The Xander Dance

So, as it turns out, our Xander is quite the little dancer!  Some of his toys play short songs, and as he sits playing with them he'll start to sway back and forth while seated.  After establishing this move, he started getting into dance moves while standing.  Here is some documentation of one of his first standing dance moves!  While he appears to have a proclivity for Neil Diamond, in truth he'll now dance to just about anything, including background music on television.

This post will be out of order, date-wise, but we thought it just couldn't wait!

Top Chef Master

We are foodies and love going to restaraunts with famous chefs.  We see them on TV on Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, Chopped, Iron Chef, etc.  This last weekend we had a chance to celebrate Samara and Jeremy's upcoming trip to Israel with a dinner including Selena, Jason and the two of us.  Xander was at Gigi and Pappu's house playing while the rest of us all dined at LUC.  After dinner was over, we talked to the head chef and restaraunteur Thierry Rautureau (pictured below).  He is a James Beard Award winning chef and was very fun to talk to - we recognize him from Top Chef Masters Season 2.  He also owns and runs Rover's down the street in Madison Park - which is where he was headed when we met him.  He travels between his restaurants during the evenings to make sure everything is going well.  We will check that place out soon too.  He hinted that Top Chef is going to be in Seattle soon and that they will be having another Top Chef Masters, probably in August!  Yay!