Auntie Kellie

I know, we got a little spoiled when Auntie Kellie came out 4 days after Andy left. Boring that they didn't overlap at all... Kellie's was more of a last minute trip for her Spring Break (I guess it's good in a way, because we don't have the biggest place out here). We had lots of fun with her (of course) too! Her main objective here (besides hang out with us) was to get tan... oh wait a second. Let's just say she misses Wahoo's fish tacos a LOT out in Bloomington Illinois, so we did our Best to get her there as much as we could. We live about 30 minutes from Wahoo's (it's in Honolulu), but we managed to get her there 4 times in the week she was here. Yeah for Kellie!!

Uncle Andy

Sooo.... we got to have "Uncle Andy" come out and stay w/ us for 10 days at the end of February! Yes, that was a month ago... but you know how it goes. We had so much fun with him here. We mostly just hung out, went to the beach a few times, ate lots of treats (and more treats), and watched Smallville at night. We are big fans of Andy.

Katie thinks Lucy is FUNN-NNY!

A few weeks ago I was doing my hair in the bathroom, and heard all sorts of laughter coming from BOTH of my girls. Lucy is the only one who can get Katie to really belly laugh. Hear are some clips of them.

Sunday Bloggin...

Am I on a role or what? Two Sunday Blogs in a row. This is going to be a quick one though... you know kids to take care of and what not. In the first picture, Lucy laid her princess dress on top of the baby, and said "Look, now the Baby is a princess!" The second one is just cute... because Katie is cute. The third one is of our matching girls. The other night I put a sweatshirt on Katie (I know... even in Hawaii-- it was a chilly 70 that night) with the hood on and commented how cute she looked. Lucy looked very displeased and said "Hey, where's my pink sweatshirt w/ a hat?" So I took out her only sweatshirt like that (stained and size 18 months) and gave it to her. She was thrilled to be matchers w/ Katie. I guess I should buy her a new sweatshirt.

Sunday Dresses...

Just another blurb about the sisters in their Sunday dressess. I guess I like taking pictures of them on Sunday, since their both actually dressed on Sunday (at least for a few hours anyway). Aunt Kellie sent the girls these for Christmas. Thanks Kellie and a special thanks to Target for making the purchase possible. For those of you who don't know this, sigh, there is no Target in Hawaii. I can't talk about it though... it's a sensitive topic for me.

Consuela in Blue?

Many of you mothers of girls may identify with me on this one... Girls in blue. We all know that some people have a hard time telling baby boys from baby girls. For instance, I've had people ask me what gender Katie is when she's in her carseat with a pink head support, pink carseat strap protectors, pink clothes and a pink blanket. I know, some people aren't so smart. I guess this has started to rub off on me just a tad, because the other night I was hesitant to put Katie in blue pajamas, because I didn't want her to look like a boy... even though she was just going to bed. So I put her in the pajamas (someone gave them to me-- I usually buy pinks and purples) and then took her pic because she looked so dang cute. Maybe she looks like a boy in them, but the next morning Lucy said in her most high-pitched, excited voice, "Oh, I like her cute pajamas!"

Now we're good parents...

Kenric & I felt like mediocre parents this year at Christmas since we really didn't do too many Holiday activities. Lucy decorated cookies once w/ friends, we went to the Ward Christmas party and 1 other party-- but not too much besides that. We wanted to do a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve again like we did last year, but who would have known that every store in Hawaii sells out of the things weeks before Christmas. So in an effort to redeem ourselves as good parents, we took Lucy and Consuela (that's Katie's nickname for now) to see the Honolulu Christmas lights.... AFTER Christmas. I know, lame, but at least we finally did it. We went last Sunday evening and boy was it a hit! They were both big fans of all the lights.

