What Kaipo is up to...

Another picture of the little grinder. He's eating sweet potatoes. He had green beans tonight and made a funny face and did this grossed out shake (it's so funny, he looks just like Kono when he does it). I heard that babies and kids take about 10 tries to start liking a food. I gave him another bite and he just ate it and almost finished the container. I think he was just happy to have baby food again since he was out of baby food for two days (except for rice cereal) and just solely nursed yesterday.

Laying on his tummy time toy. He doesn't like being on his tummy much unfortunately. We have to remind Kono that the toy is not to spin him around in like a merry-go-round. :)

He is sitting up here. He sits for about a minute sometimes but eventually falls over.

Another cute picture of him sittin' up.

And when he falls over, he likes to "attack" the bed with his mouth. :)

Five Month Old Kaipo

Kaipo tried his first baby rice cereal at 4 and a half months. He's concentrating on the spoon :)

He loves it as you can see! Isn't he soooo cute!? We knew he'd love it. On Dec. 1, he tried baby food from a jar for the first time. I figure I'd start him off with green veggies first so I gave him Beechnut sweet peas and he ate it! Such a good eater. :)

Just chillin' in the bouncer

Watching Mommy cook.

I love his eyes

Sportin' his cute attire

I love this boy!!!

He always has his finger in his mouth. He's teething but no teeth have really come out yet. He wants to chew on everything in sight.

Party Time

We celebrated Kono & Granite's Birthday with family yesterday. One thing's for sure we had really good food. We had Granite's favorite pork ribs, pulled pork, rice, potato salad, broccoli salad, fresh green beans, & mandarin orange jello. I'll let the pictures do the talking. I wished I took more pictures (of those who came and of me with the birthday boys) but I was crazily busy in the kitchen and did the video camera recording and mostly focused on the birthday boys. Thanks to ALL (family near and far) who made their birthday great.

Another cake made by Grandma Sarah

What's a birthday party without Kono dressing up as Spiderman again?

One of the things I love most......

One of the things that crack me up the most and is so sad at the same time is this sad face Kaipo makes. I finally got a good picture of it! He has such a big luscious bottom lip. The big lips come from my Dad and I. The funny thing about it is that he can stick it waaaay out. It's soooo cute and funny and yet sad at the same time I think it's even better to watch it yourself. You can't really tell on this picture but when he gets sad, his eyebrows get red and his eyes get watery. So why was he so sad? He wanted me of course.....his milk supply. :)

4 month old Kaipo

Kaipo turned 4 months on the 25th of October. He still is such a smiley happy baby. He'll even smile and laugh at Kono when Kono is upset or crying. How funny. He smiles with his tongue curled upwards in case you are wondering why inside his mouth looks a bit different. I think it's cute. He is also a real momma's boy. He has to be held almost all the time or he'll throw a fit until he gets his way. I am sure looking forward until he starts sitting up on his own and playing with toys without help. That will be the day! Speaking of which, Kaipo had his 4 month check up and shots on October 30th and that was the first day he sat up for the first time on his own (at the doc's office, it must have been the firm cushion table). It was for about a full ten seconds and he looked so cute! He sure made Kono proud. Kaipo is now 17 lbs and almost 25 inches long. I actually am embarrassed when I lug him around in his car seat by myself because I probably look like I'm really struggling. He reaches for things right now so we have to scoot our plate of food away from him. Today he reached for the little whale on his bouncer for the first time.

One of the main highlights of Kaipo's day (and Kono for sure) is to take a bath together. They absolutely love it! I put Kaipo's tub inside the tub and fill both with water. Kaipo kicks and moves his arms almost constantly making splashes. Kono is still getting used to the fact that the splashes that hit him wasn't intended to hit him. He is so silly. And when Kaipo splashes his own face, he doesn't even cry or care.

More Random Pics

This picture is something you'd typically see at our home.... things not in it's place (Kono is a tornado and Kaipo doesn't let his mommy get things done!), with both boys wanting attention from Dad. I didn't have them pose, I just quickly grabbed the camera. Both boys absolutely love playing with their dad. Granite even "wrestles" (or as Granite calls it "roughs him up") with Kaipo already and the really funny thing about it is that Kaipo already comprehends that it's fun and funny to do that with his dad. He squeals with delight. He really loooves to watch Granite and Kono play or just any action that is going on, he'll really watch intently and usually laugh really hard. It seems as if he wants to play already and we try to include him as much as we can.

They also love their mommy and keep her busy ALL day (I'm not kidding you)! Sometimes I even am holding or carrying both of them at the same time if Kono is not feeling well or loved.

You can tell whose son this is! (ahem, Granite Junior is what we should have named him!)

He looks exactly like Granite the way he is posing. He saw a picture of Granite doing the same pose and started doing that same pose ever since.

You know what is really funny about this outfit? My sister let me go through her give away boy clothes and this is meant for a one year old. Kono just had to squeeze himself into it. I didn't even think it would go all the way on him. It makes us laugh that he likes to wear it and can fit into it! "Embarrasing!" is what Granite says.

Kono decided to go through the shoe closet one day and wear my boots. I thought he looked so cute.

Okay Kono! I didn't even notice he had his legs wrapped around Kaipo until now. Hahaha

Halloween 2009

Well, Halloween this year seemed to have come so quickly and passed just as quickly. Kono and Granite carved a pumpkin, but I didn't even take pictures due to being constantly busy with Kaipo and other duties... so sad.
On Friday night, there was a church Halloween carnival but this year instead of the typical Halloween decorations and theme, it was centered on The Proclamation to the World. I thought it was really neat. Every activity/game was gospel centered. Kono (aka Spiderman) had so much fun playing the games and winning cupcakes. I later came with Kaipo in his Superman outfit. I thought it was cute that they were both super heroes together so that's why I decided to keep Kaipo as Superman even though as stated in an earlier post that he would be something else.

As you can see, Kono is squeezing his brother, something he ALWAYS does!! I think Kono is obsessed with his brother's arm rolls and cuteness, but hey, I don't blame him, he's so cute we both can't stand it! :)
(Note: I don't like this picture of me at all, but both of my boys make the picture look good.)

Protecting their Grandma Sarah :)

We had Stake Conference this past weekend and I was busy with that and with dinner afterwards so I didn't even take pictures on Halloween night. Guess I'll have to dress them up again and take more. By the time I came home from the adult session Kono was done trick-or-treating. He then passed out candy (pretty much all by himself) to the trick-or-treaters and we had a good laugh while he did. He would say to the ones who were mute "What do you say?!" They would then finally say "Trick-or-treat!" Then Kono would give them just one piece of candy (we told him two but he didn't think they were worthy if that). Then if they didn't say thank you, he would say, "And what do you say??" It was so funny when he would hear the door bell ring (the door was open but screen door closed with window on it open) he would yell "Alright kids!!! I'm coming!!!" And more than half the time, it was kids older than him so it was a funny sight to see him passing out candy to older kids.