24/365: Attack of the finger

Here's little J's pointer finger, or what we like to call his 'probe-y finger' because it's always the finger that comes out to explore. This was at meal time last night when his sneaky little finger came out to snatch a Cheerio to stuff into his mouth.

And yes, I am woefully aware that I have fallen behind on my Project 365 posts. =P You'll have to excuse the randomness of my catch up posts and ignore the fact that they're totally not in proper chronological order.

Frackin' Photoshop!!

It's broken and my computer genius husband who can probably fix it in two seconds is at a craft fair today. So much for catching up on Project 365 while the baby is sleeping. Damn you, Photoshop, damn you.

19/365: Indian food, in a jar

This is quite possibly the yummiest thing to come out of a jar, ever. I bought this a few weeks ago on one of my daily walking/shopping trips with Little John at the local vegetarian grocery store, Down to Earth. The pretty label caught my eye AND it was on sale! Score! And the directions written on the jar? Saute protein of choice, add sauce, and cover and simmer for ten minutes. Ten minutes! During those ten minutes, you can be heating up your oven to 400°F and right before getting ready to serve the curry, pop in a few pieces of frozen naan to warm up.

365 Blitz!

We are finally back after spending the weekend at my parents' house while John spent most of his weekend cleaning our apartment and making room in our spare bedroom/workroom/storage room for Little John's crib. The cleaning/reorganizing still isn't 100% complete but John did manage to get a ton of stuff done. Thank you, wonderful husband, I love you!

15/365: Creepy Crawlies! My parents have a plant in their front yard that has TONS of these monarch butterfly caterpillars. When I went to visit about a week and a half ago, I counted five but when I went over again on Saturday, there were so many that I couldn't even count them. Yes, there were seriously that many. I wonder how many there will be when I go over again this week!

16/365: Grandma did it, I swear. Why would I put a pink hair curler in my son's hair? =P

17/365: Octopus balls... Japanese octopus balls, takoyaki, were on the menu for lunch on Sunday. =) The secret to yummy takoyaki is to use big chunks of octopus and to not overcook them. This was just my second time making takoyaki but it was pretty easy, especially with the help of a special electric takoyaki pan. =)

18/365: Closed to the public... Except for us, since we got to help out with something at Hanauma Bay this morning. =) In addition to mongoose and feral cats, this guy was also enjoying the peace and quiet. It was overcast, which made for perfect beach weather for us, the people who were on Little John got to dip his feet into the water and unlike the last time he was at Hanauma Bay, there was no screaming or crying involved. Hooray!

I'm still alive and so is Project 365

I've been spending the weekend at my parents' house, which means no program to process my RAW image files so no pictures until either late Monday night or Tuesday afternoon. =)

14/365: Wheeeeeee!

(Disclaimer: So this is technically three photos but hey, only one of them is in focus so I say it still fits the 'one photo a day' guideline for Project 365. =P)

Who needs all the fancy schmancy rides at Disneyland when you get to wooosh around on Daddy's shoulders and have just as much fun. No lines, no heatstroke or sunburn from waiting in lines, no having to stand next to dodgy people who would mistake you for a baby of the opposite sex while waiting in line, and best of all, no crazy admission for all of this excitement. =) Daddy is the best!

In desperate need of a haircut...

I should be ashamed of how long it's been since my last haircut. I went two years without a haircut because I was living in Japan and was afraid the stylist would give me a Japanese mullet. Too many of my students were sporting these looks and I knew that I'd somehow end up with one too. Oh, you don't know what a Japanese mullet is? Here you go:


*shudder* Full on top and pathetically stringy and spider leggy on the bottom. Japan may be the only country where you can find more females with mullets than males... So I waited until I moved back to Hawaii and finally cut my hair after our November 2007 wedding.

Well, I got my hair cut once more after that but it was close to a year later. That puts my last haircut at around November 2008. It's now January 2011. Yes, it's been that long since my last haircut.

I'm thinking about something like this:

It's too bad a hairstyle can't also transform your entire body. =P

13/365: My little puppy dog

Even before I was a mom and even before I was married, I knew that when I had a kid of my own, hats with ears would HAVE to a part of his/her wardrobe. Well, I have my own kid now and believe it or not, I haven't bought any hats with ears for him yet. This is all daddy's doing. On his last trip to Japan, he picked up two hats for little John. This puppy one is still a bit big on him, even with his large noggin, but I think he still looks pretty darn adorable.

Dare I take him out in public like this?

12/365: My new lenses...

No, not camera lenses, unfortunately. This is my new pair of glasses, or what I like to call my 'Coke bottle glasses v.2.0.' My eyesight is so bad that my eye doctor once told me, 'No, you don't qualify as legally blind but yeah, you pretty much are blind.' It's a little hard to tell with these frames how thick the lenses are but trust me, they're thick. The sad thing is, I think they're probably thicker than Coke bottle bottoms. =(

With my extreme near-sightedness and my husband's extreme far-sightedness, our hope is that our boy will be spared from a sad fate that involves his own pair of Coke bottle glasses. Fingers are crossed!

11/365: Still stuck on Christmas

I guess I must be missing Christmas more than I realized because here's another related picture. Christmas sprinkles. Looks yummy, right? Well, then I probably shouldn't tell you that these sprinkles are at least two years old. We go to a Christmas party every year and every year I tell myself that it'd be nice to bake some cupcakes to bring but we ALWAYS end up having a craft fair to work during the day so I never get around to baking those darn cupcakes. Two years ago, I bought these sprinkles and they've sat in our cupboard since then, totally sad, neglected, and unused. They finally came out to play today but unfortunately not on any cupcakes.

This year will be the year of Christmas cupcakes, I swear. With new sprinkles, of course!