Christmas Videos

Happy New Year! Okay, I know it's not Christmas anymore (that would be fun though)... but I have two videos from Christmas morning that I meant to put up. The first one is of Lucy doing her Dora Dance video from Uncle Andy. It's a dance along video complete w/ the Dora outfit, maracas (if that's how you spell it), and a Dance mat. This was one of her first time. She's pretty much gone pro by now. The second one is of Lucy w/ her new Polly Pocket race to the mall race track. She still loves it (2 weeks later) and plays w/ it every day. The only trick is that the only flat surface big enough for it in our house is the kitchen table. So we just use the other half for eating.

Merry Christmas!!!

I thought I should hurry and put some pictures up from today, since it might never happen if I don't do it right now. We had a great day. Presents, happy (and crazy) kids, beach, more presents (Lucy helped Katie open hers in the afternoon since Katie took a nap part way through the morning present session), Becky's homemade pizza, and as soon as I'm done... some Dryer's slow-churned light eggnogg ice cream. Thank you everyone for your awesome presents and spoiling our kids (and us).

Christmas Cheer

This is the four of us at our ward Christmas party. Kenric sang the first verse of Silent Night in German (a solo!) as part of the Christmas program. We had some neigborhood kids over to decorate Christmas cookies a few days ago. Lucy would frost a cookie, eat a cookie (actually just lick the frosting off) when I was baking more of the cookies in the kitchen. We also finally put up our mini tree a week before Christmas. Lucy thought it was Christmas because she was playing with all the ornaments like they were toys. She loved the Nativity set and told me the next day while getting in the car "oh, I forgot to bring baby Jesus"

Katie's first barrette

As some of you may have noticed, Katie's hair is slowly leaving us.... that is all except for the little patch on the top of her head, which is getting longer. So we thought we should put a barette in before it's all gone since it might be a while before we see hair again.

The Sisters

Here are just a few fun pics of the two sisters.

Katie Talks

Finally, our little babooshka can tell us what she really thinks about life outside the womb. She's coming up on 4 months!

Some more pics...

I'm just trying to make up for lost time real quick... I never do blogs during the week because lets face it-- if I ever get a second to myself I'd kind of rather sleep or... sleep. Which I don't know why I'm so tired. Katie is a little helper and has been sleeping 9-11 hours for weeks now. So here is some pics of Lucy and Katie in their Sunday dresses on 3 different occasions. You have to Love Katie's double chin in the second picture.

LOST...

For those of you that are obsessed with Lost (as are Kenric and I), here are some pictures of Lucy in some spots where Lost clips were filmed. Oh and... yes we've seen a few of the characters around since we moved here. I saw Evangeline Lily out walking while I was on a run in Kailua a few days after we moved here. We saw Jin (whatever his real name is) out in front of his house a few months after we moved here. We're excited for when the show finally resumes next year.

Happy Halloween

It's about time! I know, I know... everyone is shocked that it took me so long to post Halloween pictures since I'm usually so on the ball with everything (oh wait a second...) So here are some pics of our little darlings and mullet dad. I chose to dress up like a mom from 2007-- how original. Lucy was a princess and Katie was a hot dog as a tribute to her auntie Kellie. We went to a neighborhood potluck party and then did some trick-or-treating. Lucy really loves Halloween, which is so surprising since neither Kenric or I like candy.

Lucy & Friends...

LUCY & FRIENDS:
Here is Lucy at the Zoo last week w/ her playgroup friends. Her friends Dora and Diego are her pillow friends. The other day I came in and she was listening to some nursery rhymes on her CD player, sitting on her bed between the dolls, and singing along.

Katie Consuela

Katie Consuela is Kenric's nickname for baby Katie. He wanted to name her that for real, but I vetoed that. I thought we should give Katie a little of the spotlight for once since we usually have more Lucy stories. I guess there's not much to say about Katie. She sleeps a lot, eats and is really cute. This is her in the dress that Auntie Kellie sent to her. It's a 3-6 months, so we're really proud of her fitting into it so well at 8 weeks.