Leilani has a new hobby – one that keeps her occupied for a long time, and really results in beautiful bouquets:
I found a bag of silk flowers on a yard sale and wanted to make a wreath. When Leilani inspected the content, she found the green florist’s foam and asked what it was, so I just stuck one flower in to show her. She sat down in the middle of all the flowers, and sang and hummed while making her first arrangements, all color coordinated, and twice after she went back and made 2 more.
2 Weekends ago, on April 5th we went to Hanapepe again, to hear (and see) Makana.
After the concert Leilani and Elsa rode the stroller
…to the firestation
…and climbed up a tree (with a little help)
Like last year we spent my birthday weekend camping at Saltpond. As usual we stuff the car as full as we can – and then strap the kayak to the roof.
Raya and Jaya came to visit with their dads, and then we went out for dinner – to Bobbbies in Hanapepe, a very local place, great food although a bit on the greasy side.
Alain, Carey and Raya had just come home from Disneyland, Andy is borrowing the Rasta-Mikey hat
We let the girls ride on the carousel in front of the Hanapepe Big Save
What a surprise – a cake! And a real good one too!
Leilani loves to pick flowers
We went kayaking up the Hanapepe river
No Leilani paddle backwards!
Our campsite
Good morning everyone!
Raya came to visit a second time with Carey
Carey practiced the “Shaka” with the girls
I’m cold. Don’t take my picture. I am hiding!
“Look Leilani, there is a whale…” Andy thought I did permanent psychological damage to her by lying to her about the whale… but it made her look. By the time the photo was taken she already knew she had been tricked and frowned
Last photo before we took down the tent – well before Andy took down the tent – Carey, Raya, Leilani and I spent that time at the brew pub in Waimea.
Andy’s cousin Liz and her husband Loyd came to visit us
Leilani still loves books – her recent favorite is the “Popcorn Dragon”
We got a used bike seat for $20 – and added one more thing to our cardio-portfolio :-)
Leilani loves tatoos. She started out with little cute Nemos, Dolphins and Hello Kitties and moved on to Thomas the train, then some Beetles and bugs, but now she arrived at the full sized trucker tattoos – last weekend at Saltpond some of the locals asked us if it was a real tattoo!!!!
As soon as the bells rang the kids ran out to pick up the gifts, and the parents ran to film the kids…
Leilani had a relatively small basket and stopped even before it was full to inspect her stuff and eat the candy—I guess she’s still cannot delay gratification. When I asked her she simply said “I have enough, I am done.” (But changed her mind when she heard that a Nemo egg had not yet been found and ran back to look some more)
Mmmh, chocolate…
Lollipops – even better…
So, what did you find, Jaya?
Inspecting the loot
Joy is teaching them to act in a play—Leilani plays the birthday girl, and has quite a few lines to say. I’m going to film it and post it on the blog, it was too noisy during the one at the Easter party.
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