Friday, December 01, 2006
Family Outing
Note: This blog entry was originally posted on 10/27/06 and is being reposted after turning on comment moderation due to the inconsiderate posting of spam as the third comment. I apologize to those of you who also had your legitimate comments deleted.
Eric took the longest car trip of his life today, and he absolutely loved every minute of it. Car seats are awesome! After I got off of work, our little family plus Grandpa & Grandma on Mommy's side piled into our SUV and headed over to our favorite place to eat, a wonderful Chinese cousine restaurant that Becky and I haven't been to since just before little Eric showed up in Mommy's little (at that time) womb. It was a wonderful dinner, just like we remembered. The Won Ton Soup there is the greatest appetizer I have ever, ever had at any restaurant anywhere. Even the menu had been overhauled in the last nine months and was packed full of pictures of the food and inserted nicely into page protectors with gold-colored borders. We were the only ones there after the first 15 minutes or so, even though the restaurant would be open for another hour and a half, and the usual waiter was even more friendly than he normally is. Eric got to sit in the middle of the semi-circular booth bench, and the waiter pulled the table out a little bit so that his car seat would fit there. Then he took our group picture on two different digital cameras, making sure that there were no glasses or napkins in the way of Eric's little face. He fully answered all of our questions, especially the one about whether they use MSG, seeing how babies aren't supposed to have it and Eric drinks whatever types of molecules Mommy eats. They do put MSG in everything there because their primary customers just love the stuff, but he said he would have them not use it for all of our meals. He even brought us extra tea bags for the tea when I asked him what flavor the tea was--it was green tea--since it tasted like warm water to me every time I've tried it. I tipped him just over 20%, but I wish I had tipped him a little more for all of his helpfulness and for making our first family restaurant experience so enjoyable. As for Eric, he was sound asleep from the time we left until Daddy put him on the changing table and he decided to wet his completely clean and dry diaper as soon as it was open. He was hungry shortly after that, but he's once again sleeping soundly until some time in the middle of the early morning when he'll wake up and we'll try to stay awake as we wait for him to gobble down some nutritious bottle of soy-based formula (there's not enough milk to satisfy his large appetite quite just yet, but he gets every ounce that there is).
I'll try to put the most recent pictures up on the Kodak Gallery tomorrow. We've got some of Grandpa and Grandma with Eric and some with a couple more of Eric's relatives from Daddy's side.
In other news, our little boy is growing!! He had a follow-up doctor's appointment today, where the doctor informed his mommy that she was doing a great job in caring for him, because his jaundice is gone and he now weighs seven pounds and nine ounces, a good seven ounces more than he weighed at birth, and a full nine ounces more than what he weighed when he left the hospital.
