
2008년 7월 5일. 테이트가 태어난 지 34일째 되는 날에 테이트는 한 달 정기검진을 받았습니다.
소아과 선생님께서 키, 몸무게와 머리 사이즈를 재시고, 건강하게 잘 자라고 있는지 이 곳 저 곳을 살펴 보신 후에 B형 간염 주사를 놓으셨습니다. 테이트가 태어나서 맞는 두 번째 주사. 기분 좋게 잠들었던 테이트에게 이게 웬 날벼락이랍니까! 테이트는 까르르~ 숨이 넘어가면서 온 몸이 보라색이 되도록 자지러지게 울어제낍니다. 엄마가 테이트를 잘 감싸 안아 흔들어주면서 다정히 얼르자 울음은 진정이 되었으나, 주사 맞은 아픔이 못내 서러운지 병원을 나서서 차에 탈 때까지 테이트가 입을 삐죽거리면서 흑흑 흐느낍니다. 엄마는 그 삐죽거리는 입이 너무 귀엽고 예뻐서 저절로 미소가 떠오릅니다.
아가들은 정말 예쁩니다. 특히 신생아는 보면 볼수록 신비하고, 경이롭고, 성스럽기까지 합니다. 카이는 첫 아이라서 뭐든지 조심스럽고, 엄마가 제대로 돌봐주는건지 불안하고, 그래서 카이가 울기만 하면 그냥 달려가서 안아주기 바빴는데 테이트는 조금은 더 여유로운 마음으로 보살피게 되는 것 같습니다. 그래서 가끔은...테이트의 우는 모습도 너무 이뻐서 테이트가 울 때 금방 안아주지 않고 잠깐씩 지켜보며 미소짓는 여유(?)까지 부릴 때가 있답니다. 그럴때면 카이 못지않게 성질 급한 테이트,-카이보다 더 급한 것같기도 합니다- 금새 숨 넘어가게 울면서 온몸이 보라색이 되어버려 엄마에게 겁을 준답니다. --;
키 21인치(53.3cm), 몸무게 6파운드 15.5온즈(3.1kg)로 태어난 테이트가 34일만에 키 21과 1/3인치(54.1cm), 몸무게 10.3파운드(4.67kg)로 자랐답니다. 키와 몸무게는 백분위수 50%로 또래 아이들 평균이고, 머리 사이즈는 25%로 평균보다 작습니다. 언제나 75-100% 범위에 있거나 가끔 100% 위로 올라가던 카이에 익숙해져 있는지라 테이트가 엄청 작은 것처럼 느껴집니다.
June designs in New York City. His graphic design works have received lots of awards and been showcased in publications and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
In his earlier days in Seoul, he used to be a medical student, played a cello in an orchestra and participated in protests against dictatorship.
June likes iced coffee, black jack, typography, democracy, TV series Lost and Puccini’s operas and
he also enjoys traveling to the places he's never been to.
June believes he is agnostic and it is the most humble and rational way about religion.
He hopes the world to be the place where people can live more peacefully as well as less unjustly than now. And he lives with his wife and two sons.
Boyeon was born and grew up in Seoul and now lives by the Hudson river in New Jersey with her husband and two sons.
She studied computer programming as well as programming-based design and used to work as a programmer.
However, she is so busy these days in taking care of two boys that she cannot find enough time to even open her e-mails everyday.
Boyeon likes ice creams, Korean rice cakes, Klimt’s oil paintings and Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat and
she also enjoys traveling culturally-distinctive places like southern Europe.
Boyeon is a perfectionist and has amazingly good memory. She easily shed tears, has an acute sense of taste and is a good cook.
Kai was born on October 19th, 2006 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June’s first son and it was 20 years after his parents first met in their junior high.
Now he is Tate's big brother.
His blood type is RH A+, his horoscope is libra and his zodiac is dog.
Kai is a Hawaiian origin word that means ‘ocean’ and also has a meaning of ‘willow tree’ in native American language.
His middle name is Haon, which has a concept of “True happiness can be found in small things of everyday life.”
It includes June and Boyeon’s wish for him to be a happy person who can find joy and meaningfulness even from small things around him.
These days Kai goes to a preschool and sometimes surprises Mom and Dad by saying very difficult words.
Kai turns three in this fall.
Tate was born on June 2nd, 2008 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June's second son as well as Kai's brother.
His horoscope is Gemini and his zodiac is rat, and his blood type is RH A+, which is what all of his family have.
The word Tate means ‘cheerful’ and has an old English origin.
His middle name is from a Korean pronunciation of a Chinese character 濬, which has a meaning of profound; to make a waterway by digging a river deep.
Tate’s name includes his parents’ wish for him to be a happy, cheerful person who also has depth in his life.
Now He walks well and tries everything his brother does. He doesn't get scared of new things.
Tate is in the second year of his life.

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보고 싶어 죽겠네..
엄마가 목욕통 당장 바꾸란다. 너무 작다고.
많이 이뻐지고 많이 컸다고 그러시네..'
엄마는 하루종일 Tate타령이셔.
물론 너무 보고 싶어하시는 건 말할 필요도 없고.
많이 힘들겠다. 그래도 어쩌니..기쁜 일인걸.
더운데 시원하게 해주고
너도 네 건강도 챙겨가며 잘 지내. 큰 언니가
테이트 너무 이뻐요~~ 똘망똘망하게, 카이와 비슷한 듯 하면서도 또 다르게 생겼네요.
카이도 쑥쑥 커가는 모습이 너무 이쁘네요. 한창 귀여운 짓들 하는 걸 못 보다니... ㅠㅠ
보고싶어라~~~
카이와 테이트 스토리 많이 올려주세요.
카이&테이트 고모~ ^^
우왕~ 귀엽다
카이 비디오 진짜 웃김 아빠! 아빠! 그거 말고 말 뭐 더함?
승재.
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