Aya’s Birthday…Again.

We started Aya’s birthday  with the kids giving Aya her bday presents:



Here is where I goofed.  Aya and I went out to Mozza Osteria and my parents watched the kids.  I meant to take the camera but I ended up taking some pictures of the kids at my parents house and wouldn’t you know it, I left my camera at my parents house.  Doh!

So instead of having a birthday picture, I will post one of our recent at home conversations:

Miles:  What’s for lunch?
Aya:  I don’t know, what do you want, Jack in the Box, Carls, McDonalds?
Miles:  Hmm.

Stacy starts to cry and Aya decides to feed Stacy instead and  then suggests, “PB&J sandwiches?”

Miles:  Okay.  I  am going to clean the garage and wash the cars.

4 hours later…
I cleaned the garaged, organized Jack and Stacy’s old clothes and toys and washed both the cars.

Miles:  Boy, it sure would have been nice if someone made me lunch and brought it to me outside.
Aya:  I thought I heard you come into the house and I said your sandwich was ready
.Miles:  I didn’t hear you.   So is my sandwich still on the table.
Aya:  Umm, no.   When you didn’t come inside to eat it….I ate it.
Miles:  So you had lunch….I was working….and you couldn’t even bring me out a sandwhich.
Aya:  Well Stacy took a nap.
Miles:  What did you do when she was napping.
Aya:  Umm, I napped too.

I guess in this house, some people can celebrate their birthday almost everyday!

Aya’s Birthday…

We had surprise guests in town to help celebrate Aya’s birthday this year.  Mike, Sheri and Rylee were on vacation and stopped by the house to celebrate Aya’s birthday with us.

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I would be spending a fortune if I didn’t have a digital camera.  This one was almost good except Stacy wasn’t looking:

I love this one because this just proves Jack is just like his mom…eye-balling the cake.

Happy Birthday Aya!!

Tennis…

With Jack doing so well in Basketball, I thought maybe his eye hand coordination was improving to play some tennis.  Sadly all this proves is that I am awesome photographer because Jack SUCKED at hitting tennis balls!

Keep your eye on the ball!!

Out of 50 balls he only hit 3 of them over the net!   He either missed the ball or didn’t hit the ball hard enough.   It was painful to watch.  Jack had more fun picking up the balls and throwing them around the tennis court.

  I was more nervous he was going to lose his grip on the racket and throw it at me!

Bed head…

Hmm, I guess not only do Stacy and I both like and look good in yellow but we also have wildly uncontrollable morning bed head! 

Happy Friday everyone!

Buggy…

Jack likes to be outside but he doesn’t love to be outside.  It seems Stacy really enjoys being outside and going for walks in her buggy:

Vroom-vroom:

Tot Lot…

It was so nice over the weekend we tried to spend as much time as possible outside.  Despite Stacy’s scared look on her face, she really had fun going down the slide:

It is nice to see Jack and Stacy playing together and going down the slide.  Too bad they aren’t a bit closer in age so they could play more together.

Pink Coat…

When Jack was just 18 weeks old he had a blue jack with bear ears:

My parents got Stacy a pink version of the ‘bear ear’ coat:

Super bowl…

Last week was a lazy week for me...I thought I had scheduled some updates but obviously I didn't and then I realized I had a few weeks worth of pictures on my digital camera but I was just too lazy to download the pictures.  I am back at it this week.

Got together to watch the Superbowl at my parents house:

 

 

Lucy and Maggie were in the Superbowl spirit:

Of course we had some betting….Aya was the only one to win in our family.   I had felt bad for Tom so I made some lousy picks so Tom could win for once!  =)

What?  Again?  What’s up with this guy…he fell asleep AGAIN!!

One on One with Mom…

This time we all headed to the park and Jack and Aya engaged in some 1 on 1.  Um, if you ever wondered why I am worried Jack won’t be any good, just watch how “Mom” plays ball:

Oops…

Even when I mess up, I still have decent pictures…and I don’t even have an expense handy dandy camera like Jenny or Bryan.

Not quite in focus but sort of looks like the Joker…pale with bright lips.

I am not sure how the background got blurry but it works for me!

This one got blurry but I like it…it is almost like I meant to take pictures like this!

Football…

In the gearing up for the SuperBowl, Jack and I played a little ‘Kill the Carrier’ over the weekend.   Unfortunately our ‘friendly’ game turned into a battle scarred game. 

First up, Jack fumbled the ball and I reached out to grab the ball.   When I was reaching out to grab the ball, Jack jumped up and tried to run and jump for the ball.  Sadly, Jack jumped on my finger that was wrapped around the ball…sadly my finger could only bend so far before the back of my finger nail slightly popped out.   As I pulled my finger out in pain, I must have tripped Jack and he went face first into his train set and got a big cut on his face.

Yup, no more football in the house for us.  Nope, no picture of my finger, so I leave you with Buzz Lightyear!

Stacy…

Yeah, so ever since I found that color accent setting on my camera I have been using it all the time.   Since Stacy wears so much pink, I usually set it to the pink color accent and it came out well with Stacy’s lips and rosy cheeks:

Lakers 2025…

Sometimes I have to admit  Jack does surprise me.   We went to the park so shoot some hoops and Jack did very well.   Jack is at least trying to dribble and he shot the ball pretty well.   I was totally against signing him for b-ball in the fall of 2011 but it looks like we will sign him up for Sure Shots this year!

Aya has the camera…

I think Cannon should totally hire Aya to be a camera tester for them.  I swear, “Point and Shoot” does NOT apply to Aya.  Aya takes the worse pictures ever!

Here is Aya’s picture…I look like I am about to drop Stacy and Jack is picking his nose:

Here is my picture, Aya and Stacy are both looking at the camera!

And people wonder why I have so much gray hair.

No tooth…

I don’t know why, but seeing Jack without his tooth makes him seem so old now.   I remember when I was a kid and relatives who I wouldn’t see often would always say, “You look so old now”  or “Look at how much you have grown”.    It seems that exact same way with Jack when I look at pictures.  It seems like it was just yesterday he was a baby…now he is reading, writing, losing teeth….if he could only be completely and 100% potty trained…then I will be a happy camper!