Yesterday marked Day 1 of Trieu and Ingrid's Wedding Weekend. Our plans are to spend some time with my family before traveling to Santa Cruz Friday morning for the wedding. Halloween will be spent in Santa Cruz and then we'll go to the wedding site Friday afternoon. We check into the main house Friday night (non-family wedding goers will stay in canvas cabins, yurts or camp out in tents), the wedding is Saturday and we head back home Sunday.
Heading up, we took a chance and traveled after Malia's preschool practice at 11:00am. Taede sleeps well during the day so we opted to travel during his good sleeping time rather than have a screaming baby in the car for 6 hours. I had no idea what to expect and actually geared myself up for the worst as the older kids were horrible travelers at this age (5 weeks). Much to my surprise, Taede did great, sleeping the entire way there with just 2 nursing sessions. Kael and Malia did not nap at all so they were pretty wired come 8pm. We made great time to San Jose (arrived at 5pm) -- just in time for the kids to get a second wind and go totally bonkers late into the night. At least they slept in the next morning - 7:30am.
Day 2 (today) was spent at San Francisco's Academy of Natural Science. This is a very cool place to visit. We visited everything there except the Planetarium but plan on coming back for another visit for Thanksgiving and Christmas. My sister let Amelie hook from school because she wanted to spend the day with Kael so we met them in Mountain View to take Amelie with us. It was so cute to see Amelie and Kael hold hands going through the museum. If they weren't holding hands, then Amelie was hugging and kissing Malia. It makes me happy to see the cousins so loving and caring to each other despite seeing each other only 4 or 5 times a year. My sister and the rest of her family (her boys, Jarod and Collin, and her husband) met us at my parents' house for dinner and that's when the real ruckus started. Between my 2 kids and her 3, the house was deafening. The kids had a great time playing together -- so great that Truong and I discussed the option of moving closer to home so the kids could live closer to family and grow up together.
Wherever Malia went, I was sure to find Jarod and Amelie. Those two are so in love with her. I would usually find Malia sandwiched between the two of them on the couch or in the papasan, hugging and kissing her. Malia gets so spoiled here, being the littlest girl. Out of 11 grandkids, she's the youngest girl so you can imagine the amount of attention that's lavished on her.
Tomorrow will be our last day in San Jose before heading to Santa Cruz. Before leaving OC (where it was in the low 90's), we got an email from Trieu telling us to bring rainslickers and umbrellas -- for possible rain.
Great.
2 kids + (rain + campsite) = 2 aggravated parents
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