hiking with daddy & dance class

hike with daddy
found a little seat

trying out baby's carseat (kalia's old seat)

kalia's dance class

dance class

I'm going to make this quick. First photos are from a hike that Erik took Kalia on last week. Kalia has been taking a dance class at the gym and she really likes it. She is the youngest by at least a year...some girls are 4 and 5, but she seems to be having fun. She is getting a little more independent in the class and really likes the teacher.

Last post before the baby comes...tomorrow scheduled c-section at 8AM, we're leaving the house at 5:15AM for a 6AM check-in. Yes, my palms have been sweaty all day. We did blood work and signed our lives away this afternoon. We're excited and nervous. Next post...photos of the baby!

erik's birthday at the beach

surfing with daddy

kalia and sydney the mermaid

For erik's birthday we spent the morning at kuleana at the beach. We met erik's friend Kirk and daughter Sydney and Uncle Greg. Everyone had their fishing poles and Kirk brought his stand up paddle board. Kalia had a great time playing in the sand with Sydney. Erik and Greg tried out the stand up paddle board. Erik took Kalia out to catch her first wave!

After the beach morning we headed home for naps and then had dinner at the Seahouse Restaurant. It was a really nice day. Happy Birthday Erik!

erik's birthday eve

Friday night Kalia and I had a little b-day celebration waiting for erik. We made him a banner, cake and had his favorite meal waiting.

kalia putting the candles on
kalia's candle arrangement

kalia and daddy

blowing out the candles

eating cake

There were some photos of Erik and I with our party hats on, but we didn't look quite as cute. Friday we had a pretty busy day, Kalia and I watched Bianca in the morning - those girls kept me pretty busy! Then we went shopping for erik's cake and dinner. After our nap we went to napili park for our weekly play date group and then home to get ready for daddy's surprise. We made one of those recordable cards for erik with Kalia talking and she had a lot of fun doing it.

Kalia has been entertaining herself a lot more lately. Usually she has to be in the kitchen helping me with everything, but lately she just goes and plays either in her room or in the living room. Usually it's the same thing, having her own story time, she reads a book aloud and then sings a song in between and introduces every book or song. "OK, now we are going to read...."

painting baby sister's room

helping put on the primer
kalia did help with the paint too, but didn't get a photo

We finally painted the baby's room! Well, Erik did most of it. But at least that is one thing off of our list. We now have 10 days and will soon be chipping away at more stuff. We had to take Saturday day off for erik's birthday and yesterday I was recovering and refused the leave the house. So today I took Kalia to the park for a couple of hours and she had her dance class tonight.

I've taken Kalia to the last couple of dr. appointments because erik either had to work or had to pick up our bookshelf we ordered. She's getting pretty used to the drs. office. This past visit the doctor came in and asked Kalia how she was and Kalia immediately told her, "mommy put her toothpaste on my toothbrush!" Which was true, but it happened about a week earlier and it really came out of nowhere. I did accidentally put my toothpaste on her toothbrush instead of her toddler toothpaste and she just stood there looking at me for a while, until I noticed what I did. But it was a pretty random thing to say a week later to my OB.

I've been doing a few things like that lately and Kalia likes to remind me over and over again. The other day I called her "goodnight moon" book "goodnight hawaiian moon" which we also have and she told me about 10 times a day for days "not goodnight hawaiian moon mommy, goodnight moon!"

We moved our computer out to the living room and when the cable guy came to split the cable for our road runner, kalia told him, "I was pretending to check my email." Which she was just before, I looked over and she was sitting at the keyboard. The cable guy smiled and then looked back and said, "how old is she?" Pretty soon I can stop doing this blog because Kalia will have her own blog.

january fun

beach days, favorite shoes and wagon pulling...

the most loved shoes in all of maui

kalia and bianca

pulling bianca on the wagon

laying on the sand

The first photo is of Kalia's favorite "monkey shoes". The photo does not do justice to how thrashed these shoes are, but she absolutely does not want to wear any other shoes. The other day at the park the toe on one shoe fell off, so I think they are officially retired. I think she still wore them once with the missing toe.

Today we were playing in Kalia's room and she pulled her tool set out. She noticed that her screwdriver had marker drawn all over it and said, "hey, who did this?" I said, "I don't know, do you think that maybe you drew on it with your marker?" She smiled and said, "It was an accident, I didn't mean to do it." I hate when I accidentally draw all over something with a marker.

Kalia has been pulling her friends around the neighborhood, first Bianca and then last night Ben. She has not been so happy with letting anyone else pull, but we are working on that.

I took Kalia to Ironwood Beach again to run her around and she rolled in the sand and did a "stick dance" in the wind, she was very happy to entertain herself. Even though I'm getting tired and unmotivated to get out of the house, it is a little easier once we get out.

We went to the other side yesterday and bought paint and diapers. So we have diapers and I guess that's all we really need. I keep telling myself this, since I am really stressing and trying not to drive erik crazy with my "nesting".

Last night Kalia was up and calling me crying 4 times. Is she trying to prepare me for the baby? It's been so long since something like this has happened, it really threw me off. The first time her blanket was not on her and then the next 3 times her "snowman" - little seal she sleeps with had fallen on the wall side of her bed. I was getting pretty mad at that snowman by 4:30AM. I'm going to have to have a talk with him later.

new years 2009

my little joker
flemings beach watching erik's $10 fireworks show

saying "that was spectacular" with uncle greg

my little pyro

sparklers

she loved the sparklers, not afraid at all

The first photo, I took this morning and I was laughing so hard when I saw her. Kalia wanted to paint and I told her I had to go to the bathroom first, when I came back into the room she was in her booster seat with erik's hat on backwards, waiting for me to see her. She's quite funny when she wants to be. I forgot to mention in the last post that when she was saying, "look at me Tanner", she was holding a blue crayon like a moustache over her lip.

Yesterday Kalia and I just cruised around the house - Erik had to work in the am and surfed a little with Alana. Then in the evening we went to Flemings to meet sydney and some of her friends and after kalia rolled in the sand, erik set the kids up with sparklers and did a little fireworks show. Pretty impressive for $10. Kalia had a great time. She was the first to hold a sparkler and didn't hesitate. She is definitely our little pyro. The other girls were about 3 years older and she was fearless about the fireworks--she stood the closest to the fireworks, while the girls all sat way behind! We celebrated New Year's on east coast time with Kalia -- pizza dinner and martinelli's (although it was too bubbly for her).

Family Dinner

family photo
greg & tanner

erik & alana

kalia & mommy

family shot at leilani's

On tuesdays I usually take Kalia to story time at Barnes & Noble and since I don't work afterwards right now, we have been having a little date in the cafe afterwards. Even though we spend a lot of time together, it's pretty fun to go and sit down at the table and share a pretzel and some OJ. I know it won't be like this for a little while after the baby is born, so I am trying to enjoy our time together. Kalia really is my little buddy. She is definitely starting to come out of her shell a little more - especially with her playgroup friends.

Tuesday we had a birthday party to go to in the afternoon at Napili Park and Kalia had a lot of fun. Then we went home to change out of our wet/dirty clothes and go straight to dinner with Uncle Greg, Alana and Tanner. Kalia might have a new BFF, she really liked hanging out with Tanner at dinner. At one point, since it was so loud and everyone was talking, she must have said "look at me, Tanner" 20 times. Seriously, no exaggeration! She was really great at dinner and was the life of the party, or trying to be center of attention the entire time. She was being soooo silly! Considering she had already had 2 pieces of pizza and cake at the party, I was pretty proud of her for sitting as long as she did.

This morning I let her run around naked for a few hours, since she was willing to see if we could get her on the potty. We were 0 for 2, but at least she was willing to go without a diaper. She is being very anti-panties right now. She gets upset if I even say the word and I brought a pair out today and she picked them up and put them back in the drawer.