This past weekend my dad came to visit us and to continue on traveling to Hong Kong.  Logan was quite excited to go to the airport and to pick up grandpa “Gong Gong” and warmed up to him quickly.  He was happy to be carried by him, and wanted Gong Gong to help him into the car too.  However Logan was disappointed that we were not going to go flying in the airplane ourselves.   

     My dad’s visit did not happen during a very good time since Stuart, Logan and I were at our peak of coughing.  It sounded quite bad sometimes when we were all in the car.  Our goals were to avoid getting Gong Gong sick too, and I think we did manage to accomplish that. 

     Sunday, we went to Happy Hollow together.  Connor was very clingy to me, usually would not go to Gong Gong, but he would not mind being taken out from the carseat by Gong Gong.  Lately my dad has been feeling weaker, not used to carrying heavy things.  Even though my dad loved to hold Connor, but after carrying Connor for a few minutes while walking in the park, my dad had to return him to me due to exhaustion.  Connor is quite heavy these days.  After the park, we just hung out at home.  Both boys were good while Gong Gong was around; Logan was very chatty and Connor was very smiley.  My dad was very happy that the kids were glad to be around him.  The sad thing was that they could not really communicate with my dad so I had to do all the translation.  Logan did pronounce many Chinese words quite well when I asked him to say them, and Gong Gong was proud of him.

    On Monday we had work and school, so my dad just stayed home while Stuart worked in the office.  I was off on Tuesday; I took my dad to run some errands and did some shopping and eating together.  My dad was flying out on Tuesday after midnight, so he said goodbyes to the boys before their bedtime.  Then I took him to the airport in the evening.  It was a good visit by my dad; the boys enjoyed it.  There was an unfortunate but funny moment during this visit.  My dad’s denture has been bothering him a lot.  Once Logan actually saw him taking out the denture.  Logan’s eyes were wide open and he was speechless for at least 1/2 of minute.  Then he said in shock that “Gong Gong’s teeth came out!!!”.  He was quite overwhelmed by that scene afterward for quite awhile.  But at least now we can have him brush his teeth more willingly so his teeth won’t fall out like Gong’ Gong’s.