Not Daddy’s Girl…

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!!

Swings…

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.

Master Bathroom Remodel…

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!!

Kids Bathroom Remodel…

Aya and I have always said we were going to move from our townhouse but we just can’t seem to bite the bullet and buy another house.   We finally decided buy or sell that we should update the bathrooms.  If we end up staying the four of us can not be sharing a bathroom.  

The master bathroom is too small and doesn’t have shower doors so it is great to wash the kids in there because it is wide open and easy.  Unfortunately Jack is getting bigger so showering him with no doors is like taking a shower on with MY clothes on.   Hence it was time to remodel not only the kids bathroom but our bathroom.    The kids can share a bathroom and Aya and I actually use the master room…which we have NEVER used prior to having kids.

Kids Bathroom:

Haircut…

This is going to be hard to tell but Stacy got her first haircut.  The front of her hair was getting long and it was triangluar shaped.  In the back she had one long strand of hair that looked like an off centered duck tail.

BEFORE picture:

Grandma giving Stacy her first haircut:

FINISHED….still has the boy bowl cut haircut but hopefully it grows out somewhat evenly.

Happy Birthday to you…

Man, I don’t know what is wrong with this kid, but he is looks so nonchalant with the kids singing Happy Birthday to him.  So totally non-gracious! 

On the few days I take Jack to school, I always hear kids say, “Hi Jack” or “Bye Jack”  and Jack just strolls right by them and doesn’t even acknowledge them.  No hello.  No goodbye.  No head bob.  Nothing.   Amazed he even had friends come to his party!!

Jack’s 5th Birthday…

I guess Jack is finally at the age where he knows who he wants to invite to his birthday party.  This year Jack made up the guest list and we chose Under the Sea for his birthday party venue.

At Home Conversation Part 2…

Again the whole family was in the living room watching tv. I was laying down on the sofa with my head on a pillow. From time to time I get this horrible smell wafting thru the air.

Miles: Do you smell that?

Aya: Smell what?

Miles: Something smells.

Jack: It is your butt!

Miles: No, it is not my butt….it smells like barf in here.

Jack: Yeah it’s your butt.



We keep watching tv but the smell is not going away.


Miles: something smells. It totally smells like barf.

Aya: Is that the under shirt you wore to Kevin’s wedding? (Jack threw up on me).

Miles: I dunno, but I washed it.

Miles: Can you come over and smell it?

Jack: Smell your butt?

Aya: Do I have too.

Miles: Yes, something smells…really.

Aya: eeww. It smells like barf.

Miles: I know!! Where is it? Check my shirt.

Aya: It is not your shirt…..it is the pillow you are laying on.

Miles: Is it just the pillow case?

Aya: No, the pillow smells.

Miles: What the heck?

Jack: It is your butt!

Miles: Should we wash the pillow?

Aya: Just throw it away.

Miles: I am going to take a shower.

Jack: IT IS YOUR BUTT!

At Home Conversation Part 1…

The whole family was in the living room and Jack was having fun playing Nintendo Wii. All of a sudden Jack stops playing, pauses the game, turns to us:

Jack: I think I went poo-poo in my pants.

Aya: What?

Miles: Either you did or did not.

Jack: Umm, yes I have poo-poo in my pants


Aya takes Jack to the bathroom and this is what I hear:


Aya: Yes, there is poop.

Aya: WAIT don’t move…it dropped on the floor.

Aya: Do you have to make more poo-poo

Jack: No

Aya: Are you sure?

Jack: Yes. I am all done.

Jack: Do I have to wash my hands?

Aya: No, but I have to wash my hands picking up your poop from the floor.

Kevin’s Wedding Part 2…

Unfortunately, with a 9 month old and a sick kid we weren’t able to socialize as much as we would have liked to but we did get a chance to congratulate the newlyweds:

Dawn and Bryan taking care of the guest list:

Thomas and Angela:

We did manage one family picture.   We were hoping to get a nice Christmas card picture with Jack in his suit so I guess we will have to go out again all dressed up.

Kevin’s Wedding Part 1…

Kevin got married the day before Halloween and the day before Jack was not feeling well.  He had been sick off and on the past week and the day of the wedding Jack was sick most of the day.   Aya and I debated if we should stay home but it was Kevin’s wedding and we didn’t want to miss it.  Plus we got Jack a nice suit and Jack picked out his own tie:

Jack and Stacy all dressed up!

We headed out to Newport Beach as the wedding reception was on a boat that had a scheduled departure time so we could not be late.   About halfway there Jack woke up coughing and when I turned to ask him if he was okay, Jack projectile vomited all over himself and the back of Aya’s seat!

