Toronto

We are in Toronto after a whirlwind few days of travel.  Here are a few highlights:

• spending time with Jiae and Nic and staying at their cool downtown loft condo
• going to my aunt's church and hearing her preach about Revelation
• dinner with all the cousins at Dan's cool train-station loft condo
• shopping at the Jcrew outlet and spending a somewhat obscene amount of money due to their super cheap prices.  Bryant LOVES their jeans, which are $135 in the states, but only $35 in Canada!  He bought 3 pairs!
• Hanging out with Bryant's family (Nana, Baba, Lindsay, Jared, and Elliott) 
• Letting Elise slide down the big kid's slide by herself for the first time, only to have her do it 50 times more.  Whenever a big kid got in the way when she went up the ladder, she would try to push them away so that she could focus on the slide
• Food so far: thai, fancy brunch, chinese dumplings, caribbean, fancy grilled cheese, ramen, nicaraguan, pizza...and we're only halfway through our trip!
• Walking through Yorkville, Queen St West, University of Toronto, Distillery, downtown
• Seeing Elise and Elliott "connect".  Thankfully, Elise has not been too rough with Elliott and she calls him "baby"
• Elise is starting to sing along to songs.  She says certain words, does hand motions, and requests songs by name
• Elise has had a runny nose and as soon as the tiniest bit of snot comes out, she yells "noh!  noh!" so that we can wipe her nose.  We're going through a lot of kleenex.  Once, a big bubble came out of her nostril, and she said "bubble!"
• She loves coming "home".  Even though we've only been here for a few days, as soon as we enter the loft building, she starts getting all excited and says "home".  When Bryant's family came over, she got really hyper, as she usually does when guests come and visit.
• We are really happy that our trip came right after all of our escrow craziness so that we're able to take a step back and just reconnect with normal life again.  We should get final word within the few days whether the house is a for sure go or not.  We're just submitting the whole process to God and know that if it doesn't work, that it is in his will. 
• I brought a new pair of flip flops to wear.  Bad decision.  It's the first time I bought non-reef sandals and now the last time.  My feet are covered in painful blisters and bruises! 

We'll be in Toronto until Saturday and then headed to Michigan.  We'll be back in LA on the 19th.