Micah is here!

Family and Friends, I'd like to present to you my little brother, Micah Nicolas Mascardo. It's ok You can applaud...Micah made his arrival on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009. He weighed in at 8 pounds and 1 ounce, please note I was 2 ounces heavier, and he was 20 inches tall, also note I was 1/2 inch taller, but hey who's counting. I'm just glad he's here and I'm sure you are too.

You know when I first heard about mom and dad having another baby in the house, I thought that would be such a cool thing, but the more I talked to my friends they told me that it was over, they said I would have to share everything...and I said everything...and they said "Yeah, everything."

You mean that I would not be the only center of attention, that I would have to share the limelight with someone else...and they said yes. Wow, talk about a heavy blow to my ego, not that I have one yet, or do I? Anyway, my friends did say that I would learn to live with it, that is after the intial shock. You know what it's not to bad, I guess God knew I needed a little brother to play with. Thanks God for always looking out for me.

Here's Dr. Park (on the left) the same doctor who delivered me. He's such a cool guy, he's praying about talking his family on a mission trip to Peru next summer. We'll keep that in prayer Dr. Park.

You know what people should actually wait a couple of days before they take pictures, I mean think about you're in your mom's womb for over 9 months and as soon as you get out you're all red and swollen and then the nurse puts some oily ointment in your eyes. I feel you on this one Micah. My arrival day pictures don't look any better.

Hey Micah, I gotta be honest there is one thing that was difficult for me to share with you and it's this blog, for so long it's been called the "Whats up with J.J." blog, but now it's gonna be called the "What's up with J.J. and Micah" blog. Takes some getting used to, but no hard feelings, but either way, Micah, I still love you man.

Here's mom before Micah

Here's mom after Micah

Micah, Auntie Suzie and Uncle Frank. Pray for them they're headed out to the mission field in Montebelluna, Italy. Eat some pasta for us.

Micah really loves his Uncle Mike.

Here's Micah with the Golden Girls...you know the ones that made it to the "American Idol" auditions at mom's surprise baby shower.

Auntie Michelle and Micah.

Auntie Camthy, Micah and mom

Micah and Auntie Lil, you know Maddy and Bella's mom

The Revilla Family and Micah

The Ton family with me and Micah

Here we (me and Micah) are with Quami, he's a funny guy, what do you think Auntie Camthy.

MICAH'S BABY SHOWER

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2009

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT,

PORTS OF CALL, SAN PEDRO

This was after the conversation with Kloie that I would have to share everything with Micah.

Celebrating Moms and Dads

Hello Everybody! I've come to realize that there comes a time of the year when you say thank you to the two people who have been there for you through thick and thin...who have accepted you as you are...who seemed to take care of every detail of your life, even when you're not aware of it...If it were not for them, I would not be here...so Thank you, Mom and Dad! You're the best!

And to help you celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day, I shreded some paper to use as confetti...aren't I resourceful...hey dad, i hope you didn't mind, but i used your need your bible study notes to make the confetti.

Me and Destiny

Me and Riley

Me and Michael

Here we (maddy, bella and me) are celebrating Father's Day, with Uncle Mike and Grandpa Kim

me and my cousins, maddy and bella

Hey dad, what do you say we go celebrate "Father's Day" at Chuck E. Cheese?

Mother's day at Grandma Nancy's House

Don't tell them, but dad's family is kinda weird...Why you might ask, well this is the first time I ever saw a family have mother's day cake with a candle and sing a "Happy Mother's Day" song, by the way, it truly sounded like the happy birthday song...anyway, it was cool, Nanay let me blow out the candle...

It was kinda funny, because everytime i blew out the candleTatay would light it again, it's like he thought I wanted him to light the candle every time so i could blow it out. You know me I didn't want to disappoint, so i kept blowing out the candle every time he light it.

I'm not too fond of this picture, it looks like i gained some weight, well that's what the camera will do to you sometimes.

J.J's Method for Car Washing

This is the way we wash the cars...wash the cars...wash the cars...
This is the way we wash the cars...so early in the morning. Well it wasn't really that early, it was about 10am.

Wax on, wax off...wax on, wax off...I'm not too sure what my dad meant by that, he mentioned something about some 80's movie, called "The Karate Kid." Have you ever seen that movie...Well if you have this is for all the "Mr. Miyaga's" in the world.

We all need a little help from our friends to get those spots which are hard to reach, especially for a guy like me.

So what does it take to wash a car? I'm not an expert, but I can tell you by washing a couple of cars, it has showned me that it takes a little bit more than spraying down cars. It takes determined diligence, hard work and a good attitude. Mom and dad let me help the Mission team with their Missions Car Wash. So next time you think about washing your car...Think about me.

Chores and Water Fountains

Mom and dad decided I needed to make some contribution to keeping the house clean. After all, I make about 33% of the mess, mom and dad make about 67%. So after careful thought, I decided that I would start vaccuuming. As you can tell I'm already an expert, moving the furniture and getting those areas, my parents would normally miss.

Along with the housework, dad decided that I should be involved in painting my room, well actually soon it will be mine and my baby brother's room. Dad thought I didn't know how to paint, so I let him teach me. What he didn't know is that I'm a pretty painter already, especially during the Mommy and me classes, mom and I have been attending. I'm just a little more comfortable just using my fingers. What do you think?

In preparation for my baby brother, mom and dad decided it was time for me to move from my crib to a big boy's bed. After a couple of weeks, I decided it was best, since I am outgrowing the crib. As soon as we went to IKEA, I knew this was the bed for me. It's real cool, I wonder when I'll outgrow this bed.

If you didn't know, one thing that I absolutely love doing is running through those fountains of water. You know the ones that shoot water straight from the ground, I'm not too sure how they do that, but all I know is that it' really cool. This one is at a Paseo Mall in Pasadena.

As you can tell, I thoroughly enjoyed my time.

Greetings!

"This Little Light of Mine, I'm going to let it shine..." So much has happened since my last blog entry. Probably the latest and greatest news is that the doctor told me that I'm going to be a big brother to a little "brother". How cool, I'll have someone to hangout and play ball with. Mom and dad said I may have to wait a couple of years before he can actually play with me.

Here I am with Stephen-Fua, as you can tell our parents dressed us for the Missions open house.

Just in case you wanted to get a better look at my Vietnamese Outfit here it is. Just realize, in Vietnam, they usually don't wear "vans" with this outfit

Here I am with mom and dad at the Missions Open House at church. I asked my dad what he was wearing and he said the native attire for the Philippines, a "barong tagalog." I didn't have the heart to tell my dad, but don't you think his shirt is a little "shiny", not to mention it's almost see through, I'm glad my dad wore an undershirt, aren't you?

Here I am with Mo, Jenny, Candace, Crystal and mom. Hey, how come you guys didn't dress up in an international outfit?

I told you "I didn't do it."

How old are you again? You look kinda big for your age.

Alright, dude. Pose for the picture, this is going on the blog.