Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
From the monthly archives:
Mommy taught Maile a new song about being a candle. Maile liked it so much that we (yes, the whole family got involved) sang it 10 times in a row. Don’t worry, we only captured 3 of the times on video…
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Just a Maile smile to start your week...
Hope you have a great start to your week!
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The other day Maile came home from school and told Mommy she wanted to read her a book. She picked up the “Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar” and proceeded to tell Mommy all about “máo máo chóng” on every page until the end when it became a “hú dié”. Some quick googling made Mommy realize that Maile was indeed saying the words for caterpillar and butterfly!
Pretty cool! So then Daddy, of course, had to grab the camera and try his hand at it 😉
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This made my day.
Backstory: Neither Chris nor I taught Maile this song. Apparently, she learned it at school! School of Rock? Yes, please.
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Awhile back Grandma Jill and Papa Mike started sending Maile High Five magazine (it’s the younger version of Highlights magazine for those of you that remember that). A couple nights ago Maile discovered that the back of the magazine had a game you could cut out and play. She asked if we could play it. The game is made for 3 players – perfect!
The rules are simple. Each player has a suitcase with pictures of 6 items inside. One at a time you pick a card from the pile. If it matches something in your suitcase, you add it in and then go again. If it doesn’t match it goes to the bottom of the deck and it’s the next player’s turn. Once you fill your suitcase, you get to close it up!
Maile loves this game! And she follows the rules (mostly) and takes turns. We’ve played it every night at least twice for the past 3 nights!
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A good question. It appears this week’s theme will be “slightly embarrassing things Daddy will do for his little girl”. Yesterday, we had the matching pajamas. Today, it appears the wrong person is wearing the floatie…
Look tough Maile!
(Dad note: The truth is that Maile was scared of the blue dinosaur floatie thing and I was trying to show her it was no big deal. Really. No, really.)
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Every year, I buy Maile and Mommy matching pajamas for Christmas. Maile LOVES them – I think she would wear them every night if she could.
Maile and Mommy, matching jammies - 2012 edition
This year Daddy got into the mix too - although we had to explain to Maile that Daddy's top looks different because boys don't like patterned pajamas.
Dad note: I realize this is one step away from matching family sweaters – we’re not going there though. Matching is for inside the house only. Really. No, really.
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Everyone is always talking about the weather in Hawaii, but I thought the food really made my trip. Check out some of the highlights…
Shave Ice (of course)
Marshmellow (my first one!)
Cheetos on the beach
Noodles with chopsticks (my skills are improving!)
Chips - get in my belly!
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Grandma Gail had a whole bunch of projects lined up for the girls. One of the favorites was gingerbread house decorating (although it’s unclear if the girls liked the decorating or eating part better).
Decorating the gingerbread house is serious business!
Each girl also decorated their own Gingerbread man - they were also cousins and all lived in the house together.
So we're done decorating, right? I can eat the extra candy now?
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The title is in quotes for a reason – we have some work to do on both the “slipping” and “sliding” aspects 😉
We head home from Hawaii tomorrow. Among other things, Maile Girl is going to miss Grandma and Papa’s great backyard – and she is going to ESPECIALLY miss playing with Katie and Emily! We had a great trip – we had high hopes for the girls finally all being at an age where they could have fun together and they certainly did not disappoint. Can’t wait to do it again next year!
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