Outside Dining

We're having dinner with my parents to celebrate Logan's birthday and grabbed a table outside because it was super crowded and a very long wait. I think this may be one of the first times we've eaten outside and Logan is loving all the cars, buses and people (even carolers!) passing by. :)

Happy 3rd Birthday Logan!!

My toddler is now the ripe old age of 3. Yikes!

I'm home with Logan today since he had a fever yesterday and had to stay home from school. Apparently he caught whatever Jon and Callum have, although he seems to be handling it much better. In fact, we decided to get out of the house to grab some lunch (did you know Chipotle now has kids' lunches?!?) and perhaps a cupcake or two. ;-)

Home sweet home

Left the very festively decorated (but rainy) Bellevue late this evening. Unfortunately Jon, Logan and Callum are all sick. Guess it's back to being Mommy again! :)

Santa comes to town

Visited the MSFT retail store. I may or may not have snagged an Xbox Kinect bundle on behalf of Santa.

Din Tai Fung

This dumpling house just opened in Bellevue 2 weeks ago and is already hoppin' with a looooong wait. Several of us staked it out anyway for dinner tonight.

My coworker set the expectation with me that it was going to be a "once in a lifetime experience". I teased her that the first thing to learn in my world is you always under-promise and over-deliver. ;-)

Still, this place certainly met my (high) expectations. Deeeeelish!!

CA folks are easy to spot

At this conference up in Redmond, and I'm in a room with maybe 75 other people. During introductions, I would take a guess at who was from CA and who was local (before they would say). I was about 90% accurate.

For the most part, attire gave it away (but strangely so did hair styles and facial appearance). For example, I'm probably one of the only women in the room rocking heels (these being one of my newest/fave pairs). The rest are wearing some version of a boot or hiking shoe. :)

Lonely.

It's much too quiet in here.

I was just catching up on another Mommy blog and she has this neat idea to do a daily picture countdown to Christmas. I looked back through my blog and have almost posted one pic a day since Dec 1st. So I'm going to steal her idea and see how far I get as well!

Day 6: Travel up to Redmond and already missing my munchkins terribly.