happy 4th of july!

morning play in Kalia's room

i took this one thelma and louise style - maya making a face at kalia

the girls with morning hair

playing in kalia's room

maya eating bananas in the high chair - her first meal in the high chair

july 3rd star gazing, kalia was soooo excited to go outside and stay up late

july 3rd sparklers outside -
erik had to work on july 4th, so we did some sparklers the night before.
i did a "light show" for kalia.

We had a pretty mellow 4th of july. We really celebrated more on July 3rd since Erik had to work the night of July 4th. Friday I took the girls to meet up with our play group and Shannon had a nice 4th of july craft for the kids, then kalia played down at the beach - they made stone soup and she shopped at Deveraux's store down at the tree on the beach with the huge roots the kids play in. That afternoon we drove the girls down and ended up at Launiapoko, since traffic was pretty terrible and seemed like the best place for everyone. I got a quick session in and kalia played in the water. Then home to put screaming maya to bed and we stayed up late and did sparklers in the front. Erik bought some fireworks, but I was being chicken since there are signs all over saying "no fireworks". Kalia kept asking me to do a "light show" with the sparklers and I was really getting into it.

4th of july I took the girls to Kalia's friend Deveraux's condo and we swam in their pool. Then we really just hung out at home. Maya still goes down so early, even if I try to put her down later, she still gets up early or earlier than if I put her down early. I put Maya down and then took Kalia outside to play- I kick the ball, we both run to get the ball and Kalia gets the ball every time. I think Erik made up this game, but he said she only gets it 95% of the time. I don't have the heart to do it, especially since she does the full body dive for the ball.

Funny story, when we were at Launiapoko and talking a woman next to us, who was asking about our girls and she had a big group with her. One person was the guy who owns Ba-Le at Lahaina Cannery Mall and he came up to us and said, "hey, 15 chicken". At first I had no idea what he was saying and then it dawned on me that #15 with chicken is what I used to order religiously there. I'll have you know that you can now call me lemongrass chicken sandwich, I've changed my order! But still that was pretty funny. I am a creature of habit, what can I say.

We had gotten take out from Oscar's take out wagon the other night and my burrito came with rice and beans and I don't like beans. Kalia looked at my plate and said, "mommy, you have to eat your beans. If you don't eat your beans, you won't be able to run fast and catch my shadow."

Maya now eats bananas too and has been sitting in her high chair. She is so funny, of course she only wants whatever Kalia is playing with. I even have Kalia pretend play with some of Maya's toys, but she still wants Kalia's stuff. Maya is getting pretty good in her exersaucer, she's starting to be able to turn around to all her toys and pull all the different toys down to put her in mouth. She really seems like she's going to start creeping a little bit, erik says she was scooting on the bed today and erik swears that she held up her hands for him to pick her up a couple of times. Could be just a coincidence. Maybe he's trying to get me back for feeding her first meal while he was sleeping and putting her in the high chair when he was outside- he caught the end of both of them!

Sydney came over today, so no nap for Kalia. Both girls down early, so done for now, going to go get some ice cream and watch some mindless tv...