The Chon family blog.: Tuesday update!

Hi

Sorry about the delay in updates, it was kind of a hectic weekend.

Things are going pretty good. We are busy preparing things for Eleanor’s 100th day celebration. I am not totally sure if I explained this before but, in Korean culture, people used to keep the mother and baby inside the house for 100 days. Just to make sure the baby was safe, and also the mother had enough time to recover and get back to her normal self. Sometimes they would not even give a name to the baby until the 100th day, I think its because in the old days babies didn’t all survive past the 100th day. Some people think of the 100th day as the 1st birthday. If we do the math backwards, this was right around the time when Eleanor was conceived. And as our family believes that life starts at conception, this is like the 1st birthday for Eleanor.

We have relatives coming in from VA, NY, LA, WASH, all over. It should be a nice time.

Eleanor is doing to well. She is developing more and more. She is also learning to form new sounds with her mouth. She’s quite loud at times. I got some recorded on the video camera. So I can’t wait to convert it over to DVD.

Eleanor is at the point now, where we have to decide to pick her up everytime she cries. We are doing our best to resist. But it’s not easy.

Also, she watches TV. If she is sitting on my lap, while I am watching the Eagles game, she zones in on the screen too. That’s a sign to me that I am going to have to cut back on the TV. I think my sister told me Kelly Ripa’s kids are not allowed to watch TV on weekdays, and just 1 or 2 shows on the weekend. That’s really “must see TV” I don’t know what I would watch if I could only watch 1 or 2 shows. I think some of my nostalgic favorites would not make the cut: Smallville, Cold Case, Sorry…

Eleanor is doing great focusing on objects. I think she can see colors now too, but I won’t know how she will tell me when she sees RED or something…

Overall being a father is fulfilling.

Oh yeah, Eleanor has now graduated to swaddle me size large. She has outgrown her small size straight jacket.

Bowling Update
We split 2-2 with a new team. They have a lot of beginner bowlers so we were spotting them like 165 pins. It took a lot to just catch them , let alone beat them.

My score
199-210-236 : 645 series for a 215 average across 3 games. My new average is 179 (before adding in this week’s 215). So now the goal is to keep things above 179 every time I bowl. 236 Is my personal high for this season, but for documented personal high is 256, last year on my 31st birthday. I was having little flashes of… hm 200 average for 2 years… and maybe I could be in the PBA… haha.

Sora did pretty good in her last 2 games and helped us get over the hump for 2 points out of 4. we almost made it 3 and 1, but we missed a couple spares in game 2.

I think I am getting back into my bowling groove. I felt this week, I had the right mix of velocity and hook. The last couple weeks, I was not controlling my speed as well. I think this week, I got a lot of strikes due to the velocity and pin action. Overall, I know there’s still a lot to learn, but the progress is taking off from where I ended last year.

Speaking of athletic endeavours… (bowling is athletic? Hahah)
I got back into volleyball last week. WOW, I am sore. I was sore the 1st day after, but even more sore 2 days after. That never happened to me when I was in my 20s. I am doing better today. I hope to get back into shape, and maybe try to join a team by 2007.

I will leave you with some new pics of Eleanor