8 month mark

This little happy guy sitting in front of his brother is now 8 months old. Yep, happy although he is still getting over his cold. It was our first experience of having two very sick kids at the same time. It has been rough but it makes me extra grateful when they are healthy. Thank goodness it is almost done with. Anyway, back to my post. Kaipo is such a joy to our family. He still is not crawling yet, unfortunately. Or maybe it's a good thing he isn't. Once he starts, he will be getting into everything (which really doesn't make a difference with his tornado brother) but the main thing I dread is him being more prone to picking up germs.
Kono didn't crawl until he was nine months and neither did he start walking until he was 14 months but the cool thing is that he is very fast, coordinated and athletic now. So I have hope for Kaipo. All he does is kind of scoot around and attempt to grab things out of reach.

He did learn to clap yesterday. He likes to try to talk and his favorite thing to say is "Da-da". He gets so excited when he sees his daddy. He also loves to pound things and has two teeth now. He knows how to give fives and shakes his head no.

Newborn Photos of Kaipo

Here are the newborn photos that my sister Michele took when Kaipo was 4 days old. I was so grateful that she took the time to haul down her 3 boys 7+ hours away to take these pics in our home. If we waited until we went up north two weeks after he was born, he would have been already big with different looks and not able to hold the newborn positions.


In Daddy's hands. I think this pose is so cute. Michele had taken a newborn photo like this before and I really liked it.

Now this pose was harder to achieve than the looks of it. Celeste and I had to carefully lift up both ends of the piece of material without him being disturbed and falling out or losing the position he was in. Seven pounds felt a little bit heavy for the first time. Don't you just love this one? Michele did such a great job with this idea.



This one (and the one below) was another hard pose to hold. He felt heavy here again because I had to make sure he was didn't lose his position and be aware if he were to get scared and throw his arms up and plop out of my hands.
I can't believe how tiny he was.
I just love the next few pics of the boys together. It was a surprise to me, I didn't watch this part of the session. Actually, the majority of the session I didn't watch, only a few of the shots plus the ones where I am in the pics obviously.
Awww, already adoring each other.
I love it when babies yawn.

He was already smiling good from a few days old. His first smile was a day old.

Look at that big smile!
I really regret not getting his foot prints soon after he was born. I finally did do them when he was 11 days old. I love pics of babies' hands and feet. Look, he is already doing his scrunched feet thing.
Look at all that hair on his head. Who would have guessed that he is my baby! :)
I guess his lips give it away. I LOVE this pic! So precious!



Simply adorable!!! How happy I am to have these newborn photos of my baby Kaipo. I can't thank my sister Michele enough. Well, sisters is what I should say. It wouldn't have been possible without Celeste's help.

Brotherly Love

Here are just some recent pics of the boys together. This post is to show their love for each other. Enjoy :)

Like I've said before, they love taking baths together.
Kono likes to push his brother in the stroller. They are so cute!

Kono often says "Mommy, put Kaipo on my chest!" They love to play as if they are wrestling...

..even if that means it gets a little rough. (Nah, Kaipo doesn't hurt his brother).
Kono is so funny, he really wants Kaipo to get started early on becoming obsessed with super heroes. He put the Batman mask on Kaipo. Isn't he so cute!?
He even included the cape. I just love this picture. They are always laughing together.
I was going shi-shi to be blunt with ya (sorry if that's too much info but that explains why I left Kaipo alone with Kono) and when I came back to the room he was holding his brother. Kono said his brother almost fell off the bed so he grabbed him. Such a good brother! :)
Here they are all dressed up for church on Valentine's day. They truly are my sweethearts.

How handsome they look!
Kono always does something silly with his brother. I came into the the living room and saw them both in masks. Kaipo goes along with whatever gets put on him and doesn't cry. One time he was layered with about 3 masks! Crazy Kono!

Kono Kono, he will never tire of wearing his Spidy costumes or any costume for that matter!This is the first time I caught Kono putting a mask on his little brother (Kaipo was about 4 months old). It really made Granite & I laugh. Granite came home from lunch and Kaipo had a mask on. Awww, the joys and laughter of being a mother to these precious boys :)

Kono loves puzzles

I was so proud of Kono when he did this 24 piece puzzle two weeks ago all by himself! I had only done it once with him. A couple of days later, he took it out and did not ask for help. Before I knew it, it was complete and Granite wasn't even home so I know he didn't ask him for help either. Good job Kono! :)

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. :)