daddy's girl

kalia making her princess crown

sitting on the mini furniture

we pulled out the tube and maya was having so much fun!

especially with kalia chasing her

kalia dressing up - a daily event

the dress she had to wear to lunch at daddy's work

i've been sewing a little - mini tote i made kalia

dress up

kalia's drawing yesterday - practicing letters,
she made a boy & girl with crown

the pre-school at kapalua song, sung by kalia morgan hendrickson

So today we were trying to decide who was going to take kalia to the park and who was going to put maya down for her nap - but kalia didn't want me to go!:( She only wanted daddy to take her and she was not changing her mind! I guess she is a daddy's girl!

The day after maya almost fell off the bed, she was on our bed and she crawled to the edge, then looked back at me, then turned back and slowly started leaning over the edge...

Kalia has been all about dressing like a princess - every day she says she going to dress like a princess, then comes back in a different combination of play clothes.

We had deveraux over to play the other day and for a little project, i made them some princess crowns out of cardboard & foil and had little sticky jewels to decorate. Kalia carefully picked out each jewel and placed it in a specific spot and deveraux pulled each one as fast as she could and stuck it on-- two totally different personalities!

Maya has been sooooo cute! She is really starting to have her own personality and communicate and I'm so having crazy love fits over her. She has been dancing a lot lately and claps when the music is over. She gets the biggest open mouth smile on her face when she knows you want her to clap and then she claps! She get so excited that sometimes after clapping, she'll attack her own hand with her mouth. She gets so excited sometimes and attacks your face (her form of kissing?) with her mouth. It scares me and kalia a little, maya gets a little shark attack like. She is so different than kalia, so much more aggressive. She throws things, slams things around, loves to throw everything off of the coffee table and will hold her own against kalia. It is impossible to change Maya's diaper, it's soooo frustrating. The minute she hits the changing table, her entire body flips - even if i have something for her to play with- it needs to be something she doesn't usually get to play with- like a zip lock bag. Some times I change her and her entire body is vertical - she's hanging upside down by her legs, because she's twisting with such force that it is the only thing i can do to keep her a little in place. Erik changed a diaper yesterday and declared her impossible - I guess it's been a while since he changed one, since i've been saying this for a while! Kalia literally used to lift her legs for us - I didn't realize how easy I had it with her! We will be done with the changing table soon - it's so much easier to wrestle her on the ground! Same with the bath, Maya is twisting while you lower her into the towel.

kalia has been earning pennies by doing different things around the house. It started because she wanted to add more pennies to this water bottle rattle that we made for her when she was a baby. Now maya has one, since she loves kalia's and was shaking it like crazy today. 3 pennies in an empty water bottle - they love it! But now Kalia will clean her room for a penny, erik gets kisses & hugs for a penny, today i used it for a quick get dressed, wash face, brush hair and brush teeth this morning. I guess it's sort of like an allowance. When the bottle is pretty full, we will count and then she can buy something with her money.

Oh, i need to take some updated photos of the vegetables plants, the corn and carrots are really growing, still waiting on the peas and wildflowers.