Early Adventures of Baby L - Ông Ngoại & Ba Ngoại come to visit Dubai!

Right after New Year, Baby L had a huge treat of having one set of grandparents come to visit her in Dubai. We were a little worried that they wouldn't get to spend much time with her since it takes her some time to warm up to new people, but within 5 minutes of seeing them (and a little peekaboo!) Baby L and Ông Ba Ngoại were fast friends!!

Baby L has a new see-saw buddy for the park!

Baby L loved the extra attention

Since it was short trip for Ông Ba Ngoại (they arrived late on Friday night, and left late on Thursday night - so really, only 6 days with Baby L), we kept it pretty low key. We sent them on an evening desert safari through the same tour operator that we used when both my sister and G's sister came to visit last year. G and I did not go along on the desert tour since we just had our little babymoon in the desert, but it sounds like Ông Ba Ngoại had a great time!  I also booked a car for them to do some sightseeing in Abu Dhabi mid-week when I had to go to work for some meetings, and that also seemed to go well.  The rest of the time was pretty much either cooking or playing with Baby L - sorry, no pictures of the food!

They did bring me some yummy treats from the recent (disappointing) Peach Bowl, along with a bunch of gifts for Baby L and odds and ends that G and I had ordered from Amazon in advance of their arrival.

Cookies from home!

On their last day before the headed home, we took a big family trip to see the Burj Khalifa.  Baby L hadn't been in almost a year, so we thought it would be fun to take her back. She loved it!

She thought this pretend glass floor was the coolest thing ever - she kept chasing the birds

She also really liked this chair, and almost threw a huge temper tantrum when we tried to remove her

We think her favorite part was the wind at the top - she turned her face into the wind like a puppy sticking its head out the car window!

We were super sad to see Ông Ba Ngoại leave, but they already have plans to come back later this year to help out when Miss J takes her annual one-month holiday back to the Philippines.  By then, they'll have their hands full helping out G with 2 little ones!!