Da Keiki Blog

Like the first Birthday Party Leilani and Ian celebrated together. We had the big pavilion at Lydgate.

We started with crafts and watercolor paintings

Bubbles!

I don’t really know what was up, but I called the photo girls versus boys…

The main course were veggie burgers and pizza…

…and the raw vegan cake from Rainbow foods was not as big a hit as Karla’s beautiful car cake. It still got eaten up though…

Opening Nova’s gift

Playing with Ian’s cousin Luisa

Shoko, Julian and Peggy

Kids on the rocks

Lydgate playground

Jaya and her family arrived

Karla, Vanessa and Matteo

Ian’s grandma Lucinda and Kawika’s mom Ingrid

Miriam with Delfi

Bruce and Oliver

Shoko and Viola

On the 5th we didn’t leave the beach and campground. It was a very relaxing day.

Dinner cooked at the fire. Ulu, veggieburgers and burger buns.

Jaya spent the afternoon with us at Lydgate and we went to their house in the evening. It was Nikolaus day, so they were anxiously waiting…

We went to Lydgate, and Andy played with Leilani and her friends while Sonja got to chat




Birthday ice cream at lapperts

Randy has models of the big island now

Birthday dinner at the Oasis. Leilani wanted more chocolate ice cream for dessert while Andy and I opted for lilikoi creme burlee and banana springrolls… in the end Leilani liked our dessert a lot better and I think ate most of mine.

We started packing and organizing early

And then realized we had not taken pictures of our pet chickens. We had fed them every day, and Leilani named that one Spotty. Spotty came running when we called her, and to beg for food she sang softly. Really. Not quite like a singing bird, but for a chicken it sounded really very nice.

That, as you can guess, was Blackie

and Brownie

or maybe that was Brownie

Leilani wrote and drew a letter to Jaya. The letter had started on a tax form, in the tax office, and continued with lots of tears, when I’d talked to the pesky lady and ignored my precious child who needed help writing… When she didn’t get it she proceeded to throw a tantrum that made other people walk out of the tax office. Anyway, she finished the letter later, and I calmed down again (eventually)