Grandma is back!!

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Shuggy

Grandma has arrived on a quick pass through visit on her way out to Thailand to visit The Chopards.. Her trip was not without incident however as the stupid Air Jamaica lost her suitcase!! It turned out that they left it in Kingston for some reason. Who knows why they do stupid crap like that. That airline will not get my business again.

To be fair, they delivered it on Tuesday morning at 4:40 am. No, that’s not a misprint, 4:40 AM!!! Thanks to the “friend” who made a call to get things moving..

Waiting at JFK for Grandma

While we were waiting, Sienna pointed to a well dressed black man and said “Obama”.. I guess he could look like him.. I don’t think he heard but it was cute..

Sienna gets to drive

Sienna on the couch watching Sesame Street with Grandma

Sienna loves it when grandma comes to visit.. Grandpa brought lots of goodies from Jamaica including tamarind balls, patties and hard dough bread..

dinner time!

ptail

On our way to Ikea

Kids furniture section at Ikea

Lunch at Ikea

Sienna plays with Grandma

Shopping

Almost Spring weekend

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Shuggy

This time of the year is always weird. it’s kinda coldish, it warms up for a day then cold again. I want to take Sienna to the playground without having to cover her up with a coat and hat. It’s coming, i know, I’m just a little tired of the cold air..

We needed to pickup a couple of things at Target and Old Navy this weekend so off we went after the Skype session with my parents.

Sienna with the cool pose

Here’s Sienna outside Target. She’s eating her goldfish snack and posing for me…

Old Navy

At Old Navy, Sienna took a liking to the little girl manikin. She liked the dog too..

Later that day, we had a visit from uncle Peter!! Usually when Peter comes over, Sienna is taking her nap so we have some time to hang out with him. However, she wasn’t up for that at all. She got him to play blocks, read books and generally horse around with her. I think they both had a good time.. Peter and i discussed cookies and banana bread baking techniques.

peter reads Elmo Colors for Sienna

Eventually the weather got warm enough on Sunday that i got to take Sienna to the park. I figured that i’d go to the park on Avenue S near the old Doctors offices. I chose that one because it doesn’t have many trees so the sun would shine on us. It was a little on the chilly side when we got there but Sienna seemed so excited to be at a playground that i just let her go..

Playground

Broken fountain

The PW is babylove

5Guys + Playground = Nice Day

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Shuggy

Saturday was a somewhat nice day. It was sunny but on the chillyish side. it’s still winter, allbeit the tail end of winter. We hit Toys R Us for a helmet for Sienna to use while on her bike then on to a playground for her to run around in. We picked a playground next to Lisa’s old High School (i forgot the name). The playground was a nice one with other kids running around having fun. I can’t wait for it to get warmer so that we can spend more time at places like this. 20 minutes is just not enough for Sienna.

Lisa's High School

Big Slide!!

These slides are made of plastic so you can really slide fast!!

Sienna slides fast

The PW is babylove

After the fun of the playground, we went over to 5guys for a burger and fries.

5 Guys in Bay Ridge Brooklyn

my burger

what that?

Sienna with Rus the rasta monkey on the streets of Bay Ridge. She was stumped by this statue..

Sienna is 2!!!

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Shuggy

Sienna is now 2 years old!! where did the time go? It’s just amazing how we can now carry on an entire conversation with her. She says what she wants and what she doesn’t want. Every day she can say more and more.

Today, grandpa and grandma Chin came over to help celebrate Sienna’s birthday. They brought over a nice cake for her. Here are a couple of pictures. I’m sure that Lisa will have more. I know Lisa felt bad that we didn’t do a bigger party for her but i think it’s ok. we’ll start that next year.

yummy cake

is that elmo?

birthday girl

I think Sienna enjoyed her gifts.

The pw is babylove

Sahara, Brooklyn Review

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Shuggy

Saturday was date night again and grandpa came over to keep an eye on Sienna for us. This time i wanted to go to a restaurant called Sahara. Sahara is a massive place on Coney Island Avenue that we had been to before but for the life of me i didn’t really have an opinion one way or the other. Well, that has so changed.

We got there at about 6:40 (I know that is early but we have gotten used to eating dinner early because of Sienna) and we were immediately seated. The place was already packed with people. A busboy hustled by and dropped come condiments on a plate for us. That should have been the tip off that this was going to be bad. The condiments were all in those small plastic to go containers!! They didn’t even bother to put them in something nice!! Friggin tacky!!

By 6:50, we hadn’t even been given water yet so we flagged down a busboy and requested some water and a waiter. He finally showed up and took our orders. We had hummus as an appetizer. It was ok, you can’t really fuck that up too badly. The food showed up a little too fast after that. I had lamb and Lisa had Chicken. My plate looked like two turds were placed on a huge bed of rice, shredded lettuce and onions. It was dry and disgusting!! I couldn’t even finish my plate. I actually had to stop because i was starting to get the “i’m gonna puke” feeling.. Lisa wasn’t so thrilled with her dish either. We payed $45 for one app and two entrees. In all, way too expensive for the quality of food and dining experience that you get. I would NOT recommend Sahara

Sahara=yuck

The Zoo

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Shuggy

The weather today was the best it has been all year so far!! It was so nice in fact that we decided to go to the zoo. It wasn’t the big zoo, maybe we’ll get there someday but for now we went to the Prospect park zoo. Its a small zoo, just right for little Sienna to walk around. I’m sure Lisa has more pictures.

family picture

Sienna and Lisa looking at the sea lions

I'm not sure what they were looking at

Sienna trying to find the monkeys

Sienna loved the cow

After the zoo, we decided to go to get some pattys over at golden krust.

Golden Krust

Sienna had her own patty

sad Lisa

Lisa and i were disappointed is the pattys at Golden Krust. I feel like the one near home is better for some reason. They were dry and had too much crust. i think that’s the last time we go to that one.

If you’d like to see more pictures from this outing, just click here to check them out.

Daddy/Sienna day

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Shuggy

Lisa signed up a while back for tickets to the Martha Stewart Show. It happened to be in the middle of the week so i took the day off. I don’t know how Lisa does it. Sienna generally is a good baby but she can be a handful sometimes. Everything worked out fine, i am just amazed at how much Lisa gets done.

Sienna and i headed down to the basement after Sesame Street. I started the laundry then played and played…

in the basement

baby

So Much Snow

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Shuggy

After work, it was time to shovle the driveway with Sienna ‘s help of course. See more shots of Sienna in the snow on Lisa’s Blog.

working hard

Sienna takes a break

Snow

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Shuggy

Oh boy do i HATE snow!!! I know i have said it before but grrrrrrrrrr.. Here are some pictures from this mornings commute. I can just imagine how much snow has piled up at home..

snow=yuck

more snow=yyyyuck

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