Playing Catch Up…Again

Another multiple picture post. Brought to you by jet lag. And procrastination.

October 27, 2008 — Roar!

October 28, 2008 — Old Friends

Me with Armil and Barbara, two of my friends from high school.

October 29, 2008 — Misty Morning

One of the things I miss about living in the Bay Area — cool, crisp, foggy autumn mornings.

October 31, 2008 — Canceled Flight

Noah, being a trooper and keeping busy in Taipei, while I try to sort out how to get home after our connecting flight is canceled.

November 1, 2008 — Resemblance

Where Noah gets his good looks from.

November 2, 2008 — Light Chaser

Apparently, the butt-crack of dawn is the ideal time to get up and play with your light chaser.

November 3, 2008 — Our Apartment

What our apartment building looks like.

Amusement Park

The Elmer’s Weather Balloon ride at Six Flag’s Discovery Kingdom.

Because it’s a children’s ride, the paint on the ride is ridiculously bright and garish. I toned down the color which I think gives it a nice retro feel.

To Infinity …And Beyond!

Noah does his best Buzz Lightyear at the city’s Halloween Carnival.

A Rough Day Bookended By Sweetness

Noah started out this morning all sweetness and light, bringing me three gardenias — my favorite flower — he’d picked on a morning walk with his Lolo. This was followed by roughly seven hours of what I can only generously describe as “snot-nosed brattiness”. Fortunately the day ended with me getting my sweet, goofy boy back. Here he is taking his new inline skates out for a test drive:

Playing Catch Up

I’ve been taking pictures every day. I just haven’t been posting. So here are four days worth of pictures in one post.

October 20, 2008 – Playdoh Buddies

October 21, 2008 – Lola and Noah

My mom and Noah having an early breakfast at IHOP.

October 22, 2008 – Multitasking Piano

When your only grandson is in town, you allow certain things to happen in your house you would never have previously tolerated. Like letting an expensive musical instrument become a basketball hoop backboard/landing strip/parking lot.

October 23, 2008 – Butterfly

A butterfly in the rainforest exhibit at the California Academy of Science.

The “What Day Is It?” Edition

Excessive trip preparation. Not shown: an extra empty duffel bag packed inside my suitcase (in case of excessive shopping) and a baby stroller.

Who says it’s difficult to fall asleep on airplanes?

A backyard barbecue featuring the Sanchez women and Noah — who probably wishes he was hanging with the men. After a 14 hour flight on Sunday night, Noah and I arrived in CA…still on Sunday…and earlier than when our flight took off in Hong Kong. It has been Sunday for two days now.

Waiting to Cross

Mark and Noah waiting to cross Hollywood Road.

Red Suede

My wonderful sweetheart of a husband took pity on me and surprised me tonight with the red suede purse I’d been coveting for months now. Unfortunately the lighting in my house is crappy so the color in the photo is not the luscious deep red that it is in real life and no amount of color correcting could fix it but this is as close as I could get to its real color. But who knew a new purse could make one person so happy?

Edward Crayonfingers

Noah does his best Edward Scissorhands impersonation during bathtime.

Passport

I had to to go to the Consulate today to add more pages to my passport so in recognition of that, this is the stamp in my passport from when we first moved to Hong Kong.