The weekend started out with Friday taking Brandon in for his 18 month check up. Luckily no shots today, however I did want to test him for lead levels in light of the recent recalls in toys especially from China and since he usually puts most of his toys in his mouth. The pediatrician told us it was going to be a fingerstick, so I didn’t think it would be that bad. But by the time we were at the lab, they said it was a venopuncture and would have to go in his arm! Poor baby, there was one phlebotomist holding his arm while the other went stuck the needle into his tiny little vein. I was in charge of the rest of his body.  He watched the entire procedure from start to finish, even though I was trying to distract him with Cheerios. After crying a little, we went upstairs to visit the anticoag crew. We’d see most of them the next night at Thai and Thuy’s wedding!
Mom came down to help take care of Brandon for the wedding, which started at the Villa Montalvo Oval Garden at 11am. We were worried about being late, but turned out that the ceremony started a little late. It was a beautiful day – and such a beautiful and happy couple! After going home to take a short nap and visit with mom and Brandon, we headed to Dynasty for the wedding reception. It was huge – I think there were almost 50 tables in the back room at Dynasty. Who knew that place was so huge! We had to walk through one wedding party to get back to ours. The theme color of the wedding, Tiffany blue, was seen through and through – from the dyed orchids, ribbons on the chair backs, menus, place cards on little silver fortune cookies, take out gift boxes, and even the candy colors! The bridesmaids and groomsmen outfits matched perfectly. The evening festivities began with a lion dance – 5 lions – two dancers per lion. They even jumped on a pair of sawhorses and danced on that. We had front row seats for that! The five layer cake made it to the cake-cutting ceremony without faltering – even after it was moved back and forth for the lion dancing.Â
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Dinner was yummy Chinese banquet food – we almost didn’t make through all of the courses because it was so much food. After the bouquet and garter toss, dancing began. We originally did not plan to stay long so that we could relieve mom, but we were having so much fun dancing, we just stayed! We left around 1130pm, completely exhausted, especially knowing that we had to wake up early the next morning.
This morning, we got up this morning, pretty tired, but excited for the annual Taste of Lexus. This is third year we’ve been. We drove up with Kenny, Rachel and my parents along with Brandon up to Alameda. It’s held at an old airport runway area, with elaborate tents set up and the highest class portapotties I’ve ever seen. This year’s format was a little different than in years past, but it was definitely organized. They even had a kiddie area for Brandon. They had the cars, of course, which we took a few test drives. Then they had a golfing challenge – it was a closest to the pin challenge against a projection screen, 147 yards, 17 yards downhill, and the guy to beat was 1 foot 4 inches to the pin! Grand prize was a Lexus golf bag. Kenny and Rachel had already gone, so we didn’t get a chance to see them in action. Dave and I wanted to try, but I was getting nervous a little bit while we waited. There were a few people ahead of us, some of them looked like pretty decent golfers. It was a little intimidating; it’s been awhile since I’ve even held a golf club. So Dave went first, and he had a notable gallery. Kenny even called out, “Dave, I wanna see you make top 10!”. So Dave took the pitching wedge and took a practice swing, then went for it. It looked pretty straight and when it landed, he was 8 feet from the pin – and earned him 6th place so far today! What a great shot-even the guys behind him were cheering him on! He got another turn, but didn’t get any closer. Ok, my turn. Luckily they had a left set of clubs and the guy set me up. I wasn’t sure which club to use, and the guy asked if I golfed. Tough question to answer. Yes, I golf, but it has been awhile. Dave, the guy and I agreed, I should try the 5 iron. So I took my practice swing, then decided to just get this over with. I just watched the screen and turns out that my ball was 44 feet from the pin! I placed in the 40’s, I think it was 42nd (or 40-something, I was so shocked, I had some sort of memory lapse). My second shot shanked, so it wasn’t as close, but how exciting! I was so ready to play now – too bad Dave will be gone this coming weekend, otherwise, I’d definitely want to try some more. I’ve got the bug now. My main goal was to just make contact with the ball, so what a surprise! Kenny and Rachel took Brandon to the kids area to check out the crafts while Dave and I went to test drive the GS hybrid model. After we were done, we went to go save Kenny and Rachel. I was really worried for them, since he hadn’t had a nap all day. Luckily we had just eaten, so at least they had that going for them. In any case, we walked in there and he was just finishing up a bead project and was so focused! He didn’t even know that we were there. His face was so serious as he picked up bead by bead to fill the jar as the base of a bamboo stick. He had already completed a beaded picture frame and also a greeting card! What great momentos – thanks to Kenny and Rachel for bringing out Brandon’s inner artist! They were such cute gifts, created in such a short time, but really had Brandon’s attention. Brandon was also showing his more social side, by offering another child a used rubber band. According to Kenny, he kept trying to give it to the kid, he just didn’t get it that it was an unwanted gift. We all thought Brandon would eat the beads, and Kenny and Rachel were watching Brandon like a hawk in case he did, but he was so busy creating, that it did not cross his mind to eat them. He’s finally learning that not everything is so tasty that it should go in his mouth. Finally!Â
Brandon was asleep shortly after getting into the car! He was so pooped after all that activity. After dropping off mom and dad in Belmont, we drove back to Cupertino and dropped Kenny and Rach off. We had to get ingredients for our Thai Family night. We selected Pineapple Fried Rice, only because we had been shot down with our other selections. Pad Thai was Kenny’s, Lilly was making curry, and we had already had satay (against the rules of family night to have a repeat dish). Dave made a great dish – hollowing out the pineapple and using it to serve the rice. Everything tasted great! Very carby, though as we had rice with curry, the fried rice, Pad Thai and for dessert, we had sticky rice with mango. That’s why we had to play the new Cranium game, Pop 5, which had us burning some calories acting out, sculpting with clay, humming, drawing, or giving clues of pop culture. Brandon was a little cranky, but he needs to learn that he can’t have everything he wants – he really wanted to play with the button that lights up. But he was being a little rough, so we took him away. He was just so tired, as soon as we put him in the carseat to leave, he was out! That only lasted until we brushed his teeth, and that’s when he goes nuts. Eventually, he put him back down. And only after then do I have time to blog! Whew…what an eventful and fun weekend.Â