July 8, 2009

• Two Fridays ago, James took Zachary on a class fieldtrip to the ice skating rink. It was Zach's first time ice skating. At first he refused to get on the ice, but by the end, he was scooting along using one of those walkers (so I guess what I am saying is ... not much progress). The next day, I woke up feeling terrible ... sore throat and a fever. James took Zachary to swim class and then a playdate (lunch and more swimming) at Jessica's house. I stayed home in hopes of a fast recovery in time for Sophie's bridal shower the following day. Sunday morning, I still wasn't 100%, but I no longer had a fever, so I drove down to Elaine's (huge) house in the Bay Area.

  I was in charge of food and brought a cooler filled with ingredients for a Chinese chicken salad, pasta salad, cheese fondue, and chocolate fondue.

  

  We played some fun games, which involved masks of Sophie and Eddie. (Alice is very good at making these types of masks.) We also asked Sophie questions about Eddie - and she got a surprising number of them right! The last game was making banchans using Play-doh.

  

  

   

  Despite being sick, I had a great time - CONGRATULATIONS Sophie and Eddie!

   

  July 4th weekend was a 3-day weekend for me/James, but daycare was still open on Friday. We took advantage of that by running a bunch of errands, followed by lunch at Mizu's without the tots. Around 3pm, we picked them up and headed to Dylan's for a swim playdate.

  

  Saturday, my friend Carol and her boyfriend Paul came up to visit us from Austin, TX! We also had Rita and Mia (from San Deigo), and Uyen and Jacky over for a barbecue lunch. We served corn, chicken satay with peanut sauce, and grilled mushroom and peppers from my box of organic/local vegetables that gets delivered to my doorstep every month. (I'm playing Iron Chef - amateur edition ... by getting a random box of vegetables, I am forcing myself to prepare/eat a wider variety of vegetables. I badly needed to break out of my baby carrots - broccoli - canned corn cycle. So ... uh, anyone have a good recipe for ... 3 dusty beets?)

   

  

  After lunch, we played Wii Fit with Carol and Paul. And in the evening, we went to see fireworks. When asked whether he's ever seen fireworks, Zachary surprised me by saying,"Not July 4th. When I was 2-years-old, I saw fireworks at Disneyland." I had no idea he remembered!

  

  

  The weekend ended too soon, and Sunday morning, Carol and Paul had to fly home. We were so glad they came to visit!

  Happy 4th of July and Happy 32nd Birthday to Alice (7/7)!

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