playing catch-up

crazy how fast the days are flying lately.  i’m going to do my darnedest to try and catch-up my poor neglected blog with the past month’s events.  so the weekend just before mikey and allie started school (wow, has it really been a month already?!), we flew up to cupertino in order to attend the wedding of one of phil’s oldest friends.  it was a fun little adventure and the kids were really excited to be flying in an airplane while phil and i were looking forward to not having to make the 7-hour drive this time.  (warning:  there are LOTS of pictures in this entry.)

the adventure begins!  mikey and allie were my seatmates on one side and they did great on the one-hour flight since they had plenty ofsnacks and got to watch cartoons on the little tvs in front of them(they didn’t even mind that there was no sound).  each getting their own package of donuts didn’t hurt, either.

meanwhile, phil and lauren sat in the row across the aisle from us.  don’t let her calm and relaxed posture fool you though– she only stayed like this for about two minutes.

before she got restless and wanted to get on the move.  thankfully, phil had the whole row to himself.  and lauren enjoyed looking out the window.  for another two minutes.

before things began to unravel…

into total pandemonium.  (disclaimer:  no babies or daddies were hurt in the making of this entry).

see?  lauren returned to her usual happy self when she discovered a friendly face in the row behind her.

then she wiped out.  yeah, right!  she laid down for just a moment before she was up and cranky again due to her missed nap.  poor post-call daddy.

thankfully, the flight was soon over (it was only an hour long, remember?) and we got the troops buckled down into the rental car and ready to move out.

the kids’ favorite part of the trip was playing at ah-ma’s (grandma in taiwanese) house with all of phil’s and uncle richard’s old toys.  (phil’s mom is a bit of a pack-rat– i think she still has phil’s crib somewhere in the house!)

allie managed to find the one PINK toy and held on to it all weekend.  here she is making a long-distance call to ah-ma. 

lauren found a few toys to play with, too.

she also learned how to crawl up the stairs while we were there (with her big sister’s help, of course).

but i think her actual favorite thing was having daddy around to cuddle with.

a glimpse of the bride and groom…

the wedding was in the middle of the kids’ normal nap time, so they all promptly fell asleep as soon as we got back in the car.  we drove around for an hour to let them nap while also waiting for the evening reception to start.

guess who popped awake first?  and the first thing she did was steal allie’s blankie.

she’s definitely got a mischievious streak to her.

good thing her big sister was passed out cold.

so she tried it again!

we made our way to the reception.  allie was still tired.

mikey immediately made friends with another little boy seated at our table.  nothing like a video game to bring boys together!  the psp was the other little boy’s, he let mikey have a turn too, but mikey was happy just watching him play.

allie stayed close to mommy for most of the evening.  (she never really sucked on fingers/pacifier as a baby, but she always did this little tongue-suck and still does it when she’s tired).

they provided wedding-themed coloring packets which was right up my girl’s alley.

phil and his bro.

and then, there was dancing!

we promised the kids they could dance too, and they sure had a ball!

cuttin’ a rug.

she mostly just liked twirling.

and twirling some more.

other people tried to dance with her…

but she chose to stick with her favorite.

mikey wanted to dance with lauren.

and then it was time to call it a night!

ps- i just got my new d90 right before this trip and was fiddling around with it during this trip.  still learning to use it which made for the not-great picture quality in this post.