.kaiya loves her goldfish.

Since Kaiya has been practicing her pincer grasp, we've been giving her baby stars and cheerios.  She LOVED those, and I had bought a big ole container of Goldfish from Costco, so we decided we would try giving her a new snack.  Of course, like all other food...she LOVED the goldfish.

Her hair continues to grow, so it's at a point where sometimes it's in her eyes.  And her face...therefore food gets all up in it.  So while letting her feed herself goldfish one day, I decided to put her hair up in to a little ponytail....resulting in ponytail hair when I took it out before her bath.

.hanging out with the cousins.

Kaiya loves to play with her cousins, Kaytin and Caleb.  And I think they love playing with her.  We're so lucky that they have the chance to grow up together, and in Hawaii!  :)  Here they all are playing, making silly faces, and going on adventures outside.

Yasu is blurry because he was jumping up and down...

Arggghhhh...

Bouncing like Tigger...

Riding Kaytin's exercise bike...

Kaytin being silly...Kaiya in Yasu's stroller...and can you find Yasu?

Bye Bye.

.mommy went back to work.

This week, mommy went back to work!  She's working part-time at a temporary position at KIUC, where she worked after she graduated from Oregon State.  She's helping them get caught up with numerous projects, and today they expressed interest in incorporating some Wellness Programs for employees, which makes mommy very happy!  Although she doesn't get to spend much time with daddy now, and misses Kaiya at work, she enjoyed being part of the working class again.  Daddy watches Kaiya until lunch time, then Aunty Dawn takes over for an hour or so...mommy only works until 1 so she has the rest of the afternoon to hang out with Kaiya.

On a completely different note, tonight, we all (minus daddy since he was working) went to Brick Oven Pizza to celebrate Kaytin graduating from Pre-School!  For those that haven't had Brick Oven Pizza...next time you're on Kauai you should probably check it out (warning:  pizza's are a bit overpriced!)  Anyway, Kaiya got to eat cheerios while the rest of us munched away on Super Pizza.  But she sat happily in her high chair like a big girl...and made a LOT of noises and fake laughs.

After dinner, we all headed over to the new Kukuiula Shopping Center and enjoyed some Lappert's Ice Cream!  Kaiya even got to try a little tiny bite of Papa Harry's chocolate...and Aunty Dawn gave her some of her Macadamia Ice Cream as a bribe for favorite aunty.  haha.  It was a nice night out with the family...if only daddy wasn't working.  I guess that's the life of a chef, huh?

.what happens when kaiya doesn't nap.

Most days Kaiya naps really well...one 2-hour nap and one 1-hour nap.  Sometimes she even throws in a 45-min nap...and cat naps in the car.  However, there are those days where she refuses to take one of the naps.  She'll usually sleep early on those days...or sometimes she'll stay up later because she's so tired.  Well, today was one of those days where she didn't take her long 2-hour nap.  I could tell she was tired, because she would try and sleep when I rocked her...but for some reason she fought it, and she wanted to play with Caleb.  Since I knew I probably wanted to put her down for the night a little earlier, I decided to try and give her dinner at 5, instead of the usual 5:45-6, so that I could start her bedtime routine a little earlier as well.  Weeeelllll...Little Miss Kaiya decided she was too tired to even finish dinner, resulting in....

She kept trying to doze off mid-bite...and I knew she was going to fall asleep in her chair.  So I tried to get in as many bites as possible.  Isn't she too cute!!  And on another note, I cut up an avocado to use on my sandwich so I decided to cut up some little pieces for Kaiya to try and feed herself.  She's had avocado pureed before so I figured why not?  She didn't love it...but she did eat a few pieces.  

And earlier in the day, I was trying to play around with the different options on the Hipstamatic app again and I caught one of her trying to stand...again.  She LOVES to try and stand up...she's only doing it for a couple seconds at a time, but she's trying more and more.  Sometimes she falls on her butt and laughs, sometimes she falls all the way down into a laying position...and laughs.  But look at her chubby little legs!

.let's play catch up.

Ok, since I'm WAAAAYYY behind on the blog, I decided I would write one that would do a catch-up for the last half of April.  

January 2, 2010:  So this picture is a few months old...but it was Kaiya's first time at a wedding.  We went to Aunty Denise and Uncle Enoka Karratti's wedding back on January 2nd at Kilohana.  It was beautiful and mommy got a chance to catch up with a lot of OSU friends since her and Aunty Denise both went there after high school.  We had a great time, ate good food and are so happy for the Karratti's.  Hopefully they'll hurry up and give Kaiya a little playmate soon.  :)

April 20, 2010: Kaiya's legs continue to get stronger every day.  She's now able to stand while holding onto things, but she doesn't actually pull herself up yet.  But she's all about making her legs straight whenever she gets the chance!

