Love From Afar ~ Eric Nam

Chapter 15

*One Week Later*
Eric and I arrived back in Seoul after an amazing honeymoon in Osaka, Japan. We walk into our apartment and Theo crawls over to us.
"He really missed you guys." Kayla said.
"Thanks so much for doing this for us, Kay." I said.
"It's my pleasure. Theo is such a chill baby." Kayla said.
"I missed our little man." Eric said.
"How was the honeymoon?" Kayla asked.
"It was awesome. We got up to some. . . Stuff." I said.
"What kind of stuff?" Kayla asked.
"That is between us." Eric said.
"Oh, I see. Well, I'll be on my way out. See you guys later." Kayla said.
"Okay bye." I said. I give Kayla a hug.

For the rest of the day, Eric and I spend time with Theo. He's only 6 months old, which means he's crawl around and push himself up into a crawling position. He can eat more solid foods now. Raising our little son of ours has been a learning experience. There might another little one on the way. I'm not too sure, though. Eric and I will be staying in Seoul for a while. We'll be living here long enough for me to get my citizenship. It takes 5 whole years before I can get my citizenship. We might go back and forth between here and Los Angeles. We're still thinking about where we'll settle permanently. It's hard for us to choose between Seoul and Los Angeles.

The next day, Eric, Theo, and I go out to the city park for Theo to get some fresh air. He's been cooped up in the apartment for a whole week. He needs to get outside and play. Eric puts Theo on his shoulders. While we're playing with Theo in the park, a few fans of Eric approach him. They say they're huge fans of him. They ask for selfies with him. I hold Theo while Eric takes selfies with his fans. Eric hasn't released new music since the birth of Theo and our wedding. He told me that he might start working on a new album now that things have slowed down in our lives. I think now is the perfect time to start making a new album. Eric can write about his experience as a new father. He can also write a song about Theo if he wants. That would be really cute.

*May 8, 2024 ~ Theo's 1st Birthday*
Today is Theo's 1st birthday. Eric thinks today is the perfect day to release his new album. His album has songs written all about his experiences as a father. The album is titled My Son(내 아들아). There are songs written in both English and Korean. Eric is hoping that when Theo gets older, he'll be fluent in both languages. That he'll be able to listen to these songs and know that they're about him. Theo is starting to grow into his face. He's really starting to look a lot like Eric. I think it's cute how similar they look.

We buy Theo a birthday cake. We put a number one candle in the cake and I light the candle. Eric and I start singing Theo happy birthday in Korean. Happy birthday in Korean goes like this:
"생일 축하합니다. 생일축하합니다. 사랑하는 우리 테오. 생일축하합니다~" Eric and I sing to Theo. He giggles cutely. He's such an adorable boy-o. On top of Theo turning one today, I did find out I'm pregnant again, and today marks 6 months. Our next baby should be born around August. When I revealed to Eric that we're having another baby, he was beyond excited. One baby is cool and all, but two babies is epic. Eric has younger brothers and I have an older brother. It only makes sense that our own family has multiple kids. I always dreamed of having two kids. I've expressed to Eric how much I want this next one to be a girl. I may be able to go into the doctor's to find out the gender today.

Our little birthday party for Theo ends, then I head to the clinic to see if I can find out the gender of the baby. My doctor is Dr. Choi. She's an awesome doctor and I love her so much. Dr. Choi runs an ultrasound and prints out the paper with the gender of the baby on it.
"Wait, don't tell me. I want to do a gender reveal party." I said.
"Hmm, okay. I'll hand these to your husband, then." Dr. Choi said.
"Thank you." Eric said. Then, Eric hides the paper in his pocket. We leave the clinic and go back to our apartment. Eric reads the paper and smiles. I tell Eric not to tell me until the party later on this evening.

The gender reveal party begins. While living out here in Korea, I've been able to meet so many great people. I've been able to meet AleXa, who is my favorite female K-pop soloist. She's awesome and I think of her as the older sister I never had. Similarly, I also got to meet Jeon Somi, who I also think of as an older sister. Both of them got invited to this very exciting gender reveal party. Eric has prepped it all. He's gotten confetti poppers and smoke bomb poppers a single color of , pink or blue, that will reveal if the baby is a girl or a boy. Somi and AleXa are holding the smoke bomb poppers and will pop them to reveal the gender of the baby while Eric and I stand between them.
"Ready? 3, 2, 1 pop!" AleXa exclaimed.
The smoke comes out pink. It's a girl!
"It's a girl! Yes!" I exclaimed, then I kissed Eric.
"I knew we were gonna have a girl. Now, we'll have one of each." Eric said.
"That's exactly what I wanted." I said.
"My gosh, congrats guys." Somi said.
"Thanks sis." I said.
"Yo, that baby's gonna be cute as hell." AleXa said.
"True." Somi said.
"Thanks for coming, everyone. It's been fun hanging out." I said.
The gender reveal party comes to an end. Now, I'm tired and I wanna go take a nap.