Jack's Drawing...

The other day I came upstairs and saw Jack drawing. I took a look at his picture and he drew this "smiley" face:


Not bad. Round head...hair...2 eyes....a nose....a smile....and I think one buck tooth. Nice.

Family Portrait...

Jack made a 'family' portrait at school last week. I have no idea who is who but at least he got the right amount of people!

Valentine's Day...

Aya and I celebrated Valentine's Day at Jennifer's wedding in Manhattan Beach:

The bride and groom, Moses and Jen:

Group photo with Tracy, Billy, Jen, James and June:

Valentine's Day...

Grandma and Jack made cookies for Valentine's Day:


Can you guess which cookie Jack made?



Yup, his is the cookie with ALL the sprinkles on it!

Valentine's Day...

I just wanted to say Thank You to Carolyn for sending Jack a box of cookies for Valentine's Day.

Yup, those are all Jack's cookies and he asks to eat one every night after dinner.

What is this??

A little parenting tip for those that do not know. When your child does some art work, ask what it is before you tell them how good it is.

In this example:

I told Jack, wow what is a great looking Ninja. Jack then yelled, "NNNNNOOOOO!!" "It is a penguin."

Seriously.

Do you see a penguin in that picture? Totally looks like a ninja to me.

Happy Birthday Ryan...

Over the weekend we went to Ryan's first birthday!



Jack slyly trying to get a sneak peek at Jessica!

My Grandpa...

I just found out that my Grandfather and Jack's Great Grandfather passed away on Sunday. This was us in the summer of 2007:



Last year Jack went to Maui with my dad to celebrate Great Grandpa's birthday:

Happy Hour...

We had our first Happy Hour of 2009 last week. Now that downtown Culver City is updating itself and bringing in new bars and restaurants, friends want to come to Culver City. We went to Rush Street in Culver City for our first Happy Hour of 2009:


And this picture is just for Jeff. After Happy Hour we went to the taco truck to soak up all the booze so we would not be hung over the next day. Unlike Jeff, I did not 'rent' my taco's.

Radio Flyer...

Jack got his first 'scooter' from my cousin Tom over the weekend. Jack isn't really good at it yet, but I think he will like this better than the tricycles because Jack just refuses to pedal his tricycles.


Jacks first turn on the scooter....C-R-A-S-H.

Just like his mommy.

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!