We came home from the hospital yesterday and I think all the adrenaline wore off as we were both tired when we got home so I didn’t download any pictures until today.
Unfortunately St. John’s doesn’t allow any children under the age of 18(due to H1N1) so Jack was unable to see his baby sister in the hospital. Before we headed to the hospital we dropped Jack off at Grandpa and Grandma’s house:
Stacy all cleaned up:
Family photo:
Father and daughter.
We celebrated Grandma’s birthday last week with dinner at our house and Paradise cake from King’s.
I think Jack liked the cake more than Grandma.
In case you are all wondering, there is no baby news to report. The baby is still comfy cozy inside Aya and she hasn’t made any attempts on coming out to join the family.
Thanks for the generosity of family and friends, Jack’s baby sister has a fully stocked closet until she is 2 years old!
We moved all of Jack’s baby furniture in the baby’s room:
Same crib…just girlie sheets now.
Bed and books.
What better way to mess up your clean nice teeth than eating chocolate frosted brownie! How this kid gets brownie frosting all over his face I have no idea.
Would it be wrong to dress up Jack as Hitler for Halloween??
We headed off to visit the friendly local dentist last week for Jack’s teeth cleaning. Surprisingly, Jack doesn’t mind going to the dentist. I think he likes the doctor’s office more, even though he gets a shot there but he is pretty good about going to the dentist as well. I think we go to the doctor’s office a lot more than the dentist office so Jack is just more comfortable going to see the doctor.
First a little dye to see the plaque:
Next a little cleaning:
Finally a clean. bright smile as everything was a-ok!
For Christmas Jack got the Lakers Sunday white jersey and a black Kobe jersey. Ever since then Jack has been wearing his Kobe jersey’s day and night. He even puts it on over his pajama’s when he goes to sleep.
We all headed to my parents house New Years day for our traditional New Years lunch. There is always lots and lots of food but this year I must have been super hungry because it seemed like I was eating my entire time at my parents house. I think the only time I didn’t have food in my hand was when I took these pictures.
The ladies:
The guys:
The Irie’s:
Lucy:
Maggie:
The football watchers:
Vivian:
Happy 2010 to everyone!! I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year’s celebration. I don’t know if it was because Aya is on maternity leave or if she finally wanted to act her age but Aya managed to stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year!
A few days before New Years eve, Aya and I saw this alcohol free champagne. I know, who wants alcohol free anything, but since Aya is pregnant we decided to give it a try:
Actually it was not too bad. It looked, smelled and tasted like champagne. We also tried the merlot but that just tasted like punch. Hopefully we won’t be trying anymore alcohol free drinks!
Jack actually wanted to start the new year with a mohawk. He asked for it himself. Normally he doesn’t even want to comb his hair but on New Years he kept saying, “Mohawk!”
Of course with a mohawk we also need our ‘mean’ faces!!
Jack made out like a bandit this year….well I suppose every year of his life so far. Jack is so spoiled and so loved. This year it seems like his favorite Christmas presents were:
1. Kobe Bryant jerseys; and
2. Star Wars Stormtrooper gun
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2010!!
Jack was happy to get another Trash Truck but I think the novelty of the trash truck is slowly wearing off as he didn't rush out to play with the trash truck like last year.
My second Christmas I celebrated with Aya was my first year in my house. I remember my dad delivering the Christmas Tree (yes, my dad delivered this year’s tree as well…it’s tradition) and I had no ornaments.
I kind of liked just having a bare tree with white lights. It was nice and simple. Plain but I liked it. I also looked forward to getting one ornament a year and then looking back 25-30 years later having 25-30 ornaments. I didn’t want to run out and just load up my tree with ornaments. Plus, I was poor back then so I didn’t want to spend my money on ornaments.
Well, Aya bought me my first ornament. I had this nice big tree with NO ornaments and this is the ornament Aya buys for me:
At the time I was working at Warner Bros. so the Bug Bunny ornament was appropriate. However the size of the ornament was NOT. Here is a zoomed out version with other REGULAR sized ornaments next to it:
See it? It is between the yellow one and the Mickey Mouse one. See it. Yeah. I not only got Bugs but I got two others…the same size as Bugs. I think we lost the other two because we can’t find them in the tree when we throw them out.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Phew, all this going out to eat is fattening me up. I gained 7 lbs between my birthday and the weekend after Thanksgiving. So much for trying to weigh less than Aya when she gives birth.
