CJ's 2nd Birthday

CJ turned 2 this week! Since it was also Valentine's Day, we made nice Happy Birthday CJ / Happy Valentine's Day party favors and took them to CJ's school. The bags were stuffed with Valentine's Day notebooks, crayons, and stickers. And of course, there were cupcakes, all the way from NYC.

CJ wore his 2-year old shirt to school.

Back at home, and only because it was his birthday, mom let him get away with a handful of 6 lollipops at once!

Actually, here's what happened when mom suggested he have only 1 at a time.

Once daddy got home, it was time to open presents in the living room.

CJ got some new animals for his Little People zoo from mommy.

And some new clothes from the grandmas.

And a new pair of glow in the dark crocs from daddy.

And a national geographic book and memory game from Gamma.

And some cars from Gamma.

Grandpa came over later with a new remote control car.

And here he is modeling his new raincoat from Aunt Maggie and Uncle Matt.

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CJ's B-day Celebration in NYC

Getting ready for the big trip into the city, CJ thought it would be fun to put on mommy's mascara. Didn't he do a good job?

Baby Shae came to CJ's birthday lunch with his parents Emily and Gil.

Mike, Kal, and Courtney came by too, on their way to Fashion Week festivities.

CJ was very excited about his cake with a car on it.

It seemed like all he really wanted to do for his birthday in the city was ride the bus! Easy enough...

But we forced him to go to the Children's Museum, where he ended up having a blast. Check out the pictures from the museum here.

Grandma Babysitting CJ

Gamma watched CJ while mommy and daddy went on vacation to Panama.

The spent a lot of time playing with CJ's new trains in our new basement.



They managed to get outside once or twice despite the cold!

And CJ was very helpful.

But he was still very happy to see Mommy and Daddy come home.

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Panama

Mommy and Daddy went to Panama this past weekend for a wedding. We didn't take many pictures because Mommy was sick as a dog from whatever CJ had most recently brought home from daycare.

The first thing we did when we arrived was see the Panama Canal.

We drove around and got to enjoy some of the rain forest.

Here's mommy at the beautiful church before the wedding.

And at the beach on our last day before heading home.

The rest of the pictures are on Shutterfly here.

Donnie's B-day

Today was Donnie's 1-year old birthday party! Check out all the pictures here.

As a few highlights, here's CJ playing with all the neighborhood toys.

Singing happy birthday to Donnie.

Eating cupcakes.

Playing with Donnie's toys.

Getting a gift too! Too bad we had no snow that day.


Some goodbye shots of the four of us.

Christmas in NJ

Since we were in California this year for Christmas, we celebrated our Christmas at home on December 29th.

Here's our festive living room with CJ starting to open presents.

He got a Lego train set from Uncle Peter.

And a Razor Scooter from Aunt Maggie and Uncle Matt.

He loved the hockey set from dad.

Helping to clean up on his scooter.

See all of the pictures here.

A Few Recent Videos

Here are a few recent end of the year miscellaneous videos of CJ goofing around the house.

Playing ball in mommy's shoes:

Dancing to Christmas music:

This was a Christmas gift from last year, but boy did CJ get a kick out of it this year!