The Fowler Family Blog

Cormac playing with his teether.

This is the first time adding video to our blog.  I hope it works because we will keep you updated with videos of our adventures.  Plus, you can always look on YouTube for videos.  Let us know what you think.  —Ryan

My best bud, who we saw last March in Hilton Head, is coming to visit in February!  Woo hoo! 

Kristi is going to make the long trip to come see us!  We are so excited!  She’s even offered to watch Cormac for us one night so we can go out on our own! 

We’re planning on visiting some Temples, shopping, exploring around Pusan, etc…  I promised her that I won’t take her anywhere to see Dogs get eaten, or any other examples of “live food” eaten.  Yuck! 

Yippee!!  Let the countdown begin!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas!  We would love to be with our family and friends in the States celebrating, but we are making the best of our experience here in Korea.  It’s hard to imagine that next year we will be back in San Diego and Cormac will be running around! 

This morning we hosted brunch for friends of ours.  Ryan did most of the cooking- waffles, breakfast casserole, bacon, sausage, cinnamon rolls, and fruit and of course we ate way too much!  We are relaxing the rest of the day and then going out to eat for Dinner.  I don’t have to cook at all!  Woo hoo!

Cormac received new toys, some clothes, music and a few books.  Ryan and I must have been good this year because we were both blessed as well.  

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year! 

We love you all!

That’s around the number of pictures I took in the past few days and I think Cormac is officially tired of me taking pictures of him, but that’s what happens when I get new photography accoutrement for Christmas.  Ryan got me a new tripod and let me have it early.  He’s the best husband in the world!   

Cormac playing in his new exersaucer that The Hendrix’s lent us 

He’s sort of sucking his thumb

Cormac with daddy for the first time in his new Kid Carrier- we think he likes it

Okay, and just one more…for now…

Ryan gave me a new reflector to use when I am taking pictures so I just had to have a photo shoot with Cormac. 

Here are a few of my favorite pictures.  Oh and of course there is a picture with Santa from our Christmas Party last night. 

He did great with Santa!

Life is good…  We’ve been running around like crazy so when we finally get a minute to rest, we have to take advantage of it.  Here is a cute picture of my two favorite guys hanging out. 

Yippee!  Ryan got accepted to the Sports Medicine Fellowship and we’ll be moving back to San Diego in July or August!  We are so excited! 

So now we begin house searching, packing, etc…  We still have plenty of time of course, but it’s fun to start planning our next adventure.

In just a few days we will be posting about him turning four months old, but for now, I just couldn’t resist posting some cute pictures of him.  His looks are constantly changing and we absolutely love when he smiles and laughs!

I’ve always been a fan of celebrating a birthday for more than just one day, so of course when it comes to Ryan’s birthday, I think several events should take place!  Yesterday was packed full of fun activities. 

I ordered his favorite chicken for lunch at his office.  We had spicy chicken, mondoo, and Kim made delicious macaroni and cheese (spicy- yummy!) and I made a chocolate cake.

Posing with the Birthday Boy

After lunch the Orlando Magic Dance Team was in town and I joked that I arranged their visit for Ryan’s birthday.  (I am a great wife!)  They did a dance and dedicated it to him and we had our picture taken with them.

The OMD dancers

Then for dinner Amy had us over for Ryan’s favorite noodle Broccoli dish. Yes mom, I even ate some broccoli!  Can you believe it?  I made another cake for dinner-a flourless chocolate cake, one of Ryan’s favorites!  Who says you can’t have chocolate twice in one day, especially on your birthday. 

I think all in all Ryan had a wonderful day!  He fell asleep in his recliner at 9:00! 

After a three hour drive to Pusan last night, we finally were able to celebrate Ryan’s birthday by eating AMAZING Indian food and getting Starbucks.  Here we are posing with our yummy drinks. 

Ryan felt pretty cool being out with me, Amy and Montoria.  Cormac, as always enjoyed all of the attention from the Koreans staring at him.

Ryan and Cormac celebrating Ryan’s “30 something” birthday

We have a few more events including lunch with his staff to celebrate his Birthday Week.