I was folding Simon’s laundry and he was bored with entertaining himself so decided to crawl into this laundry basket to see if he could get my attention and I guess it worked.
The front of his shirt was all wet because we ran out of bibs (that’s why I was doing laundry) so I ended up changing him into this bathrobe so that he wouldn’t get a rash on his chest and wouldn’t catch a chill with all the wet saliva down his front.
Simon’s bottom row of teeth are so cute! I love it!
Our friend Virginia just came back from Taiwan and brought us some goodies and also this little purse for me. It has little rings on it like a rattle so Simon sought to claim it for himself. Simon’s “man-bag”?
He liked to walk around with it, shaking it while he went. Silly baby.
Simon is trying to draw Misu in closer by jingling Daddy’s keys… Misu is almost tricked but soon runs away.
Then Ron kept Mochi in the living room by closing the door and Simon wanted to play with her but she wasn’t very happy about it. She runs up and hides in her cat tree.
At least all cats get equal attention by Simon. He’ll convince one of them to play with him one day.
Auntie Betty and Uncle Henry came to play with Simon this afternoon. At first he was pretty scared but eventually warmed up enough to have a good laugh at Uncle Henry making silly faces at him.
Simon had fun attacking Uncle Henry and beating on him with his stacking cups.
While they were visiting, I had time to make the dessert for tonight’s Italian dinner and karaoke at Auntie Vicki’s house. We dressed up Simon warm and snug to head out to her place.
Spaghetti, Caesar salad, and garlic bread. Yum yum good!
For the cupcake, substituted 1 tsp vanilla extract for the vanilla bean
For the coffee-marsala syrup, I used instant coffee instead of brewed coffee and used Starbucks coffee liquor instead of the marsala wine. I heated it on the stove to get rid of the alcohol.
I think I may have overwhipped the cream for the frosting but I think it still tasted good and I think the kids thought so too. I would add more instant coffee to the syrup next time though and make sure more soaks into the cake as well. I didn’t use it all, thinking it was too much, but you really should use it all. I just wasn’t patient enough to wait for it to soak in.
Daddy sang some karaoke with Simon… not sure if Simon liked it too much but mommy enjoyed a song dedicated to her, our song: Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden.
Another late night out and Simon was exhausted. He fell asleep even with all the others singing loudly.
Two nights in a row staying up late. At least tomorrow is a holiday so we are all off and can recover from a busy weekend.
Tonight we joined in Oakland Pharmacy Inc’s employee appreciation dinner and celebration to ring in the Year of the Tiger at Koi Garden. Simon dressed up for the occasion in this outfit from Grandma Chung’s friend. It was given to us when Simon was first born and I can’t believe it almost fits now. How much he has grown.
Grandma and Grandpa Chung also came to celebrate with us.
The little guy had a busy evening saying hi to everyone and receiving compliments on how cute he was and what a big boy he is. He needed to carry around his security plush Ziggy though because it was a bit overwhelming to him with so many people and so many sounds.
He stayed up until midnight then promptly fell asleep in the car on the ride home.
Thank you to Grandpa Chung and Auntie Vicki for providing some pictures from the evening.
