It’s crazy how much an almost 2yr. old picks up on things. She surprises me with words I had no idea she even knew everyday. She can speak 6-word sentences and her favorite things to say are “YEAH!”, “I want more chocolate/popsicle now.”, “baby’s nai nai/up/eat/laugh/sad/crying.”, “dada’s at work?”, “Dada’s nai nai, mommy’s nai nai, baby’s nai nai, Adalie’s nai nai.”(she repeats this every night), and “Mommy, I wanna by you.” (mommy, I wanna be by you as she scoots herself over right next to me. It is the sweetest thing in the world). She knows all the colors of the ottor-pops so that she could tell me which one she wants, Jay’s been saying since 4-5 months ago that he can say any alphabet and she’ll say and point to the right alphabet foam toy that sticks on the bathtub. I’m kind of skeptical of that one because I’ll point to an alphabet in like a book and she doesn’t know them all but maybe she’s too used to the alphabet foams. I still haven’t tested that one yet but I should. Not that I don’t believe you or anything Jay…eh hem.

Moving on, she loves vegetables especially mushrooms, brocolli, and green beans and she loves her meat! She is definitely ready to be potty trained but haven’t officially started because 1. I’m too tired in the morning. 2. taking care of Ariana as well is just so busy and hectic as it is. There is a saying in Korea that raising 2 kids a year apart is harder than raising twins. My friend’s sister’s has a set of twins and also 2 kids a year apart and she says raising twins is much easier.

I feel like the world does not give enough credit to mothers and think it’s a chill, easy job where you just “hang out” with your kids and eat, watch t.v, take a nap and take it easy. That makes me so annoyed because only mothers know how emotionally, physically, and mentally difficult it actually is. I was watching Oprah awhile back and it was focused on mothers and this mother of two who was like a co-CEO or a “big deal” of some company was laid off so she had no choice but to be a full time mother and she said she absolutely hates it. Haha how sad but I thought it was so refreshing how honest she was. She said when she worked 12 hr. days and then come home and still have to be on calls and be a wife and a mother was much much easier than working 24 hrs. of being a nanny, cook, maid, nutritionist, coach, friend, therapist.

Once my friend came over to see me and I only had Adalie at that time and we watched cartoons and ate snacks and she said to me, “Wow, this is such an awesome job huh? you just hang out with your kid all day.” I just nodded and said, “Yep, pretty much….” Then a few months later she babysat her nephew for 2 days and she called me and told me, “You know how I said you just chill with your kid all day? Well, I take that back. This is SOOOOOOO hard! I can’t nap, I can’t rest, I can’t do anything I want to do, he occupies all my time and I’m just pure exhausted! How do you do it every single day?”

So the point of me rambling on is that US mothers are PHENOMENON, AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, SELFLESS, ANGELIC, TRUE HEROES and that the world should give us more credit and bow down in gratitude for what we do. We save this world. Haha yes I self-proclaimed, take it or leave it. And you mothers out there who have kids that are one year apart OR have 3 or more kids-I applaud you even more.