She also LOVES to look at the cute baby in the mirror.  I read that babies don't recognize that it's their reflection in mirrors until they're about 2 or so...but Kaiya gets really excited whenever she we put her in front of a mirror.  She must be thinking...that baby is sooooo cute.  hahaha!  So whenever mommy is getting ready and doing her makeup or hair, all she has to do is put Kaiya in front of the mirror and she'll just sit there and play and be entertained the entire time.  So awesome!

April 23, 2010:  It's been over four months since we first pierced Kaiya's ears and daddy has been itching to change them.  So he put in her birthstone earrings that she got from Kaytin and Caleb for Christmas.  I believe they're sapphires.  I love her earrings and I'm so glad that we pierced them...I just hope that they don't end up being crooked as she continues to grow.  

We went to the place where we pierced her ears to see what other kinds of earrings there were for future reference...we looked at the piercing earrings since they have a backing that covers the entire end of the post so it doesn't poke Kaiya when she's sleeping.  On the way out, we spotted some mini jade bracelets, so Kaiya walked out with a little one and she looked so cute in it...it also hides her wrist fold.  :)

Here she is crawling all over the place...she crawls with her belly off of the ground now!

April 24, 2010:  KIUC, where Grandma Barbara works, was participating in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.  It's a charity walk where people walk throughout the night, and there's a special luminaria lighting to remember those affected with cancer.  It's really touching because the first lap is done by all of the survivors and those currently fighting cancer.  The second lap, the caregivers join in.  Mommy tears up every time!  Daddy was off, too, so we went as a family...joining Grandma Barbara and Papa Harry, and Aunty Dawn, Uncle Wes, Kaytin and Caleb.  Kaiya kicked it in her BOB stroller and we all did a few laps and checked out the other booths.  KIUC provided dinner also.  It was such a fun night and I can't wait until Kaiya gets older so we can teach her the importance of these types of events!  

April 26, 2010:  Mommy and daddy have been taking Kaiya, Foxxy and Lennox out on walks a few mornings out of the week.  It's good exercise, nice to be outside, and all of us enjoy walking together.  Sometimes, Aunty Dawn, Caleb and Koge join us too.  It's been kind of rainy lately, so whenever it's nice we take advantage of it.  It still hasn't seem to calmed down the dogs, though, like The Dog Whisperer says it should.  (Maybe it's because it's not a set schedule, though).  However, they are better walking on the leash than they were when we lived in Vegas.  The route we walk has a bunch of barking dogs, sometimes it affects them sometimes it doesn't.  But they never want to charge them or anyone that crosses our path.  Whew!!!  Daddy walks Foxxy, since she's so heavy and strong, and Lennox walks alongside Kaiya while mommy pushes her in the stroller.  

Anyway, one morning after our walk, mommy, daddy and Aunty Dawn sat down in the kitchen to eat some breakfast.  And we noticed that Kaiya was a little sleepy.  She usually naps during the walk, but for some reason this time she didn't.  The next thing we knew, we looked over at her in her highchair and she was fast asleep.  Luckily, the highchair seat has a recline so we let her nap in there for a few minutes while we all finished up our post-walk snacks.  

So that sums up pretty much the end of April.  I've been slacking on taking pictures of outings and what not.  But now that I'm catching up on posts I'll be sure to take more photos and post regularly again.  We hope everyone who reads this is doing well and enjoying the blog!

.yucky yummy.

Little miss Kaiya has now tried a few different types of food.  She started with rice cereal, moved on to Sweet Potatoes (which she LOVED), and is now eating Apples.  We baked them and pureed them into a smooth consistency.  We even bought the sweet variety.  However, just like adults, babies don't always like their first tries of certain foods.  We're not sure if it was the texture, or just the new flavor...but Kaiya wasn't too keen on the applesauce we made.  The following video was taken the first day we tried to give her the applesauce.   It only took her a couple tries to warm up to it, though, and she now eats it up like there's no tomorrow.

.funny face tuesday: 23mar10.

Kaiya and Caleb decided funny face tuesday needed to be done during breakfast.  They both ate all their breakfasts and decided it was time...Kaiya also wanted to show off her two little bottom teeth!

.a letter for kaiya.

We sent one of Kaiya's birth announcements to the White House and look what Kaiya got in the mail!!

A lovely little note for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to welcome Kaiya Papaya (Kaytin's nickname for her) to the world!

On a different note, the bumbo seat wasn't cutting it when it came time for Kaiya to eat.  She would fling herself back to stare at whoever was behind her.  So mommy and daddy went to Baby Blutique to buy her a new highchair.  It's a Combi Hero 3-in-1...so it's a highchair, but you can remove the seat to put it on a regular chair (like a booster), and then you can also put it on the floor so she can lounge and watch TV or whatever.  It also has different height adjustments, and the seat can recline...in case she falls asleep while eating when she gets older.  She loves it, so far...and we love it because she can't fling herself backwards!