today he comes walking home very very carefully and slowly, from down the street and around the corner where he had been playing, with extreme distress in his voice carrying a half dead bee on his shoulder. I laughed so hard and had to get a picture while Evan stood there having a major panic attack and seeing no humor it it at all, pleading to get it off. Ah Evan...how I love you.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Words Escape Me
Sometimes I just don't know what to do with Evan...
today he comes walking home very very carefully and slowly, from down the street and around the corner where he had been playing, with extreme distress in his voice carrying a half dead bee on his shoulder. I laughed so hard and had to get a picture while Evan stood there having a major panic attack and seeing no humor it it at all, pleading to get it off. Ah Evan...how I love you.
today he comes walking home very very carefully and slowly, from down the street and around the corner where he had been playing, with extreme distress in his voice carrying a half dead bee on his shoulder. I laughed so hard and had to get a picture while Evan stood there having a major panic attack and seeing no humor it it at all, pleading to get it off. Ah Evan...how I love you.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Zoo Trip
We had a field trip to the zoo today, it was special in that it was a guided tour. Our guide had been one of the people that feed and take care of the animals for 15 years so she had a lot of good information and stories to tell.
Here's our guide and the boys in their Manning jerseys...my mom likes to torture me...
the kamoda dragon,
we got lucky, the dragon was pretty active today,
the cheetahs came right up to us to pose for pictures,
loads of beautiful flowers,
some I've never seen before,
the peacocks are the descendants of the peacocks Queen Lili'uokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, kept. They roam all over.
This bird is just a visitor to the zoo. We see these everywhere and I have been trying to get pictures of them. This one walked on the bushes right in front of us.
This huge banyan tree is in front of the zoo, it is a maze in and among the the huge roots.
Here's our guide and the boys in their Manning jerseys...my mom likes to torture me...
the kamoda dragon,
we got lucky, the dragon was pretty active today,
the cheetahs came right up to us to pose for pictures,
loads of beautiful flowers,
some I've never seen before,
the peacocks are the descendants of the peacocks Queen Lili'uokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, kept. They roam all over.
This bird is just a visitor to the zoo. We see these everywhere and I have been trying to get pictures of them. This one walked on the bushes right in front of us.
This huge banyan tree is in front of the zoo, it is a maze in and among the the huge roots.Thankful Thursday
great husband
great parents and in-laws
great kids
great friends who keep in touch even when I don't
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Bubble Girl
She has graduated from playing in the water to playing in the soap and water-at least she is a clean mess!
Saturday
The kids went to their friend, Joey's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
The boys had a blast playing games,
Erica and Keana folding their tickets they won from shooting baskets,
Owen is so lucky at these games.Friday, November 13, 2009
Mission House Museum Fieldtrip
Today we learned about the Missions coming to the Hawaiian Islands. When the missionaries came to the islands in 1803 literacy was 0% because the Hawaiian language was an oral language. Also at that time human sacrifice was being practiced. The missionaries influenced King Kamehameha III to end that practice. They also made Hawaiian a written language and began teaching the people to read and write increasing literacy to 75%.
This, 188 year old house, is the oldest wooden framed house in HI. Many of the Hawaiian children that came to live here would run away because they didn't like the rigour and formality of strict missionary life.
Here Owen is demonstrating why the printing press operator was often the most patient as well as strongest man at the mission.
The tedious and repetitive process ends with rolling and pulling on a huge handle
then hanging each sheet to dry. Owen did a great job.
Evan really got the hang of rolling a wooden hoop.
The print shop and back of the old house,
plus an old lava rock wall.
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