Breaking News: He Isn't Always Smiling (and has many nicknames...)

It's true.  We can't deny it.  Joe Sung Min isn't always smiling.  He has been known to fuss, to whine, to get angry and cry.  Even still, he is pretty doggone cute.  And we're on to his tricks.  He'll whine and make high pitched sounds (we sometimes call him "Beaker" from the Muppet show) and as soon as we move to pick him up, he is all smiles and giggly.  Don't let the sad face below fool you.  He's really fine...

We also refer to Joe as "Linus" because he absolutely LOVES his blue blanket; he'll smile when he sees it, hold it up to his cheek with one hand while sucking his thumb with the other.  It is too cute.  Do you see the resemblance?  As you can see he is all cozy here in his crib.  If you look really closely, you'll see our cat Lucy curled up in the bottom right corner of the awesome quilt his Auntie Jen made him.  Lucy and Joe both like to sleep.  Today we christened Joe "Dozer", which works on two levels: his ability to sleep and his bull in a china shop tendencies.  He has a knack for razing things around him...

Brian made kimchi fried rice for dinner. Delicious!!

We had some fun playing up in his room.  What are his favorites?  His comb, random pieces of train track and some train cargo.  Good stuff!

Tomorrow morning is his surgery.  These may be one of the last pictures of his eyes before they are corrected.  How exciting!  We'll have even more to smile about in the coming days.