The Adventures of CJ

June 2007 - riding my bike!

I was on a bike ride with Daddy one fine day on my bike with training wheels.  We were going down a hill in our neighborhood and in a classic "Forrest Gump" moment, one of my training wheels fell off!  This could have ended in disaster, but instead, I just kept riding like nothing happened.  When we got home, Daddy took off the other training wheel and I had to practice starting and stopping and turning a little, but that was it!  I'm 3.8 years old now, I mean, it was about time....right? (daddy was in charge of pictures today, so here's the best one we have.)

May 2007 - A Busy Month!

On May 10th I graduated from my first year of preschool at Happy Valley Children's Ranch!  We threw a party with a circus theme and we sang songs and did skits for our parents.  I was a kitty in the show. I was too shy to do a skit, but mom and dad could hear me singing from way in the back!


If you find me you will notice that I talked this dude next to me into switching ears with me...(second row, right of center)
On the 12th, we went to our friends Sydney and Reagan's birthday party.  It was at a farm, there were lots of things to do.  I got a pony ride with Syd and her gram.
On the 19th we had my last soccer game of the season.  We had cake and I got my first trophy.  Here's an action shot.
Right about that time, my Aunt Sarah arrived to see me and my brother and to be his Godmother at his baptism.  We had a great time, because Aunt Sarah can be very silly.
THEN, right after Aunt Sarah left, Gram Kay and Aunt Kelly came to visit.  We did so much fun stuff. Aunt Kelly played with me in the backyard a lot. 

Gram kept me busy inside too.

For Easter I got a tee and a bat, so we went to the park for me to take some batting practice.  I'm goin' yard, baby!  We had to get me some practice because I have tee ball class coming up next month.

April 2007

I wasn't just being a good big brother in April.  First of all, Gram Kathy came to visit and she caught me a bunny somehow one day.  We gave it a carrot.  It didn't do much except sit there and act scared, so we let it go after a little while.


Also I was playing soccer!  I joined my first soccer team.  We named our team the Spiders.  I got to play with my friend Miles who lives down the street.  It took me a few practices and games to get the hang of it, but I started scoring a lot of goals after that. 

I am a Big Brother!

I got to stay at my friend Gabe's house the night that my brother was born.  We had lots of fun, and Miss Rachel, Gabe's mom, treated me extra special and bought me Spiderman stuff because now I'm a big brother.  The next day, I got to go to the hospital to meet my brother Cameron.  I really wanted to name him Owen, because I have a friend Owen at my babysitters' house, but mom and dad didn't listen to me.  I guess Cameron is an ok name.

Here's the first time I met my baby brother. I bet he thinks my new Spiderman shirt is pretty cool.

I like to pose with my brother for pictures.  I ask mom about once a day to take pictures of us together.  Here's some of the good ones:

I have had to work hard to be a good brother.  Mom and dad say I can't run around all crazy in the house anymore and I can't throw things.  This is a pretty big favor to ask, but I do my best to listen.  I have only run out of patience with this big brother gig a few times. 

In other news, I started playing soccer!  I love wearing my shinguards and black soccer socks! Mom didn't come to watch this week because my brother is so little, but she says she will come next week and will take some pictues of me running really fast and kicking the ball.

I also got a haircut!  I did so good that the lady gave me TWO lollipops!

 

Happy Easter 2007!

Friday night we did some eggs...this was fun.

Saturday it was yucky outside and our easter egg hunt got canceled.  But, I was up Sunday morning bright and early to see what the Easter Bunny brought for me.

Mom makes me put these on every year.  I think I'm getting the hang of this silly picture stuff.

I found some eggs with candy in them all around the living room.

I found my basket with more candy and a new Spiderman tee shirt.

AND THEN>>>>>my first real remote control monster truck!

My baby brother gets here in two days!  I'm sure I"ll get some presents when he shows up too.

Little Bro is on the way!

Mom told me my brother is coming next week!  April 12th.  I am going to stay at my good buddy Gabe's house for that first night mom is in the hospital and then go meet my brother the next day!  I thought I had better get this out of my system now, because mom may not appreciate it after my brother is born...We're all pretty sick of mom being this fat.  She can't even play soccer with me or pick me up or anything...plus she's really crabby.

January through NOW.

Hi, here, we'll get everything as up-to-date as possible. 

January...we didn't do anything in January.  It was really cold for the entire month and we hibernated.  We did get a few more sledding days in, but that's about it folks.

February...MONSTER JAM!  Mom and dad told me we were going to "The Poop Factory", thinking that I wouldn't possibly want to go there.  However, I enthusiastically accepted this and was eager to go.  I was really confused at first for a few minutes and had this serious look on my face..."this is not a poop factory...there are monster trucks here..."  Then mom and dad explained to me what was going on...OH.  This is probably better!  Although, I have expressed interest in going to the actual Poop Factory several times since being surprised by going to Monster Jam.

The best part was, my favorites GRAVEDIGGER and HOTWHEELS were there!

 

They also had ATV racing, Drago the Dragon (he is a big contstruction vehicle made to look like a dragon that spits fire and eats cars, but mom didn't get any good pics of him), and also some races with little remote control monster trucks.  It was a good show!

We had a lot of nice weather during March.  We played outside a lot.  I am getting really good at riding my bike and have declared that I want to play soccer, football, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey.  Mom didn't take any pics in March, but we will get some new ones soon.  I am signed up to play soccer starting next weekend, so we'll get some good pictures of that.

