Oh, Whatever

What? Posts from the entire last month have gone missing?

Weird.

It's almost like we never even had time to write any.

So we'll just pretend we didn't miss any and carry on. Okay? Good.

I got my hair cut.

I wasn't sure I needed a haircut, but Mom insisted. 

I guess it's not too bad. Makes me look older. Like I'm big enough to ride a bike with no training wheels or something.

Yeah. Did you catch that? NO TRAINING WHEELS.

I'm awesome.

Love,
J

"It Happens"

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Grampa mike

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What I Do

Did you ever wonder what it is I DO all day?

Well, it mostly falls into two categories.

1. Eating candy (includes foraging, sneaking, stealing, etc.)

2. Bothering Jacob (goes both ways because he totally bothers me, too)

Here are a few examples:

Me, proudly displaying to Mom that I was persistent enough to find the candy that she put up in the high cabinets.

I'm not even gonna pretend to look sorry.

And here I am, pretending to watch tv. In reality, I'm plotting my next move.

Since there was no candy around, let's bother Jacob!

What? He's laughing.

I'll let you guess how many minutes it took to go from candy eating to fighting...

But check out these HUGE gummy bears! Thanks, Aunt Sarah!

Love,
R

5 Years Old!

Yeah, I'm five.

I'm a pretty big deal, you know.

Wednesday was a great day. Here are the highlights:

1. Waking up to have chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast.

2. Going to the Zoo. With Grampa Mike!

3. Monster Truck cake. (Mom didn't take a picture of it. She didn't think this one compared to last year's El Toro Loco cake. I thought it was awesome because I got five new monser trucks out of it.)

Ryan liked it, too.

4. Surprise presents from Gramma Jojo, Aunt Candy and Aunt Becky! Mom let me open these up before the party. You guys sure do know how to make a guy happy. I'm actually playing with the "Perplexus" game as mom types this...

 5. New skateboard. New helmet. New wrist guards, knee and elbow pads.

6. NEW BIKE. (I've also been practicing riding without training wheels. More on that as it progresses.)

Oops. I guess we didn't get a chance to take a picture of this. I pulled Uncle Brett outside for a few laps around the block immediately.

7. Lots of my favorite people here to celebrate with me.

It was a really great day. Thank you to everyone who helped to make me feel so special.

And now today...

Mom and I noticed it was pretty quiet. I'm old enough to know that when Ryan is quiet, he's probably doing something sneaky.

Sure enough, he found my box of Nerds from Gramma Jojo (they were in a cabinet somewhere), ripped them open and plunked himself down to watch SpongeBob.

He doesn't even try to look sorry.

Have a great weekend!

Love,
The 5 year old

Lizards

You know what happened while we were in Buffalo?

A LIZARD moved into our yard. He's awesome.



Jake spotted him first.

He called me over and we c a r e f u l l y crept up on him. Mom didn't even believe how quiet we were being.

He sat there for a little while and then crawled over the edge of the wall.

We watched him go all the way down to the end by the chickens.

We have looked for him every day since. It's weird, but it almost seems like he hides when we come busting through the door...

We had a really great weekend and Mom is still sad that she didn't bring her camera on our Sunday hike. We spent the morning at Torrey Pines wandering the trails. Even I could walk most of it! We were cute and it was beautiful...imagine how lovely the photos would have been.

So our big plant today is to hang out at home. It's been sunny all week, but today is cloudy and cool. (We definitely don't plan outdoor activities in San Diego when it's 60 degrees and cloudy.)

Mom and I "worked" for a while this morning.

This is my "good boy" pose.

And this is me drinking the rest of Mom's coffee. I do it every day.

It's just so good!

I am, of course, wearing my puppy shoes. (I would be wearing my snow boots of we'd brought them back here.) They have become interchangeable with my new Toy Story slipper-boots.

Jacob is happy because Mom extended his video game-playing time this morning. He'd play MarioKart all day if not for the timer we set for him. (30 minutes...just like when Mom was little and played the original Nintendo.)

Such concentration!

Happy MLK day! And happy birthday, Uncle Danny...a day late. We love you!

Love,
R

Buffalo Christmas Vacation

Our trip, in pictures...


Daddy and Grampa Mike made LOTS of jerky. Like 25 pounds of jerky.

There was shooting of guns.

Ry was watching Uncle Dan shoot. He decided, "That's pretty cool."

Snowy path.

 

Whoa! It's cold outside!

Ryan spent a long time making footprints in the snow and then checking them out.

Playing in the snow is really, really fun.

So is playing with Uncle Dan.

 

And apparently so is...well, whatever this is that Ryan is doing here.

Aunt candy and Aunt Becky took me and Ryan to Niagara Falls. Mom and Dad went back on their own. It sure is a big waterfall...

We got to hang out with Kelly and Molly.

And Carleigh.

 

 Candy, Ryan, and me.

 

Trick! It's not really Ryan, but the decapitated elf head that we played with.

This was a sad part of the trip, like always.

Carleigh and Aunt Becky. Those Aunts sure do seem to like us kids! It works out well, though, because we really love them.

Here's our Uncle Danny. We got to play with him a lot. That's pretty awesome.

 

We had such a fun trip. Mom didn't take nearly as many pictures as usual...there are lots of faces missing from this page, but we are so glad we got to spend time with people we love. Of course, there are lots of people we wish we'd been able to see but somehow ran out of time before we had to go home.

As sad as we were to leave our Buffalo family, we were glad to be back in our house today. There are two guys in this picture with us who were VERY happy that we were back...

Back to reality...

Love,
J & R