.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.

.pre-daddy's day.

Of course, daddy had to work on Father's Day, so we all spent the day together on his day off, which was Saturday.  Macy's had a morning special on a pair of earrings mommy wanted, so after daddy came back from fishing, we headed off to Kukui Grove.  Little did we know it was a huge one-day sale at Macy's, not to mention there was live music in front of Deja Vu, and a Father's Day Classic Carshow in the parking lot.

Mommy and daddy didn't have a chance to eat breakfast, so we stopped by McDonald's and waited for all the other stores to open (Macy's opened early).  On the way to McDonald's, the art gallery was showing Bonsai plants so we stopped in to see them.  They were beautiful...and one of the trees was over 100 years old!  Here's a few of them...

Below is the 100 year + tree...and Kaiya posing with it...sorry it got cut off

And lucky us...there was a classic car show going on in the parking lot.  We LOVE old cars like these...Grandpa Dave has an awesome '76 (or somewhere around there) convertible Mustang back in Los Alamos.

And this is a Radio Flyer someone re-did (I'm sure there's a better word for it but this is all I can come up with right now.)  :)

Later that night we went to potluck at Great-Grandma Lina and Great-Grandpa Leandro's to celebrate Father's Day.  It's always fun and everyone is loving that Kaiya actually smiles back at them now.  Took her long enough...however, if she's tired she reverts back to her "staring contest" self.  

.gardening.

First I have to apologize, again and in advance, for not keeping Lil Miss Kaiya's blog up-to-date....and it might continue this way.  But being back at work, even if it's only half a day, I don't get a chance to take as many pictures of Kaiya.  I'll work on it, though.

Anyway, a little over a month ago, Eric and I planted a bunch of herbs and fruit/vegetables.  They're doing great...and Kaiya and mommy water them (almost) everyday.  Aunty Sally (Great-Gma Lina's sister) said there was an old wive's tale about a certain action (which I forgot, but Kaiya does do) means that the baby will have a green thumb.  Maybe that's why our garden is growing so well.  :)

Here's some pics of what we planted...it's just the beginning and hopefully by the end of summer we'll be able to harvest some fruit/veggies.  The herbs are ready to go already.

...bell peppers...

...cucumbers...

...basil, which we planted over a year ago, thought was dead for about a year, was too lazy to replant, then all of a sudden came back to life after a big week of rain...

...tomatoes, which we need to cage up...

...green onion, dill, thyme and chinese parsley (cilantro)...

...kaiya helping mommy water the garden...

...foxxy barking at us like she usually does...

...lennox...

...yasu saying "cheese"...

...yasu's UH jibbitz (is that what they're called?)...

...kaiya enjoying the outdoors and her stroller...

.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!

.kaiya visits the bradbury science museum.

We met up with Grandpa Dave at the Bradbury Science Museum, which is located in Los Alamos.  Mommy has never been there, so it was a first for both her and Kaiya.  It's not a big museum, but there was a lot of fun things to look at and read about.  

Here is Kaiya with Fat Man and Little Boy, which are models of the two bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Little Boy, the little green one, is the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 during WWII.  Little Boy was a designed and built at Los Alamos.  Fat Man, the yellow and black one, was the bomb that dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.  It was tested at Trinity Site in southern New Mexico.

They also had a seismology detector (?? earthquake reading device ??) and had some printouts of the recent earthquakes.  Here's the earthquake that happened on Easter Sunday.

And this is the earthquake in Chile that caused the Hawaii Tsunami 2010 (or when the world watched the water recede a few feet on the Big Island).

Here's Kaiya talking with Grandpa Dave...

And posing with a statue...I forget who it's of, though.

They also had some pretty cool panoramic shots of White Rock and Los Alamos...

And here is Kaiya generating some electricity.  If you look at the electricity meter, the red line is almost full!

Kaiya and daddy posing...

And Kaiya and Grandpa Dave leaving their mark in the guest book!

After touring the museum, we headed over to the bookstore where Grandpa Dave bought her a mini Hello Kitty keychain for her stroller and a Hello Kitty book.  By the way, Kaiya is all about the Hello Kitty now since mommy and daddy has decided to make her 1st birthday Hello Kitty themed.  Can you believe we're already planning her 1st birthday?

And on another note, I'm slowly catching up.  Sorry about the lag...but here is what's to come:

Vegas visit, some Funny Face Tuesdays, her SEVEN month photo shoot, and a few others.