We were at Jack’s basketball practice and we walked by this table:
I made Aya take a picture because I was going to “edit” it to read PENIS FREE TABLE, but Aya thought that would be too vulgar. Oh well…still kinda of funny since we tell Jack he has a peanut instead of a penis.
Well, well, well…look who finally joined Jack, Stacy and I at the Farmer’s Market. Aya finally made a guest appearance and joined us at the Farmer’s Market. Every time I take the kids I come back with an empty wallet and Aya asks, ‘what did you spend your money on?”
When we got there all I heard from Aya was look at all this good stuff!! How come you don’t buy any of this or that?? Hmm. I gave it a minute or so to marinate as Aya was looking over all the offerings, Stacy decided to go in one direction, Jack decided to go into a different direction and I stood there watching Aya attempt to look at the food and corral the two kids! Of course right after that both kids wanted fruit, so Aya ponyed up some cash to buy organic, pesticide free fruits only to watch Jack and Stacy devour the fruit in minutes! Blueberries, raspberries, cherries, strawberries….gone. Sometimes double orders. $40 bucks in fruit. A couple bucks on the train ride and then naturally Aya had to eat.
The best part about the blog is that I do longer let Aya see the blog in advance so she has to wait like everyone else to see the pictures AND I can post any picture I want…like this:
Aya didn’t like the picture of her eating in Hawaii but I thought it was funny because Stacy loves to eat like Aya:
Even Jack wanted to get into the act:
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Stacy doing her best to impersonate Jack and his bucket head:
Stacy still has big eyes:
Stacy’s first time eating a chocolate pocky-stick. I didn’t even think pocky sticks HAD that much chocolate:
Big smile!
We had a better turn out at our ‘informal’ basketball practice over the weekend:
These boys are all headed to first grade next year and since we are holding Jack since he is born late, he will be starting Kindergarten in the fall. Sadly, Venice already has teams so Venice would add us to their organization. Tigers said no as well. Still looking for sponsorship to WLA or Hollywood.
In any case, basketball is based on grade and not age so if Jack plays with these boys he will be up a grade and come 8th grade he would have to sit out. Aya and I decided we would play with this team over the summer but register Jack for Venice in the Kindergarten division. I have a feeling he will be pretty good in that division.
Grandpa has been practicing with Jack at home with the dribbling and passing and Jack is getting pretty good. I just hope I don’t have to coach…
Not only do I work at EA but I also moonlight as an event planner for Aya, Shirley, Jen and Grace. Apparently these 4 ladies are the busiest people in Southern California because to find free time on ALL their calendars is next to impossible! Luckily, last week they were all able to get together for dinner and have some ‘girl’ time.
At least we already doubled last year’s event as this was the SECOND event this year for Aya, Shirley and Grace. I think we are going for a record as event number 3 is in the works for August.
Hmm, maybe this would have been better to post on a Monday since no one likes Monday’s….but I thought it would be better to end the week on a high note. So again, this is not going to get me any parenting of the year awards but Jack hurt his finger at swim class. I guess his finger hit the wall and it was sore. Jack kept telling me he has an ‘owie’ on his finger.
Which finger??? Yup…”that” finger. After he showed me, I had to get out of the car and ask him to show me again so I could get a picture!
Ever since daylight savings Jack has been waking up early….around 5:30 am. Instead of going back to sleep in his bed, he would walk over to our room and hop into bed with me. The problem was, Jack would be noisy leaving his room or coming into our room that it would wake Stacy up as well. Thus, I would have 2 kids up at 5:30 am and they would not go to sleep.
I came up with a good plan, if Jack stays in his room until 6:00 am, he could exit his room QUIETLY, go to the bathroom, change his underwear and go downstairs to watch tv…but NOT before 6:00.
The plan has been working well for a few weeks now. The other morning, when Stacy and I woke up at 6:30 and went downstairs to keep Jack company I asked Jack, “What time did you get up today?”
Jack replied, “Hmm, about 5:35 am.”
I asked, “Did you go back to sleep?”
Jack answered, “No, I just laid in my bed.”
I then asked, “What did you do?”
Jack says matter-a-factly, “I played with weenie until 5:58…then I came downstairs to turn on the tv at 6:00”.
