immi 2.0

We are having sushi at Sushi Hana, the conveyor belt sushi place. Immi loves this place because it’s fun to watch colorful plates of sushi endlessly roll on by. Immi is a cheap date here costing $2 ($1 for soup and $1 for cucumber rolls).

We stopped in for bubble tea nearby Trader Joes. Immi is [...]

We were trying to shop at Costco, but got discouraged at the parking lot by too many people/cars, pouring rain, and no parking space (what were we thinking going to Costco mid-afternoon on a Saturday??). …So we decided to have a snack at the Thai restaurant right across the street instead.
We told immi to get [...]

It’s the first family phở expedition with all four of us. …but immi and her brother both fell a sleep on the way and show no sign of waking up! Immi hasn’t been taking or really needing a nap lately but she tends to fall a sleep when we take her out for a drive [...]

Today is one of those days that can be much improved with a yummy bowl of phở, so that’s what we are doing. Immi fell asleep on the drive here and when the food came to the table, her dad sat her in the highchair. …But she fell back asleep in less than half a [...]

It’s auntie Junko’s birthday (on monday) and we missed celebrating father’s day last weekend (we are always a week behind with every holiday these days!) and both Todd and Junko (and me too!) wanted phở so that’s what we are having. They look like they are having a serious conversation don’t they?

…and immi is engaged [...]

Todd has an appointment with opthamologist and immi and I are playing at Barnes and Noble book store. Immi loves the train set here. …but as you can see, she isn’t willing to let go of her purse to play with them.

When she had enough fun with the trains, she walked around and found a [...]

I had another sonogram appointment today and immi’s grandmom accompanied me (This office doesn’t even allow kids in the exam room according to their info sheet. And this is unusual because other 2 places I’ve been to welcomes kids since it supposedly facilitates bonding between siblings before they are born…)
Anyway, she seems to have had [...]

We are taking the ferry to Southport NC. It’s sunny and almost too hot outside.

We are having lunch at a little cafe called Baked With Love. Everyone who works here is so nice and they brought for immi a toy tea set to play with!

We are back at the beach house. There’s fireworks at the [...]

We are in Cville this weekend because my lovely friends are having baby shower for us for the baby No.2. We got in late last night and crashing Jordan’s place. We are having breakfast now at Bodo’s Bagel, our favorite bagel place! Immi is busy decorating her pink cat.

Immi and decorated kitty.

We got the electricity working! We are having new circuit added next week to keep microwave separate from the other stuff, but everything else works:) Here’s what immi’s been up to in the past days:
Apr. 16, 2009
Immi is serving a cheese plate (I’m assuming that’s what it is, she really enjoyed it at her grandmom’s [...]

It’s my birthday today. The BIG one in which I turn 30! When Todd asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday, I said “go yarn shopping in Alexandria!” (there is a cute little yarn shop called Knit Happens which I’ve never been to). Unfortunately, they are CLOSED on mondays! …so I picked [...]

I’m making breakfast in the kitchen and immi is already making a mess with play-doh with Auntie Junko. She plays with play-doh  several times a day these days.

Auntie Junko took us out to Melting Pot for fondue for my birthday (which is tomorrow!). She had been wanting fondue since she missed it for immi’s birthday [...]

Todd is at an all day event yesterday and today but Auntie Junko, Immi and I are having fun time having strange assortment of food at home today! One of the things we made is oden and here’s immi trying out quail egg. She didn’t like the egg much, but she really liked other stuff [...]

Immi is scooping rice crackers in and out of the container.

Immi discovered the canopy I put up a few weeks ago in her room (…which is still not really done!).

It makes her hair really staticky.

We got the canopy for $5 and I decorated it a bit, it looks like this on top.

It’s finally friday evening [...]

Todd had a craving for ice cream (he is having more pregnancy symptoms than me!) and we came to a bizarre realization that we don’t know of any ice cream place in or near Reston! After few minutes of googling, I discovered 3 places all located in the Reston Town Center. I picked Iceberry for [...]

Todd said to me quite late in the evening “You know, only thing I wanna eat is Indian food!”. This was so very funny to me because we hardly ever eat Indian food (I over-dosed on Indian during college years, and Todd’s stomach doesn’t really like it) AND I just had microwave Chicken Tikka Masala [...]

I never really cared for Valentine’s day much. The first very memorable one is actually the one shortly after immi was born. Immi was born a day after her due date, but if she wasn’t willing, she was scheduled to be born on the February 14th (I’m happy she decided to join us on her [...]

Immi’s grandparents wanted to take us out for dinner to celebrate immi’s birthday. So here we are at The MeltingPot. We are waiting for her grandparents at the entrance.

Immi seems to enjoy eating assortment of things here. She is having broccoli with yummy dips now.

Around immi’s bedtime, our friend Jessica came over to work on [...]

We are celebrating immi’s last days as a one-year-old with phở! Auntie Junko is here with us this weekend. Immi LOVES the complimentary shrimps chips (definitely NOT healthy, but crumchy and yummy) and she is crancky that she still haven’t gotten any after 5 minutes!

Here’s the shrimp chips. Immi thinks they are all her’s.

Noodles!

We wanted phở. We drove down to Herndon to our usual place and found it closed due to Vietnamese New Year! We told immi “we are getting phở!!” and she was so excited about it that when we got back in the car without having gotten the noodle soup, she was really mad!
…so we got [...]