Father's Day

We have the best dad in the whole wide world. He loves us so much. He feeds us, changes our diapers, plays with us everyday after he gets home from a long hard day's work, teaches us, cleans up after us and loves us. We decided to give him a very special day to thank him on Father's day. So we decided to go to Gilroy Gardens. It's a really beautiful amusement park like 20 min. from our house. We all got to go on tons of rides, play in water, and walk around and see the beautiful scenery. Then we took dad out to dinner and a movie. We saw the movie, "UP!" in 3D. My sis and I loved it. We were glued to the big screen for the whole 2 hours and it didn't even get over until 10:30pm! We were late partiers. I have to brag for a moment: during this whole long day of driving and walking and playing etc, I never peed my pants ONCE! That's a record for me. Mom and dad were glad I chose that day to do so well with potty training. Here's a few pics of our fun day. We love you Daddy!!!!!! (Check out the video at the end of the pics)

Potty Training

Ooooooh! Gotta Go! Gotta Go!

So the dreaded has begun. Mom seems to have been looking forward to the challenge. She's putting me through potty training boot camp and plans to have me trained in ONE week. Today is day 2 and it's going extremely well. I've only had 2 accidents and gone in the pot several times. I like to go in the pot just to see mom's silly reaction of jumping up and down, doing the Cha Cha around the house singing, "John went Pee in the Potty! John went Pee in the Potty!" But the best part is that every time I tinkle in the pot I get 3 candy corn!!!!!!! I've yet to "drop a deuce" as daddy would say. I'm a bit nervous about that. Mom's pumping me full of liquids and I'm getting a bit tired of her asking if I gotta go ever 3 seconds. Here's a pic of me in my new big boy underwear. (I wonder how long these pictures will be appropriate to post on the Internet...hopefully not long)

On the training note, Faylen's learning how to brush her teeth. Neither of us like it much.

Faylen Walking and Random News

So Faylen started walking!!!! She pretty much started at exactly 1 year. She looks like a drunken sailor all the time. It's hilarious! Check out the video of her walking here:

I've been talking quite a bit. I understand pretty much everything people say to me, although sometimes I like to pretend I don't. But my favorite new line is, "Doggie did it!" as I look at mom and dad with the most innocent face. I think it probly won't be long till I use that one for my missing homework. :)

Here's a video of sissy and I milk drunk. Our nightly routine is that just before bed we get milk.



One of my favorite pastimes is to wrestle Magnus, our dog. Check out the video.

We can get pretty rough. Magnus is a great dog and he is happy in our new home with a whole backyard to himself. He's gotten a bit better with chewing on things he shouldn't and is completely potty trained. He's only 6 months old and already weighs over 60 lbs! Faylen especially loves Magnus. Her eyes light up whenever he comes in the room and she's constantly asking for him all day saying, "Doggie?? Doggie???"

Getting some snuggles

Last but not least, you have to watch this hilarious video. It speaks for itself. Let's just say, being that I got caught red handed, I couldn't blame this one on the dog. My poor sissy.


Mom is finally done with her school year and can enjoy her summer a bit. (Although she's still taking some online classes through USD to finish her clear credential) Boy, does mom look forward to her summers. We've been spending a lot of time in the yard in the sun, playing, while mom does her basking. About the pic below, mom says, "Life doesn't get much better than this".

Our Big Birthday Bash

Thanks to all of you who came to our party and who generously gave us birthday presents. Thanks so much also to all those who traveled from afar to be here. We really were glad to see you! We hope you had as much fun as we did. For all of you who didn't get to come check out the picture slide show to the right or click on this link:http://picasaweb.google.com/PufferPics/FaylenAndJohnSBirthdayBash09?feat=directlink

Even though the weather was a bit chillier than we had hoped, we had tons of fun playing with water. Some people braved the slip 'n slide, lots played at the water table or went fishing in the little swimming pool, or threw water balloons, or blew bubbles, or relaxed in the sand box with the sea shells and sand toys. We had lots of yummy food and everyone sang my sister and I "Happy Birthday" as we blew out our candles and chowed down on puffer fish cake. Then we beat up the fish pinata to get some candy and opened presents galore! Later that night we had Chinese takeout and a bonfire on our front lawn in our new fire pit. We loved having our 1st and 2nd birthday parties together. I have a feeling it might be a tradition for the next few years.

Here's a funny video of Faylen and Grandpa Paul having a conversation at our party:

Our new Ride

So we had to say goodbye to the Outback. It served us well, but it was dying and we were growing out of it. We sold it with 256,000 miles on it! Turns out that the guy that sold it to us rolled back the odometer 125,00 miles and we found this out just before we were going to sell the it. So we sold it for several thousand dollars less than we had wanted. Are there any honest people left in this world??!?!?!?

Oh well, God ended up blessing us amazingly anyways. Grandma and Grandpa were so gracious as to let us use their Jeep while they were in Israel for a couple months until we were able to get our new minivan!!!!!!

So here's the new ride. A 2002 Toyota Sienna. At first mom was a little hesitant to drive what she said was a "nerdy" minivan. But you should see how happy she is now. She loves all the room and how easy it is to load us in the car. She spends a lot of time in the car with us for her work and she looks forward to driving the Sienna. Faylen rides in a big girl car seat now. Check out the pic. She's much happier in the car now that she faces forward. We like to reach out and holds hands while we're in are car seats. ;)