Sunday, June 21, 2009
The First Father's Day
Today I experienced my first father's day. The family got me presents, made me breakfast in bed, and even got me an ice cream cake that had "Happy Birthday" written on it. Awesome. It was like my birthday. Still, it was kind of surreal but fun. I realize that I'm part of a very exclusive club, one that comes with many responsibilities. I love my family and I'm excited about being a husband and daddy.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
A few funny stories
While I have a free second I would like to share some things that have made me laugh this past week. Here is story #1.
Quaylan and I were playing volleyball in the backyard. Due to the recent rains, the grass is long. And our wonderful dog, Kanye, doesn't like to poop when the grass touches her bum, seriously. Plus, the long grass makes it hard to see poop. Anyway, we were playing and Quaylan had reminded me to watch out for poop, but he was pretty sure he'd picked it all up already. After a good 15 minutes of playing, the ball goes over to the far side of the yard. Quaylan runs to get it and I go over to Brooklyn to make sure she is still ok (sleeping in the swing). I stand up and Quaylan is standing still, with a look of total defeat on his face. I say, "what's wrong," and he answers, "I stepped in poo...It is 100% on my shoe...I stepped in poo." Now I don't think he meant to rhyme his response, but he did, and I was dying of laughter. He continued, "It IS 100% on my shoe, it's not even on the grass!" And sure enough he was right, his shoe was covered in poo, and not one bit remained on the grass. To top it all off, the grass was too wet from previous rain for him to scrape it off. It was awesome!
Story #2 Quaylan decided to give Brooklyn an airplane ride this morning. As he's sitting on the couch he starts flipping her over. And she loved it! I was in the kitchen cleaning when I hear....uuuuggggghhhh! I look over and see the same "poo on my shoe" face on Quaylan, but this time, there is baby throw up dangling off his chin, and, yes, throw up IN HIS MOUTH! It was also all over his shirt, too! I cannot stop laughing, he looked like he was about to throw up too! I finally compose myself to help him and I can honestly say I've never seen him make funnier faces. It was awesome! Plus, the same thing happened to me the second week I began caring for Luka, so it was ok to laugh!
We are having way to much fun here in Co!
Quaylan and I were playing volleyball in the backyard. Due to the recent rains, the grass is long. And our wonderful dog, Kanye, doesn't like to poop when the grass touches her bum, seriously. Plus, the long grass makes it hard to see poop. Anyway, we were playing and Quaylan had reminded me to watch out for poop, but he was pretty sure he'd picked it all up already. After a good 15 minutes of playing, the ball goes over to the far side of the yard. Quaylan runs to get it and I go over to Brooklyn to make sure she is still ok (sleeping in the swing). I stand up and Quaylan is standing still, with a look of total defeat on his face. I say, "what's wrong," and he answers, "I stepped in poo...It is 100% on my shoe...I stepped in poo." Now I don't think he meant to rhyme his response, but he did, and I was dying of laughter. He continued, "It IS 100% on my shoe, it's not even on the grass!" And sure enough he was right, his shoe was covered in poo, and not one bit remained on the grass. To top it all off, the grass was too wet from previous rain for him to scrape it off. It was awesome!
Story #2 Quaylan decided to give Brooklyn an airplane ride this morning. As he's sitting on the couch he starts flipping her over. And she loved it! I was in the kitchen cleaning when I hear....uuuuggggghhhh! I look over and see the same "poo on my shoe" face on Quaylan, but this time, there is baby throw up dangling off his chin, and, yes, throw up IN HIS MOUTH! It was also all over his shirt, too! I cannot stop laughing, he looked like he was about to throw up too! I finally compose myself to help him and I can honestly say I've never seen him make funnier faces. It was awesome! Plus, the same thing happened to me the second week I began caring for Luka, so it was ok to laugh!
We are having way to much fun here in Co!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Trip to Sacramento - The Graduation
Last week we went to visit Sacramento, California and witness my little brother graduate from high school (yay!). It was also Brooklyn's first time visiting her grandparents home. All the family flew in from all over, Georgia, Washington, Arizona, Tennessee, and Colorado. She met so many people including her cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, and her great grandmother. At first she got overwhelmed but she soon settled down and had a great time laughing and talking to her relatives. We even got to take her down to San Francisco to meet her Aunt Teri and Richard. We visited Pier 39, China Town and had dinner in North Beach (Little Italy). Then to cap it off, she got to see her Uncle Shonie's graduation ceremony. And she stayed awake for most of it! We then made it safely back home with Brooklyn staying awake for most of the plane ride talking to strangers. It was a very good trip. Congrats Naashon!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
A sleepy girl
I put Brooklyn in her jumperoo so I could get a few things done. She jumped and jumped for about 10 minutes, then... silence. I ran to see if she was ok, and this is what I found. Oh, my sleepy girl!
Friday, May 22, 2009
A Picture That Explains it All
This picture seems to explain perfectly what our life consists of right now. Parenting magazines, hand sanitizer, Lysol, Mother's Day flowers, and the all important and all mighty laptop (because when baby goes to sleep, mommy and daddy are furiously working on final papers or a dissertation).
Play and Reading Time
We are already starting to train Brooklyn for the athletic and academic olympics. We got her a jumper and so she is enjoying jumping around in it and looking at all the flair. But of course, we had to stimulate her little brain and she likes staring at the books as we read them.
More pictures on the Web Gallery.
More pictures on the Web Gallery.
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