Sweet Shoppe Designs

Journalling~
Yum Cha at The Albert, 9th April 2007
We went to Palmerston North for Easter this year and on our last day, Grandad Len decided to take everyone out for lunch. He wanted to try the lunchtime Yum Cha at a local restaurart and hadn't had enough people to take to make it worthwhile before. (As your Daddy said, Yum Cha for one doesn't really work.) So the three of us, Granny and Grandad and Aunty Sally all went out for lunch. We knew you wouldn't really want to eat Yum Cha dishes, so we started off by ordering you a bowl of rice and asking for a spoon. I thought the spoon was a good idea, but you weren't convinced. Everyone else at the table had chopsticks to eat with, and since there were some beside your plate as well, you were determined to be just like the grownups and eat with yours. Rice isn't easy to eat with chopsticks at the best of times, and even harder when you are three and still getting the whole pincer grip thing sorted out. All the same, you gave it your best shot and managed surprisingly well. You were also very cute to watch and I asked Daddy to take some photos of you using them.

Credits~
Template by Teresa Ferguson (based on the the layout "Crazy Photographer" by Amy Pearson); paper, chopsticks and coins from "Oriental Blossoms" by Kristen Smit; journalling strips from "Journalling Strip Templates" by Kimberly Geswein; flowers from "Paper Flowers" by Dani Mogstad; flourish from "Sundress" by Kim Christensen and Meredith Fenwick; fonts are Jeana, High Strung and Chinese Takeaway.