Jordan and Jodi have been living in Detroit while she finishes school and he finishes an intern job at a hospital in the southside of Detroit. He works in the operating room and it was so interesting to hear his stories about what he's seen. Detroit has a lot of crime so a lot of the injuries they had were gun wounds and gang-related. He even saw a car drive by the hospital and push out an injured person and drive away. Well now his internship is over and they are moving to Orlando where he will be in anesthesiology school. He figures his patients will be a lot different in that location.
Well Emily was an excellent commercial for having children because she slept the entire two hours that we visited. I never even took her out of the infant seat. David showed them a video of Haley on his phone but we kept her at home so she could nap. Plus I'm pretty sure Jordan and Jodi would have waited another five years to have children if they had been stuck with Haley in a coffee shop for two hours.
After our visit we went to Target to pick up a gift and card for David's parent's anniversary. They celebrated their 30th anniversary back in May but we didn't get to really celebrate it so they wanted to do it while we were in town. We had reservations at the Alpen Rose restaurant in downtown Holland at 6pm. It is a European themed restaurant and it is super nice, David and I actually went there back when we were dating. Our visit this time was very different from our first, this time we had Haley and Emily along.
Emily definitely did her part, she slept through the first hour or so that we were there so that was super convenient. Haley actually did not do too bad herself. We ordered her food as soon as we got there and asked them to bring it out whenever it was ready. Jesse and Adj did the same thing with Isa so she and Haley got to eat together. Since there were ten of us they had put us in our own room and it was super nice. After Haley finished eating and got bored we turned the Ipad on for her and eventually we just let her get down and she crawled under the table with Bennett and Isa.
I ordered crab-stuffed salmon and it was amazing! David had pork and he gave me a bite and it was pretty good. Abuelita still had the boutonniere, bouquet and cake topper from their wedding so she brought those along and put them on display in the middle of the table. For dessert they brought a beautiful white cake and Abuelito and Abuelita cut it and fed eachother just like they did back in 1982. We ended up having a wonderful time and the kids did so well, especially considering that we were there for three hours!
Our gift for them was the game of Settlers! We played it with them back at Thanksgiving and when we arrived in Chicago one of the first things Abuelita asked us was if we had brought the game along. After that we figured we had to find some excuse to get it for them. When we got home we put the kids to bed and then got the game out and played. Abuelita and Abuelito actually went to bed but the rest of us played. Adj won and then we went to bed.
Haleyism:
At dinner Haley requested to sing 'happy birthday' to Emily. I ended up having to sing it super quickly and quietly to her because she was being really persistent in asking.
Emilyism:
The table at the restaurant was super big and the place next to me was empty so Emily had tummy time on the table.
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| Haley and Bennett, do you think they look alike? |
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| Haley and Bennett at the restaurant. She may or may not have been hitting him... |
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| Abuelito and Abuelita made a grand entrance, she even had her original veil! |
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