Maple Bread...

Now that I am not working I am trying to settle into a daily routine. I decided that on Monday's I will try to bake something so we can have dessert for the week.

Last week I made chocolate chip cookies. I should have taken pictures because it was a disaster. One batch I burn the edges badly so I thought why not cut off the burnt parts? Sounds good, right. Well, I didn't cut them artisically and they came out shaped like octogans and really flat.

The next batch I made was too big and when the cookies baked the dough all connected to fill up the cookie pan so it looked like one big rectangle cookie. I had to cut them out in squares. Aya thought it was the most hilarious thing and couldn't stop laughing. Too bad it didn't stop her from EATING all the cookies!

Last week I tried making maple nut bread.

Luckily for me I took pictures AND it came out decent:

I even manged to get it out of the pan without any problems. It was a little dry, I baked it too long as I didn't hear the timer go off. Bummers.

Before anyone asks the answer is, "No, you can not have any." In addition, the answer is, "No you can't get future tastings either." If I ever bake something really good where my mom gives it the baker's thumbs up then I will think about remaking it.

Super Bowl Sunday...

We headed over to my parents house to watch the Super Bowl and SUPER it was for us! First we ate way too much food. Second, Aya won the half time score AND the final score of our family Super Bowl pool.

I think the halftime 3-D was just a gimmick to get everyone to wear 3-D glasses for 5 minutes and look retarted:



Finally in the head to head betting, I was paired up against my 5 year old cousin Maggie and I beat her 6-4 in various bets to win $2 dollars!

Cha-ching! Miles has a free lunch money now!!

Tot Lot...

Last weekend we went to look at a house just down the street. Beautiful home up on the crest of Culver City with views out to Marina Del Rey. Aya and I were a little undecided on the home. We both liked it but I think I liked it more...so we left it up to Jack to decide. We basically said do you want to live in the new house or our house?

Originally Jack picked the new house and we went home to consider an offer. However once we got home Jack wanted to go to the tot lot at home and then changed his mind...no new house.

Ever since that day we looked at the new house Jack keeps asking to play at the Tot Lot and he always hated going to the Tot Lot!

Candy Land...

Jack got some puzzles and memory games for Christmas and he really enjoys playing the games. He isn't interested in puzzles so much but does quite well at Memory. Since we have been playing Memory for the past month it was getting boring and Aya and I thought Jack might do okay at Candy Land.

Jack likes playing Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders and I was once again dominating in Candy Land this weekend. Here I am, as I just kicked Jack and Aya's booty. It is hard to tell in the picture, but I am the YELLOW icon at the finish line while Jack and Aya are so w-a-y behind me!

Miles is #1 in Candy Land!

Boogers...

I got sick in Vegas...again and when I came back home I had all this green and yellow snot. Then I got a bloody nose so now I had nasty green, yellow and red boogers. After a few days my boogers started to dry up and started to hurt inside my nose. I had to 'dig' deep in my nose to pick everything out.

Well, one day I was doing my 'digging' and out popped this big red crusty booger. I was like damn, I am going to keep this one and show it to Aya. It just so happens I was just making some pizza and then I dropped the booger....right into my red pizza sauce! Doh. I was searching all over for 2 reasons:

1. To show Aya the nugget.
2. Because I didn't want it in my pizza.

Well, I couldn't find the booger...so I just went ahead and ate my pizza.

I wish the story ended there, but last night Jack was eating slow, so I went downstairs to watch TV while he finished eating with Aya. Aya saw a booger in Jacks nose and tried to get it but the booger feel from his nose to the corner of his mouth.

Before Aya could get the booger, Jack licked it and then drank milk to wash it down!! I guess Jack and I are now booger eaters!

The International Posse...

Last week I was in Las Vegas for the annual MicroStrategy World conference. This year our company bought an exhibitor booth for the conference where we attracted people to our booth by playing Wii tennis. We raffled off 2 Wii's, one by random drawing and the other for the high score. (I had high score but wasn't eligible to win our own prize...although I lost in the Finals of our own 2finity sponsored Wii tennis tournament).

