Friday, April 3, 2009

A Day at the Aquarium

We went to Sea Paradise in Yokohama Friday. It was really cool. The aquarium is 2 stories deep...with an escillator going through it! CJ loved it. He was a little cautious at first until we showed him the fish were "stuck" behind the glass. Then he went to every tank and said "fish stuck" all day.














This is me and CJ looking in the first fish tank. It goes up 1 more story.















This is us riding the escillator through the fish tank.

After we saw all the aquariums we went to the dolphin/sea lion/walrus/seal show in the "dolphin swimming pool". But it was getting pretty late and CJ needed to eat and take a nap so we didn't make it through the whole show.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Japanese super park

I'm a little behind posting because we went to this super cool public park with hiking trails and some totally sweet jungle gym stuff over the president's day weekend. Here's just a preview. I put a video of James and CJ going down the slide on snapfish.

Here's a group photo with our friends Robert and Sheryl. Aren't we adorable.














And here's a little overview of the jinormous size of the place:














And this is the longest slide. It ends a little bit into the tree line. It's not your traditional slide since it is made up of conveyor belt type rollers to move you along. It was really fun but brought back a few Firestone memories...HAHA!














By the way, my foot is doing much better. I actually put on 2 different pairs of sneakers today (YEAH!!).

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The latest

Things are going good here. I had surgery on my right foot to remove the old lady bunion, or raptor claw as the guys in the office call it. I would post a photo but those with weak stomachs (like me) wouldn't do so well. James just finished a full load of college courses (yeah!!) CJ is growing like a weed. And he says so many words I don't know what he doesn't say any more. Elevator man, , strawberry milk, helicopter, tunnel, and eat...(insert any word-meow, CJ, daddy, bah-bah) are some of his favorite words. He also says eat perogie, go go green (from Go Dogs Go). He loves to dance to the move-it move-it song on Madagascar. Yo Gabba Gabba has been added to the top of his favorite shows. Patty cake is definitely his favorite nursery rhyme. Meow is his favorite animal noise. He loves to run his toys into stuff so he can say crash. You can hold conversations on the phone with him pretty well. He loves to help do the laundry, put stuff in the sink, and bear crawl. His favorite foods and spaghetti o's, hot dog, french fries, green beans, ice cream, oreos, perogies, chicken nuggets, and pancakes. He is currently boycotting all meat except meatballs, chicken nuggets, and hot dogs. He knows all the names of his trains (Aiden would be proud). He likes swimming in the bath tub and while the water drains he turns over on his back. Maybe he will be more willing to learn how to swim than I was. His is also a champion barfer when he is upset now. NOT GOOD!!!!! James is good at keeping it to a minimum. But his quick flight skills to the toilet are also fine tuned. He apparently likes ketchup with everything because at the moment he is dipping perogie and eating it. Yum, yum...not. I think that's about all that's going on here. I'll be in San Diego for a conference at the end of March if anyone needs a vacation.

Can you believe this is the same kid?

Before haircut:













After haircut:

Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas!!

Christmas was really fun this year especially with CJ so excited to rip presents open. He definitely knows the word 'present' now and kept asking for more when he was done. We went to the Christmas eve candle light service and CJ stayed in service with us. It didn't go as terribly bad as I expected. I was hoping there wasn't going to be too much screaming, but there was no screaming. A whole LOT of wiggling though! CJ is definitely not into caroling right now though. Hopefully next year. Here are a couple high lights.

CJ's new jammies (thanks memaw and pappa)




























Opening presents














Stealing goldfish off the counter, he's so tall.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Preparing for Christmas

Well its been a while since I posted, and a lot has gone on. We recently took a trip too Tokyo for my command Christmas party.
We drove across the super cool Rainbow bridge into Tokyo.














Then we swam in the pool. CJ hasn't stopped saying hot tub or pool since we left.














This is me and CJ in the lobby of the New Sanno where we stayed. And, yes, I cut my hair again.














Then we took a "train" ride on the infamous Tokyo subway. No one in white gloves touched James. This was obviously not rush hour since we had seats and could breath.














Here's me and CJ at the Christmas party (minus my head) in our best garb.














Then after we got home temps went from a beautiful 66 to 50 over night and the surf came in. This was taken from our balcony. Those are the small waves in the circles. The entire street was wet, but it wasn't raining.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Our new Christmas tree

We actually have a Christmas tree this year. This is our first prelit tree. Wow, what a snap to put it up!! Anyway here are some photos and video so you can see how it looks.