The boy likes rice......cereal that is!

When we lived in Aurora, IL and Mark was getting his MBA at the University of Chicago we met some wonderful friends Trong & Natalie Nguyen and Trey & Angela Parker. We all entered the world of parenthood within a few months of each other and started a little baby sitting rotation. Two couples would stay at home with 3 babies and one couple would get to go on a date. It was fun if you were at home or on your date and we saved a ton of money on babysitters (3 kids now cost almost $15/hr - except in China where it is only $3!) Anyway - whenever we would leave Nicholas, Trong would always joke about how he was going to feed him rice and teach him to use chopsticks while we were out. I think there were even a few staged photos of Nicholas with chopsticks. Well now we may have a real chopstick pro on our hands. Spending his first 2 years of life in China he may come home a rice and chopsticks kind of guy. But for now - he took his first bite of rice cereal. It started out rocky, but by the end he was grabbing my hand to help get it to his mouth!