Mr. Popularity

This is the title that was bestowed upon Eric during his visit with us. The kids were SO excited to see him. The week pretty much consisted of:

"I wanna sit next to Eric!"
"No! I wanna sit next to Eric!"
"Mom!!! Tell Eric to sit next to me!"

Poor Eric was the object of a sibling tug of war. (And poor Cameron was discarded quicker than a piece of chopped liver. Luckily, he understood and didn't take it personally!) We devised a simple plan: one of the kids can sit next to Eric in the car, then the other one can sit next to him at the restaurant. Seemed to work. Well, except for the fact that Eric was crammed into the backseat of the car, next to a carseat, anytime we went anywhere and that he had to endure random comments and inane conversation from whichever little person was at his side. But hey, that's one of the privileges that comes with being "Mr. Popularity". It's quite an honor. Eric was a good sport about it, though, and I'm pretty sure that he didn't know that if you sat on the toilet with the door closed and the light off, the Toilet Monster would come up and scratch your butt. Or that lightning has so much "lecktrickazy" in it that it can make your hair go straight up! So at least he learned something.

We had a nice visit with him; it was good to have the whole family back together again. We're looking forward to him coming over in July so that we can all settle in together. Here are a few pictures from the week that he spent with us.



Eric's plane got in very late, so Alison didn't see him until she woke up in the morning. This is a picture of her seeing him for the first time. She was SO excited for him to come and visit and had talked about it for weeks ahead of time. She was actually kind of shy when she first saw him and just sat and smiled and stared at him for a few moments.


Colin, Eric and Alex eating in Holland Village near our house.


All of the kids. We had just finished seeing a movie (which explains the sweaters on the little ones). It's about 90 degrees every day in Singapore, but they crank up the AC in restaurants, malls and theaters. Anyway, this is in front of one of the (gigantic) malls that are all over Singapore.


Ali won and got to sit next to him at dinner, apparently. This is in Clarke Quay by the river.


Cameron was also glad to have Eric back around. They goof around so much and have a good time together as you can tell by the next few pictures....








See? Can't take them anywhere! But they do make us laugh.


This was taken with my cell phone, so the quality isn't that great, but it's such a sweet picture, I had to include it. I love how Ali has her hand on Eric's chest.


All of us.


More later!
-jodi.