Disneyland Part 2…

We started the day in Tomorrowland and Stacy liked the same ride’s Jack did at his age.  We started off with Buzz Lightyear:

Then we went on the rockets:

Driving Miss Daisy:

Stacy LOVED it’s a small world:

Disneyland Part 1…

Aya and I wanted to take Stacy to Disneyland for her birthday but every time we planned to go it rained.  After that basketball season was in full swing so we just kept putting it off.   With school ending, we thought we would pull Jack out of school, Aya and I would ditch work and we would finally take Stacy to the happiest place on Earth!

Stacy was all smiles as we headed over to the park:

Then the smiles kind of went away as Stacy did not like taking pictures with the Disney mascots:

Jack had to take pictures with Stacy or else she didn’t want to do it:

Luckily she was a bit better with Minnie:

But Mickey was the last one:

Do you hear what I hear?

I find the blog useful  in dating and/or remembering events in the kids life.  I guess it is a quicker look up then looking at photo date stamps on my PC or when creating scrap books. 
I was thinking the blog is all about the kids, but what if you don’t have kids?  Then his blog would be pretty boring.  Shoot, it could be boring for people that have kids as well.  In any case, I decided I will try to create some entries every month about just Aya and I.

Fact, I mumble when I speak.

Fact, I listen to the TV loud and the radio in my car loud.  Sure, maybe I have a hearing disorder, but honestly I think I hear just fine.

What I say and what Aya hears are two DIFFERENT things completely.  For example, if I come home and Aya forgot to take out the trash (which is her chore), I simply remind her, “Did you take out the trash?”  What she hears and tells me is, “Hey moron, you forgot to take out the Mother F’n trash out!” 
The problem wouldn’t be how Aya interprets what she hears…that is her prerogative.  The problem happens when Aya says I heard you say, “Hey moron, you forgot to take out the Mother F’n trash!”     That is NOT what I said AT ALL!!!  I just said simply, “Did you take out the trash out?”

This happens ALL the time.   Aya might ask, “How did you like dinner?  I will reply, ‘It was alright”.  Aya will then say, “Great.  I suck at cooking, I suck at being a wife and a mother, I am a terrible person.”  Umm, hello, all I said was, “It was alright” but Aya will say but this is what I heard, Great.  I suck at cooking, I suck at being a wife and a mother, I am a terrible person.”

It is almost as bad as when Aya wakes up from a bad dream where I might have done something wrong in **HER** dream, yet I get blamed for it the next day.
The joys of marriage.

Nephew Part 2…

Funny how the hospital let Jack and Stacy visit when he was brand spanking new…just a few hours old…but when we went back a few days later they were not allowed to visit.  No matter, I got to check out my nephew:

Toshihiro had a little jaundice so he had to hang out  and rock out under the lights:

Bumping the fist pumps!

Nephew…

I guess my nephew must take after Aya.  After eating at Providence and hearing “Uncle” speak he was so excited to see me that he came 6 weeks early!!  The day after having dinner with Dawn and Bryan, Dawn’s water broke the next morning and a few hours later, Toshihiro was born:

The happy parents:

Baby Toshi:

Welcome to the family:

Providence…

The L.A Times came out with their list for the top 100 restaurants in Los Angeles, so we decided to try the #1 restaurant on the list, Providence:

I am not “foodie” so no pictures of the food.  I will say the food was good, typical LA, big plates, small portion and heavy on the presentation.  The service was good as well.  The only problem was the waiter was kind of a jerk.  Not very friendly at all…right on the borderline of rude.  I think when that happens you can’t be rated #1 in my book.  Would I go back…maybe…but I think because of the service I would try the #2 place on the list…except that is Urasawa and Aya has already gone there.

Pajama Night…

Jack is the second best player on his baseball team. 

His team had a king of the hill playoff tournament.   Sadly, the schedule came out late and we had a conflict, either go to the playoff game or go to school’s pajama night where the teacher reads stories.  This is how you know he is Aya’s son…he choose school over baseball!!

Stacy got to go as well:

I didn’t want to ‘guilt’ Jack into playing and I asked him several times during the week but he always chose school.  A few kids in his class were on the team he was playing but that didn’t do anything to make him want to play.  Oh well…hoping Stacy becomes my sports star!!

Square Dance…

Jack had a square dance presentation at school:

Unfortunately Jack was way in the back and I could hardly see him.

I got suckered into going into work late and watching his 15 minute dance recital:

Grandpa’s Birthday…

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, but Grandpa didn’t want Sakura sushi for dinner and opted for chinese food as long as there was two of the orders were duck and lobster!

We celebrated Grandpa’s 67th birthday with some chocolate dobash cake:

Grandpa needed some help for the kiddies to blow out his candles (1+5 = 6 and then 7 makes 67):

Happy Birthday!!

American Idol…

On the way to one of Jack’s basketball games, Stacy sung in the car the ENTIRE way:

She was singing so loud that we turned off the radio:

Unfortunately for Jack, Stacy would sing the same song over and over.  We made Stacy our ‘radio’ and started suggesting different songs for her to sing.   Jack still didn’t like it:

Baseball…

Jack gets his first home run in baseball:

The homerun is more bad news bears style, but hey, a home run is a home run!!   So proud of Jack!

WB…

It had been a while since I was back on the WB lot, but even longer since I saw these 3 bozo’s:

Vincent, Anthony, Mark and I all worked at WB in the mid 90’s.   Who knew the 3 of them would get so much uglier???

Good times and good seeing everyone again.

Cute or not Cute…

Stacy looking so cute wearing her SF strawberry hat:

And NOT cute showing us her chocolate teeth:

Science

At Jack’s school the have a science fair which is mandatory for 4th and 5th grade and optional for all the other grades.   Jack participated last year and this year was no exception.  Jack worked on his project on the weekends for a few weeks, doing all the writing himself:

The school didn’t want any ‘real life’ demo’s so we had to use pictures and instead of taking pictures, Jack decided to cut out pictures to demonstrate his experiment:

He did a great job!!   I thought his was the best one of the first grade!!

Walking Dead…

So Aya and I just started watching Walking Dead and we love the show!  I am not a big zombie fan so I am surprised I like it.  Aya doesn’t care for zombies, blood, guts and gore but she likes the show as well.  In appreciation of the show, we decided to ‘zombify’ ourselves: