His poor bangs. Just cos his mommy wants to save some $$. I cut his bangs while he was in the bath today. A botch job! It’s ok I guess, to save me a trip to the hairdresser’s.

Eric with his prime rib.
We probably shouldn’t have finished the steaks, we were so full after and still had to drive 40 minutes to get home. It’s ok! We don’t do it all the time

The second mini celebration was our ramen dinner at Misoya. This time, just around the corner from our place. We just had a simple ramen and gyoza dinner and then off to the birthday party!

Eric with his ramen.

I organized a surprise party for him at his uncle’s place. Our house was just too small for everyone! We had a great turn out! We had a simple meal of pizza and wings! Then CAKE! A big birthday’s gotta have a big cake! I ordered an Xbox 360 controller cake from a bakery called Sugar Butter Flour. It was a vanilla cake with mango buttercream and fresh cut strawberries. I was pleasantly surprised with the taste of the cake. Cos cakes that big don’t usually taste that great. But it was great! (I should give them a good review on Yelp:))

Singing “Happy Birthday” to Eric. We had Auntie Alice accompany on the piano. The first time I’ve ever sang “Happy Birthday” with a professional piano accompaniment! Very awesome.

It was so much fun hanging out with friends and family. Thank you so much for those who came and those who helped make this party a huge success!
Happy Birthday to my sweetheart, Eric!

It happened when I was on the phone with Eric. The call kept dropping and it kept going to the shut down screen. So, after a few times of call fail and the phone attempting to shut down itself, I decided to shut it down for a while. I then turned it back on after a few minutes. It seemed fine.

I noticed the wet camera when I was taking a photo of EJ. I usually take multiple photos of him everyday, but this photo came out all fuzzy.

After taking the photo, I looked at the camera and noticed there was condensation inside. Yikes! I don’t know how it happened. But I guess EJ just chewed on it one too many times. Luckily I didn’t drop it in the toilet or something. I don’t think the rice trick will work with that

Anyway, it’s nice having my phone back after a three day hiatus. I realize how much I use it! I get my daily schedule, weather, news, emails, scriptures, Facebook updates, etc from my phone. But I also realize how nice it was without my phone. Rather peaceful actually. I felt “unchained”. It was nice to just use good all old fashion pen and paper again! That works too!

In any case, I’m glad to say I’m not a slave to my phone, that I can live without it (I know many people who say they can’t!), but it’s definitely nice having it back!

Talking about old. Eric’s turning 30 in a few weeks!!!! It’s a big turning point, huh? So far we’ve got plans to go to Vegas. Can’t wait for a holiday!! But I guess it really isn’t a vacation if we’re carrying a 15 month old around. Lol!

And I can’t believe my baby boy is 15 months!! People left and right keep asking us when we’re gonna have baby #2. I’m still enjoying my baby #1. Really enjoying it now. He’s so dang CUTE! He loves hugs and kisses. He kisses with his mouth open and hugs by gripping you tightly around your neck. So sweet! He loves singing and dancing. He’ll start bopping his head up and down and bending his knees up and down when he hears a catchy tune. He starts ‘singing’ along when we sing nursery rhymes together. His favorite song (I think) is still “If you’re happy and you know”. He’ll clap his hands every time he hears that song. He knows the actions to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. We’re working on the actions for the Wheels on the Bus. He knows how to use the iPad and play his favorite Sesame Street videos of Elmo. He loves “Elmo’s Song”. He knows how to press play to watch a YouTube video. He knows how to answer the phone. He’s talk to Eric’s client once and one of our friends another time on the phone. Just babbling away. He talked to our friend for two whole minutes! Just bababababba-ing away! Lol!! We had no idea. He’s such a smart, sweet, adorable little kid. I love him to pieces. He can’t be any more perfect! (Maybe he can learn to sleep through the night once in a while.)

There’s still things to finish from 2011, but we’re definitely looking ahead and looking forward to an exciting 2012!

I’d plan to straighten up the house and vacuum the living room and bedrooms in the morning. Then when he goes down for his morning nap at 11:00 a.m., I’d sweep and mop the kitchen and bathroom floor. I’ll make lunch when he’s still sleeping, then it’ll be ready for him when he wakes up. After lunch, I’d plan to go to the store and pick up some things. Come home and then get ready to go to my workout class at 3:00 p.m. After class, we’d come home and he’ll go down for his afternoon nap, and I’ll shower and make dinner and be ready for Eric to come home! What a day! Great plan. Bleh… Didn’t get pass the vacuuming.

He doesn’t mind the vacuum. He doesn’t like it, but he doesn’t really mind it. He just shouts at it and runs far far away from it. The vacuuming part was easy. He got out of the way. But then, all my plans went to trash when he refused to sleep! I can’t sweep and mop the floor when he’s awake cos he likes running through the dirt. So, it would’ve been perfect if he were sleeping. I’d try putting him down twice, but nope. By that time, it was time for lunch. He usually has his lunch after his nap, but since we didn’t nap, we just had lunch. I’d thought he’d be sleepy after lunch like most people do. But no, he wasn’t. He rolled around in his bed, and played and played, and fussed, and played. Finally…. he just crashed. That was 2:30 p.m. Grr! Didn’t get to run errands and obviously not gonna make it to my class. Boo!!

My life revolves around his sleep schedule, even though it’s not really a sleep schedule.

Highlight of it all: Seeing him run from the vacuum and yelling at the vacuum like telling it to keep it down! Precious!

Hopefully I can keep up with the maintenance!!

On a seriously annoying side note. This stinking Volvo has been parked outside our house for the past FIVE days!! It’s illegal to park in the same spot for more than 72 hours on a public street, it counts as ‘storing’ your vehicle and you can’t do that! Plus they’re parked on the curb where I put my trash cans out for trash day! I left a really nice note to please move their vehicle before trash day. They didn’t. I called the towing company. The car owner came out, spoke to the tow guy just before their car was about to get towed, and so dodged that bullet. BUT he still didn’t move his car. Such a hindrance and an eye sore!! Grrr!!! Well, if it’s not moved within the next 72 hours, I’ll just call the towing company again. I have them on speed dial.