busy week

The girls modeling their new shoes from Tutu.
Tutu sent these for Kalia to wear at school
and soon another pair for Maya arrived.
Happy girls- and they are very fast shoes,
you should see the girls run!

wednesday
Kalia is out of school at 1pm,
it was Duke Kahanamoku's birthday
and we celebrated at Duke's with milkshakes
and snacks.

Erik's friend Tommy has been staying with us this week.
Erik has been working a lot and we finally had a fun
day out on Thursday.
Ironwoods hike

Erik & Maya climbing around the rocks

Maya wanted to play hide & seek

Erik, Tommy
Maya

We have had a full week- Kalia & I picked up Tommy at the airport on Monday. Then Maya & I went with Tommy to the beach on Tuesday. Kalia had a great week at school and Maya is doing well at Auntie Carol's. Kalia got a new buddy this week. She traded buddies with Luca. According to Kalia, Luca & Cole got along like they were already buddies and Luca's buddy Crystal really likes Kalia- so they switched. So Kalia's 8th grade buddy is now Crystal and she is a very happy girl. I talked to her teacher Mrs. Coon and it sounds like it did actually happen about that way. Kalia says that she plays with her 3rd grade reading buddy Ariana at recess quite a bit as well. They had a cool puppet show on Friday and Kalia had her 1st show and tell. Thursday was supposed to be her table's turn for show and tell, but all the kids forgot to bring something (including us-although I ran it down and put it in her backpack, but she didn't see it!) So they did it on Friday instead, Kalia took some shells that we found on the beach. I couldn't believe that I forgot to have Kalia bring her show and tell- it's not really like me, but we had a crazy long day on wednesday (picked up maya from daycare and went straight to wailea), so we were gone for 12 hours, so that is my excuse.

Let's see what's going on in Maya's world. Oh, she loves her little friends at Auntie Carol's. In fact, we went to Kalia's school campout on campus the other night (more in next post) and she saw her friend Raffi right away and ran over to him- it was really cute. We've been having some fun times on our tuesday and thursday. Maya always says, "mommy can I just cruise with you tomorrow?" I guess that's what I've been saying to her. Currently, her and Kalia have been playing for about an hour very nicely. Erik & Tommy are fishing on a friends boat, so we have had the morning to ourselves.