Saturday - meeting Mama's side of the family

On Saturday, we spent most of the day with my family. Highlights include:

• having lunch all together at the Saigon Rose, the best Vietnamese restaurant ever;


• watching Claire meet all the family pets: Garth, Bones, Sadie, Pockets and Circa;


• seeing Claire with her aunts, uncles and cousins after imagining the moment for so long;


• my oldest brother Randy dancing with Claire; and


• celebrating Claire's birthday (a little early - it's actually tomorrow) with the clan.

At the Saigon Rose

Our nephew Matthew is great with kids. Here he is entertaining Claire.

Since Claire doesn't know how to blow out candles yet, we asked her four-year old cousin Mia to do it for her. Here's a photo of the moment after the candle went out. (Check out the slippage of Paul's hat.)