Pediatric Party

Last Saturday we hosted a dinner and game night for several of the residents Marc works with and their significant others. Forgive me for the mushy moment but I have to say that I am truly grateful for the fabulous people in the pediatric residency program. Despite being very busy and being vastly more educated than I, these people take a sincere interest in me and my family. They attend alcohol-free parties at our house, babysit our kids and many of them even read this blog. We love you guys! Thanks for being our extended family here in Cleveland.
Anyway- we had great food (I still want all of the recipes please) and great fun. Here are some things I learned before during and after the party:
1. Teriyaki sauce, when cooked at too high of a temperature, becomes a delightful black sticky substance stronger than tar. I am pretty sure this is what the City of Cleveland uses to pave the roads. It's tough, but it is also water soluble which explains the post-winter condition of the streets around here.
2. There are no such things as potato rolls in Cleveland. What's up with that? Even the ghetto stores in Baltimore carried potato rolls.
3. Gabe is not carrying any communicable diseases. We know this because we're pretty sure he took a sip out of every single person's cup at some point in the evening and no one got sick. Right? Our guests were calling him "swiper."
4. Sophia is, apparently, one of the guys.
5. I like tabbouleh. Who knew?
6. Anas' impression of Elton John looks like a "sexy secretary".
7. Marc's Spanish is no bueno. We learned this when Kevin left his cell phone here and Marc tried to communicate that this was Kevin's phone, but he was not Kevin.
8. My Boggle game needs some serious work. I was repeatedly beaten by a team of six residents. I'll have to start practicing for a rematch.
9. Stefanie's religious beliefs dictate that she can only drink caffeinated soda.
10. It takes four pediatric residents to use the automatic timer on a camera. One to set it, two to move the card table and one to adjust the stack of books the camera is sitting on. Thanks to Sophia for all the great pictures. Here are a couple of my favorites:


This is the group shot using the automatic timer. I'm pretty sure this is take number 78. A few people aren't pictured here. They had to go to work or something ridiculous like that.



See the relieved smiles on our faces? That's because at this point in the evening the twins were finally asleep and David John stopped crying.

Intern babies David John and Ava. They were definitely interested in each other.