Birthday: My-Linh

Big baby turns ONE! My-Linh is one of the cutest little girls. Because of her papa, she's growing super fast and is also starting develop some of her mama's features! I had a really good time at the birthday party and ate soooooo much. Asian food. I can never get enough. This was the first time that big poppa and I gave an actual toy as a gift rather than me giving them some diapers. I think he's tired of always being the ones where the guests never really open our gifts cos I just bring the big ole box of diapers and wipes as is. I'm just trying to be practical! So big poppa went to target and picked up this ni hao kai lan scooter thing. He also bought some foam sticky letters and customized My-Linh's new ride with her name on it. I also printed out this poster size foto of one our favo pics of My-Linh, where she's crying with a cracker in her mouth. These are some of my and big poppa's favorite people to be with so there was no other place that we would have wanted to be that day. I'll stop writing here cos of I've got a ridic amount of fotos that I am posting.

My favorite foto of the family.

I think that this was a learning moment for her. Fire burns and it hurts! Her smile turned upside down.

Trippin': Chicago - Navy Pier

The Navy Pier is ... overrated. I wouldn't go there unless I had to. Like for the sail on the Tall Ship Windy. It was cold and rainy earlier that day but by the time we got to the Navy Pier, the sun was out and the crowd was coming out in full force. Mochi and hamburglar were taking part in the Chicago marathon that weekend so I'm guessing a majority of the people on the pier were in town for that as well. As we were leaving the pier, mochi picked up some funnel cake and vanilla cream filled churro. The churro was yum but I'm not a funnel cake person. Something about powdered sugar. Blegh. I'm down for any other type of sugar. Except for sweet and low. I won't touch that stuff either. Okay dokay then.

Restaurant: Block 7 Wine Company

720 Shepherd Dr.
Houston, TX 77007

Some din din time with friends and family. I consider big poppa's cousins my cousins too. I don't think they feel the same. Haha. So here we are at Block 7 Wine Company. Houston has many wine places that serve really good food and Block 7 is one of them. Although, it's no where as good as Max's Wine Dive. When I first got there, I was told that the wait would be forty-five minutes. So big poppa and I decided to peruse the retail side of the restaurant and as we were checking out some of the bottles of wine, a worker asked if there was something he could help direct us to and I immediately jokingly replied with, 'how about a table for ten?'. Haw haw haw. And to my surprise, he walked over and offered to set up a table in their back room that was completely separate from the main dining room. After reassuring us that it was absolutely okay and that the servers don't mind cos they want more tips anyways, I happily agreed and our forty-five wait turned into a ten minute wait. Yayers! The food was awesome and the company was even better. Several people ordered some specials that they had so I don't remember exactly what they had. Several of us liked it enough to go and purchase some restaurant.com gc's cos we fo sho going back!

Food in order of appearance:
truffle popcorn - italian black truffle salt
edamame - himalayan pink salt
croque monsieur - country ham, raclette, béchamel, local brioche with b7 frites that comes with housemade aioli and housemade ketchup
fish of the day
another fish of the day?
marinated duck breast - a grilled Maple Leaf duck breast, cous cous salad with ham and Caribbean salsa
airline chicken - roasted and served with fettuccini in a light herb butter and sautéed seasonal vegetables
marinated duck breast - a grilled Maple Leaf duck breast, hash browns

Musik Mundi: Stars

I'm throwing this musik post out quickly cos I'm so tired I've got Andy Cohen's wonky eyes. Okay then. Gotta get back to playing ref between Stewie and the new cat that has joined our household, Mister Alfie. There's a lot of back arching and hissing going on at the moment and I've armed myself with a water gun.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Stars
Album: The Five Ghosts (2010)
Song: Changes