It's Over

Today is my last day of vacation before heading back to work tomorrow..it's been a nice long almost 5 weeks. I have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for work..cleaning all my gear..in fact finding all my gear. The one thing that stinks about heading back to work is I wont get to spend anytime with Kai on work days. I leave before he wakes up and I get home after he is alseep. I am not happy about this at all!

He is no longer eating in the middle of the night..because he is now into his pacifier..it took him a little over 9 months to like one. Hopefully this means he is getting closer to sleeping through the night.then again him getting up once isn't too bad.

Food Time

Lately Kai has been eating a TON. He has moved on to more solid foods..he'll eat everything and anything. He loves pasta with parmesan cheese and butter..yesterday he tried to feed himself..



To think his first birthday is only 7 weeks away is crazy!

Champions Again!

No need for words:

Video Time

A little video of Kai I made

Hot Weekend

Wow was it a hot weekend or what? We had a great time with Kai. Friday night after Nicole got of of work we went to REI, dinner then to Babies R Us. We bought Kai a ton of things including a walker which he loves and screams every time he walks with it. On Saturday we went around looking at open houses and he was great..then we went to a friends house for a bbq and Kai went in the pool and freaked every time Scott went under the water. There was another toddler there a few months older than Kai and they played really well together. When he started to cry Kai went over to him to try to make him stop..it didn't work but at least he tried. On Sunday Nicole went to soccer and I stayed home with Kai. It was too hot for him to be out there at the field for a few hours. We went to lunch then came home and he fell asleep in his high chair when I was feeding him lunch. Then we went and got Kai something to play on in this heat. He wasn't too excited at first but then he finally got into it:

Sometimes I hate Work

So I was all excited to go to the bike detail...then I find out today that our wonderful Captain thinks I need to be on patrol for a month or 2 to make sure my knee is good. He thinks I am going to be on bikes for two weeks and then get injured again. I guess he thinks I am like some other officers we have that love being inside and get hurt every 6 months. Thats not me...to be honest it's fucked up. Not that I have anything against patrol..it's that I was totally looking forward to bikes. Here is a picture of what we did in bike school:

My vacation is half way over! I've been busy this week cleaning out the garage, working out and working out some more! Hopefully all this working out will result in some major weight loss. I also find out tomorrow morning if I am going to the Bike Detail for sure. If I don't I only hope that I am back on Patrol and not inside!

Here is a pic Katherine took of Kai this weekend

Mothers Day

Today was Mothers Day and we went to a park in Huntington Beach to hang out with Nicole's family. Kai spent some major time at the playground..in the swing! It was hilarious..everyone could hear him screaming in fun...so here are a few of the big guy having a blast:





Here he is at the top of the slide..notice the shirt?:

Finally letting Mommy take him for a walk:

Backyard is Done!

We broke down and had someone come in and install new sod...they were great and kicked ass in little time. Here is the new and improved backyard:

Garage Sale

We had our big garage sale today..good lord..by law we can't start until 0800, yeah tell that to the 10 people that were here at 0630 when I put up the garage doors..OMG it was out of control...the good news is we sold almost all of the big stuff that was taking up the garage. A little work tomorrow in there and the home gym will be up and running again! I cannot wait to lift again. The good news for me is I am able to burn fat quickly..I just need cardio or weights..so the last 2 weeks of vacation will consist of cardio and weights. I am down 8 lbs now.

Tomorrow is our first Mothers day. I think we are going to meet some of Nicole's family at a park in Huntington Beach..so Kai can see his extended family. I will take pics and post after.

Kai Update

Well Kai has tooth #8 breaking through..so that makes 4 up top and 4 on the bottom. Hopefully now that this tooth has popped through he'll sleep through the night. Lately he has been going down at 8:00pm and waking up at 11:00pm and sometime between 1:30am and 2:30am. At least after the second wake up he goes back down until 8:00am..if only he could go 8:00pm until 8:00am.

His favorite thing to do lately is crawl over to the dog water bowl and splash the water out before we get to him. He's super fast! He has been standing up holding onto the furniture forever but doesn't seem interested in walking. I have noticed that he can stand alone for a second or 2...I guess thats a start...

Tomorrow he needs to go in an have some blood drawn to check his Iron level..this is going to be a fun morning.

Diet Update

I am down 7 lbs! That would be Kai at birth...I have done great working out daily. Yesterday I took the dogs on a 30 minute walk..which was tough with sunburn feet and shoulders..and today I went on a 10 mile bike ride..which was tough on my butt..thats the longest I have riden since my knee surgery. At this rate I should meet my goal of 15lbs by Memorial Day.

Beach Day

Here are a bunch of pics of Kai at his first day at the beach:

AAAHHHHH

After a long weekend playing soccer in the sand, breathing sand, eating sand, peeing sand, sneezing sand, burping sand, and even pooping sand all I wanted to do was come home and have a nice cold Irn Bru...and let me tell you it hit the spot...



If only they made it in the US....

Our Poor Feet

Both my feet and Nicole's feet are tore up. I have a huge blister on the ball of my left foot, plus a neat little sunburn on the top of my right foot only..very odd. Nicole has about 3 blisters between some of her toes..all from playing sand soccer...of course I have a nice sunburn on my arms...exactly where I did not put sunscreen...which is everywhere but a 5 inch strip on the upper arm..

Here is a quick pic of Nicole and Kai


We ended up playing 5 games in 2 days and losing in the Finals to a semi pro team..by 1 goal in the last 2 mins..considering we were all over 30..thats not bad at all!

Weekend in the Sun

We are down in Oceanside for a sand soccer tournament...Kai got his first taste of the ocean..lets just say he hated it and refused to let his feet hit the water..he did play in the sand and he even tried to take some home in his mouth. I will post pics when we get home....

So far I have done fairly well on this diet...I have yet to eat a french fry for over a week..that is a record for me...we walked almost 3 miles today..which is the most I've been able to do since surgery 8 months ago..it must be the 2 cortisone shots.

Again I am down 5 lbs...10 lbs to go for my goal on my vacation....woo hoo!