Saturday was just about a perfect day. It started out with Elias’ haircut. When we got home, we played and admired his adorable head. I guess from the morning’s excitement he was ready for an early nap. While Elias napped, I cleaned the living room, kitchen and bathroom in preparation for the evening. Mark helped by taking out the trash and straightening up a bit.

We decided earlier in the week to go out to dinner at Kani House for Mark’s birthday with some of his friends. The hibachi experience for groups is awesome. The food isn’t really anything special in my opinion, but I always have fun when I go.

We’ve never seen Elias enjoy food so much. He refused to eat even a bite of his lunch (beef stroganoff) so we knew he’d be hungry. He was a bit fussy when they brought out the soup because he wanted to feed himself, but once the salad got there and he could shove food in his mouth at his leisure, he perked up. He had a great time watching the chef and all the flames. He LOVED the ginger dressing on the salad. Mark offered him one of his sushi rolls and to our astonishment, he gobbled it up and ate another one. We got him his own meal and I’m glad we did because he ate most of it. We got a kid’s tempura combo with fried chicken and shrimp and some tempura fried sweet potatoes (which was delicious).

I wasn’t sure how Noah was going to react, but he didn’t issue one cry of complaint. We got a high chair for him, but he looked so lonely sitting there that I put him in my lap a few minutes after we sat down and he stayed there through the whole meal. He was more than happy to sit there, look around and drool all over the two of us.

After dinner, everyone came back to our place and a few more friends who couldn’t make it to dinner came over. Elias absolutely loved the company. He’s a little social butterfly no matter how shy he acts at first. Noah was wiped out and slept a lot of the evening away. I went to the back to nurse him down around 7:30 thinking I’d be back out before 8pm to see Elias to bed. Elias apparently asked Mark to go night night shortly after Noah and I retreated to the bedroom though. Shockingly, Noah didn’t wake up once all night after he was nursed down.

We all just watched TV (a Florida gators football game since our friend’s a fan), played video games and chatted away. Some friends brought Cranium, but I seemed to be the only person interested in playing it versus watching one person play a car racing video game so it just sat there. Everyone left after the football game and by about midnight I was cuddled up next to a soundly sleeping Noah.

It was a great day. We need to get out more because the boys love it!

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