First Day of School

julian & i went to our first mommy & class today at the LA VAlley College Family Resource Center. the classes are every Monday at 10-11am. we got up pretty early this morning pretty excited about julian meeting new friends & being able to attend some sort of classes especically simce it has always been just me & him together for most part of the day eversince he was born. so anyway, he decided that he was going to wear his new hand-me down hawaiian shirt from Ms. Malky and that he was going to bring his batman backpack with him... we caught the bus arounf 930 & then just walked a tiny bit afterwards to the place.

there were mostly adults today, the mommies, teachers & students... he met some new friends, Jordan, Jaden, Elaine & Monty... julian mainly engaged in parallel play (just playing alongside the other kid/s), i guess he's just so used to playing by himself but as expected, he was still very friendly to everyone, saying hi & waving at them. the teacher commended that julian has a pretty advanced language development for he would answer and talk combining words to from a sentence :) it was pretty funny when the teacher, ms grace was trying to engage julian in a conversation by asking him what the different animals were saying while he was playing with the animal figurines -- for example, the tiger says roar -- anyway, julian loves watching cartoons now and i think it was pretty evident when he answered his teacher, "he talks a lot!" when she asked what does he think the jaguar was saying... hehehe :P

julian was a tiny bit shy though to join the group singing because instead of joining the big circle, he went to the art table and told everyone, "I need to paint" and then looking down to just concentrate on his paper...

time went so fast though and before you know it, our first day of school was over... julian told his teacher that he'll be coming back next week though so that's good... it seems like he really enjoyed himself.

to top our first day of school, julian & i met daddy at Midori sushi for our long-awaited, long-postponed EAT-ALL-YOU-CAN Sushi lunch... it was mmm-mmm-mmm delish! what's nice too is that while we were walking towards my work, my bakery manager called to request me to take the day off today instead of my wednesday since he really needs me to close that day... so instead of working, mommy & julian just went for a treat at baskin&robbins -- daddy wasn't there because he had to meet his boss quickly for a little meeting...

all i can say is that it was a pretty GREAT day! :)

sushi

james & i LOVE sushi! and after having cravings for an eat all you can sushi date for almost a month and a half, we finally gave in to our desires & had a little of our favorite sushi at our favorite place, Hama in Little Tokyo in downtown LA. we went there after spending a few hours at the Japanese American Museum with julian where they had their summer event at the courtyard. we missed the arts & crafts (it only ran until 5pm) but we got to see some of the exhibits inside the museum which was free admission for the day, got to watch a cool magic act & watch some hula dancers. it was pretty cool... we also went to the little garden that they had which was really very pretty & relaxing. julian was following this cute little girl at the courtyard & a little boy grew a liking to my little one, very happy to see julian running around & having fun -- the little boy kept on touching julian in the arm :) anyway, back to our sushi treat, we had tuna, salmon, spicy tuna rolls & of course, we can't NOT have UNI!!! even julian liked his salmon skin sushi roll & of course, he just loves his pickled ginger. he was even playing peek-a-boo with the lady servers & the sushi chef... mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm... sushi is so yummy! i really had fun today & james & i can't wait for our eat all you can sushi date :)