I can’t believe it…Sureshot time is around the corner. I swore when I coached the girls that I would never put my own child into basketball so early but here I am getting ready to sign up. Not only getting ready to sign up, but already being asked to join a team and then shop for an organization to take us. Kind of like a jr. club team except…the kids might suck…and the kids are young! I decided to at least check it out to gauge how Jack is compared to the other boys. Jack is about average height which isn’t bad considering almost all the boys on the team are hapa. I would say he is the 3rd best of the team overall and maybe the best shooter on the team. Jack is the only one to consistently make shots:
He is so-so in dribbling:
Horrible in catching passes…but getting better (yes this is not a picture of him passing):
The only one to make a running layup:
All I know is that I am glad I am not coaching. It was fun to just sit back, relax and watch…although the Coach was making me help and has been trying to get me help more…but I was fine sitting down and taking pictures!
We celebrated my Dad’s 65th birthday by letting him BBQ dinner for us!
Cousin Laura was in town speaking on a guest panel in downtown so got to par take in the festivities as well:
Papa and Stacy:
Papa and Jack:
Happy Birthday!!
The E3 convention was back in town last week and most employees of EA are encouraged to attend the conference. I have been going since college but this was the first time I actually had a pass in my name. Usually I am borrowing someone else’s ID so I can attend the convention.
E3 this year wasn’t so great. There was no new games I was dying to see and no new consoles that I wanted to see. The Wii-U was there but that isn’t really my type of games. Even the booth babes were….’meh’ this year but it still beats a day at the office:
Clone Wars:
Actually the very BEST part of E3 was when I was walking in the hallway and saw Jessica Chobot! She is a an IGN reporter, G4 correspondent and has a new show on G4 as well. Yup…that was the very best part of E3!!
The kids are just so different. Jack was quick to walk and not that cautious. Stacy has been slower to walk and more cautious but once she gets going she is good at it. For example, even though Jack walked very early he was always wobbly and unsure. Stacy walked later but it more sure footed and falls less.
Stacy has been able to go up the stairs with no problem but now she just mastered going down the stairs. Funny, I remember teaching Jack how to go down, but I didn’t teach Stacy and she just figured it out. I have been watching her try to crawl backwards down the stairs but she has been very cautious….until last week when she just decided to go down the stairs!
Now Stacy is fully mobile, up and down the stairs in a blink of an eye!
We didn’t have a numeral ‘six’ to recycle so Bryan got the numbers 2 and 5 plus one candle to celebrate his 26th birthday:
Dawn and Bryan without his usual goofy smile but now he had nerd glasses:
Jack ruining a picture:
Jack ruining ANOTHER picture:
Stacy and Jack made Bryan a birthday card:
We celebrated Bryan’s birthday with dinner at Sakura:
Aunty and Jack:
We just realized we have birthdays in January (mom), February (Aya), April (Dawn), May (Bryan) and June (dad)…so five of the first six months we celebrate at Sakura…even Stacy likes Sakura!
Aya and I have been wanting to go the Lobsta Truck for quite some time now but we could never manage to go when it was close by. Luckily, last week the Lobsta truck was in Culver City:
We were debating which sandwich to eat the crab or lobster so split it and got one of each:
I think the Lobster roll was better. There were several other trucks there as well, but we ended up trying the Baby’s Badass Burgers. They were Food Network winners for burgers on a roach coach. I must say it was pretty good!
So the weather was suppose to be partly cloudy all week. We had one ‘free’ day and there was not a cloud in the sky…and Aya and I lounged…it was postcard worthy from our lounge chairs:
Aya and I kept debating, sit and lounge in the sun or do something. We ended up booking a fishing trip. We paddle out 1/2 mile or so and fish for a few hours. We decided to give it a try and Umi was our guide….it was perfect because he baited all our poles and got us drinks, fruit, etc.
At first it sucked because we could see the fish but we couldn’t catch the fish! We could feel them biting but we couldn’t hook them:
Normally, Aya has done quite well fishing but this time I was dominating! I caught the first fish:
Then another:
Then Aya’s luck turned around and she started to catch some fish:
Aya was catching different varieties of wish:
Then as we were paddling back, Umi told Aya to just leave her pole in the water and troll and see if she can get lucky…and lucky she got as she caught the State Fish just as we were entering the cove:
We ended our stay with dinner at the Canoehouse:
