Clark's 3rd Birthday!

I can't believe he is 3! It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a shock some times.  :)  But this year we tried to make it fun for all of us and we're still able to have his Moogie, Geegee, Papi and Mimi involved through video chat! 

On his birthday we had our friends Anna, Alicia and Nick come over for dinner and cake.  I bought the cake at a Korean bakery.  I asked her what flavor and she started to point at all cakes.  Pink=Strawberry, Brown=Chocolate, then she got to the one I wanted and hesitated then said "White!"  It was a good enough answer for me because it was such a cool looking cake.

I added a video of Clark playing at the bounce house in the mix of birthday stuff because we went there on his birthday.  1,000 won gets you a half hour of jump time.  There were some girls that were infatuated with him.  One girl asked what his name was and then they all chased him saying Kaallarrkkaaa, kaalllaarrkkkkaaa.  Hilarous!

Can you see why I HAD to buy this cake?!

Wow, I look just like my mom!  :)

Thank goodness we have such wonderful, awesome friends who love us and still had cake despite the fact that our child spit all over the cake trying to blow out the candles!

Merrik gave Clark a transformer, Optimus Prime, and this is him using his transformer to haul his new little cars Clint and I got him.  Then we had to let him watch the transformer cartoon to show him where the toy came from.  He became much more interested in it after that and goes around the house singing, "Transformers, robots in disguise!  Transformers, more then meets the eye!"

We finally found a park with sand!  What a great birthday treat!

He is doing such an amazing job learning how to swing!

Along with the cake, the bakery lady gave us these.  This is where Korea totally rocks!  They supplied us with a knife, candles and matches for our cake and little bottle poppers!  Plus the matches were totally awesome

Playing with his new Legos

We also held a birthday party for him today, Saturday, with his friends.  8 wild children running around and it was totally awesome! 

Then tonight we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner.  Clark was totally cute with his hands on his cheeks.  :)

We had one tired little boy who was asleep by 7:45 tonight!

Lastly, I asked him questions about some of his favorite things.  Here is what he told me.  I just wrote down his responses:

Favorite Color: Blue  (Even though I'm fairly certain it's purkle, oh and purple doesn't exist in my house because Purkle is way more fun to say!)

Favorite Toy: Gorilla (Could be. He doesn't really play with his gorilla, but he won't go to bed without it!)

Favorite Fruit: Apples

Favorite TV Show: Mighty Machines Recycling Center (Blue Trash Truck)

Favorite thing to eat for Lunch: Carrots, and apples, and fruit and bugs!

Favorite outfit: New bulldozer pajamas

Favorite Game: Trash truck game

Favorite snack: Fruit snack

Favorite Animals: Gorillas

Favorite Song: Baming one. Bam! Bam!

Favorite Book: Trash Truck Book

Best Friend: Wesley

Favorite Cereal: Bee Cheerios

Favorite thing to do outside: Dig in the dirt!

Favorite Drink: Purkle Gatorade

Favorite Holiday: (Not sure he understands this one yet)

Favorite thing to take to bed: Tanker truck (Yeah, it's really his gorilla)

Favorite thing to eat for breakfast: Apples

What do you want for your birthday dinner: Pizza

What do you want to be when you grow up: A kitty!

Halloween

Clark really got to help out with carving pumpkins this year!  Here are some videos and pictures of the boys creating a masterpiece out of our pumpkin

My phone doesn't do a very good job of keeping up with Clark's movements.  Sorry he is blurry.

This year we didn't do trick or treating per say.  We went to the Spooky Hallow night on post where the different Army companies set up booths and hand out candy.  I dressed Clark up and he we went with our neighbors.  It was fun and just the right amount of craziness. 

The next night our church did a Halloween activity.  Most wards in the states and I'm sure other parts of the world do a Trunk or Treat where you can decorate the trunk of your car and the kids run around the parking lot and "trick or treat" from you.  Here our little branch building only has like enough space for 5 cars so we just did a chillie cook off and then had games for the kids to play downstairs.  Clint was one of the judges and he was suffering through the night!  :)

Oh and the best part was that his Elmo costume from last year still fit!

"So like I was thinking, we could like go ride our bikes together and then play with some chalk on the side walk, what do you think Alyssa?"

Clark making a funny face with Alyssa

Now it's Alyssa's turn!

We got just the right amount of candy and had a lot of fun!

Clark's First Bike

For the last few months we have been trying to find a bike for Clark for his birthday.  The selection at the PX is poor and the bike shops are extremely expensive.  Well today Clark and I went to the PX to pick up masking tape, and we checked out the bikes while there.  I bought the bike because it's the same one we've been looking at for a couple weeks and usually when shopping at the PX if you find something you like, you should just get it because chances are it might not be there the next time.

This is the spot of his first bike crash!  He fell over into the dirt and rocks, but was totally fine.

1. Holy Crap, my little boy is growing up, but I'm happy about it.  I'm proud of him! 2. Getting him to wear the helmet and on the bike once we got home took way more then I thought and some tears! 

Oh and by the way, that is my helmet!  And I had to take some of the cushions out to make it bigger! 

Osan Air Show

This weekend we went to Osan for their Air Power Day = fancy words for an air show.

Clark not wanting to smile at the camera.

So there are lots of videos for this post.  Most of them are showing the black eagles flying, and some even have video of Clark's lack of interest of what is going on!  :)  Oh and I will just apologize now for my poor video taking.  Yeah, I suck, but maybe after these two years here are over I will be better at it.  It's hard using my camera because I swear it turns on before I push the record button.  So many start with a view of my feet.  For that I am sorry.  Oh and I tried to do my best taking video of the black eagles, but the camera just didn't zoom fast enough. Enjoy! 

He found the only speck of dirt on the air field.

He could care less that there are jets flying over his head!

Oh and he did have ear plugs in so don't worry!

Below is what he was looking at.

And that would be a gun! 

The boys standing in front of the plane that "moogie helped build"

One of the parts she helped make the contract for.

This is when being in Korea is fun!

This was part of the presentation done by the Combat Search and Rescue

Clark left the air show with a new love of planes!