little miss papaya eating her grapes
kalia and her koi fish drawing
surf girls at olowalu
mommy, i want to paddle out at middles
kalia on a horse at ironwood ranch-we got her to sit on the horse, but she didn't want to go for the actual ride
kalia's school work-they are learning french, geography & music
chalk outside
maya drew a little with chalk and sometimes we werefast enough to keep it out of her mouth
Did I mention that Maya cut her first tooth while we were in California and then her second tooth just after we got home. She sure likes to try out her new teeth on your finger- ouch!
We have definitely entered stage 2 of adjusting to sharing our life with baby sister. I remember when my friend Kristi said that her son was fine until her baby started crawling and eating at the table - well, I would have to say that this is true for us too. Kalia was great when maya came home and seemed to adjust so well to having her in the house. But now, Maya is just exploding in her crawling, exploring, pulling up on everything and confidence in being mobile. Maya will pull up on the coffee table, pivot and grab onto the couch, then grab onto kalia and grab her snack out of her hand. Maya can get anywhere so quickly - and that's usually wherever kalia is and tries to grab whatever kalia is playing with. Kalia is not happy about this and has declared that maya is not allowed to play with anything, even her own toys. She has been peeling her hands off the coffee table, giving her the shoulder to get her off things and even "accidentally" rocking the foot stool into maya's head. Maya's single minded determination amazes me! She will not be stopped! Yesterday she pulled herself onto the coffee table, grabbed one of kalia's markers and then just stood there all by herself (without holding on to anything) for about 5 seconds- until I closed my mouth and grabbed her before she fell face first into the table. She also climbed the stairs at the park and crawled through the yellow tube- all on her own. At 8 months, kalia was still rolling to get anywhere and maya can get to practically anything she wants.
We've been having a tough week with kalia and it's definitely because maya requires so much more attention - you cannot take your eye off her. She almost crawled out the front door yesterday, when erik left it open to get something. Kalia told me the other day, "I don't want to be a big sister, I just want to be Kalia". But other times, they are giggling and playing so well together.
Our mom's group had a field trip to Ironwood Ranch the other day and it was really nice. The drive to the ranch was beautiful, hard to believe that it's just above napili, you really felt like you were upcountry. Kalia was ready to go, but when it was finally our turn, the huge horse was a little intimidating. She was willing to sit and pet the horse, but didn't want to go for the ride. It was a really big horse!
Trevor & Nichaela were back on Maui and we surfed with them at Olowalu- see photo of girls above. Then later that week, we met them in Kaanapali and went down to black rock. While Trevor amazed the crowd with flips off black rock, a couple of turtles were swimming with everyone right in the shore break. Kalia was inches from the huge turtle, it was really cool!
Couple things - Kalia asked to go in the Bjorn the other day and even got it out and started climbing into it. I had to laugh, when I actually pictured it in my head- she's so light, I may have been able to carry her- but do I want to go there? The other day Kalia wanted erik to go in her room to play and he was lying on the couch, so she said, "daddy, march, march, march". This is so funny, because this is what we used to say to her to get her to go to her room before bath every night!
We have definitely entered stage 2 of adjusting to sharing our life with baby sister. I remember when my friend Kristi said that her son was fine until her baby started crawling and eating at the table - well, I would have to say that this is true for us too. Kalia was great when maya came home and seemed to adjust so well to having her in the house. But now, Maya is just exploding in her crawling, exploring, pulling up on everything and confidence in being mobile. Maya will pull up on the coffee table, pivot and grab onto the couch, then grab onto kalia and grab her snack out of her hand. Maya can get anywhere so quickly - and that's usually wherever kalia is and tries to grab whatever kalia is playing with. Kalia is not happy about this and has declared that maya is not allowed to play with anything, even her own toys. She has been peeling her hands off the coffee table, giving her the shoulder to get her off things and even "accidentally" rocking the foot stool into maya's head. Maya's single minded determination amazes me! She will not be stopped! Yesterday she pulled herself onto the coffee table, grabbed one of kalia's markers and then just stood there all by herself (without holding on to anything) for about 5 seconds- until I closed my mouth and grabbed her before she fell face first into the table. She also climbed the stairs at the park and crawled through the yellow tube- all on her own. At 8 months, kalia was still rolling to get anywhere and maya can get to practically anything she wants.
We've been having a tough week with kalia and it's definitely because maya requires so much more attention - you cannot take your eye off her. She almost crawled out the front door yesterday, when erik left it open to get something. Kalia told me the other day, "I don't want to be a big sister, I just want to be Kalia". But other times, they are giggling and playing so well together.
Our mom's group had a field trip to Ironwood Ranch the other day and it was really nice. The drive to the ranch was beautiful, hard to believe that it's just above napili, you really felt like you were upcountry. Kalia was ready to go, but when it was finally our turn, the huge horse was a little intimidating. She was willing to sit and pet the horse, but didn't want to go for the ride. It was a really big horse!
Trevor & Nichaela were back on Maui and we surfed with them at Olowalu- see photo of girls above. Then later that week, we met them in Kaanapali and went down to black rock. While Trevor amazed the crowd with flips off black rock, a couple of turtles were swimming with everyone right in the shore break. Kalia was inches from the huge turtle, it was really cool!
Couple things - Kalia asked to go in the Bjorn the other day and even got it out and started climbing into it. I had to laugh, when I actually pictured it in my head- she's so light, I may have been able to carry her- but do I want to go there? The other day Kalia wanted erik to go in her room to play and he was lying on the couch, so she said, "daddy, march, march, march". This is so funny, because this is what we used to say to her to get her to go to her room before bath every night!
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