Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was my birthday. I am now 26. That's another year closer to thirty. Yikes! The thought of me turning 30 in four more years is scary. Time is ticking fast and the thought of my kids no longer being under my roof and care makes me SO sad. I want them to just stay little forever! Well, the morning of my birthday, I woke up to these lovely faces (below). Just looking at them made my day. They both woke up happy. That was a present in itself. Well Kaipo always wakes up happy but after 6 nights of fussiness, it was so nice that he had slept well the night before my birthday.




A pic with my boys on my day. Kaipo is happy with his baby food and Kono is happy with a corn dog...

..or so we think. Haha... just look at Kaipo's face. :D

After I charged my camera, I wanted footage of this even though the cake was already cut and to make a wish. :)


Kono always claims to have bought a gift.. haha... he "bought" me these chocolates.

Seven months old 1/25/2010

I ran out of time to make Kaipo's seven month post last week. Look at how big he is getting! That little husky boy is now 19 lbs! I'll have to check his height. Kono was 20 pounds at his year mark. I'm pretty sure that's right.

His shirt is all wet from using "big boy cups".



Still lovin' his baths. If you click on the pics, you'll see the cool water action. He splashes and splashes and will get out of the bath with his eyes all red. :)

Look at that happy face, he laughs and laughs while taking baths with his brother.

And there he is sitting up. He falls over when he is trying to reach for something but has pretty good balance. There he is again with his scrunched toes, he makes me laugh.



The day after he turned seven months, I noticed a white speck on his lower gums. His first tooth has finally begun to come in! He thinks he can eat ANYTHING with only one tooth. Haha! This past week has been a VERY tiring week for me. He has cried EVERY night NUMEROUS times! First he had a fever that lasted like 3 1/2 days! Then he was constipated for about the same amount of time. And after that was over with and still the fussiness, I thought, duh, he is teething! Yes, he is cranky because of his sore gums. And he thinks that when he nurses he might as well use me as a teether! Biting and stretching it to be exact.

Kaipo and Kono

Yay! What a nice surprise to get a package of the pictures that my sister Michele took of my boys. They turned out great despite the fact that on the day of the photo session I wasn't prepared so I was running around from store to store trying to find cute clothes for the boys to wear. It was frustrating because usually I see clothes that are so cute but at the time I needed it, I could not find any. I finally found a shirt and pair of jeans for Kaipo and I gave up on clothes for Kono. I said we will just do another session for him (his 4 year pics) but we ended up sneaking in some pics in the end. I wanted Kaipo to have 2-3 changes of clothes but silly scattered brain me, I forgot to grab his other clothes at the house. I even ended up coming later than I was suppose to for the session and we were having dinner with a family friend (the guy who baptized my dad and it was our first time meeting him so we were still busy with preparing dinner and didn't have time to do the session beforehand). I didn't think we were still going to do the session since it was late at night and Kaipo didn't even take his usual evening nap so he was getting tired. But like I said, the pics came out great. My sister is a great photographer. :) So here they are: Kaipo at 6 months and Kono at 4 years old.

I love this rich red colored truck in the pic, I think it makes the picture nice. Well, not to mention, his adorable smile :)

He always scrunches his toes, that's Kaipo's trademark :)

He's sooo cute!

He likes to raise one eyebrow and smile.


That's my chubby boy!

I like it when he presses his lips together like this
I didn't even know I had my hand in a picture, I like it.



I love Kono's smile in this one.
Such cute and handsome boys!


I love how Kaipo really looks up to and adores his older brother and the way Kono loves, looks after and "protects" his younger brother. This picture shows a glimpse of it.

Kono is surely looker older, especially since the session because Granite cleaned up his baby hairline hair and it looks much better now.



When Granite saw this picture he said "You serving rolls in a dish?" :) Awww, poor Kaipo! I love it though! :)

I just love how Kaipo looks as a "Hawaiian baby" even though he doesn't have any Polynesian blood, his Papa Tano was born and raised in Hawaii and that's good enough. :)
He is starting to slim down now (since the session). He still has his rolls but they aren't as rolly. :)

