Not Too Old to Party

Last weekend, we celebrated an early Chinese New Year by having dinner with my cousins in Fremont. We're going to be attending Nikki and Dan's wedding on Chinese New Year and the Chinese restaurants are always packed that day. It's always fun to see how big the babies have gotten and see what kind of development milestones they have achieved since our last visit. They are definitely starting to interact with each other more now since they can reach out and touch each other.

Then, we went shopping on Saturday and attended a birthday party for our friend Steve in SF. We made the mistake of leaving an hour late. The party started at 7:30PM, but you don't need to be there at the start unless you have a baby. It just means one less hour for us to socialize, Lukas is a little grumpier, and there is less good parking. We know this to be true according to our Chrismas party escapades.

On Sunday, we went to Andres's (our neighbor's baby) baptism party. It was fun hanging out with our neighbors and we ended up staying a lot later than we had intended. We also went to Jamie's birthday/Super Bowl party. We had lots of food and got to catch up with friends and see Michelle and Mike's baby Isabella again. Well, it was my second time and Lukas and Edwin's first time seeing her. She looked so little and I can't believe that it was almost a year ago that Lukas looked just like that. Lukas kept wanting to touch baby Isabella which I thought was cute, but I'm sure made her parents a little nervous. When I saw Jamie's cake, I thought to myself, "36? Geez, I thought that Jamie and I were pretty close in age. Jamie is older than I thought," and then I realized that I'm turning 35 myself this year. How did that happen? Am I considered middle aged now? Or does that happen at 40? If you're only as old as you feel, then I think that I am still 30. I remember when I used to be the youngest one in our group of friends and they used to tease me about being young. Not anymore. Happy Birthday and sorry Jamie for thinking you were old. If it makes you feel any better, I guess I am old too. :)

Lukas milestone: he can now stand for about 10 seconds without holding on to anything. He's also eating stuff without it being pureed. We can give him rice, noodles, or cut up veggies. Yay!