazel’s babysitter informed me that she had taken three steps. Â We were bummed to have missed it and when I passed on the word to Yenari she begged me not to get Hazel to walk while she was still at work because she didn’t want to miss out. Â It was about two days after that when we saw her take her first tentative steps…maybe 3 or 4 steps at once. Â A few days later she upped it to 7 steps and her tentative steps turned to excited and over-ambitious steps. Â I would have gotten some photos or videos of her walking, but her enthusiasm for walking has resulted in lots of chasing her around and catching her when she tumbles to the ground.
A couple days ago Hazel crossed over the 13 month mark…and her 13th month was definitely a month of action. Hazel still isn’t walking on her own, but she is crawling, standing, walking while holding on to furniture, and her new favorite: walking while holding our hands. The month started off with a bang with our trip to Virginia for my brother’s wedding.
The weekend after we got back from the wedding we kept the momentum going by traveling to LA for a 4 day trip to see Yenari’s father who traveled from Korea for a business trip. Yenari’s father was quite busy with work, but we were still able to spend quite a bit of time with him. We met him at the airport on Sunday and spent just about the whole day with him.
Yenari’s father probably spent half his time with us watching Hazel while we ate – I wonder if he even had a chance to eat anything the whole time. We had a terrific Korean BBQ dinner at Chung Dam Korean BBQ and a reprise of the awesome spicy crab soup we’ve had on our last few trips to LA at Ondal 2.
Here’s a short video of Hazel ‘walking’ with her grandfather and Yenari:
We had a great time seeing Yenari’s father again – Hazel definitely remembered him from our Korea trip and quickly rekindled her friendship with him. One of the things that Hazel started doing while we were in LA and that she’s continued doing every….few seconds, is to ask for things. She does this by putting her hands together:
She does this whenever she wants anything – food, toys, us, dogs, and even when she sees other kids out in public. It is totally cute but grows a little old when it happens every ten seconds or so. What doesn’t grow old is her bowing when she gets what she was asking for. Yenari taught her this when she was teaching her to ask for things, ‘Chusayo’ in Korean. Here’s a quick video of Hazel asking for something and bowing once she gets it:
The rest of the month was definitely more low-key…no more traveling for us, but we’ve still been busy trying to keep up with Hazel. Here are a couple other photos from the rest of the month:
