Aunty Dawn and Jack spent Thursday making a big old Gingerbread man:
I thought it was just for decoration but Jack said, “No, we can actually EAT it”:
I refused to take a bite, but Aya ate some and said, '”it was absolutely horrible” but Jack seemed to enjoy it…while sitting in Stacy’s chair:
Who says the leafs don’t change colors in Los Angeles?
Can you believe it, 80 degree weather this weekend? It was great. Stacy plowing thru the leaves!
When Jack turned 4 we told him that we wouldn’t be carrying him anymore, but that still doesn’t mean he doesn’t asked to be carried or be given a horsey ride. Aya made the mistake of letting Jack climb up on her shoulder:
I am ready:
Giddy up!!
Hmm, what is better Tupperware or a box? I think the box wins out since BOTH kids can play in the box! Stacy’s in a box!
Stacy and Jack in the box!
Look what Santa left us under our tree!
Like brother, like sister. It seems the best ‘toy’ Stacy likes to play with now is Tupperware. When Jack was sick a few weeks ago we gave him a ‘barf’ bucket in case he had to barf. Luckily it never came to that, but since that time Stacy has been playing with the Tupperware.
She loves to grab it…put blocks in it…look thru it:
Just like her brother she likes to put it on top of her head!
I wonder how many presents will make it to Christmas without being torn open? Stacy is so mischievous. Stacy has to touch everything, push buttons on everything and always goes after the things we say, “No” too.
Stacy has already gone after Jack’s presents and is trying to open all the presents!
We got our Christmas tree this weekend and this was the first year where Jack wanted to help decorate the tree!
Jack was picking out the ornaments and telling us where he wanted them placed on tree.
Just 19 more day to Christmas. Jack already wrote his letter to Santa and he is just counting down the days!
I doubt anyone that looks at this blog isn’t on my Christmas card list but if not…too bad. Here is our Christmas card this year:
A few weeks later we took this picture which came out pretty nice as well:
This was Stacy’s first time seeing Santa Claus…she obviously didn’t like Santa too much.
Aya was looking thru some clothes and we happened to come across a baby Christmas hat:
Stacy going for the ‘chinese’ look here:
Jack is his Christmas pajama’s with Stacy:
These pictures pretty much sums it up on life with 2 kids. One second the two of them are happy together:
A second later one of them is happy and the other is not.
This year Jack’s birthday landed on Thanksgiving. We celebrated his birthday with family at Aunty Paul’s house for Thanksgiving.
Aunty Dawn and Bryan got Jack the game Operation, Batman on the DS and Ben10:
Aya and I got Jack the Nerf Elite Strike on the Wii. Jack has been shooting up bad guys the entire weekend!!
The big 4-0. It doesn’t really feel any different for me. Birthdays really aren’t my thing. I have no problem getting older. I don’t really feel forty and but saying forty…that just sounds old. I have to say, I am not used to saying forty. I remember thinking the 30’s were for really old people…now I am past the 30’s and into my 40’s!!
Aya threw a surprise party at the house on my birthday and invited a few friends over:
I don’t know what is going on but lately Stacy only, I mean ONLY wants to be held by Aya….and by HELD I mean carried. Aya can not even put her on the ground for a second or else Stacy busts out crying.
As long as Aya carries Stacy she doesn’t cry…but we all know how Aya likes to eat and holding Stacy and eating is not easy for Aya. Thus, I told Aya to stop carrying her and she will either cry or go to her room.
I couldn’t take the crying anymore so I banished Stacy to her room:
Cry baby-chan:
Whoa is me. Such the drama queen…..no more photos!
I mean this goes on for at least an hour:
I wish it came out better in pictures but after an hour of crying Stacy’s eyes are soooo puffy and red. It is pretty funny. Those of you that thought I would be nicer to Stacy because she is a girl…BUZZ…you are wrong. No cry babies allowed here!!
Jack went to a friends birthday party at the park last week and Stacy tagged along. It was the first time we put Stacy on the swings.
At first Stacy was unsure if she liked or disliked the swing. She didn’t mind sitting there but the second it started to swing she would try to hold one to the chain and she looked scared.
I didn’t want to scare her on the swing so we just did it a little while and then we tried again later. This time Stacy LOVED the swing:
Stacy was having so much fun on the swing that we just kept on pushing her.
As I said yesterday, Aya and I didn’t really use our master bathroom. The drawers wouldn’t really open because the shower door was in the way. We would pretty much just brush our teeth in the outside vanity area.
I used to comb my hair their in the morning until I realized all the hair spray I used was messing up the carpet. Plus, I was spilling toothpaste on the carpet as I would typically walk around in the Master bedroom watching TV when I brushed my teeth.
Our master bathroom is still small as we didn’t remodel the space to open it up any more. It was a funky little space but we took out the tub, took out the outside vanity area and updated everything.
I am pretty happy the way everything turned out! Aya did a great job in picking ALL the materials. I guess our next big project will be updating our kitchen!!
