Early Birthday Present

I got a special package in the mail yesterday, and mom-mom let me open it up today. She recorded me opening it up so Aunt Becky could see just how much I liked it...

Thank you Aunt Becky!!! Now I know what I will be watching for the rest of the day!

Love you!
J

Next Top Chef

I have been cooking up a storm in my kitchen lately. My favorite thing to prepare: EGGS! Mom-mom thinks my cooking is delicious.


Mom-mom's friend Anna is coming over to visit us today. We haven't seen her in a long time, so we're pretty excited to have her company!

Have a good day!

Love, J

Morning Shows

Mom-mom lets me watch shows in the morning. I ALWAYS ask for a choo-choo train show, but I am afraid mom-mom does not share my passions for locomotives. So, today we watched Jack's Big Music Show. Mom-mom and I both like this one. The best part is the opening song. See below for my dance moves and singing.

Wanna know what I learned about yesterday? I learned about "time outs." I learned about them three times yesterday. I am rapidly approaching my second birthday, and I am already very good at acting just like a two year old! Good thing I'm cute...

Love, J

Robot Invasion

We aren't sure if you've heard the news of the robot invasion taking place in Southern California. We'd heard rumors, but yesterday we caught one on video. Should we be scared?

Love, J

Just Bein' Silly

Not much going on in our house today...me and mom-mom are waiting for someone to come over and replace a circuit breaker so that we can cook in our oven again. So, we're just sitting here watching Thomas.

Here I am!

We hope everybody had a great weekend! Love you all!

Love, J

saturday

mom-mom and daddy at the beach...without me!

Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly...

This video will make Grampa Mike laugh...

Hope everybody has a great weekend! Me and mom-mom are headed out to go to the Children's Museum with Grandma and Grandpa Holko now. It will be fun!

Love, J

Flower Child

Me and mom-mom spent the day outside in our yard yesterday. She took LOTS of pictures (there are more on her blog page), but here are some pictures of me that we liked!

Here's me kissing a frog...Grampa would understand.

And mom-mom told me to smell the flower. I'm pretty sure "smelling" and "blowing" are the same thing, so I just blew on it.

Love, J

Little Gardener

Mom-mom and I decided to dig in the garden yesterday. One of the benefits to living in Southern California is that you CAN dig in your garden in the middle of January!



I also got a haircut last night. Daddy distracted me with fruit snacks while mom-mom snipped away. Oh boy, I got so itchy that I had to take a second bath! But, this haircut is better than my last one so we have to remember the fruit snack trick!


Oh yeah, and today is an historic day, right? Well, me and mom-mom slept through the whole inauguration thing this morning. Oops.

Hope you all have a great day!

Love, J

Soooo Talented

We were at Grandma and Grandpa Holko's house the other night, and I disappeared from the room. Mom-mom heard me pull out the piano bench and crawl up, but she wasn't expecting such beautiful music!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We did! It has been warm and sunny here so we have spent a lot of time outside playing. On Saturday, daddy and I went to the bay to fly our kite! I picked out a Blue Angel airplane kite for daddy as his Christmas present, and this was the first time we got to fly it. Fun! Uncle Brett met us down at the park and helped us, too!

Today, me and mom-mom are going to go to the park.

Love, J

"B" is for ...

...my BUTT!

"D" is for...
...DORK?

And here's a funny joke. Looks like I know what I'm doing, doesn't it? Just be glad that mom-mom didn't put a video of this up here..."G" is for GROSS.
And in other exciting news, now there's a Carleigh Page! Check her out at www.thecarleighpage.blogspot.com! So cool! I'll have mom-mom add a link to her page here so you can check us both out!

Have a great weekend!

Love, J

Dancin' Fool

I have been dancing a lot lately...this video does not do it justice...

We'll get a better video another day. I'm also working on a special message for Uncle danny - it's his birthday today!!! Happy Birthday Uncle Danny! We love you so much and wish we could be there to celebrate with you!

Love, J

One More...

Look at that hair!

Carleigh is Here!!!

We didn't post yesterday because we forgot...we were caught up in the excitement of baby Carleigh Jeanne Masterson! My new baby cousin was born yesterday and she is beautiful!!!

Here are a few pictures we stole from Grandma Nanci's page...I hope no one minds :)

Here she is...7 lbs 13 ozs, 20 inches long, and LOTS of pretty dark hair!

Here's my Uncle Brian holding his precious baby girl. This picture makes mom-mom get a little teary...

And Auntie Lindsay! I hope she doesn't get mad at us for posting this picture, but we LOVE it! Both Carleigh AND Lindsay look adorable...not sure how Lindsay still looks cute, even after that...
And here's my personal message to Carleigh...

