It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

Decorating the tree last week.
Sorry it's been a crazy week and I'm behind on the blog.
These photos are from a week ago,
the west side was out of trees, so we picked up Kalia from school
and drove to the other side.

Remember this little hat?
Maya

OK, wanted to get a little photo of our advent.
I got this one after Christmas last year and it was hiding
in my closet all year. But it's been so fun- every day
the girls open the day on the box and a part of this forest
scene comes out. Some days it's a reindeer baby, 4 little birds, a tree- so fun!

They are looking so alike in this shot!
Kalia brought the chair over for a photo...

There's our big girl

There's little Maya

Kalia wanted to take some photos and had us pose.

Letters to Santa

quick story:
I was trying to get the girls to write their letters and Maya didn't want to supply any info, so I asked, "should I write that you've been a naughty girl this year?" (and she might have been naughty just before- both girls are choosing a very bad time to push the boundaries) and Maya says, "no, I don't want to get coal in my stocking!"

Letter to Santa in the mail

Maya's turn

Making a garland,
Maya glues,
Kalia practices her ABCD patterns

Reindeer cookies

Kalia's gingerbread house she made with her 8th
grade buddy at school.

We've had a crazy couple of weeks, very busy. Kalia ended up sick last week and so we had a very mellow and rainy weekend. Kalia has had a lot of school events- christmas stories and cocoa with 3rd grade buddies, gingerbread house making, christmas party today and tomorrow night will be her Christmas Show. I will take some video!

holiday song

We stayed up late last night at a holiday party and Maya ended up being quite sick last night. So we had a down day, Maya had a fever and a very Darth Vadar-like breathing style, and just slightly croupy cough. We blew up the air mattress and watched movies. This is a song that Kalia has been singing non-stop- it's a preview of the Christmas pageant. And yes, she is still in her pajamas- all day. Until we went to pick up Erik from work and then she wanted to wear the fancy dress she wore to the party last night.

santa sighting

breakfast with santa
at Sacred Hearts

This was the first time that Maya sat on Santa's lap,
and I honestly didn't think she would.

Sleigh Ride
Maui Style

Kalia's turn

Then it was the tire swing on the playground

Even I got a turn,
I have to admit that I felt sick after Kalia spun us around.

November Kindergarten Bulletin Board

December Bulletin Board

friday at duke's and saturday at baby beach

friday at Duke's for Henry Kapono,
getting ready for the music

cousins
they had so much fun running around the grass,
and we had a spectacular sunset!

working hard at baby beach

Cole was attached to that turtle for most of the day,
the girls doing a great job of filling the whole with water!

three kids in the pool!

cousins

here comes maya!
she loves cruising in this little inner tube,
she was riding little waves at napili bay in this tube.
I didn't get any pictures from today,
but we went down to mile marker 14 and had fun.
maya made a little friend, 3 year old named Carson.

thanksgiving 2011

Our little pilgram

Lining up before the performance,
sorry, it took a while to download these photos from my camera.

Group photo after the play

Kalia & Kaylyn

Thanksgiving lunch with Tutu & Grandpa- yum!

Cole James is here!
Auntie Lo, Uncle Vere & Cole arrived on Wednesday.
Kalia is seriously loving on Cole, both girls are,
we have definitely been invading some personal space!
He's just too cute!

chalk

Thanksgiving Day
Napili Bay to get our family photo,
Cole running Kalia down to the water

Our family photo

Cole & Grandpa

Thanks Mom & Dad for the wonderful Thanksgiving food!
Apples to Apples- don't ask who won!
Yes, it was Greg.

thanksgiving play and a song

Watch Kalia's Thanksgiving Play:
It was too long, so it is in 3 parts. Kalia's line, "you are very kind" is in the 2nd video. She is in the Mayflower, front row, very far left and she is hard to see. After the play we got to have Thanksgiving lunch with Kalia. Tutu, Grandpa, Maya and I got to eat lunch in the cafeteria and it was really fun!









After the play the 2nd grade & Kindergarten gave us a preview of their Christmas program, which was a song with some arm movements and when we got home Maya wanted to put on her own show for us, see below:

this week

well, actually last week,
we hiked to the duck pond with scarlett

The koi were agressive,
the ducks must have been full,
but it was highly entertaining.
Maya spent the week re-telling the tale
of how Scarlett's daddy flung a koi out of the water
and scared them all.

run

the choo-choo train down,
there was also the variation where
they all wanted to be in the middle
of the hand holding and so were
walking down hill in a circle.

Happy Belated Birthday Auntie Kim, sorry your birthday blog is late...

Let's see, at this very moment Kalia and Maya are sleeping together on an air mattress in Maya's room. I was brave and told them they could sleep together last night, since Tutu and Grandpa were coming and it worked. Except for the part where Maya cried because Kalia convinced her that the light coming in from her slightly open curtains was making "creepy shadows" on the wall. And the fact that they were up at 5:45am. Well, Tutu and Grandpa came late and so that was the 1st time they saw them and they were just a little bit excited. Nobody slept after they discovered them.

Erik is on Oahu right now to watch Tanner surf the first event in the Triple Crown- The Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa. GO TANNER! As I dropped him off this morning at the airport, we were discussing what a big trip this was- packing up and semi-spontaneously going to Oahu (without us!) and how 6 years ago, this would be a regular thing, but 2 kids later, this is major travel. Times have changed!

We've been having stormy weather and I'm enjoying it. Excited for some projects this week while Mom is here. I will try to be more diligent with my picture taking.

from the mouth of a 5 year old

s-turns

"Things that are NOT hot to you, is hot to me. Because you are a grown-up and I'm a little kid" Explanation for the fact that her pasta might be too hot, although we told her it wasn't.

"Why do you get to say "what the heck" and we don't"?
Good question!

After I told Kalia (after seeing them sitting on either side of Maya's toy car) that they were going to tip over. "No we aren't, because we are each sitting on a side and it's the same amount of heavy".
Genius!

Although she did believe she could crawl threw a fabric tunnel connecting the arm of one couch to the other couch's arm. It was about 3 1/2 feet off the ground, held to the couch by a book.