stoked

I've been slacking on the blog - we've really just been cruising. I've been trying to work more, the girls are happy at school and I'm looking for new childcare for Maya (Celena is leaving!). Erik is working quite a bit and adjusting to his new position. I've been feeling a little restless- trying to get the girls out on hikes, to the beach and in the water. But finally last weekend the only thing that could cure me, was getting a little pounding in overhead surf. I just needed to surf and certainly took a couple sets on the head- need to just be in the moment for a little bit, it's really hard to get to that frame of mind, isn't it? I needed some large waves to do that for me. But today we surfed really fun, glassy mushrooms and I was pretty stoked- it was perfect conditions and caught some fun waves. Really needed to be stoked- surfed with 3 people, caught my best three waves of the winter, a whale breeched 100 feet from me. The girls having so much fun on the beach and shore break. Then Erik paddled out and caught the best wave of every set (of course)-fun morning.

Last weekend- Kalia was charging! Seriously! First on Saturday (after a failed attempt to get new tires on the otherside) Kalia suggested we go down to the aquatic center. She swam for an 1 hour and 15 minutes straight, diving under and swimming, practicing her strokes. Maya even went under the mushroom waterfall. It was a great idea, even if I was feeling lazy to drive to Lahaina (it's like 15 minutes to the aquatic center!)

Then Sunday on the day that we surfed s-turns and it was fairly sizable, Kalia took on the shore break- she was charging into the waves. I had to keep a serious eye on her, at one point she wasn't paying attention and literally got taken down by a wave, it swept her feet from under her as she was walking towards me (it was overhead surf on the outside) and she went down, the waves washed over her and she got back up and went back for more. Seriously having a blast.

Thursday night
Dinner at Lei's with the Butler Boys

february days

another afternoon at ironwoods
whales breeching
then dinner at zach & joels

making valentines for daddy

We had a fun Valentine's Day. After school/work, the girls & I made Valentine's for Daddy. Daddy came home with balloons for all the girls, including me & chocolate kisses! Then Uncle Greg came over to watch the girls, while Erik & I went up for sunset & a couple beers at the Bay. Just like old times, super fun! Then we still made it home to put the girls to bed & watch a movie and get in bed early. Wow, are we getting old?

sunday afternoon

staying at home was not an option sunday afternoon
erik went to work and three girls in the house was not working
off to ironwoods, i planned to keep maya in the backpack,
but she walked the entire way. big girl!

very slowly at times,
but she did it.
we stopped often, to remove small rocks or sand from her slippers
but she did it.

kalia running ahead- being a very confident girl

mommy is funny- sometimes
fun times and great to get out of the house!!!

more sunday morning

while erik went fishing, we went on a little adventure

just cruising

kalia is truly a great whale caller
here she is in action - and they always come!

just the view - ok, now it's not a secret spot...
if you recognize the beach behind us
kalia is maya's kitty and her name is "emma"

sunday

lazy sunday morning
show & cuddles

fishing at secret spot

kalia over the blow hole (only blowing air)
not the blow hole, blow hole, just a little one at this fishing spot...in case you were wondering

maya's turn

more up the hill- they love this place

hop like a frog up the hill

roll back down

hide and seek

finally getting out of the house

thursday- going up the hill to run around

yeah, we are here!

running around

Thursday we remained at home all day- because Kalia was still a little sick and needed some rest. But by the afternoon, we all needed to get out for just a little bit!

See the shirt Maya is wearing- I got out all of Kalia's 2 year clothes (see Kalia wearing it here with her cousins) and now Maya is wearing them. I don't know why, but I am having a hard time with this group of hand me downs. It's too big girl- it was Kalia's 1st set of big girl clothes and we did such big girl things in these clothes and there's no way that baby Maya is big enough to be in Kalia's big girl clothes. I'm having so many conflicting feelings - first that Kalia is not still my little girl wearing these clothes and the fact that our baby is now big enough to wear them! It's really hard to wrap my head around it all.

baby beach

tuesday at our baby beach
it was perfect baby beach conditions
low tide and sheet glass

maya

kalia & scarlett

kalia's art work & maya needs feet tickles!

kalia made this drawing of me at school
i was really happy, especially because she is definitely all about daddy lately

here's one of us at the pool
she is swimming in the pool with her goggles on

this drawing was her tree drawing

kalia's drawing of our family + 2 friends

Kalia was sick the other day - oh I need to get a photo of the butterfly garland she made while she was sick. She also did a great stamp/drawing. Anyway, we've been pretty cruising this week- Tuesday we went to Baby Beach with Scarlett & Celia and that afternoon Kalia had a runny nose which turned fever/croupy cough...again! I really do not like croupy cough! Seriously. Wednesday, Erik stayed home with Kalia, while I went to work- they had a great day. Well, it's a great day when you get to spend the whole day with daddy by yourself- Kalia is very much a daddy's girl right now. I certainly cannot give arm & neck tickles like daddy does.

Speaking of tickles, Maya has a special tickle spot and it's in a funny place - her feet. And she will relentlessly ask you to give her tickles there and when I say relentlessly, I mean relentlessly. She especially likes Kalia to give her feet tickles and will sometimes go as far as yelling, "tickle my feet! tickle my feet!" over and over again. At times, I will hear Kalia say, "mommy, I'm tired of tickling Maya's feet" only to look over and see her at Maya's feet tickling them for who knows how long. Kalia is such a dedicated big sister, but definitely getting bullied into endless feet tickling! Today we put our foot down and told Kalia to come away, Erik even went as far as holding Kalia to him, so she wouldn't be tempted to give into her little sister's demands. Well, Maya "this is my world and your just living in it" Kikuye wouldn't have it. She literally went wherever Kalia was. At first Kalia moved over to my couch and Maya came over and stuck her feet in the air at her. She continued to stick her feet in the air and call over and over to Kalia to "tickle my feet!" Then Kalia ran over to Erik for protection and Maya ran over, sat on the ground in front of them, stuck her feet in the air and demanded feet tickles. When she wasn't getting her way, she got up and tried to pry Erik's arms open to free Kalia to tickle her feet! Anyway, I was laughing hysterically. As Erik said later, "she really likes her feet tickled".