Browse Day: June 20, 2012

Weekend in SoCal – Part 2

On Sunday, it was Father’s Day.  We spent the morning at church and Jes’ dad got to show off his prized granddaughter.  Kumquat was pretty good during service but had a minor poopy blowout in the middle of it and I forgot the changing pad that has her diapers in it!  So, I had to go downstairs to the nursery and put on Size 3 diapers on her little butt in the meantime (she wears Size 1).  Oh well, it was better than a stinky baby!

In the afternoon, we hung out at the Magical House with Brother and Joy until it was time for dinner. This was Brother’s attempt at soothing the baby.  He’s gonna need some practice.

My mom gave Kumquat a bath while we went to lunch and even trimmed her nails!

Later that afternoon we found them napping together.

Before dinner, we went back to Buena Park to video chat with Jason and Jia.  They got to wish Dad a Happy Father’s Day and saw Kumquat very briefly.

Dinner was at a Japanese restaurant and Kumquat got to sit next to me in the booth.

On Monday morning, I stopped at McDonald’s to introduce Kumquat to the McCafe crew.

They were in the usual corner and finally got to meet the little baby that my parents have been raving about for the past two months.

Afterward, I met up with Patty and Patti for some coffee and breakfast at Panera Bread.

The rest of the afternoon was spent hanging out at The Magical House.  I brought home Chik-fil-a for everyone and Kumquat got to smell my dad’s tasty chicken sammich.

Later that evening, we took Kumquat to Downtown Disney for the first time.  All four grandparents came along and we had a nice evening stroll with the baby.

By the time we got home, we were all so pooped.  The baby fell asleep and Jes and I finally got some time to veg out in front of our laptops.  My mom took this photo and I didn’t even notice.

On Tuesday, we drove back up to SF with less traffic and made it home within 8 hours including a one-hour stop for lunch and multiple pee breaks and diaper changes.  Not too bad.

Weekend in SoCal – Part 1

This past weekend was our first trip home with Kumquat.  The drive down started out smoothly with Dog in the front seat and Kumquat in the back with me.  Unfortunately we hit construction traffic in Buttonwillow and then super traffic starting in Burbank.  Our trip ended up taking 10.5 hours that day!  Ouch.  Thankfully, Kumquat was on her best behavior and was an eating and sleeping machine.

As soon as we got to Cerritos, we dropped of Kumquat and Koa and got some tasty Mexican food and margaritas at Don Jose.  That really hit the spot.

On Saturday, it was filled with family festivities.  For lunch, we had dim sum at Capital Seafood in Irvine.  Kumquat was the star of the show and got to wear her purple dress again.

While we waited for our tables, we went next door to 85 degrees bakery to try their famous iced salted coffee and it was pretty good!  There was a good turnout and we took up two huge tables in the middle of the restaurant.

For dinner, we had a Thai feast with the cousins at Thai Nakorn as we always do when we’re in town.

Marie and the gang got to meet Kumquat for the first time and so did Pish and his clan.

We all stuffed ourselves silly and even got to snack on Peking Duck-flavored Lays potato chips.

Later that evening, we stopped at Ti and Thilan’s house to visit our “third family”, The Tranandos.  They were having a party for Elise’s birthday and they invited us over to join them.  All the kids got to meet Kumquat and Makenzie still remembered her friend Jesse.  It was so cute when they all swarmed the baby.

I also forgot how fun it is the sing the second verse of the “Happy Birthday” song.