Rain boots

Last year Kono got these cool McQueen rain boots. He wore them soooo much and do you know what the silly thing is? I only have this one picture of him in it! I am thinking what in the world, how did that happen! I am not kidding you, he wore them so often that they got worn down and both boots were torn. That's how much he loved them. He wore them in any type of weather. I can just see him slipping them on to run to Grandma and Papa Tano's house or to go outside in them. I think that the reason I only have one picture of him in it is because we have a no shoes in the house rule and almost everywhere we go, the same rule applies (visiting family on my side and Granite's side). And also the fact that I don't take as much pictures as I want to and ought to. Well, I am sad about the fact that I only took one picture of him in it, so note to family: if you have any pics of Kono in these boots please e-mail them to me! Pebbles, I think you do.
Anyway, Kono really needed some sort of colder weather shoes, he was in desperate need. We were going to get him snow boots but we figured it rarely ever snows in our area so we got him these:

"Batman Beyond" boots as Kono calls it.
He loves his new boots and was ecstatic to get it in the mail last week.

He just so happened to be wearing a Batman shirt that day only because he was hadn't changed from the day before :) It even came with a cool blue bouncy ball.

He just had to put on his Batman attire and pose.

Oh happy Sunday

Kono was happy to get his first CTR ring today at church.

Of course Kono is squeezing his brother but it doesn't even phase Kaipo.

• We have new callings. I'm a primary teacher, which means I get to teach/watch over Kono. And Granite is Sunday school president and youth Sunday school teacher.
• I finally made a post on my blog again

Half a Year

This little guy turned 6 months on Christmas day. At times it seems like it went by so fast. And other times I feel like it went slow only because this boy is what we call "high maintenance". What do I mean by that? Well, just as I have said in earlier posts all along. He really is something else when it comes to wanting attention and affection. He will do all he can to make you focus your entire day on him and only get the bare minimum done. I am still looking forward to the day when he can crawl around and entertain himself for more than 5 minutes at a time. He is definitely different from Kono. Kono was a baby who would stay entertained by himself longer and I could do more. Nevertheless, he is such a "sweetheart" who brings great joy, smiles and laughter with his cute personality and his plastered smile. He is so funny, he'll squeal with delight often throughout the day, it is the cutest sound to hear. He gets so excited about different things like taking baths and "playing" with his brother. I can tell he already looks up to his brother. He gets in these moods sporadically where anything will make him crack up and he'll just laugh and laugh. He still loves his baths and splashes really hard in there, getting me all wet and his face wet but he doesn't cry or care. When he sees me getting the water ready, he'll pump his arms and legs really fast. He is so funny. He wakes me up in the morning by pinching my arm (literally) or pumping his arms and legs and making noises. I never have the energy to put him back in his crib after a feeding so he just sleeps by us. He is a good sitter but he hasn't mastered it fully. I am worried that he doesn't like tummy time very much since this is the beginning of crawling. He loves my phone and will choose that over many toys that surround him. And gets really upset when I take it from him or don't give it to him. He doesn't like it when you text and hold him at the same time. He will hit the phone out of your hand. He holds both legs sometimes when he is getting his diaper changed. He can also suck his toes. Both of which are cute sights to see. He likes to say "Da da da da". Granite is surely pleased with that.

Christmas 2009

Before we left to spend Christmas with my mom and family, we had a little Christmas for the boys so that we wouldn't have to haul gifts around. Actually it was mainly just Kono's Christmas since Kaipo can't open gifts and all he needed was diapers and clothes . We told Kono to take some pictures by the tree before opening the gifts (he was so excited as you can see).

So Kono got to hunt for the all the gifts and he loved it. The riddles would say something like: Where does mommy put the dirty laundry? And Kono would run to the clothes hamper to find the present.
Kono's main gift was a Vtech Vsmile Vmotion game sytem with some games to go with it. We figured that it was an educational gift and that's how we justified "spoiling" him this Christmas. And in case you wonder how it is, it's pretty cool, Kono loves it and seems to be learning from it however, online PBS games are just as good.

He loves to laugh with his hand in his mouth. I love that shy looking laugh.

Kaipo and Grandma Delphine are both looking very nice for church. If you look closely, my mom is wearing earrings and a pendant that is a picture of my late Grandma Agatha on it (have you ever seen picture jewelry?). My brother Jeremiah and his girlfriend Maranda gave my mom, sisters and I these cool earrings. I thought it was very neat and such a special gift.

With that said, we had a wonderful Christmas with my family. I really enjoy being with my loved ones and reflecting upon the true meaning of Christmas. I am truly and completely grateful for the birth of our Savior and his Atoning sacrifice so that we as families can enjoy the being together forever. And just as a side note, for our branch Christmas party, we were appointed to play the parts of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. :)