Visitors from Cleveland - Day 2

Having a baby around the house was fun but exhausting. I know, "thank you Captain Obvious", but knowing it and experiencing it are different. Su-Kyi was usually awake before we were and was ready to play. Phil's response to that was to squish her and pretend to fall asleep. Although that didn't really work for very long...



So instead we occupied her with Saturday morning cartoons. Look at the 2 kids watching TV together. I guess morning cartoons are good at distracting kids of all ages. ^__^

Then it was time to get ready to head out for lunch. After Su-Kyi go dressed I helped put her hair up into pigtails. Doesn't she look so cute?

For lunch we headed to a Chinese restaurant near our house called King's Chef to eat dim sum. The food there is decent. It's not as good as dim sum in New York, but it's a good alternative when you can't make it into the city. Su-Kyi was super hungry. Look at her grabbing for those chopsticks!

After dim sum it was back to the house for some more playing...

And more TV watching...Are we seeing a trend here?

Su-Kyi has been caught playing in the kitchen. This is Phil's "baby's shouldn't be playing in the kitchen!" face. Pretty scary, I know.

At night we headed into Flushing to have dinner with Phil's parents at Joe's Shanghai, so Anthony could have a taste of their famous soup dumplings. Surprisingly, when we sat down to eat Su-Kyi was glued to Phil's lap and had him in a death grip refusing to let go. It took a good 5 to 10 minutes to finally convince her to go to mommy. They did bond quite a bit with all the playing, but I think she was just sleepy and confused.

But she was back in her mommy's arms soon enough.

Phil's parents normally order a lot when treating people to dinner, but this time it was a lot of food even for them. We started out with some vegetarian duck (basically just tofu skin and mushrooms), fried dumplings and scallion pancakes.

2 orders of soup dumplings, of course.

An order of crispy noodles and rice noodles. Plus 2 bowls of noodle soup, which are in the background, but you can't really see them...

And a big old plate of pig fat. Ok, so it wasn't really pig fat, according to Phil's parents it was pig shoulder...As Asian people go, I'm not that adventurous with my food, so I passed on the pig shoulder, but everyone said it was delicious...