cruising

Going to dinner at Duke's with Uncle Greg
(and Uncle Pat + fam)
Yes, I did put them in matching dresses!
I know I probably vowed at some point I would never do it, but it's so darn cute.

Kalia with baby in a sling

ironwoods hike
maya pointing to the set coming in

hanging with baby joel

the hike crew

my hiker girls

hendrickson girl shot

up high with zach

kalia & maya doing their thing

sturns - maya loves to walk on mommy's board

I missed the shot - but basically, maya carries kalia's helmet
around and cries to have me put it on.

Just the girls outside - but some of Maya walking.

Well the girls are really enjoying spending time with uncle greg. When we went to dinner at Duke's last weekend they played like crazy with him. Maya was giving him the biggest hugs at the end of the night and he is officially kalia's "best friend in the whole world".

Erik was fishing last night down by sturns & he called us at the park to come and see the biggest turtle was resting on the shore. It was really cool.

Sunday night I had the worst stomach pains, i was literally up all night and erik didn't get much sleep either. Monday, Erik had inventory and a long day and I felt horrible. Thank goodness the girls decided to be amazing on Monday. The universe was aligned or something because we were home literally all day and I was feeling horrible, stabbing stomach pains and a little feverish and the girls got along all day! I just moved my pillow from room to room with the girls and they just played together happily. I was so happy kalia didn't have school because she thoroughly entertained maya all day long! At one point I put them both in Maya's crib and they bounced for 30 minutes. Kalia kept taking maya down and maya would laugh and laugh. I took a small nap in the rocking chair. The one thing about being home all day is that the house was destroyed. There was stuff everywhere. I don't remember Kalia being quite so messy at 1 year and Kalia is definitely not very neat anymore. The combo was scary.

Tuesday afternoon after we picked up Kalia from school, did part of the Ironwoods hike. It was really fun and the kids had so much fun exploring around. Wednesday, uncle greg watched the girls at sturns for us and erik & surfed together! (The bay was junky or else this would have never happened). Thanks uncle greg!

So lately I just try to not let kalia nap and just do early bedtime, since nap means late, late bedtime. Well, wednesday afternoon she fell asleep on the couch- at 4PM and was impossible to wake up (plus, you haven't seen how crabby she is if you try to wake up the sleeping bear, hey, she is like her daddy!). Anyway, so after we put maya down, I knew Kalia would be up late and I was planning on finishing up this little backpack I was sewing for her. So I got out an embroidery hoop and needle and she practiced sewing and I got to finish the back pack on the sewing machine. It was pretty fun. I'll post some photos of her work later.