Father's Day #1

As I've discussed before, I now get two Father's Days, both the US one and the local one (on 8/8 which sounds like "ba-ba"). Actually, I'm coming to the opinion that you should get at least one father's day per kid. Maybe I could squeeze another one in in early winter sometime.

Emily took me to one of the best steakhouses in town today, at a hotel not far from church. It was really delicious. We got a steak-for-two meal that was possibly the best steak we've had. It came with four different types of salt and a roasted garlic plant (I don't know what it's called--not a single clove, but a whole plant cut in two and roasted). Yum! I ordered salmon as my appetizer (predictably Sam loved it) and Emily got a salad. It also came with desert and coffee and we ordered sweet potato fries for Sam. Truly an awesome meal. It also turns out, that if you show up at a very nice hotel with your three young children, they will give you your own room. So we had a small private dining room all to ourselves, which let Sam trade seats, try out sugar cubes, eat large quantities of bread, etc. Fun, fun, fun.

Our odd story of the day is that as I was waiting for Emily outside of a store with the twins, a little kid came running up, bit Eli on the foot, and then took off. His father came after him, whacked him once, never looked at me and then dragged him off. It took me (and I think Eli too) a minute to register what had happened. Eli had a little mark on the foot, but the bite didn't break the surface. A strange interlude in an otherwise pleasant day.

However, our children are not giving us the afternoon nap we'd asked for this fathers' day. Sam's asleep now but Eva and Eli are both quite fussy. We're hoping it will be a quieter night. We've just come off of several days of a guest and we get more guests midweek. All good, but it's harder to concentrate and keep working away on things. Also, I restart language this week, so it could be a busy week.

For fun, I've pasted pictures of Sam reading to Eva and Eli. What a good big brother!