More Ice Skating

I had to add these new pictures. We went ice skating for the second time today!

Oh, what a weekend! We had the typical hockey filled weekend, going to the UNLV game Friday night and the Wranglers Saturday night. J.R. LOVES Duke, the Wrangler's mascot, that is until he comes near J.R. We have Duke hockey pucks and the Duke foam hand. J.R. says he wants to give the Duke hugs and kisses yet when the Duke is within 300 feet J.R. gets VERY upset, cries and tries to hid behind Tony or myself! Then once the Duke leaves all J.R. can talk about is the Duke. I'm not sure if J.R. likes the hockey games or if he likes being on the lookout for Duke. J.R. always knows where the Duke is during the game. He must keep one eye on the game and one eye on the Duke!

Speaking of the hockey game, J.R. has created his own hockey language. He calls the goalie "big goggle". When the goalie goes off the ice between periods, for those 20 minutes J.R. is chanting over and over "big goggle goes night night". OMGosh, if the goalie net falls over J.R. gets very agitated and will not sit down until the net is fixed. J.R. also calls the checking.... bumps then he may try to elbow you out of your seat. Here's a picture of J.R. at the hockey game this weekend.

Sunday we had brunch at Ralph and Mary Lou's house also called Nana and Papa. J.R. is very fortunate to have so many Nana and Papa's who care about him! We brought the entire family to brunch including Toots. Mary Lou and Ralph's dog Bridgette and Toots played and ran around the entire property. We spent a lot of time outside where J.R. ended up feeding the dogs "cookies". I had to post this picture because J.R. ate his first doggie treat, ewh! I of course couldn't get the picture of J.R. eating the doggie treat but here's the aftermath!



Lots of "stuff"!

J.R. is talking SO much now. He's having full on conversations. J.R. was driving his motorized car with his dad outside today (Yes it was 65 degrees in January). They heard a neighbor's dog that was howling and sounded like a wolf. J.R. ended up telling Tony the wolf bit his shoe and he had an "owie" but he was okay now. Our question was, how did he know that a wolf bites?

J.R. loves playing with all his toys he got for Christmas and birthday. Here's some pictures of him playing with his musical instruments.

Playing the guitar his Auntie JuJu got him for his birthday!

Playing the piano and singing. Thanks Auntie Lori!

A few nights ago we went ice skating for the first time. Here are some pictures of J.R. and his dad. Tony said J.R. was amazing on ice skates. He was surprised he could stand up on skates let alone skate. J.R. actually skated on his own. He had a melt down after skating and did not want to take the skates off!

2 Years Old!

We had a fantastic birthday week! We woke up Wednesday, January 5th to an over sized cupcake; singing happy birthday to J.R.

Later that night we opened presents, when J.R. got home from daycare. He had so much fun and really loves to tear open packages!

Friday afternoon J.R. went to Chuck E Cheese with all his daycare buddies. Here are some pictures. I think everyone is enjoying themselves!

We went to the circus Friday night. J.R. loved it, we were out until 11pm. That is a new record! We went with our friend Audrey. They both had a fun time riding the elephants and ponys!

We ended our birthday week with presents from Nana and Papa Roberston! They got J.R. a bike and this bike he could ride himself! Here's a picture of him riding his bike an grabbing a cookie on the run!

Happy New Year and Snow!

 It snowed here in Vegas yesterday! When J.R. woke up we went out into the snow and played. Well actually, I carried him around in the snow, he didn't want to walk! Here's some pictures of our house and side yard with snow!

 

As I was coming back from dropping J.R. off at daycare I realized I forgot to take pictures of J.R. in his first snow! I was feeling disappointed and then Karen, our daycare provider sent some pictures of J.R. and his friends playing in the snow! She said he loved it and did not want to go inside!

Here are some pictures of J.R and his friends from daycare at the Shed Aquarium.

Here are some fun pictures from New Years Day! We played all day at home with mom, dad and Uncle Scott.

We got antsy in the pantsy and had to go for a ride. We wore our matching Drake sweatshirts, J.R. and Mom!

Nana and Papa Zaino sent a Blackhawk shirt, pants and posters. He loved to look at the pictures of the nana, papa, Auntie Lori and the snow!

J.R. loves to drive his car. He can steer perfectly, sometimes the furniture gets in the way!

Here we are playing our favorite air hockey game with Uncle Scott on New Years. We play this for hours! Thanks Auntie Lori and Todd!

J.R is turning 2 tomorrow! We are looking forward to having birthday cake and giving him lots of hugs and kisses! We are taking all J.R.'s friends from daycare to Chuck E. Cheese on Friday to celebrate J.R.'s birthday. We also have our prepreschool celebration next week at class. On Saturday we will have our family day with J.R. to celebrate his birthday with mom, dad and Uncle Scott. We are going to the jump zone, circus circus and then open presents and have more birthday cake! It's going to be a fun birthday week for J.R.!