It was so gross and I wanted soooo badly to take a picture but I felt bad for him AND I was driving….and Aya refused to take the picture for me.  We pulled over and luckily Jacks coat was in the trunk and I had a spare set of clothes…a superman shirt, sweats and shoes:

Aya and I, again debated about turning around to go home but Jack kept saying he wanted to go to Kevin’s wedding.  Honestly, Jack looked pretty good after he barfed.  He didn’t look that sick anymore so we headed off to the yacht.

Sadly, once on board Jack didn’t feel too good and he slept almost the entire wedding.  Aya was a ‘human pillow’:

As we were exiting the boat, I was carrying Jack and he woke up, looked around and then barfed again….all over himself and me.   Luckily, I had his pajama’s in the car for him, but no clothes for me.  Plus, my car was stinky still from before and now I was stinky.

I didn’t get a picture of Jack covered in vomit but here is his clothes that I had to clean the next day before taking it to the cleaners:

Mind over matter…

It has been about 3 weeks since I stubbed my toe and it still hurt so I decided to go online to try to figure out why it hurt so much.  I mean I have banged my toe plenty of times where the nail comes off but it has never hurt as much as kicking that stupid pumpkin.

Online I found out that if you drill a hole in your toenail it relives the pressure from the blood underneath the nail and you have instant pain relief.  The other method was heating up a paperclip and burning a hole thru your toenail.

It was a pretty easy decision for me...I was going to burn a hole in my toe nail.  I knew I didn’t have a small drill bit and somehow drilling thru my nail seemed like i would have to apply a lot of pressure and I was more nervous about stabbing the skin underneath my nail and putting a hole in my nail…hence burning a hole made more sense.

My first attempt was pitiful.  I heated up the paperclip but it got so hot that I had to drop it.  Apparently heating up the paperclip and not holding it with a glove or pliers gets pretty hot.

My second, third, fourth, fifth attempts were just as bad as I was trying to figure out how hot to make the paper clip.  Where to put the paper clip.  Just getting the angles for a do it yourself remedy.

I finally got up the nerve to just, ‘do it’ but once I smelled the nail burning and saw the smoke, my brain stopped and made me pull my hand back.  I tried several more times but it was hard to ‘aim’ the paperclip back into the same hole i made.   Another time I took too long and the paperclip cooled while it was on the nail and sort of got ‘stuck;’ onto the nail!

After about 30 minutes, I gave up.  I was more upset thinking I should be able to do this but my brain just wouldn’t allow me to push hard enough to create the hole.   Finally, I called Aya over and asked if she would do it for me.  She looked it over and decided not too because she thought if she messed up that I would kick her in the face.

So long story short, here is my toe 3 weeks later with a partial hole in the nail.

Funny thing is, after I tried this my nail no longer hurt.  I even lightly jogged on it up the street to chase Jack and the pain was minimal.    Now I just have to wait a few months for the nail to either reattach or fall off.

Halloween Part 4…

Jack got sick the day before Halloween and I wasn’t sure he was going to make it out but he started to feel better so we went to a few house in my parents neighborhood:

We went to less than 10 houses but Jack still managed a decent haul.   Luckily we had Trick or Treat at work because he got twice as much candy from work!

Aunty Dawn and Bryan:

Last year we found out Bryan had never carved pumpkins before and apparently he never dressed up as Batman either because after Jack changed out his costume Bryan tried it on:

   

Finally, Dawn has a guy with muscles!

 

Halloween Part 3…

We all gathered at my parents house to carve our pumpkins.  Dawn wanted to be different so she ‘skinned’ her pumpkin:

I got a small pumpkin and carved it out to look like Stacy with her crooked teeth:

Bryan went with an ‘easy’ pumpkin.  Dawn had the unique pumpkin.  I had the Stacy look-a-like-pumpkin and a bat themed pumpkin for Jack since he was Batman:

Group Halloween picture…minus Jack who was sick and sleeping. 

   

Halloween Part 2…

EA had a Halloween party at work and kids were invited to attend.  I think Jack was happier just to go to work.  We drive by the building all the time and Jack always tells me, “That is where you work…EA Sports it’s in the game!”

I gave up telling him that I don’t work on console games but mobile phone games.  He just hears me playing XBOX at home and I play mostly EA Sports games and when the game loads it always says, “EA Sports it’s in the game.”

Jack found my work iPad…which reminds me I better clean it when I get back to work since Jack is picking his nose!

   

After going around the building, “Trick or Treating” Jack and Aya decorated a pumpkin:

Afterwards they sat down to watch Charlie Brown: