Train...

Jack's behavior goes thru peaks and valleys. Some weeks he is naughty and in constant 'timeouts' and in other weeks he is good boy. Lately Jack has been more on the naughty side but when he was good I bought him a train set and was just waiting for the right time to give Jack the train set. Sadly it took Jack about a month to 'earn' the train as it just sat in the garage so Jack had to look at it every day in the box.

Well, I finally put it together...took me 3 hours! Jack loves his train set!!

Only candy...

Drats! We were on our way home from dinner on Friday night and we happened to see a little kiddie carnival so we stopped. Sadly, I forgot my camera so we couldn't take any pictures of Jack on the Merry-Go-Round, Motorcycle ride, mini-roller coaster, dumbo or airplane ride.

Jack was still about one year away from enjoying all the rides but he was able to go on half the rides. All the ride operators seemed 'sketchy'...like jobs for recovering prisoners or addicts.

Oh well, we at least got a picture of Jack with his first bag of cotton candy!

Happy Birthday Jenny & Shirley

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You can tell it is a slow week....

This week has been a slow week for updates. I keep forgetting to post new entries and I have nothing exciting to report other that Aya and I have to pay way too much in taxes. I know, everyone hates paying taxes but I really HATE paying taxes.

Today is the start of March Madness and now I can stay home and watch the games! Instead of trying to watch at work...one monitor for work and the other for the games and sneaking peeks while working, I can just watch in peace and quiet at home. Awe-some with a capital A baby!

Hmm, oh yeah...Happy Birthday to Jenny! So are you old or young now? I know you always change your answer when we are the SAME age!

Video...

Why couldn't I think of making a music video like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzQt5-z_TE0

Bob the Builder LIVE...

We took Jack to see Bob the Builder LIVE at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center. The show was pretty lame. It was boring as the stage was kind of small so there weren't a lot of trucks moving around on set. The songs were boring too but the kids were totally loving it.

Jack was hungry the entire show. We ate lunch before the show, then he ate snacks during the show and at intermission we needed MORE food so Aya had to get him a cookie and chips.

The other rip off was the gift booth. How can you not buy your kid a souvenir when all the other kids are getting Bob hats and shirts....Aya bought Jack both!


I think Jack had more fun after the show playing outside:

Jack in the tree:

Cheese:

Girls Day...

If you didn't know the 4 ladies below but only saw their calendars you would think each of them was Oprah.




It only took 7 months for the 4 of them to find an open day on all of their schedules for girls day which consisted of brunch, a movie and a pedicure. Aya stopped by and picked up some cupcakes for me. Our cupcake conversation.

Miles: Yum cupcakes...I like the white cupcakes.
Aya: I know you do...I thought about you and got some white cupcakes.
Miles: The bean (jack) also likes the white cupcakes.
Aya: Yeah, I know.
Miles: Umm, there are 4 cupcakes.
Aya: Yeah...
Miles: Well, only 1 of the 4 are white cupcakes?
Aya: Hmm
Miles: Chocolate-chocolate, Red Velvet, Vanilla-Chocolate, Sprinkled-Vanilla.
Aya: Yeah.
Miles: Well if you know that me and the bean like white cupcakes, 3 of the 4 are chocolate so that means only 25% of the cupcakes are white, thus 75% are chocolate.
Miles: In addition, if I give the bean the white one then I don't get a white cupcake.
Aya: Oh yeah...my bad.

Grrrr.

Swimming class...

We finally enrolled Jack into swimming school. I was pretty sure he was going to H-A-T-E swim school but when the lesson started he went right into the pool and he was doing quite well.



Do you ever see those kids that are spazs that run all over and talk non stop? Their mouths are always moving. Well, that's my boy. Motormouth. Do you know what happens when you put a motormouth in the pool? Yup, he drinks water....and when learning to swim, drinking or inhaling water when breathing is NOT good.



Needless to say, after Jack drank some water he got scared and no longer liked the class. He didn't cry but you could tell he was scared. When the teacher brought him back to the shallow end with stairs, Jack bolted out of the pool. When the teacher asked him to come back into the pool Jack loudly screamed, "NNNN-OOOOOO". Then he started to cry and scream the rest of the lesson. It was so embarrassing.

After class we came home and I immediately took him to the pool to continue the lesson with me. It didn't go well but at least Jack didn't cry. I took him back Sunday for more practice...hopefully next week's lesson goes better.

Kobe...

If you ask Jack who his favorite basketball player is he will tell you, Kobe Bryant. When Jack and I play one on one, he always yells out, "I am Kobe...I am Kobe."

He even got new shoes and he calls them Kobe Bryant shoes...but they aren't the Air Zoom 4s...they are just regular kiddie shoes from Nordstroms.

We saw this picture of Kobe at the LAX and Jack had to take a picture with his buddy...Kobe.

Maui Part 8...

So hard to find good help when it comes to taking pictures. I am not looking, Aya is fixing her hair and Jack is sticking out his tongue.



Aya and Jack at sunset:

Dawn and Jack at sunset:


Sunset in Maui....and time to go back home.

Maui Part 7...

Normally we stay in the southern part of Maui but this time we headed up towards Lahaina so Dawn could surf:


While Dawn was out surfing we played on the beach:


We also had a 'snowman' competition on who could build the better one. Yes, I know...I won this contest HANDS down! (Jack doing his gangsta pose)


About 25 yards away there was a small lagoon and a Monk Seal was trapped inside until high tide:

Maui Part 6...

We celebrated Aya's 34th birthday in Maui at one of our favorite restaurants in Kihei:

Jack loved singing Happy Birthday to Aya:

Happy Birthday!!

Maui Part 5...

More beach time! When I was digging a castle for Jack I came across a crab:


Jack called him, "Crabbie" and wanted to keep him.



We let him go...and for a second I thought the crab was going to crawl out and pinch Jack's toes!

Then Jack buried "Crabbie" in the sand.

Maui Part 4...

Beach time!! Jack and I decided to make "chicken" feet on Aya:



I thought our chicken feet design was awe-some:



Aya didn't think it looked so hot, so she decided to make big feet for Dawn:



Not really original like my chicken feet. After all that work it was time for Jack to lounge:

Maui Part 3...

This blog entry is dedicated to Kim who unfortunately could not attend the funeral. Since Kim couldn't eat Guri-Guri, I ate some for you:


Then I made sure all the cousins ate some for you:



Then more cousins wanted to get in on the Guri-Guri action:


The next generation who will keep Guri-Guri in business:


Kim, I ended up eating 13 scoops in one day and then I went back every day...but ate less and less every day.