John Wayne Fact: The evening before a shoot he was trying to get some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra (never a good friend of Wayne), who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne awake, and each time he made a complaining phone call it quieted temporarily but each time eventually grew louder. Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of Wayne's size approached saying, "Nobody talks to Mr. Sinatra that way." Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave, then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor, where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped.

May 22nd: Duke has had the same seahorse that has been sleeping with him since he got it From Teresa and Ray Piecy for his first Christmas. now that is is older he still uses it but can hit the belly to help him go back to sleep (poor baby is just like his mom and needs noise.)  Last night the batteries failed at around 2am. I notice a noise in his room, but didn't hear more until 4 am when the sippie cup jail cell rattling started. I went into his room and touched his seahorse to turn it on for the wide awake baby. His poor seahorse was out of batteries. It was an easy fix, but it made me think of how reliable his seahorse has been to him. It's been thrown out during unwanted naptimes, lay next to him when sick and allowed me to check on him without disturbing him. His sweet seahorse that watches out for him, that one day will not be on his bed, but will be in my heart.

"I'm not going to give you those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-stories, but I've gone without a meal or two in my lifetime, and I still don't expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me. " John Wayne

May 1st: Duke has taken to the Bat, he try to make a bat out of anything that is straight, this morning he tried to bat his Cars ball with a zip tie....needless to say...it didn't work.

FYI- Guess who also liked Baseball.

"My problem is that I'm not a handsome man like Cary Grant, who will be handsome at 65. I may be able to do a few more man-woman things before it's too late, but then what? I never want to play silly old men chasing young girls, as some of the stars are doing."- John Wayne

March 2nd: For Mom's Birthday this year she took us all to the Zoo. Duke roared at the lions until they roared..then he roared a little softer.

John Wayne Trivia: He was close friends with Maureen O'Hara who was his costar in several films until his passing.

January 15th: Future DJ's of America

John Wayne Fact: John Wayne's only Christmas referance is in Donovan's Reef, and this was a Hawaiian Christamas

December 25th: Merry Christmas From our favorite little Elf

From Christmas Cards

With his Girlfriend/ Mortal Enemy From Daycare

From Christmas Day

"You may think all my parts are the same. That's just what I want you to think. You get lost on the screen if your personality doesn't show through" - John Wayne

September 15th- Duke decided the night before his 2nd birthday he wanted to stay up and not go to sleep, which I found funny because he will usually fall asleep as soon as he hits the bed. On this night he said....nope I'm holding onto my youth. I am sorry my love you are getting older and bigger! You are spectacular!

John Wayne Fact: Though he was the Singing Cowboy, he didn't sing it was a voice over.

November 2012: The boy is obsessed with Wreck it Ralph, when we put the Tattoo on his belly he would show everyone and this was a great way to teach him body parts!