We’re in California because yesterday, October 15th, 2006, (which just so happens to be the day that GYC early-bird registration closed), my brother and Aileen got married!  It was a very beautiful wedding held outside on a cliff overlooking the ocean.  The place is called La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, CA.  Very, very beautiful location and great food.  It was so nice to see old friends.  I also got to see family members from Korea and California so it was really nice spending time with them.  Israel forgot to bring the camera, so it may take a while to post pictures of it, but I’ll try to do that after I get a hold of some.   And, I’m very envious that my bro and Aileen are in Maui this week, especially after hearing that there was a big blizzard up where we live – over 10 inches of snow!

The baby is growing and it’s really cool to see how his motor skills are developing.  He slithers around everywhere-(it’s kinda like he crawls with his tummy still on the ground), and he’s an expert roller.  He’s pretty good at getting up on all fours and “rocking”, but he eventually ends up back on his tummy slithering again.  One thing that is especially annoying now is that the baby is obsessed with putting things in his mouth.  It’s one thing that he shoves his fingers down his throat and gags himself, (and you can’t take his fingers away!), but it’s another thing that he enjoys sucking on our puppy, Bentley.   The other day I caught him sucking on Bentley’s back foot.  The difficult part is that Bentley loves chillin’ next to the baby.  When IA is on the floor playing, Bentley is right there with his toy or bone laying next to him.  I think they will really be best friends…or for Imanuel’s case, his only friend (around his age that is)!  

We’ll be heading back to Detroit area tonight or tomorrow morning (depending on if we want to miss our flight or not) and then back to our winter wonderland on Thursday.  We really hope the snow melts by then…