Nine Months

JI Yeon was brought to the living room and placed on the couch next to Dil, who was sleeping over.

"You smell good." Dil commented.

"It's my soap. It smells like strawberries." Ji Yeon explained as her father came into the room and picked her up.

"It's story time now." JI Yeon said as Jin grabbed Ji Yeon's blanket from the pile of folded laundry and began making his way to Ji Yeon's room. Dil followed behind.

Dil got in his sleeping bag while Ji Yeon settled herself on her father's lap. They read a story and when it was finished Ji Yeon was palced in her crib and the light was turned out.

"You don't get a bottle at bedtime?" Dil asked grabbing his sippy cup of milk from his diaper bag and drinking some.

"Not since I gotted teeth." JI Yeon replied."I get a small bottle at dinner time and then my mommy makes my teeth clean."

"When did you get you first tooth?" Dil asked after swallowing his drink of milk.

"It all started right a fore we moved here." Ji Yeon began.

"One day I was playing with my toys when my mouth started to hurt a little."

"What did you do?" Dil asked."I used a teething ring or whatever else I could find to chew on."

"I didn't know it at the time, but I would soon get my first tooth. There would be a lot of big changes for me."

"I just ignored the pain for as long as I could until one day it gotted so bad that I just couldn't take it anymore. I started crying getting the attention of my mommy."

"She picked me up and taked me to the kitchen. I guess she knowed what was going on because the next thing I knew I had one of Min Jun's pop sickles in my mouth, which I had never been allowed to have before. The cold helped my mouth not hurt. After the pop sickle we went to the store and when we came back my mommy put something on the spot that was hurting. It felt strange at first but soon the pain went away."

"Soon my first tooth came in and I stopped getting bottles at night, or if I did I had to get my tooth cleaned."

"What happened after you got your first tooth?" Dil asked.

"I'll tell you when the sun is awake. I'm getting sleepy." Ji Yeon told him.

The next morning Dil and Ji Yeon were on there way to drop off Min Jun at pre school.

"Are you going to tell me more of the story now?" Dil asked as Ji Yeon looked out the window.

"Oh yeah." Ji Yeon replied turning away from the window."After i gotted my first tooth we went to the airplane house and had a long plane ride. I slept through most of it cuz my mommy kept me awake a long time before the flight."

"Not that I don't like having you here, but why did you move here in the firstest place?" Dil asked.

"I don't really know." Ji Yeon answered."When we first got here We went to my auntie's partment where we stayed for a long time."

"We got there when the sun was about to go to sleep, but it wasn't time for us to go to bed yet. My family had some yummy smelling food that I now know is pizza. I didn't get any though. I had a bottle since we didn't have any of my other food. I didn't mind though cuz I was getting tired."

"Later on I waked up to a dark room. I don't even know why I woked up cuz by this time I didn't wake up at night very much. I didn't know where I was and it scared me. I was about to start crying, but a creak came from somewhere stracting me from my feelings. I sat up and listened. It didn't take long before I saw a small light turn on. I kept on watching to see what was going on. I soon gotted my answer when I saw my auntie pour something into a bowl. That's when I noticed I was hungry after only having a bottle for dinner a long time ago. My auntie must've noticed that I was awake cuz she came over and picked me up. I tried to get what was in the bowl, but she wouldn't let me. I was about to get upset until she showed me some banana slices and handed one to me."

"Later that day we went to the park with my cousin and that's when I met you." Ji Yeon finished.