Feel Better to The Juan

His Uncle Juan, aka The Juan, was sick and didn't want to play with him today. John hopes his uncle feels better.

Such Insolence

Can you believe the nerve of this little monkey to call me by my name? And, his mother is egging him on. Such insolence cannot be tolerated. Daddy does not abide!

Ay Caramba

I guess we won't be able to speak in Spanish when we don't want him to understand.

What a Great Morning

Nicholas woke up at 6:30 AM and John woke up at about 7 AM. Johnny had yogurt for breakfast. When he eats yogurt, he needs to have multiple little containers of yogurt even though he just eats out of one. Anyway, he had his yogurt when we decided that we were going to go to Kmart to buy some sippy cups and check out Whole Foods for their baby food section.

At Kmart, they have both an elevator and an escalator. John was in heaven. He was very patient and waited until we had finished picking up our merchandise before he started saying, "Up and Down! Up and Down!" Maureen and I both took turns to go on the escalator with John.

We then moved onto Whole Foods where we discovered a wonderful world of baby food. I was quite pleasantly surprised with the prices. They were even lower than Ralphs on Earth's Best foods. John saw his little boxes of chocolate milk and got us to buy him one. As we were leaving, I said, "Why don't we have lunch here?" They have a lovely section of booths at the front of the store. I was surprised that they served hamburgers. This thing would have probably fed a family of 4, but I digress. John had a turkey sandwich. He loved his turkey and tomatoes. He tried Maureen's sparkling water and immediately spit the water and his turkey out. Obviously, he does not have a taste for the bubbly water. That's ok. He'll probably learn to like it like I did.

We may have to go back to Whole Foods to try their yummy looking pizza!

John's New PBS Show

I think we'll call this one, Counting with John. Each episode will feature him counting up to a certain number. He has 1 to 10 down pat, so we have at least 10 good episodes. Let's not even bring zero into the mix just yet.

A Birthday Greeting for Mrs. Lowther

Sorry it's a day late. He's quite talented that he can speak quite clearly with his boo.

Reading in Esperanto

I'm sure he's translating the book into Esperanto and that's why we can't make out most of the words.

This is the first in a series of nature videos with John. We hope to get it onto PBS Kids. It'll feature John exploring "the wilds" of Park La Brea and interacting with its "native" creatures. I know I'd watch it. Then again, I like to watch the Chabad telethon and the weekend show where the LDS Elders take over tv for an entire weekend in Utah. I find those things so fascinating.

No, I'm not going to convert, but I do appreciate freedom of religion...except if you are Scientologist. Sorry, I can't hang with stories about the Galactic Overlord Xenu.

Yay Drums

He may be the next Buddy Rich, or maybe he'll be in the drumline at Atlanta A&T University. In any event, he seems to have some talent. Look at the skill he demonstrates with the drum sticks! If we had a conga drum, I'd buy him a little tuxedo and have him parade around singing Babalu like Ricky Ricardo. Instead, he can just bang on his Thomas the Tank Engine drum.

Sick Boys

Both of the little princes have colds to varying degrees. John's isn't so bad, yet. Let's hope it doesn't get too bad.

The weekend was full of all sorts of fun. We went on many up and downs. We took him to Michael's in Burbank and he kept on asking about it long afterward. We decided to pick up some pizza for dinner last night because he'd been so good and he just loves it so. In the past, he'd eat about half the pizza and then be full. These days, our boy is eating his whole slice and part of Maureen's salad and the nice garlic rolls. Since we were running late, we decided to give him dinner in bed whilst watching Oswald and Make Way for Noddy.

Today, we went to mass at St. Anastasia. John was on fire with the flirting. One of Maureen's former students was sitting next to us. She's in the third grade. John kept on giving her the eyes and trying to get her attention. I don't know where he gets it, but he's well on his way to being this generations Porfirio Rubirosa. The little girl was trying to be good and listen to mass, but our boy was too much to resist.

We later went to a walk to "The Cookie Fountain" and then to "More/Mas Fountain". He calls it "The Cookie Fountain" because that is where we buy him a cookie when he's good. He calls the other fountain "More/Mas" because it's an even bigger fountain. Along the way to "More/Mas Fountain", we stop at the bushes to see the butterflies. John tries to touch them, but giggles as they fly away. There's a nice cafe there and we gave him a nice caprese sandwich for dinner. He really loves tomatos and cheese. On the walk back, he fell asleep. It's been such a long, but fun weekend for our little adventurer.