The Long Beach Aquarium

During our Christmas trip to Seal Beach we visited the Long Beach Aquarium. Jeremy had a blast seeing all the fish and sea animals. But overall he loved most touching everything he could with his little hands. Like....




The mantarays with Dad.

The fish with Mom, Aunt Michelle, and Delana.

The shark at the play area.

Even Grandpa's iphone in his shirt pocket.

Christmas #3 - Back in Berkeley with the Ruiz Clan

Jeremy came full circle and celebrated his third Christmas with Uncle Phil, Aunt Rose, and Uncle Rich in Berkeley.
Jeremy was very helpful making sure Aunt Rose unwrapped her present just right.

He really liked his new Ugg boots and can't wait to try them out in Tahoe.

Christmas #2 - Sunny Southern Cal

For Christmas #2 we moved on to Seal Beach to visit Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of the socal crew.

Jeremy made the rounds at the Portner Christmas Party on December 23rd.

Grandma and Grandpa created "Winter Wonderland" full of snowmen, Santa Claus, and Rudolph. Jeremy was fasinated with Winter Wonderland every night, especially Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning was a treat with lots of fun presents.
And the fun continued with a present of cool cars from Aunty Jeannie!

But, Christmas wouldn't be complete without time with Great Gramma Kay and Papa Gene.

Christmas #1 - At home in Berkeley

This was Jeremy's 2nd Christmas, but since we had lots of family to celebrate with we stretched the holiday into 3 segments. Christmas #1 was spent at home with Mom and Dad.

Lots of presents to open, but the little ornaments on our miniature tree fascinated Jeremy the most.

Jeremy (and Dad) love playing hoops with his new Cal basketball hoop. Not sure, if this was a gift for Jeremy or Dad.

School Days

John came home from work one day to find Jeremy and his nanny share friend, Juliet, in "school". They are quickly learning all the animals and the sounds they make.

President Elect OBAMA

Jeremy is excited that Obama won the election and can't wait for the inauguration.

Our little monkey

One of Jeremy's favorite animals is a monkey. So it was appropriate that he dress up as a monkey this year. He had a great time visiting a pumpkin patch, carving a jack-o-lantern with Dad, and trick-or-treating with his buddies Maya and Juliet. Check out the pictures on the side.

Belly button?

A couple of weeks ago Jeremy

discovered his belly button.

It's now one of his favorite

things to check out!

Be careful though,

he'll want to

check out

yours

too!

Looking Good!

Finally....Jeremy has taken to his hats.  Here he is showing off his birthday hat from Uncle Chris and Aunt Irene.

I am a TODDLER!

Jeremy started taking a few steps around his first birthday and perfected his "toddling" over the next months.  Here he is in mid-September cruising around his room.

Ready for the Military

It was time, once again for a haircut.  Jeremy gets his hair cut as often as we do, so to try to lengthen time between visits to his stylist we went short this time.  Maybe a bit too short, we think the local recruiters might want him now.  Especially if they saw his army crawl.  But do you think they serve cherrios in the mess hall?

My 1st CAL game

Jeremy supported his Bears at the first game of the CAL football season.  CAL beat Michigan State and Jeremy collected all the pom poms he could in our section.  It was a winning day for all!