Aloha oe

Only one week to go and we're already missing Hawaii. This is the only place we have called home since getting married and Jane practically thinks of herself as Hawaiian. She refers to her parents as Haoles and has a strange phobia of the 'white man' and at church she'll go up to any polynesian like they are her real family. She loves the beach and has developed into qhuite the boogie boarder/body surfer. The girl is fearless when it comes to the water and its always a struggle getting her out. We are really going to miss this place and we will work hard to endoctrinate Jane into attended BYU-Hawaii so we'll have good excuses to come back in 18 years.

Ward Mother's day dinner

Saturday Night the ward put on a dinner for Mother's day. The food was great, even thogh I didn't get to eat much due to Jane putting fruit snack with mine, and using her skills with the fork to put most of my food onto the table, but what I did eat was great!

on top of a wonderful meal, there was also entertainment. All the little kids had been practicing dancing to preform for the moms... it was super cute...

All went well until Jane found the room that they were playing Princess and the Frog in for the older kids on the projection screen.... then there was no getting her back...

 

 

 

 

Akasha

It being Mother's day weekend, and me being the type to milk my holidays for all that they are worth, I casually mentioned to Brandon that I had to go see Akasha or I would just die!

Akasha was a dance performace put on by IONA contempary dance theatre in Honolulu. The tickets are usually around 25-45 bones each, it little too pricey for our blood, so when they came to the school and the tickets were a whopping 6 dollars, I was SOOOOO EXCITED!!

This was the blurb describing Akasha:

When the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire are combined, they create AKASHA, the Sanskrit word for ether and also the inspiration for IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre’s newest work. The new show will pay tribute to the dance company’s 20th anniversary with several fan favorites from past shows, including Electric Blue, Destiny, and The Mythology of Angels, in addition to five new works celebrating the elements.

the first two dances, I was a little nervous, they seemed a little cheesy for my liking, but then it really got good... and I was super impressed it the way they incorporated the elements.... and they did a lot of climbing/flying around on ropes... super entertaining.

I couldn't take any pictures... but this one is off the website...

Being able to go to different performances really cheap and walk to them form our apartment will be one of the things I will miss the most when we skip town....

BABIES!!! (the movie)

Yesterday our little family went to the premiere of the documentary BABIES yesterday in Honolulu. I have been looking foward to this movie for some time now, and it did not disappoint. The movie follows 4 babies from birth until they start walking. From Tokyo, San Francisco, Mongolia and Namibia. There is no dialogue during the movie, they just film the babies during the different stages of the first year of their life. It was super interesting to see how the same things were done, in four different areas of the world. plus, it was hilarious!! Babies are so funny, I laughed, I cried, I LOVED IT!! And BONUS... Jane watched the whole thing, sat very still the whole time... she was an angel!! One warning though, this was a documentary filming people in their day to day life... so the parts they film in Namibia, the women are pretty much breastfeeding the whole time...

I give BABIES TWO THUMBS UP!!!

These are pictures at the theater, Janey won a BABIES movie onesie!!! score!!!

 

 

Sidewalk Chalk!!

 

 

 

 

Arianna and Sina's first Birthday

April 12 Janey Attended two of her good baby friend's birthday celebration!! We were actually all in the same birthing class before these little ones even made their debut. Janey goes to a reading group at Arianna's house, and LOVES it!!!

It was an Easter theme party, complete with egg hunt!! It was super cute, and the food was amazing!!

 

 

 

 

Learning to walk!

Janey has been stompin' around for a while now, but I still wanted to post some pics of her learning the art. She took her first steps when she was 13 months, but really got the concept at almost 14 months, on April 9th. We were over at her friend Calvin's apartment, which happens to be a little larger than humble abode, and it was like she finally had room to move, and just started to walk when I wasn't looking. That night when we got home Jane just kept walking in circles in our living room and was so excited about it!! The rest is History...

Introducing our little walker:

 

 

 

 

Kokua Fest!

Our last Kokua Fest... sigh..

This year was awesome becuase we had Ryan and Jane to go with!!

Janey LOVED sitting at the front of the Keiki stage to hear Jack Johnson, and to play with the shaker they gave her to play along with Jack!!

It was sooo good this year, Jack you did it again!!

oh and Ziggy Marley brought his kids on stage to sing with him.... too cute!!

 

 

 

 

Sea Life Park!

During Brandon's week long break from school, Sue took us to Sea Life Park!!! I have been a few times, but wanted to take Janey before we left Hawaii!! Needless to say she LOVED it!!

 

 

 

 

Janey's surgery

It has been over a month since Janey's surgery and she is doing well! It is healing very well, and her scar is in the crease of her eyelid, so as she gets older and the crease becomes more prominent, you will hardly notice it.

The day of surgery was kinda rouch, we had to leave at 5am to check in at 6am. Janey's surgery was scheduled for 8am, but due to an emergancy was moved back until 10:45. I was nervous about Janey starving to death, but she handled it rather well. She watched disney playhouse and fell in and out of sleep until it was go time.

I wasn't sure if Brandon was going to be able to make it, since he had class, but he got the okay to miss that day and was able to come along, which was a blessing becuase it ended up being a very long day.

The doctors came in to the waiting room to discuss the procedure with us, and informed us that only one parent could be in the operating/ recovery room at a time. So we decided that Brandon would go back with her when she was getting sedated, and I would be in the recovery room she she came to, so I could feed her.

At first she was a bit grumpy when she woke up, becuase she was so very tired from being up since 5am, but she fell back asleep and an hour later she was as happy as a clam, and waved bye to all the nurses.

Jane had a super easy recovery and was ready to play outside that day!! She has a bandage on her eye for the next two days. When that fell off there was little brusiing, but it keeps getting better everyday!!

Janey is such a brave little girl, but is so scared of the scale at the doctors office now...