Other than that, I am very excited about my baby brother coming soon.  Here is the link to his new website:  http://thegoodthebadandthewhites.typepad.com/camrod/

And I am especially excited that the EASTER BUNNY is coming in a few days!  We will have pictures of that too.

Bye for now!

Merry Christmas 2006

Let's just pretend that it's reasonably close to when this actually happened...shall we?

I had a great Christmas, once again.  This year I can honestly say that I have a firm grasp on the meaning of Christmas, and I will share it with you.  It is completely and without a doubt all about presents.  People send presents, lots of them, and Santa brings presents...lots but only if you're good, you get to open the presents...Spidermans, monster trucks, cool outfits, etc.   It really doesn't even matter what the present is, but that you always have another one to open immediately after you examine the currently opened one for approximately 10 seconds.  You can assume that any and all presents that are around are for you if you are a kid...any and all packages that arrive from the mail or UPS are for you...Even if you're at someone elses house and you see a present, it is probably for you.  Sure, there's some propaganda floating around out there about some baby named Jesus...but this is of no consequence.  You must focus on the presents if you are to have a successful Christmas.

Here, are some of my favorite presents...Some of them arrived a little late due to all the snow we got, but they thankfully all did arrive safely.

I got a whole new wardrobe.  Here's a cool tee shirt from my Great Grampas "chicken farm".

An entire FLEET of cars and trucks, along with this cool monster truck shirt.

Here's a good outfit:  new Nike "fast" pants (you know they're fast because of the stripe down the side...and they HAVE to be polyester), a Disney Cars jersey with Lightning McQueen on it, Lightning McQueen slipper socks and Spiderman winter hat...I'm all set.

And the all time favorite...the very visually stimulating yellow Spiderman shirt.  This one gets pretty stinky before I am willing to relinquish custody for a trip through the laundry...Sometimes even when mom puts it in the dirty laundry, I sneak in there when she's not looking and find it and put it back in my drawer.  Don't want it to get lost like those mysterious disappearing socks...ya know?

I got a piggybank too!  I like to save money like my dad.  He gives me change out of his pocket to put in almost every day.  If he forgets, I look around the house until I find some somewhere else...like mom and dad's big glass jar they keep in their room that is full of change.

I got lots of other stuff, but I just can't put it all in here...thanks everyone!

Time for Christmas-y things

Once we got home from Mexico, and got done with going to hospitals and doctors for my chin and mommy's illness, there was only one thing to do, and that was focus on Christmas!

On the 14th, we had my school Christmas show.  First of all, mom wouldn't let me wear my Spiderman clothes.  I did fine up on the stage, but I didn't like it.  I sung a little bit, but me and my best bud Jacob were NOT thinkin this was how to be "cool".  Why are all my other friends wearing these stupid hats and noses?!  What, if your buddy told you to jump of a bridge, would ya?!

   

Let's just say, I ain't gonna be the next Justin Timberlake...

THEN something cool happened.  The blizzard showed up on the 20th!  I helped Daddy shovel the driveway, but I gave up since the snow was up to my waist and mommy kept telling me that the snow does not go in the garage, which was an insurmountable creative difference of opinion:

Man, it's hard to drive your car in this stuff, I don't know how people do it!

We had to postpone my gymnastics recital for the weather, but we had it a few days later.  I really like gymnastics because it seems like something Spiderman would do.  In the show we had an obstacle course that we ran through to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer in front of all the other classes.  It was all so fast that mommy didn't really get great pics...but here's a few. 

Gotta warm up:

Further back in the line, you can see my neighborhood friends Kayla and Jenna in the matching outfits chatting it up and messin around.  Those chics just don't know how to put a game face on...I mean, let's get SERIOUS here...it's showtime.

We got some good sledding in over the next few days.  This year, I prefer to go down by myself, but, I refuse to pull my sled, or even walk back up the hill at all.  I highly recommend the daddy-escalator system to get your sledding done, why waste energy?  I also like to go over the jumps and wipe out. Joey likes to sled with me down the hill.

Next stop:  CHRISTMAS! 

Ah, December...Lets start with Mexico.

There is a reason that mommy has stopped at December...December was...well, we had some high points and some low points.  Not your typical December.

Right off the bat, we went on my first big family vacation to Mexico!  I was very excited.  Mom and dad made the mistake of telling me about a month beforehand that we were going to Mexico, and I kept asking every day with increasing impatience when we were going.  Then finally, when we never went, I just started walking around saying, "We're NEVER going to Mexico" in an exasperated tone.  We had a rough start to the trip.  The day after we got there I hit my chin on the waterslide and had to get stitches.  I'll spare you the details, but I still talk about "the needles" whenever the word "doctor" comes up.  So, you'll notice a nice band-aid on my chin in the pictures:

A couple days after my big owie, we managed to get out into Puerto Vallarta:

The weather was very nice and the town was pretty:

I couldn't really go in the pool after my owie, so daddy tried to keep me occupied with some playing in the ocean.  I thought the ocean was very cool and kept running into the surf (and scaring mommy to death) however, I WAS very concerned about exactly where the sharks live and if it was nearby here.

The next day, we went on a boat to a cool beach on an island.  I liked the boat ride.  Shortly after this nice picture, mommy had to go barf in the toilet. 

I had a great time once we got to the island.  There were lots of little hermit crabs for me to catch on the beach.  Grace and I had fun splashing around the little tide pools too.

 

The ole monkey on the head trick...gets ya every time...

Mommy got sick the next day and spent most of the rest of the week (and the next week too) in bed, so the picture-taker was out of commission.  Mommy says next time we're going to Florida or Hawaii.