shane

here are a few pictures of shane, born on sunday, november 29th at 9:15am at home. the midwife's scale said he weighed 9lbs, but that was probably a little off because at the dr. today he weighed 8lbs 4oz. He is 21 in long and his head is 14 in. around. he's nursing well and doing great!

update: i started this post like six weeks ago and it took me until now to publish it! i do finally have a new camera but it takes crappy pictures, i'm very disappointed to say. you'll get to see the poor quality in all its glory soon, i hope. or maybe in another six months.

hmm, another six-month lag in blogging. it seems i'm not very good at this. in my lame defense, my camera's been broken, so i've had no recent pictures to post. the ones here are all several months old. at least there are a few videos at the end of this post that are from our recent trip to california.
these first few are of a little hike we do sometimes -- this time our friends shannon and collin came with us.

the next two are at the contemporary museum.

a st. patrick's day hui (playgroup date)-- who dresses this kid?

at the honolulu zoo

the wonders of toilet paper

and some video...

a day at the beach

aidan's first "real" surfing experience. scott paddled out with him and caught a couple white-water waves, then aidan got unbearably cold. winter is tough here, i tell you.

ivy was sleeping in the backpack most of the time, so no pictures of her. but later, she found a cozy spot in the closet:

a new post!

finally. apparently i'm not good at keeping this blog updated. so here are some pictures from a month ago-- christmas on big island.

christmas morning. this cute little kitchen was from grandma and poppi. it had to be completely assembled (by scott) late on christmas eve, then disassembled and packed back in the box so we could bring it home. it stays in the box until we move into our new house-- next weekend! yay!

some chop-able food to go with it

ivy mostly liked the wrapping paper

moving on from christmas morning, aidan loved this silly swim ring thing i found lying around. he felt so liberated, swimming "all by himself."

naked babies in a hammock.

a little beach time

a little reading time (notice the book is upside down)

this is how you charm the ladies.

people should cook like this more often. sorry about all the nakedness, but i love their little bums.

gabe, studying his petroglyphs.

aidan and ivy had a blast in this galvanized tub. it was rainy and "chilly" (for hawaii) but aidan must have been in there for at least an hour.


not a bad way to end the day-- asleep in a pretty girl's lap.
now i will go to sleep. or some form of psuedo-sleep with ivy waking me up or crowding me off the bed all night. i have to keep telling myself that some day--SOME DAY!!--both my kids will sleep through the night. but tomorrow is ivy's first birthday and so far that full night of sleep i used to know and love is nowhere in sight. sigh... it's a good thing she's so darn sweet.

mostly halloween

wow, i've been really terrible about updating the blog. must be because i spend all my computer time looking for a bigger place to live that doesn't cost so much we'd have to sell off our children to afford the rent. but then we wouldn't need a bigger place and also there would be no reason for this blog. anyhoo, i thought i'd post a few pictures from halloween.
first we had to go to the pumpkin patch:

it was hot. also, they hadn't opened up the "good" patches yet, so it was slim, often rotten pickins. feeling a little gypped, my friend and i managed to justify to ourselves a mad dash into a "good" patch on our way out of the farm. in a rush of adrenaline, we ripped off a pair of nice, big, fat healthy pumpkins, dove back into the car and sped away, feeling delightfully naughty.

ivy was way into the pumpkin carving.


bwaaahahaaahaaa!

aidan was fascinated and a little spooked by the pumpkins in the dark.

i think maybe there is nothing more wonderful than jack o' lanterns.


this was the pirate and the pumpkin right before we went trick-or-treating


what in god's name are these things on our heads?

this is how ivy looked most of the night. we had lots of fun because we actually found a neighborhood that "does" halloween. most kids go to the mall and stand in a long, snaking line to obtain a piece of candy from each store. woo hoo. we saw scary decorations, haunted houses, fun costumes and most importantly tons of kids all juiced up on sugar.

this was grandma's last visit. she was just here again for a few days, and had to leave today. boohoo. i'm pretty sure she was totally burned out on baby watching and repeatedly cleaning my kitchen. thanks, mom.

here is aidan in puppy heaven at grandpa's (scott sr's) house. i watched him frolic in there (it's like a big puppy mansion that gramma arlene built) with a wooden smile, trying not to think of all the poop and pee residue he was rolling in. actually i think he peed in the puppy house too.

okay, that's all for now folks.