And here's a funny thing: This morning, mom-mom asked me what I wanted to do today, just like she does every day, and I told her two things. I told her I wanted to "See Uncle Danny," and then I asked if I could "Call Lindsay?" With no prompting from mom-mom.

What a happy day! We wish we could be there to meet you in person, Carleigh. We know your mom-mom and daddy will take great care of you, though! And you're VERY lucky to have some really great Grammas and Grampas. Just wait til you figure out that they will give you ANYTHING you want! When I get home for my next visit, I'll show you a few tricks...

Love,
J

Maybe Next Year...

Well, the San Diego Chargers are done for the season. We had a few people over to watch the game yesterday. It was a fun afternoon, even if the Chargers didn't win...

I even practiced my Super Chargers dance.

Oh well. Next year.

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

Love, J

Trains Museum

Yesterday Grandma and Grandpa Holko took me to the train museum at Balboa Park. We had a great day, and mom-mom got a break, too!

Here are a few pictures Grandpa took of our adventure...



Me and Grandma Susan

And me and Grandpa. We know it's sideways, but just don't have the energy to fix it...

Last night was a long night for us. Mom-mom wasn't feeling too good last night so she took some NyQuil after I went to bed in the hopes that it would stop her incessant coughing. Just a few hours later I woke up, for the first of many times, coughing and crying. daddy tried to get me back to sleep but in the end I just crawled in bed with mom-mom and we coughed together for the rest of the night. Today, we're both a bit cranky >:(

But, it's a nice sunny day so we are going to go sit outside and let the sunshine cure our illness.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Love,
J

Snow Baby

here is a picture of someone I forgot to mention yesterday. My buddy "Rufie" kept me company when I was at Gramma and Grampa's house in Buffalo. Rufus is Uncle Mick's dog, and he is one of my favorites!

And here is a picture of me all dressed up in my snow gear. I was very excited to see SNOW!

I even got to stomp around in the snow. I wish it snowed in San Diego sometimes...that stuff is fun for a few days at a time!

Love,
J

Pictures from Our Trip

Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip to Buffalo. Enjoy!


Here are the presents I found under my tree on Christmas morning before we left for our trip. I got a kitchen set with lots of food and a new bike!!! I have been practicing and I can actually move a few feet all by myself. Daddy got an airplane kite that I picked out for him.
Look at the cupcakes Jojo made for mom-mom's birthday! COOKIE MONSTER!!!
Here's Uncle Mickey stealing a cupcake!
And me eating like Cookie Monster!
My Uncle Dan had Cookie Monster cupcakes with me, too. Check out his blue teeth!
We went to a bounce house with Aunt Candy and Aunt Becky. It was lots of fun! I got to jump around with daddy and Uncle Dan and Kelly, and mom-mom went down the big slide with me! Even Jojo got to jump around!
Here's Aunt Becky helping me with my swing.
And my Aunt Candy hugging me...
I even got to visit Salvatore's where Aunt Candy works. There were so many lights!
Since we had so many visitors while we were staying ast Gramma and Grampa's house, I spent a lot of time peeking out the window to see who was coming next!
And this was a neat thing - Obi came with us! I thought we left him home, but sure enough, he was there waiting for me when I got to Gramma's house! For some reason, Grampa kept yelling at him and calling him Wilson...no wonder he didn't listen.
Here's Grampa's goat. He was pretty funny, and mom-mom just likes this picture!

We miss everyone back there so much. We had a wonderful time visiting with Uncle Brian and Aunt Lindsay, and I can't wait til next time when I get to play with my new cousin Carleigh! Brian and Lindsay will be great at being Carleigh's mom-mom and daddy...and next time I come home, Aunt Kelly will have a baby for me to play with, too! It sure was fun to get to see her instead of just talking to her on the phone!

And even though I somehow don't have any pictures of this, I spent a lot of time yelling for grampa to read me my butterfly book and give me more donuts! And thank you to Jojo for making me all kinds of good food and playing with me. I can't wait to see you both next month!

Well, me and mom-mom are both a little sick today, so we're gonna go and snuggle up on the couch and try to take a little nap. We love you all, and thank you SO MUCH for making our trip so special!

Love, J

We are back in sunny SD

What a trip! We are safely back in San Diego after a very long day of traveling. I was a VERY good boy on the plane, just like always. We arrived in San Diego last night around 11:00, so I am still pretty sleepy this morning. Mom-mom is, too. Traveling with a cold is not fun at all.

We're working on getting some pictures from our trip up here for you all to see, but we just wanted to leave a quick message to let you know we made it back safely and that we love you and miss you all already.

Here is a picture to tide you over til we post more...


Love,
J