Santa Baby

Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The entire town of Tuba (and other towns and cities down south) was out of electricity and heat for about 11 hours and boy was it cold! What do you do without heat on a cold wintry night and morning? When the electricity first went out, Kono and I were still up. I could not see a thing! No moon light coming into the living room and luckily I found my cell and used the light to lead us to find a candle and match. We slept the whole night without heat and I was thinking, it's a good thing we at least have shelter and plenty of blankets. Granite's "hot body" as I always call it kept us warm too. It was pretty scary to think that we weren't fully prepared for something like this.
Anyway, Kaipo is bundled up and wearing what used to be Granite's beanie as a baby (actually all three of his siblings used this beanie). I like that it covers the ears well, and has a string to tie it, and a cute bill. It's hard to find good beanies for babies, at least for me it is. Well, we survived the night and was so glad and thankful that we got our electricity back on before we had expected.

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.