Grandma's Visit

My mom flew here for Elodie's birthday, and stayed for almost 2 weeks. We had a wonderful time with her here, and wish that she could have stayed longer!

YAY, Grandma's here!

We took Elodie to the aquarium for the first time. Turns out she doesn't like fish very much. Right after the picture below was taken, a fish swam at her and scared her terribly... she jumped and cried SO hard.

I bought a year pass to the aquarium, so we'll be going back there often, and hopefully she'll get used to the fish.

Checking out the fish... which she does NOT like.

She wasn't a huge fan of penguins, either.

We also went out to lunch with our good friends Miyoko and Akko a couple of times. We always have such a nice time visiting with them.

We stopped by Akko's new pet salon that she recently opened a few months ago. Elodie wasn't scared of the dogs at all! Instead, she crawled around the store chasing them.

Akko showing Elodie her dog.

Unfortunately we all got the flu while she was visiting, so we were incredibly sick for 2-3 days during her trip. We were beyond miserable for that time, and weren't even able to leave the house. So we missed out on doing a few things, and it put a damper on her vacation.

But it was still fun to show Grandma some of our new routines, like swimming class and going to a play room downtown. She was able to see what a good little swimmer Elodie is, and how well she does playing and interacting with others. :)

Say CHEESE!

On her last night, Miyoko prepared a special sushi dinner for us. She taught us how to make our own simple sushi - take a piece of seaweed paper, scoop a spoonful of rice and spread it out on top of the seaweed paper, pick out a few ingredients to place in the middle on top of the rice (salmon, squid, tuna, egg, cucumber, avocado, crab, etc), then fold it over, dip it in soy sauce, and eat it! SO EASY! Healthy and delicious!

Sushi spread.

Joe has been back in the U.S. for a couple of weeks for work, so it was great that my mom's trip somewhat aligned with that. It's not fun being here by myself, so luckily I only had to do that for one week.

Thanks so much for coming to visit. We miss you, Grandma!