18 August 2006--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My new toy box... For my birthday, Grandma Aurora
and Grandpa Tom bought me this cool wooden toy box. I get
to put all of my toys around it and on top of it. Rarely do they
end up IN it unless Mommy & Daddy clean up after me. They
bought this one because they said it's just the right size for me
to play on and sit on. I really like it! Daddy got a
chance to build it today so now I've got my cool toy box instead
of the plastic bin we were using.

15 August 2006--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dinner is served! I love to help Mommy
in the kitchen. She said that whatever it was that she was
cooking was hot so I took her big blue gloves from the counter and
offered to help her out. Instead of letting me help, she took
my picture and nicely asked me to put the gloves back in the drawer.
As it turns out, she was done. At least I offered to help
out...

Also I've learned that if I sit
down on the bed or couch and put the Boppy pillow around my waist
then call Mommy or Daddy and tap on the pillow they'll understand
that I want to hold Quinn. They really seem to like that.
Now that we understand each other, I try to do it often. Sometime
I don't realize that he's asleep and I have to wait to hold him.
But here is a picture where it all worked out:

I even got to give Quinn his pacifier
when he fussed. I felt so great to help out!
14 August 2006--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is where being a kid counts
for something. I was sitting in my car seat. We had
just spent 5 or 6 hours on the road travelling back home from Southern
California to see my Auntie Jen get married. The sun was setting
and it was peeking through the windows in Mommy's car. I was
thirsty and kept asking Mommy for juice. Well, if you've ever
heard or seen me say "juice" you know I tend to spit-
a lot. That's when I realized that I could see my
mouth spraying in the sunshine peeking in through the car windows.
When I saw it, I couldn't help but giggle. Then I laughed and KEPT
doing it over and over again. It was so funny to me.
Mommy watched the whole thing and thought that it was so funny how
I thought it was so funny. But I guess that's what being a
kid is all about!

8 August 2006---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am I a silly boy? Yeah, probably.
Mommy, Quinn and I visited Daddy at work one day. We had lunch with
him and then I got to run around the playground at Santana Row for
about an hour. But before we ever got there, Daddy had to
do something for a client and so Mommy and I went outside to wait
for him. They have a courtyard with 3 water fountains.
We sat down at one in the shade. I was acting silly so Mommy
took some pictures of me.

2 August
2006-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's my birthday! YAY!
I'm officially 2 years old now. Mommy, Daddy, Quinn &
I celebrated on my actual birthday with a cake and a candle.
It was a yummy chocolate cake and we had some ice cream. Here
are the pictures. You'll need Flash to see it. This
is a new thing that Mommy found on a friend's MySpace page and decided
to try it out here. Enjoy! Mouse over the pictures to
see our captions.

Okay, here's one... a side by side
comparison. What do you think: do I look like Daddy?

29 July 2006-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Mommy's birthday, Daddy bought her a video
game called Karaoke Revolution. This game lets you sing into
a microphone, which I love, and tests you to see how close you get
to the way they said it should be sung. I got to play with
it when Mommy first opened it. It was so fun to hear my voice
come out of the TV! I like that the microphone fits right
into my hand. I even got to dance while singing. In
the picture below, Mommy and I were singing a duet.

For Mommy's birthday, Grandma Aurora
and Grandpa Tom took us out to a little dinner. It was yummy.
They put a fire in the middle of the table and Mommy cooked our
food right there. Grandma said it was called "Korean
BBQ". After dinner was over, Grandma made sure we took
lots of pictures. Here they are:

22 July 2006-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Uncle Nelson & Auntie Tess got remarried.
Actually, they celebrated their wedding anniversary. On that
day, it was REALLY hot and it had been for a few days and it ended
up being hotter for even more days. So, guess what, Mommy
decided to cut her hair! It was the first time in YEARS that
she had gotten it cut. Not since 2003... that's a LONG time
to grow such LONG hair... She ended up cutting off about 2
feet of hair. She donated it to Locks for Love. Doesn't
she look pretty with short hair? It's kind of weird, though.
I've always known her with her long hair...

18 July 2006-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another nap time. I think this time I just
fell asleep. It was HOT so Mommy had me sleep in the air conditioned
family room instead of the hot bedroom. Can you see that my
hair is pasted to my head because it's so hot?
12 July 2006-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Look! I still fit into the car seat, see!

3 July 2006-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I've been to every mall in the area except for
one this week. Since Daddy has been home we go out so that
Mommy can walk while being in an air conditioned place. It's
been kind of hot and it's too hot to walk around with Quinn and
me unless we do it indoors. At the mall there are play areas
that I love to visit. One of them has a Mickey race car and
the other has a Bob the Builder bulldozer. They take money
to run but I really just like running between the machines, sitting
in them and turning their wheels. Sometimes when I'm a good
boy, Daddy puts quarters in the machine to make it move and play
music.

July 2006--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The long holiday weekend has arrived
at last. But what am I talking about? I don't work or
go to school. But Daddy does go to work every day. He
has spent the last two weeks at home with us. I just love
it! You see, for everyday that I woke up in the morning and
Mommy has been home on her leave, I ask her where Daddy is.
She tells me that he's at work. Then I ask her 4 more times.
I guess I just want to know if the answer will change to "he's
coming home right now." Now that he's been home so much
I get to play Legos and color and run around and drive him crazy.
Also, we get to go places in the middle of the day instead of having
to wait until the afternoon when he normally comes home. We've
been to park during the daytime and he chases me around the whole
thing and goes down the slides with me. I heard, though, that
he's going back to work so I'm going to be sad again when he goes
back to work. I love being with Mommy but Daddy is so much
fun, too.
On Saturday, July 1st, we went to
the park in the afternoon. I ran between the big kid park
and the litte kid park. This made Mommy kind of tired because
she was carrying Quinn and it was hot in the sun and everytime she
got to the new park with me, I turned around and went back to the
other one we had just left...

But one of the times we played at
the little kids park, I decided to go down the little slide all
by myself without anyone telling me that it would be fun to do!

I had so much fun that I did it
a few more times before going onto another thing. We didn't
spend too much time because after a while it got pretty hot and
I wanted water which was in the car. Then I got sleepy and
took a nap.
I'm writing this on July 4th, so
Happy Independence Day, everyone. I haven't seen any fireworks
yet so I'll post those pictures another time. Hopefully we
can see them from Grandma Aurora's backyard tonight. So for
now, I hope you all have a great holiday and a good short week.
The weather has been pretty hot so be sure to drink lots of water,
like me! My Ninang Nancy says that's a good thing to do, too!
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