2Finity: Japan, England, India, Germany and Korea.


Our booth with the Wii:

Working hard or hardly working?

I forgot to take my camera to the other clubs but we hit up Blush, LAX and here we are at Pure:

Happy Friday...

Happy Friday! Aya and I had over lapping trips this week. Aya was in San Fran and I left for Vegas Tuesday.

Just before I left, Jack and I took some pics for Aya. Here was our happy faces:


Here were our mean faces:

No pedals...

Jack just got his first bike with training wheels...but he is still a little too short to use it. He also has tricycles but for some reason he just does not want to use the pedals. Instead he pushes with his feet.

My cousin Melissa gave Jack this bike with no pedals so it is perfect for Jack to push and practice his balance. Naturally, Jack discovered this was much easier to do while going downhill because he doesn't have to push as hard and can "coast" down the hill. L-A-Z-Y.

Flemings...

Jack has been getting more patient at going out to dinner so we decided to try taking him to Flemings. Of course we could only go once *HE* decided he wanted to go out to a restaurant.

Go figure, this kid loved filet mignon, spicy shrimp, mac & cheese and corn. Good thing he only ate portions of our food because once he gets older it is going to cost a lot more to feed this guy!

That's my boy!

Aya left for San Fran on Sunday so it is just me and Jack this week. Hence there will be pictures of Jack all week so Aya can get pictures on her crack berry.

The first night of just me and Jack, I went to take a shower. I was just about done when Jack walked into the bathroom and he said, "Daddy, look....I have a present for you!" He wanted to give me all his cash register money!

Jacks Computer...

If Jack isn't outside or playing with his trash truck he likes to play on his computer. He is quite good at a lot of the pre-kindergarten games but when it comes to random typing the only thing he likes to type is his name...J-A-C-K...that spells JACK:

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to my Mom!

The ultimate insult...

Jack has an adjustable basketball hoop at home and he loves to shoot baskets. Well shoot is probably incorrect. He can shoot the ball but he prefers to dunk everything.

He runs around yelling, "I am Kobe!" or "I am UCLA". Keep in mind, you can not be Kobe or UCLA. Jack thinks they are one in the same or he has to be both.

Jack: "Daddy, shoot baskets with me."
Me: "Okay."
Jack: "I am Kobe"
Me: "Fine...I will be Lebron"
Jack: "Okay, you are Uncle Ron!"
Me: "NOOOO! I said L-E-B-R-O-N"
Jack: "Hahhahaa, you are Uncle Ron!!"

OH NO! How the mighty have fallen!! I go from being the best player and teammate ever to now being called Uncle Ron!!! The ultimate insult to be named after a player that doesn't even shower all the time!! P-U!!

There is a little more to this story but not as funny:

Jack: "Mommy come play too."
Aya: "Ok"
Jack: "I am Kobe and you are Aunty Jenny!"

I guess Jack knows how to pick losing opponents in basketball!! He already has the eye to pick the weakest from the herd! =)

Faces of Jack...

Happy New Year everyone!! Can you believe it is 2009 already?? Just think in only 3 more years Armageddon is coming on 12/21/2012...if you believe in Nostradamus and the end of the Mayan calendar when the planets align with the center of the galaxy.

The years just seem to be whizzing along. Can you believe Aya and I will be married 10 years in 2009?? 10 years. Can you believe I endured 10 years of pain and suffering with Aya already???

Jack just turned 3. We gave away a lot of our baby stuff and we realized Jack is no longer a baby...hardly even a toddler anymore...more like a little man. So to start off the New Year I compiled a group of pictures of Jack. The first 50 pictures or so represent each week from November 2005 to December 2006. The remaining pictures are monthly pictures from January 2007 until January 2009.

Nap time...

The first few weeks off from work have been really busy. I am just now starting to work myself into a regular routine, part of which includes naptime with Jack.

The little guy always has to sleep an 'arms' length away from me either touching my face or pulling on my ear while he and I sleep.