1 Month Celebration - Day 2

On Sunday, after having the family gathering at Phil's parent's house, we had the formal 1 month party for Calvin. We had it at the Ocean Jewel Seafood restaurant - the same restaurant where Phil proposed! They had a decent sized room in the back for parties. We only had 4 tables, so the room looked kind of empty.

The restaurant even put up a nice little sign for Calvin. It's a picture of the Yu family men under the "Yu" sign.


Calvin even got his own little throne. And we were all ready with the hand sanitizer. Can't be too careful, especially since he's only 1 month old.

Not many of my relatives live in the area, and out of those that do only one family was able to make it - my cousin Susan and her husband and 2 kids, Ben and Jennifer.


Everybody got a chance to hold baby Calvin, even baby Jennifer! (with some help of course)


Just like Phil and I had to make the rounds at our wedding, Calvin made his way around to each of the tables. Here he is with Phil's Aunt Ruby.


Calvin's Auntie Mandy and Uncle Tam are looking over Calvin imagining when they'll soon be holding baby Madeline in their arms.


The dinner was a traditional 10-course Chinese dinner. Phil was very excited to finally be able to sit through a 10-course meal and actually eat some of the food. He's still bitter that he missed most of the food at our wedding. The first "course" was hard boiled eggs. I think it's supposed to be lucky for the baby.


Dish number 2 was walnut shrimp and fried milk. I had never heard of fried milk before, but it wasn't too bad.

Dish number 3 was a plate of beef tips, tripe, fried ribs, fried scallops, and fried squid. Basically lots of fried stuff - yum ^__~

Dish number 4 was the shark fin soup - nothing but the good stuff for Calvin. We even got the nice fancy golden bowl at our table.


Dish number 5 was the fish - half of it was steamed fish and the other half was fried. As you can tell, there was definitely a lot of fried stuff, but no complaints here.

Dish number 6 was the lobster.

Dish number 7 was the lucky chicken.

Dish number 8 was lamb. This was the first time I ever had lamp cooked at a Chinese restaurant. Even though I'm not much of a lamb person it wasn't bad.


And of course, you can't have the 10-course meal without fried noodles and fried rice.


The food was really good. Too bad Calvin wasn't able to eat any of it, but we made sure to enjoy it for him ^__^