You Are Invited! Kalia is Turning 5!!!

Another year already? Well, I guess we did just have a pre-school graduation- so 5 must be right around the corner.

Ballet Recital - MAPA Westside

Kalia's Ballet Recital
On Saturday evening, Kalia had her MAPA Beginning Ballet Performance
For this session, the westside MAPA had their own little recital in Lahaina.
The previous session, we had the recital with the main MAPA
group at the MACC and had to do dress rehearsal, $55 costume and then a long wait for the performance. This was just fine for us!

A little anxious for her performance- she just wanted to do it!
It was hard to wait!

Ballerinas

Beginning Ballet Class
1st they did a small demo at the barre

Just couldn't wait for the routine- will try later.

friday afternoon in kapalua

Erik finally had two days off- so after Kalia's graduation,
we took him to a fun spot we had gone with Zach & Joel the previous day.
There's even a treasure hidden around there, shhhhh...

the girls are both getting to be great lava rock climbers,
yes, it's a little scary at times.

Graduation Videos

Our Little Graduate: Part 2

Class of 2011!
I have lots of video- will upload later.

Graduation is serious stuff!

Scarlett & Kalia

Kalia & Daddy

Mommy & Kalia

Eating outside and being very silly with Uncle Greg

Kalia'a Pre-School Graduation

Our Little Graduate!
Time sure does fly- what a big girl!

Lea, Scarlett & Kalia

Maya cruising with Kalia
Maya had a blast today- she played with Kalia before the ceremony
and then during she played with Uncle Greg

Lining up to go inside.

The kids ready to perform
(Kalia would not wear her leis)

Graduates do the bell songs

monkey pods

lahaina park

one, two, three go!

cheese

collecting monkey pod seeds

monkey pod crafts

finished product
kalia is taking orders if you are interested:)
she told me that she wants to make things and sell them

maya doing a great job!

kalia's flower

this afternoon- kapalua secret spot
zach & joel took the girls to a little hideout in kapalua,
there was even a treasure hidden there!
then we climbed the lava rock to some tidepools,
these girls are getting to be really good rock climbers

hide n seek

colorful kayaks

may news

BIG NEWS IN MAY! Maya has gone poo poo on the potty! We are very proud. She has gone now a total of 5 times on the potty. The first time was at Celena's house and I will admit that I was sad that I missed that- but then we came home and she went with me and I was so happy! We literally called everyone to announce the big news. Yes, this is a video of her on the potty-but it's the only time I can get her singing and sitting still. It took many tries to get this one, below is an outtake. She would literally sing perfectly and then when I started recording she would get silly.



Outtake. OK, yes she will probably be very mad when she is older and I've posted video of her on the potty.





Maya has also been riding her tricycle a little bit, getting some pedaling in. We are also proud. Both girls are really into playing catch right now.

Let's see- we've had a pretty busy few weeks. We've had a couple birthday parties and baby showers. Kalia is starting to think about her birthday party. We started making her birthday invite list and this is the first year that she really, really has an opinion on who she wants to invite. At first she had two boys that she was willing to invite and I kept adding one more and then another and she said to me, "That's it! No more boys mommy!" Right now she wants to have a bouncy castle, a pinata, a slip and slide and a pool at her party. When we asked her what she wants for her birthday, she went into an elaborate dialogue about a food for fairies and pixie dust.

Kalia's pre-school graduation is this Friday! She will still have school for all of June- but can you believe it? I'm still in denial. Then she has her ballet recital on Saturday.

last week

ballet

ready for the rain
dinner at hula

kalia & grandpa
candid

seabury hall craft fair 2011
maya loves horses!

kalia

sitting on some hay
maya is not in the mood for photos

kalia in the big girl jumpy- going down the slide!
she was such a big girl and there were tons of kids in there,
we were really proud. she kept going around and around.

the girls enjoying the music and dancers!

So tonight Maya didn't want to eat dinner again (it might have been the bag of cashews that she, Kalia & I polished off after 2 hours at the pool), she ate 5 edemame. Anyway, she was cruising around the living and then goes to Kalia's room and comes back and says to us, "Mommy, give me some space!" (she said it several times). Maybe you had to be there, but it was the tone in her voice and the look on her face- like we were flash forwarding 10 years. I do say to Maya "Give your sister some space" when she's lying on her or otherwise invading her personal space and driving her crazy and Kalia has started saying, "Maya give me some space!" But it came out at a really odd time and with such attitude!

This morning, I was completely fired up and wanted to get a bunch of things done- clean, laundry, vacuum and then I wanted to do something really fun with the girls- pool, library- whatever. They were totally unmotivated and at first I'll admit that frustrated me- but they just wanted to cruise at home. So I finally just went with it. We ended up having a tea picnic in Kalia's room and to surprise them, I brought in snacks and the lunch I had made for us to eat out and we had a real picnic. I even put water in the tea pot- the blanket was soaking, but we all had a fun time. Let it go- I really need to do that more.