Stacy…

Yeah, so ever since I found that color accent setting on my camera I have been using it all the time.   Since Stacy wears so much pink, I usually set it to the pink color accent and it came out well with Stacy’s lips and rosy cheeks:

Lakers 2025…

Sometimes I have to admit  Jack does surprise me.   We went to the park so shoot some hoops and Jack did very well.   Jack is at least trying to dribble and he shot the ball pretty well.   I was totally against signing him for b-ball in the fall of 2011 but it looks like we will sign him up for Sure Shots this year!

Aya has the camera…

I think Cannon should totally hire Aya to be a camera tester for them.  I swear, “Point and Shoot” does NOT apply to Aya.  Aya takes the worse pictures ever!

Here is Aya’s picture…I look like I am about to drop Stacy and Jack is picking his nose:

Here is my picture, Aya and Stacy are both looking at the camera!

And people wonder why I have so much gray hair.

No tooth…

I don’t know why, but seeing Jack without his tooth makes him seem so old now.   I remember when I was a kid and relatives who I wouldn’t see often would always say, “You look so old now”  or “Look at how much you have grown”.    It seems that exact same way with Jack when I look at pictures.  It seems like it was just yesterday he was a baby…now he is reading, writing, losing teeth….if he could only be completely and 100% potty trained…then I will be a happy camper!

Tooth Fairy…

Last week Jack’s loose tooth finally fell out…thank goodness.  I don’t know how many more story nights I could take with Jack just wiggling his tooth while I was reading.

One morning he was wiggling it so much that the tooth was pretty much horizontal and Jack said he had to keep his mouth open because his tooth was loose.  I told him to just grab it and make it straight again and ask Grandpa to pull it out.  Luckily, it fell out at breakfast time.

No sooner was that tooth out and already his permanent tooth is growing back!  We can already see it coming thru his gum.

The tooth fairy came and brought Jack ONE dollar!   I can’t believe some people were suggesting five or more dollars!   My first reaction was 25 cents but I felt generous and up’ed it to a dollar.

At long last…

It took long enough but my 20” rims FINALLY arrived!!  Scheduling an appointment was just as difficult but everything is all done….for now.

Rims, lowering springs, exhaust and new head lights.

It rides pretty well and overall I am happy.  Not as happy with the long wait and the exhaust is louder than I had wanted it.  My original GREEDY exhaust selection was discontinued…already…so I went with a Tanabe exhaust.  

Not sure what is next…maybe monitors, maybe sound…maybe back to a stock exhaust.

Stacy’s Birthday Part 2…

Stacy got lots of nice presents for her birthday:

But just like her Mom, Stacy is more interested in food than gifts:

Yum.  My very own birthday cupcake:

  

You know how at every family gathering there is that ONE (usually OLD) relative who is always tired and sleeping on the chair or sofa somewhere…who would have thought the youngest, soon-to-be-member of the family would be that person:

Stacy’s Birthday Part 1…

I can’t believe a whole year has already passed!   It seems like we just brought Stacy home from the hospital a few months ago and now we are celebrating her FIRST birthday!

Like Jack, I didn’t want to celebrate any birthday until the kids turned 4 years old, but my parents suggested we have a small gathering for dinner to celebrate Stacy’s birthday.

The Matsumoto’s:

The Shiraki’s:  (Stacy reached in an grabbed the cake!)

Dawn’s engaged…

If you have not heard the news, Dawn and Bryan are now engaged.  Dawn and Bryan were in Oahu for the New Year and Bryan proposed on New Year’s Eve.  Dawn let us all know New Year’s day…although my mom, dad, Aya and I had all known for a few months!!

Dawn and Bryan went on a hike in Oahu and when they got to a nice scenic overlook, Bryan said some mushy stuff, got down on one knee and asked Dawn to marry him.   No date is set, but the location will be in Oahu in Fall of 2011.

Congratulations!

Big Red Nose?

Christmas is over, but this is Stacy’s impression of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer:

Stacy’s hair is long enough for Aya to give Stacy the Kewpie Doll look:

First loose tooth…

Jack had his annual dentist check up and my dad asked the dentist, “When do you think Jack will have his first loose tooth?”   The dentist replied, “He has a loose tooth now.”

WHAT?   I usually help brush his teeth at night and I know my dad brushes Jack’s teeth in the morning but Jack has not mentioned his tooth was loose.  He eats normal, brushes normal….I don’t know how I missed it.

Now Jack touches it when he is bored and just wiggles it back and forth.  It totally creeps me out.  I can’t stand to look at it.  Jack has been asking me to take it out but I can’t even look at it.  Eeeww.

Pigtails…

Two discoveries…one, I found out I have a color accent on my point and shoot camera. 

 

Two, Stacy’s hair is finally log enough for pig tails

Can you hear me now…

I never would have thought to check the kids ears but from time to time Aya checks the kids ear’s to be sure they don’t have wax build up.  Well maybe it had been a while but we checked Jack’s ear’s and he had a HUGE ball of ear wax that Aya had to pick out!!

New Year’s Lunch…

We all gathered at my parent’s house for New Year’s lunch.   I felt like I ate the ENTIRE day…I felt tired from eating so much on the drive home. 

Jack was tired as he got to run around all day with his cousins, Maggie,  Aiden and Lucy:

Scott toasting Jack because Jack had cookie frosting on his face and nose!

 

Happy 2011 everyone!!

One kid in the corner pocket…

Strange.   We were at Aya’s mom’s house and Stacy was climbing on top of a box and sticking herself in the corner.  She thought it was the funniest thing:

I would have found it more entertaining if I wasn’t worried she would slip off and bang her head on the tiled floor.

Happy New Year!!

Sadly, I did not stay awake to ring in 2011.   For some reason I was just really tired and I was falling asleep before 10:00 while watching the Laker game.   I did try to stay awake for the New Year but Aya didn’t want to stay awake either so we both called in a night at 10:30 pm.  Pathetic, I know.  

It actually didn’t seem like a bad idea when Stacy and Jack both woke up at 5:00 am, so we might not have rang in the New Year at midnight but we had a nice early start to 2011!!

Stacy has a little ‘salon’ time as Aya put Stacy into pigtails for New Years lunch at my mom’s house.

Christmas…

As kids, when we were done opening our presents we would jump in the leftover trash…sadly Stacy did not enjoy it:
 
I am thinking my parents would never have allowed me to put a GIANT sticker on the wall but I saw this Batman sticker and I knew Jack would like it on his bedroom wall:

Santa Claus…

Christmas came early for Santa this year as Jack only requested a Batman action figure for a Batmobile he got for his birthday.  I guess Jack was good this year because Santa brought him a Batman AND a Joker action figure.

Santa actually forgot Stacy wanted something but luckily he remembered before Christmas and Stacy got a LeapFrog activity center.

 

Christmas…

Work was closed from 12/23 until 1/3 and I guess that meant I was on vacation from updating the blog for two weeks.  I kept thinking I should do an update but I was too lazy to download pictures from my camera.  Also, I was updating photo albums so it seemed liked I was going thru tons on pictures on the holiday break.

Christmas day we all got together at Aunty Paul’s house for Christmas brunch: