Watch out world, Lauren now has wheels!
For Christmas we bought Lauren a scooter – she tried it a few times, but it didn’t really take. Its been hanging around the house unused for months. Apparently, our nanny, Kelly, took Lauren to Japantown on Monday and she became fascinated with a little boy riding his scooter. She came home and figured out how to ride it. She’s already pretty good – and as is her style, fearless…
In other news, Maile Girl is slowly, but surely making progress with the roller blades. She is now incentivized to keep up with her little sister 🙂
Also, this is classic city living with us doing roller blades and scooters in the main lobby of our building. We did go out to hit the streets, but it was pretty windy … and probably best is Lauren masters this thing away from traffic!
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Christine and I headed to North Carolina this weekend for our 10th reunion at Fuqua. Grandma and Papa Hawaii came in to town to spend the weekend with the girls. By all accounts they had lots of fun and we really appreciate the chance to get away just Christine and I.
Papa Cal, Maile, Grandma Gail and Lauren (April 2015)
The girls are already counting the days until their June trip to Hawaii!
On Sunday we went over to PKS to have a final potluck and take a group photo with the group that participated in the Chinese New Year parade.
The full group - quite a set of costumes!
Wait, who is that in the middle? Yep, yours truly. I was asked to sub in last minute as the sheep herder as our head of school couldn’t make it.
Yep, the sheep herder with his favorite sheep...
You might remember that last fall, Maile and I went to the Food Bank for the first time to volunteer with some of her classmates. We went back again on Sunday and had a great time. This time we were tasked with sorting oranges and once again, it was a really well run volunteer event and perfect for young kids.
Maile Girl, all gloved up and ready to rock!
I FOUND AN ORANGE!
Almost done with bin #1 - our team completed about 3.5 of them while we were there.
Good times for Maile and I - a good way to start the day!
Kelly sent these pictures to us today of Lauren playing at the gym.
Notice how in both pictures she is making sure the shopping cart is very close by? She loves that shopping cart. And that’s a sign you have a big sister. She knows if she lets that thing out of her grasp for even two seconds its as good as gone!
Kelly and Lauren were playing with magna tiles the other day and afterwards Lauren asked Kelly to take some pictures to share her creation with Christine and I. So, of course, I am now sharing with you 🙂
Ain't no thing, just a little magna tiles village I made.
Yes, Lauren, you are indeed the cutest!
This weekend was the annual Cherry Blossom Festival down in Japantown. On Sunday morning the girls got dressed up in their kimonos. Well, Maile was very excited to don hers, Lauren less excited about the kimono – she just wanted to rock as much Hello Kitty gear as possible, so she wore a Hello Kitty t-shirt and her Hello Kitty-style kimono as more of an open jacket.
We had a great time checking things out, catching up with one of Mommy’s friends from work, eating some Japanese street food, playing games and, yes, lots and lots of Hello Kitty.
Maile Girl striking a pose she seems to think is appropriate when wearing a kimono...
My cherry blossom girls!
Lauren was VERY excited to see the Hello Kitty mobile...
... no really, best. day. ever.
A big smile for a busy week…
Last week Maile had an art show for her after school Chinese character art class. It was a pretty cool class – they used the characters to create pictures based on their meaning.
Here are the Chinese characters that Maile wrote and based her art on...
... and here are the beautiful pictures Maile created from them!
Needless to say Maile had a blast – this is squarely up her alley 🙂
Christine earned her holiday Mommy stripes this weekend. First, she cooked up a storm – matzah ball soup on Friday, briscuit and kugle on Saturday and delicious steaks and homemade french fries on Sunday. Oh, and this crazy delicious marshmallow graham cracker brownie and banana muffins to boot.
Whew, exhausted just thinking about it – no really look – I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
While Mommy was being super Mommy, Daddy was napping on the couch...
And to top it off – it wasn’t just delicious food, Mommy also found time to (a) go for a run for her marathon training and (b) make easter eggs with the girls!
Mommy teaching the girls how to plan their egg dying...
Shockingly, Maile was very particular about the dye design of her eggs.
Lauren took things very seriously...
... this one, not so much.
Lauren watched every move Mommy made like a hawk...
Maile, Mommy and Lauren having fun making easter eggs!
