Sushi Dinner Antics and Christmas

In our last ditch efforts to enjoy time before we become parents, Nate and I treated our selves to a sushi dinner date last night. If you worry that 'Oh no Julia ate the horrible, awful sushi that she is not supposed to eat while pregnant' please refer to my earlier blog about eating certain foods while pregnant here. I did have the California roll and the yellow-belly, which is just imitation crab and a chicken roll, and they were damn good! This sushi restaurant is delicious and not exactly kid friendly which is why we went there. It seats only about 25 people at one time and has a complete sushi bar for individuals or small groups to sit at. I do not consider it kid friendly since it is so tiny and kids tend to be well...loud and unruly. Just a disclaimer, not all kids are this way. I have seen plenty of kids who are well behaved in restaurants, but I do believe it to be about 60 to 40 with 60 percent being the naughty ones in my experience.

Ironically, the couple next to us did decide to bring their two year old daughter to the restaurant (bad idea at 8:30 at night) though and I was fairly impressed with the way they handled things with her until right towards the end. The kid did look tired when the couple arrived, but dang it these parents wanted their sushi at a sit down restaurant at 8:30! The kid did fine up until she decided she wanted to leave because surprise! she was tired. (Could of seen that one coming.) The daughter immediately stood up in her high chair and by I mean stood up, took both legs out of the holes and stood on the seat so she was about 5 feet tall and said,"I don't want to be here!" The dad then immediately told her to sit down and she of course did not oblige him. He then pulled out the threats, "Either you sit down or we are going to leave and you will not get dessert. Is that what you want?" I was impressed with his tone and he sounded like he meant business! I was fooled however because the little girl immediately said, "FINE! WE GO HOME!" The dad looked shocked and defeated, but they still decided to stay and deal with their unruly child in this small ass restaurant. So much for open threats and meaning business. Obviously this is what she wanted from the beginning, which is fine because its now almost 9:00 and the 2 year old is tired! Get home! In fact you shouldn't even attempted to go to a nice sit down restaurant with a tired kid. I guess lesson learned for them and for us! The lord wanted me to see this for what ever reason and I thank him.

Now see, I would of immediately taken Lincoln out to the car while Nate politely asked for our food to go now and he could wait inside for the food. No wait, then again its 8:30. His ass would of been in bed and we would of already ate dinner or ordered pizza that night if it was a late night for whatever reason.

Here are some photos of the night. We forgot to take pictures of our meal but we did take pictures of our empty plates and chop sticks!

30 weeks and looking large but cute!
Sheila got in  the photo again!

Just about to leave.

We did work on our sushi!

Tonight we are going to go grocery shopping for our Christmas decorating extravaganza we're doing this weekend. We will be decorating the house and making our selves some delicious Christmas brunch for dinner! It's going to be so fun and delicious!

Have a great weekend,
Julia