Spaghetti Dinner

we decided to get out of the hotel for dinner and went to Al Frescos.  David was okay leaving the hotel.  but once we tried to settle him into a chair he went all whiney.  i could have just sat down with him on my lap and we probably would have been fine, but it's so hard to know what's right and not.  we know he hates all new things. sensory overload for him.  we let him lay on the floor for a bit and do his wailing moaning thing, it was low volume and there weren't many patrons.  We joked about the fact that we were being eyed by these people and they just knew We were TERRIBLE  parents.  they would NEVER allow that kind of behavior from THEIR child.  hey i sniggered myself a time or two when i saw unruly kids.  finally he stood up a bit and looked around the table.  dinner had come and Emma had virtually devoured a plate of spaghetti meant for them both. she was covered in the sauce and the look of utter delight on her face was priceless.  i made the mistake of putting a few food items on David's plate and it was back to the floor for some mild half hearted thrashing.  i had to take him out at one point because he had gotten to be too much.   we eventually compromised by him getting his way and me eating my dinner (that is the pieces he would leave behind from my plate) with him on my lap.  all the waitresses came and fussed over Emma and admired her adorableness.  She's really come into her own and she's just a delight.  David is wonderful... when we're home.  Oh the waitress told me the word for baby is emmay (well that's how you would pronounce it) and that's what Emma would repeat over and over and over again when she was first with us.  i don't know if the baby nanny was called emmay, or if that's what they called Kieu, but for some reason she kept saying baby baby baby over and over again. 

   

tomorrow we're going to tempt the fate and try a park that's very close by.  a little hard when you're toting a 28 lb child.  but we can always take a cyclo if we had to.  I'm dying to anyway.  the look like rickshaws, except they're on wheels and the guy pedals it around.   we wanted to go to the old market but i just doubt at this point that will ever happen.   then there's Ha Long bay -- which i really wanted to do.  i think the long drive there (3 hours) will have both kids asleep but again, it may be too much for them.  well taking each day as it comes.