Year: 2007

Today Leilani played on the lounge chair.

This photo was taken 30 seconds before she stood up, bounced and fell off (without crying though)

A while ago she drew this and said she was writing.

One of our beautiful sunrises.

Leilani has been asking a lot about Kiko. She has repeatetly gone to the grave with a shovel, but obeyed that there was no digging allowed. Today when she saw me grooming her lavender plant she started picking flowers, when I asked what she wanted she said Kiko bringing. She carried flowers over to the grave 3 times and sang the Heile Heile Segen song again. She doesn’t seem very sad, but she does miss him.

She has also been extremely clingy (as in holding on to my leg while I’m walking, not letting me use the bathroom alone, refusing to go for an evening walk with Andy) and I think it is related to Kiko, Andy thinks she is teething.

We got her a toddler bed and mattress, and mail ordered Nemo sheets. We hope she will move out of our bedroom, but the clingy phase of course delays things.

Last weekend we went hiking with Aditi, Adam and Jaya:

The hurricane most likely will not hit us! It is down to a category 2, and so far east already that it will cause storms and rain here, but no hurricane.

Andy wrote about it on The Kauai Blog. It’s a little outdated though, yesterday’s news…

It’s raining and storming on the Big Island:

Mikey came home 1/2 hour ago! He ate 2 cans of catfood, groomed his fur, let himself be petted a little and left again.

Leilani and I had gone out to call him 1/2 an hour earlier, walked all the way around the big field with some catfood and kept calling him, after a recommendation that Andy got from a “catlady”. It worked, he heard us and smelled the food and came home.

I hope very much that he will be home for the big storm too…

I had to change the flyer :-)

I had almost finished that post… I’ll post as is, might be the last for a while…

Last weekend we went camping. We had planned a weekend with friends, but ended up by ourselves, which was nice too for a change. (Except for the feeling guilty part about probably having spread the virus that got Leilani so sick 2 weeks ago )
We did 2 nice hikes, Leilani loved hiking, camping and the wildlife (just rats and chickens, all good for chasing).

On Sunday, Carey and Raya came to meet us, but we didn’t get to do a hike with them. First the trail had brambles, then it was blocked by fallen branches, then it rained. Instead we went to the Waimea brewpub, and had really greasy (but tasty) snacks. Leilani was extra cranky and also peed while sitting on my lap – which made me extra cranky. We picked up a sick young bird, that we intended to nurse back to health, but it had died by the next day. I lied to Leilani and said it had flown off.

Look at all that camping stuff:

A pretty valley on an unused dirt road:

Camping on the edge of the forest:

Leilani and Raya:

Hanalei 2 weekends ago (last weekend too, but no pictures yet):

Even older: