Dinner at Samuel Adams

Since Mama is leaving to go back to NYC on Thursday, Jess' friend Chingman wanted to have dinner with us.

Emma with Mama

Josiah (recently turned 2 years old officially!), Emma, and Chingman

We had dinner at the Samuel Adams restaurant on base, and even though they had decent burgers and sandwiches, we probably won't be visiting again anytime soon.... :X

Farewell Girls

Kiki Emma and Mellie



the girls sang to Emma


Kiki kissing Emma


Jess had work, but she drove home for lunch just to say goodbye to the girls again


Mellie holding Emma.... but she said that Emma is too heavy for her

Chinatown

Today we all went out to Seattle's Little Saigon in the International District for lunch at Tamarind Tree. Even though we'd originally planned to have lunch at the restaurant next door again, we decided that we were too large of a party to be seated comfortably. And it was a good decision, because this restaurant was much more upscale, without the extravagant prices. Anyway, my point is... we'll definitely go back to eat again, and there are no pictures of the food because I was too busy eating to mess with any of that.

After lunch, Jess, Mom, Emma, and I bought lots of Asian groceries and fresh vegs at the neighboring supermarket, Viet Hoa, as well as at Uwajimaya (Japanese supermarket). Steve, Lisa, the girls, Leon, Iris, and the boys went to the Underground Tour in Pioneer Square (all the kids say it was very boring... hehe, and they are 3-12.............)

Emma back home... so hungry

Later at night... Steve gu gu holding Emma

see how forced Emma looks :(

Kiki with her curly hair... she looks so grown up

Mellie with her curly hair (much smaller curls)

Jess, Emma the sleepy pig, and Mellie

Jess & Steve

Since it's the last night before the girls are leaving tomorrow, Emma paid a visit to them during bedtime.....

Melodie, Emma, and Karrie

Emma under attack from her two cousins

Jess joins them

Emma and Stephanie

all the girls!

Bowling

Lisa holding Emma and Kiki with her snake

Stephanie always wants to hold Emma and tells me, "I want to hold her.... Because I haven't held her yet today!"

Emma under attack from Kiki's snake

Today while the adults stayed home and played MJ, all the kids went bowling.

Mellie waiting for her turn

Steph and Mellie keeping track of the bowling balls

the boys Irvin and Ira

Steve going in for his sad bowl

Jessica the once-pro, now rustier than even me (of course, I am a wii pro!)

Jess helping Kiki on her turn

The results on the adults' lane.... HAHAHAHaHAHAHA

The kids' results! Ira won with 98 at the end... But they're all really good because they had the bumper guards! (For a while there, Karrie had a significant lead on all of the other kids........)

Steve and his girls

Fireworks

We stayed in during the morning, since we went to Vancouver and Richmond all day yesterday.... We also went to the fireworks show in Silverdale at night.

Emma getting some excercise

She's looking at her mommy

Lisa "gim gim" holding Emma with cousin Stephanie

the girls are all over Emma all the time!

kiki

with her mommy

Jess and the girls

again

for dinner we went to Costco for pizza..

our friends Leon & Iris' sons Ira & Irvin with Stephanie...

Irvin won the frog in the carnival game where you fish out a rubber duck with a net...

Mellie and Steph posing

all four of them... kiki was with her mommy

part of the 30-minute long fireworks show

Centering Reunion

Jess and Emma had a reunion at the hospital with her pregnancy group today (while we drove north to Vancouver).

Capt Backman is the midwife who delivered Emma (left of Jess)

can you find Emma??

Emma looking right at her mommy

hehe.. look at the baby girl trying to kiss the "All-American Boy"

this cute purple onesie is from Captain Backman, who gave one to every baby..

Hanging Out

Stephanie holding Emma again...

Emma's so happy

later on at night.. Emma's bedtime already

our brother Steve