wow, these two weeks flew by so fast! much has happened, but i haven’t had time to update. i’ve been in la being jack’s nanny for two weeks, and today’s my last day on the job! i offered to help out during my sister’s last two weeks at work before she becomes a stay at home mom because well, i could.. and so i could bond with jack more especially since i’d been gone for a month in taiwan. during this time i’ve come to a point of self-realization. i always assumed i like little children.. i mean.. i’m a girl, i definitely want to have kids later on and i think kids are really cute.. but i think i have to come to terms with the fact that i don’t really like very small kids that much. which is sad, because i want to like them more, and jack’s as great as they come, but i just don’t.

don’t get me wrong — i love my nephew and i think he’s adorable, but i’m just not a little kid person. i think we’ll have much more to do together when he’s old enough to play nintendo with me and talk and go to the park and actually go into the jungle gym and stuff. for now his favorite games include “be completely self-destructive while aunt june rushes to save me,” “drag all the books off the bookshelf,” “push the mixing bowl across the floor” and “poke atari in the eyes.” indeed, they’re all fun, and it’s not as if i’m suffering here at all, but after a while i just find it pretty boring. i very much admire my sister for being able to do this full time, because it’s much harder than having an office job on so many levels. i’m exhausted every day after “work” and i think after this i’ll just resume my old job of buying him stuff and exclaiming at his cuteness and wait til he’s at the nintendo stage of his life and then we can PLAY!

i’m not going to blog about everything i’ve been doing in a single post, so i’ll just start off with some random things from a couple weeks ago.

charles and i gave jack this big keyboard for him to walk on and make music with for his first birthday. he keeps grabbing the black speaker box because he knows the music comes out from there, and he can’t completely walk yet, so i think he’ll probably have more fun with it later..

i lost count of how many times i celebrated my birthday this year, but these pictures are from the LAST time. haha.. bev & johnny took us to mastro’s.. home of my favorite steak! mmmmmmmmmmmm

i happened to be showing a couple of my dad’s business clients around la that day, so we just brought them along.

charles and his insanely large prime rib.

just don’t let the restaurant people know it’s actually WAY past my real birthday!

the following day we went to lunch at the counter in santa monica with our aunt kathy and uncle bill. it’s a pretty cool restaurant.. they have coveted sweet potato fries and they let you build your own burger with tons of toppings.

disgruntled jack wants a burger, too.

yes, there’s a slight possibility bev & i are wearing the same dress.

ignore my expression, i thought jack was gonna pull my dress off.

later that day, something exciting happened! jack’s first taste of jamba juice! he LOVES it.. he was very angry when he couldn’t have any more.

okay, i shall update more later, i promise. ♥