Basketball…

Jack’s basketball season is nearing the end.  He has two more games left.   Over the weekend Jack probably had one of his worse games.

It wasn’t that he played that poorly, it was the first time he didn’t score a basket for this team.   I told Jack to pass I just didn’t think he would pass every single time.  

We played a pretty bad team so instead of Jack scoring double figures like usual I told him to pass so some other teammates could score for the first time.  As a coach I was happy to see the other kids score.  As a dad, I was sad that Jack had to play a lesser role.   Oh well, Jack still had fun.

Faces…

Stacy is such a good listener and she likes to say what we say or copy what we say.  The other day I was making faces at her and she was trying to copy me.  Here is mad face:

 

Sad face:

 

Stick your tongue out:

 

 

I know people will think I taught Stacy this but this is straight from Jack, it is called, Stacy Pick-De-Nose.   I think Stacy can’t say the so she says DE.

Snowman…

Jack’s homework last week was to build a snowman.    Jack and I went out and got the supplies and Aya and Jack worked on putting it together:

 

The project wasn’t due for a few days but Aya and Jack tried to do it all in one day and it was funny to listen to them argue about who is suppose to be doing the work.   In the end, the snowman came out pretty good:

 

My contribution was adding the carrot nose!

ABC’s…

I can’t remember when Jack could do the ABC’s but I know it wasn’t as early as Stacy.  Not only can Stacy sing the ABC’s but she can sing a lot of other songs as well.

Hoarders…

Ever watch that show on A&E or Lifetime, called Hoarders?   I see Aya watching it sometimes and I usually just think these people are lame to let the situation get out of hand like that…until now.   It start innocently enough with ONE stuffed animal, Stacy’s wow-wow.  Now, it has slowly morphed into a hodge podge of random stuff:

 

1.  Elmo Book

2 .  Various Thomas the Train books

3.  Barney

4.  a braclet

5. Elephant

6.  Sunglasses

7. Elmo

8. Lamby

9. Blanket

10.  Wow-Wow  (not pictured because Stacy was holding him)

 

The thing is I put the stuff away but then Stacy remembers and will ask for it at night.  It’s like she can’t sleep with the clutter.  Hmmm, I wonder if in 20-30 years, Stacy will be on the show Hoarders?!

Happy Birthday Part 2…

So the night before we had dinner with my family, Aya, Jack, Stacy and I went to korean BBQ for dinner.  We had gone in the past but we are always leery because the grills are hot and the kids move around so much that we just don’t think it is worth the risk to take them.   Now that they are getting older they know, hot and cold and can sit still a bit more.

Well, our bbq grill got a little out of control and we had some large flame shooting up.  Nothing to be scared about for us…but apparently it freaked out Stacy.   She didn’t like it at all.  She was saying, “No, No it is hot.  Hot.  Hot.”

Aya and I got a good laugh…didn’t really think much of it….until we celebrate Stacy’s bday at Grandpa and Grandma’s house.   When we lit the candle on Stacy’s cake she freaked out again thinking it was like Korean BBQ:

It was a little funny and a little sad.  We had to sing again once Stacy calmed down and we did it withOUT the candle the second time around.

Happy Birthday Pt1…

I know, I know.  I have been lagging on my posts a bit.   Not that you care but here are the reasons why:

1.  I have been working on a photo album for Jack and Stacy.

2.  I was lazy, so instead of doing it every 6 months, I had a whole year to do…for EACH kid.

3. When I do the photo album, my eye balls get tired of looking at all the photos and since I do it for each kid, the thought of doing the blog as well TIRES me out!!

4. I got a new camera courtesy of Dawn and Bryan.  I was testing it out…but like an idiot, I didn’t test downloading…so all my recent pictures have the timestamp…which I don’t like.

 

In any case, I am all done with the photo albums and out of courtesy for Stacy’s bday I am posting this week and hopefully next week will be better.

 

Sadly, Stacy caught Jack’s cold and was sick on her bday but she was a trooper and was able to make it out to dinner and have some cake:

 

Stacy loves her sunglasses:

 

Happy Birthday Stacy!!

 

I wonder if this is going to be our thing now.  One normal picture and one funny picture:

Seems like the funny pictures are just way better!

Present…

Jack was so excited to give us the present he made for us.  He kept telling us to be careful because it is fragile.  When I opened it this is what I saw:

 

Waiting for me to tell you what it is?  Well, keep on waiting because I have no idea what this thing is!!    I have no idea what it is.  Aya and I actually saw it at school when we went to our parent teacher conference and I told the teacher, “Oh they are making ashtrays!”   Jack’s teacher said, “Oh, you were the smoker…Jack was telling me someone smoking and it wasn’t good.”   Um, no, I am not the smoker.   We figured out Jack was talking about Aya’s dad…he was a smoker.   Needless to say, we ruled out this being an ashtray because smoking is not healthy and that is not what we want to promote to children. 

Oh well, guess I will have to wait for a better present next year! 

Park…

Dawn and Bryan got me a new camera for Christmas.  I was testing out the new camera and still using my old camera but today I  had neither on me…but luckily  I had my cell phone.  Hmm, the cell phone isn’t half bad!   Jack squeezed into the baby swing so he could swing next to Stacy:

 

Then the ice cream truck came and it was all over…I had to get them some ice cream:

 

You would think Stacy would only eat part of it and I can eat the rest but that little porker ate the WHOLE thing!!

Santa…

This year Santa brought Stacy a Thomas the Train toy:

 

I am not sure why, but Stacy loves to watch Thomas.  

 

Jack got a Ben10 Mark 10 car:

Decorating the tree…

After we decorated our Christmas tree we tried to take some pictures.  The kids didn’t want to take a picture:

 

Aya got into the picture to try to ‘calm’ the kids down but Stacy wouldn’t look at the camera:

 

Then we tried to take some nice pictures but they didn’t come out well so we goofed around and wouldn’t you know it, that was our *BEST* picture:

Almost 2…

Stacy is almost 2 and she is growing up so fast.   She continues to just follow Jack around and do everything he does.  I think that is why she is able to do some many things faster than Jack learned.  Stacy is climbing up robe ladders at the park and climbing around the jungle gym:

 

She is scooting around the tricycle fast:

 

And she still has the big eyes that remind me of the girl in the Despicable Me cartoon:

Bloody Nose…

One morning when Stacy woke up this is what I saw:

 

Apparently, Stacy got a bloody nose in the middle of the night and it was on her clothes, sheets and all over her face.   At first I thought she somehow ‘snuck’ food into her crib but upon closer look I saw it was blood.  Luckily I was at home because Aya said she would have freaked out if she saw that.

After we cleaned up all the blood Stacy was as good as new!

Gingerbread…

Aunty Dawn bought a gingerbread train for Jack to build.   I don’t know who had more fun, Jack, Dawn or Bryan:

 

Obviously no one believes in taking a ‘normal’ picture:

 

The train is almost done:

 

I offered Bryan $20 bucks if he would actually 'eat’ the train…but he chickened out:

 

 

Good times

 

All done:

Happy New Year!!

I guess this is the year the world is going to end, so hopefully 2012 is great for every until doomsday!   Just before Christmas vacation, Jack’s class had a trip to the Senior Center in Culver City where they sung a few songs.   We hosted Christmas brunch at our house and Jack (with backup from Stacy) performed one of his songs: