When I blogged about our Kokee camping trip I promised more photos…
One of the first photos – forgotten and rediscovered :)
Month: September 2006
Ruby’s first birthday was celebrated at our favorite beach Anini. SInce it is kind of late I’ll just post the photos, and try to make Andy write the captions :-)
Thanks Karla for some of the Photos!
The older kids are so nice to help out Ruby with the cake duties:
“Mmmm, good cake, Mom.” Not that I can imagine Leilani eating cake in 3 months (sorry, no hi-res…)
These kids know how to party:
Who needs a bouncy castle when there’s a play tent (says Dad thankfully):
Karla, Klaus, and Ian:
Daddy likes these sitting down parties:
“Come on in and taste this dirt with me:”
“It’s my party and I’ll nap if I want to:”
At our wedding reception at the Taro Patch Andy and I planted an Ulu (breadfruit) tree. By now it has grown a lot and the first fruit is bigger than a tennis ball.
Last weekend we went to 2 parties, Leilani had a lot of fun, as did everyone else.
Julian playing the ukulele:
Arietta, Andy and Leilani in the hottub (Daddy loves these sitting-down parties :-)
Makanakai
Thanks Koa for the nice photo!
OK, sentence number two: Leilani was patting my arm and kept repeating “Mama Pa Pa”. Since we used to point to or pat the person referred to while teaching her who Mama and who Dada is, I thought she was just showing who Mama is, and kind of ignored the Pa Pa… (Yes, that’s right this is the Mama…) When I realized she was saying Patsch Patsch (German for pat pat) and I repeated the sentence as “Mama Patsch Patsch,” her face lit up, she seemed so happy that I understood. Oh, and she can say the “s” now, at least in her favorite word: “Puffs”
The unhappier news of the day is, that Leilani had a well-baby-exam. She was well before the exam… She had one vaccination and blood drawn from the fingertip for an anemia test, and screamed hysterically for a total of about half an hour. I think she felt sick most of the afternoon, only recoverd after several hours. It made her go to bed early though.