At Home

Happy New Year! Since we've been back from Hawaii,
Kahiau has been having a blast playing with his big boy toy table from grandpa Sylva.
It has many fun songs and lights to keep him busy.
See, he's trying to figure out where's the voice coming from!

One morning as I was trying to wash dishes in the kitchen, I thought I left my little son happily playing in our make-shift playpen area in the living room (notice the boxes shaping our "baby wall"). I knew he was a clever little guy and what I found confirmed that. I was laughing as I went hunting for the camera to get the evidence recorded for his dad.

Our bright son figured that if he took off the top of the box and climbed in he could climb out and be free. He has since succeeded and we have retired the "wall".

This picture says it all! Can you say... hammm?

Say aaawwwhhh! Open wide! Kahiau had his first tooth at 5 months, six quickly followed. Recently, his teeth have been lingering right under the gum and just this week he went from having 6 teeth to 12! Mercy! Thankgoodness for homeopathic teething gels!

Say bye-bye!

Just the other day at Mike's office, one of his patients said bye-bye to Kahiau and he surprised us by saying bye-bye and waving back to her.  It was so precious and unexpected!  So since then all we want is for him to say bye-bye!  

Hawaiian Baby

Kahiau is now 9 months old. His 8th month was a huge month of milestones. From army crawling to now criss-cross crawling (on hands and knees), to sitting up from crawling and pulling himself up on objects he is very active! Just this week he started climbing over our wall of boxes. He plays hard all morning and then more in the afternoon. He loves when his shirt comes off and he gets to be free and show off his baby rolls! He's mobile now and we're wondering if those little rolls will disappear too soon!

Trip Back to the Aina

Ok sorry, so I just got a new MacBook and I thought I was technically challenged before, but with a Mac, oh help me!  I'm getting the hang of it and so here we go!  Our trip back home to Hawaii was great, a little too hot for my liking, but we had a blast each time we got to go to the beach and hang out with family.

We split up our trip to visit Oahu and the Big Island.  Kahiau just loved his play time with his Great-Grandma Matty.  She and I had a Nintendo Wii bowling tournament that day, I tell ya, she kicked my butt!

Eating ono grinds is one of the highlights when going home.  One of our favorite restaurants is Big Island Grill.  The trip certainly didn't help me in my quest to lose the "baby weight," but those madasadas and chocolate haupia pie was sooooo worth it.  Since then I've been to the gym 3 times already, ... (sigh).

When Kahiau wasn't swimming in the ocean, he was trying to eat the sand! Yuck!  He got over that real fast.

Grandpa Ike, just loved holding our little bumboocha!  We were trying to get him a tan, but he really pulls the haole side.

Roar!!!!  Our little lion wasn't too sure about his costume, but his grandparents sure loved him in it.  We took it with us so they could see how adorable he would be at Halloween time.

We found a perfect little cove to swim in when we visited Kona.  The water was so nice and baby got to practice his swimming kicks.  We also saw a dozen or so turtles in the small bay a little ways down the beach.  We tried to show Kahiau the turtles, but he just stared at them and wasn't sure what they were.  

It was baby's first trip back to the aina.  Mike tried to get a tan, but he just got a more pronounced golf tan after golfing at Hualalai golf club (the one owned by Michael Dell) he got the hook ups!  We're so glad we got to visit with our family back home and make new memories together.  We hope to visit again soon.  

Usana Convention!

Off we go! Leaving out of Long Beach airport to the Usana Internation Convention in Utah was a breeze with our little guy. I didn't know how involved it was to go through security with a baby! Since we were the only ones in line we could take time, thank goodness! He was already for his very first plane ride, we weren't so sure. He did pretty well going there, but coming back was another story. We hope he'll do better on the flight back to Hawaii in October!

We headed to the Usana store and went shopping. We had no idea there would be a mile long line that we waited in for probably an hour. But baby did great and he was the big attraction with the other line waiters. Random people would come up to us just to take a photo of him or tell us he was the cutest baby they had ever seen! We said, "we know!" =)

They had a special section at the very top for babies. Here they could make noise and not distrub too many people and we could spread out and walk around and listen if we needed. Even with the loud music and speakers our little guy can sleep anywhere! He kept his nap times pretty well in Utah so when we returned home, he was able to sleep at the same times as before. Lucky for us!

We had some great speakers at this year's convention. Just to name a few: Robert Allen, Paul Zane Pilzer, Dr. Wentz, Tim Sales, Robert Kiyosaki and our very own Dr. Dennis Waitley. He's such a great man. We call him the rhyme master. We got his new book, The Dragon & the Eagle.

Baby Olympics

In honor of our 2008 Beijing Olympics Kahiau has been doing his own individual events at the baby high bar. He sees his target (the fishy in his gym aquarium) and he attacks!

He's right on target putting everything in his mouth! He gets a little frustrated with himself when his toys don't do what he wants!

When Kahiau's not working up a sweat on his event, he enjoys leisurely reading his favorite cookie monster book. Yes, he's pretty good at turning pages to eat them! LOL!

Kahiau & mommy go out now mostly every afternoon. Whether its to the shopping center down the street or just around our neighborhood its always fun to get out of the house! He also knows when we're going to go because he'll usually stop his screeching and start smiling and looking happy. However in this picture, this is his first time going out as a big boy in the stroller, not in his baby carrier, so he's not sure what we're doing. He ended up loving it and falling asleep on the ride home.

Is he enjoying tummy time more? Not really, but here he's giving me his winning grin and acting like tummy time is the best thing in the whole world!

Daddy's home just in time to play with his baby boy. Living just 12 miles away from work it takes Mike over 45 minutes just to get home on some nights. That's why we're looking forward to buying a home soon in Irvine! Wish us luck!

Wow, either that game he's playing is really boring or he's just really tired. It amazes me how easily Mikel can fall asleep. He works really hard and as you can see he plays hard too, so hard he falls asleep! LOL!