"Today is a new day"

That is Jude's favorite line from the movie Chicken Little. It's cute how he picked it up himself. I hope he remembers it when he wakes up one day not wanting to go to work after a nice, long holiday weekend. Finally the drought of work-without-holiday has ended. The first half of the calendar year is always tough in that sense. But the weekend started off with a bang when a group of us at work were treated to a wonderful dinner at Fleming's Steakhouse. I was very excited because 1) it was the start of a three day weekend, and 2) I like steak just a little bit. My steak was prepared to a perfectly delectable medium rare plus and I even had a chocolate molten cake with vanilla ice cream to end the evening. A little bit of heaven on earth.

But the highlight of my weekend was, of course, spending time with my three boys. There is a boy at Jude's school named Jason who is always eager to play with Jude as soon as we arrive. Strangely, Jude is not fond of Jason and avoids him at all cost. Fortunately, Jude had a great weekend playing with two boys whose company he enjoyed. This may be because his new friend Andrew (Hyunmin & Jeanne's son) has a common affinity for Thomas the Tank Engine and Lightning McQueen and has an impressive toy collection to back it up:

Or because Jude was able to convince his friend Jacob (Rob & Grace's son) that it really is much more fun to pitch than it is to bat:

Of course, Jude never forgot about his younger brother and happily took the time to fulfill his big brother duties:

It was a fun weekend with Eli simply because he was awake while we were home. Since Eli has always chosen a daily bedtime of 6:30pm, I get only a few precious hours each weekday to gobble him up and he is rarely awake when Kwang gets home from work. But as lovable as he is, Eli still has a proclivity to cry the second neither of us is in sight. Even when it's a fake cry, he manages to squeeze out tears and tug at the heart of any nearby stranger. When asked, "Ohhhh, why is he crying? What's wrong?" my usual response is, "Oh nothing. He came this way."