4th of July Part 1…

WHAT?!   Man, I am like a month behind!!   Actually, I post and schedule all my blog updates in advance.   I don’t have as much time to do it regularly so I have to make bulk updates when I have time.   We celebrated 4th of July at my parents house.  Well, actually Dawn and her friends and we tagged along for free food:

 

Aunty and Bryan got Jack some sparklers again:

 

At first Jack was a little scared because right when we got outside, the neighbor had a bottle rocket that went defective and landed in the back of Jack’s hoodie.   Luckily it didn’t explode but it was just ‘hot’ when it landed.  Luckily it missed his face.   In any case, after the first sparkler Jack was back to having fun with some fireworks!

More pool…

Stacy loves to be in the water!  She wants to do everything Jack can do…except she can’t swim!!   We tried putting her in Jack’s old car float but Stacy didn’t like it:

 

Stacy liked being wrapped up in the noodle kicking and holding on to Jack’s water cannon!

Eaters…

Honestly, I think one of the main reasons why Jack likes going to the pool is  that he knows he can swim half the time and eat the other half of the time:

 

Not only does Jack eat but Stacy is a chow hound!   This girl is constantly eating!!   She is an eating machine!!

 

I love this picture because Aya was making this same upside down face in a picture when she was a little girl!

Pool time!!

Jack has really been enjoying the summer at the pool on the weekends.   Jack is trying new ways to lounge on the noodle:

 

Or trying new ways for me to have ‘phallic’ noodle pictures:

 

Of course you have to ‘splash’ Stacy and mom!!

3rd Street Part 2…

Jack and Uncle throwing money into the water fountain:

 

Jack loves to hang out with Uncle:

 

I think Jack had too much fun with Uncle.   Right after this picture Jack went off to the side and said he had to throw up.  That was our queue to head on home for the day.

3rd Street Part 1…

Uncle Su-Chan met us in Santa Monica at 3rd street for lunch:

 

It was our first time visiting the newly remodeled Santa Monica Mall and we were distracted by the giant Smurf!

See it is bigger than it looks!

Stacy…

Stacy seems to be growing up sooo fast!!   So much faster than Jack it seems.  Stacy is 1.5 years old going on 5 just like her big brother Jack.

 

 

Stacy is stringing together two words now, like, “Hi Daddy” or “Bye Daddy”.  Of course her favorite word is still, “No.”   Her favorite words are ‘wow-wow’ for a dog going ‘bow-wow’ and ‘Barlow’ for “Barney”.   She has to take her ‘wow-wow’ and ‘Barlow’ wherever we go!

Tot Lot Slide Part 2…

Whoops…a bit of a facial and then smash-crash time:

Tot Lot Slide Part 1…

Stacy on the ‘baby’ slide doing it herself:

 

Tot Lot…

It really is nice to have the Tot Lot in our complex.  The clean the place every week and most of the time we are the only ones there.  Stacy wants to do everything Jack does:

 

Jack thinks it is fun to slide down together:

 

Stacy loves to go fast:

VJCC Part 5…

See!!  It isn’t just me teaching Jack all the bad stuff.   Aunty Dawn played ‘beer pong’ with Jack:

Jack and I played and we dominated!!   We did all the cups in under 40 seconds!

VJCC Part 4…

We ran into Aunty and Bryan at the carnival and they tried to help Jack win a goldfish:

They didn’t so well….so then Aunty enlisted her friends to help:

 

20 bucks later we had TWO winners.  First Kenji won a fish for Jack:

 

Andrew couldn’t let Kenji be the only winner so Andrew won Jack a fish too:

 

Jack had to go home to show Papa:

 

And added the fish to the collection:

VJCC Part 3…

The carnival had cotton candy and I know Jack and Stacy love to eat cotton candy.  Jack was off playing games so I gave some to Stacy and she loved it!

 

It didn’t take long for Jack to see the cotton candy so he needed to get some as well:

 

The gruesome twosome just chowing down:

 

The whole ‘using my hands’ was to slow for Stacy so she just decided to dig in!!

VJCC Part 2…

Stacy was a bit scared with so many people around but she soon warmed up…played a few games…but loved just running all over the place!
Stacy’s first carnival game….amazingly she won…3 balls landed on RED:


Big brother Jack helped Stacy ‘fish’:


Stacy had fun just being carried by mom:

VJCC Part 1…

We went to the Venice Community Center carnival and Jack had a blast playing all the games.   It looks like Jack will get Tic-Tac-Toe…but he doesn’t:

 

Uncle Jeff had a ‘booth’ near the bathroom…talk about back of the bus locations:

 

Water duck races with Dad…yes I lost:

 

Money ball: