What's up?!

I know...it's been almost a month since the last posting. We've been so busy lately that I haven't had any time to publish a post. So, in a nutshell, this is what's been up with us, and more importantly Tesshin. The week of June 2-6 our day care center was closed so Tessho's mom flew down from Sacramento to babysit Tesshin for us. It was so nice being able to leave the house in the morning and not have to drag him to daycare. He was able to sleep in that week and bum around with Ba-chan. Every chance he gets to spend with his grandparents is so great. I grew up with only one living grandparent and she was in Japan. I saw her only 4 times in my lifetime. If you add that up, it was probably 6 months out of my 32 years of life. So Tesshin is very lucky he has both sets of grandparents and a great grandmother.

June 14-15 - We spent Saturday with a group of friends to celebrate Debbies's 30th birthday. We ate at Langer's Deli. They're famous for their pastrami sandwiches. And let me tell you, they did not disappoint. Tesshin tried some of the pastrami, too (after I sucked all of the salt out of the meat)
Here's a picture of Tesshin and Austin, sitting so well in the restaurant baby chairs, reaching for some yummy Cheerios.
On Sunday, we took it easy. My mom made us breakfast and I spent the afternoon shopping with her. We left a little early so we could make it back for Tessho's basketball game. They won. I made Tessho's favorite dish, tonkatsu, for dinner.
(Photo courtesy of Karen Fu)

June 21-22 - This was a hot, hot , HOT weekend. Did I mention it was hot? Tessho participated in the Nisei Week basketball tournament so we were really busy with that. His first game was Saturday morning at 9:00. It was great to see a lot of the old "Marauders" guys. This time last year I was still pregnant so a lot of the team members from up north got to meet Tesshin for the first time. It was especially nice to see Uncle D (Dave) and Uncle Gami (Mike). They lost their game that day but it didn't spoil our fun. We went and ate Dim Sum, hung out at Uncle Sky's house, then ate dinner at Roscoe's. Sunday's game was also at 9 in the morning. They lost that game too. It was super duper close but oh well. We'll get 'em next year. We ate at Shaka's for lunch and then went to Jonathan's parent's house for a dip in the pool. Tesshin got in with his Huggies on. It was so huge by the time he got out. Talk about super absorbent!