Emerson's first hula performance

Here is a little clip of Emerson's first hula "performance." The preschool she goes to offers a hula class once a week, where the kids learn all about the history of hula and it's importance to the culture of Hawaii, not just a dance routine. The kids showed us some of their other moves, but this was the one clip that most resembled "hula" that most people would recognize. (And, the class only started in January, and didn't meet for several weeks, so they are all very much beginners!)

Enjoy!

Hawaii Children's Discovery Museum

Eric was able to be a chaperone for one of Emerson's field trips recently. They went to the Hawaii Children's Discovery Museum, which apparently is a great place to take the kids. I haven't been yet, but Eric said the kids had a blast. Maybe we can all go one day!

Here is some of Emerson's classmates and one of her teachers before they all went inside the museum.

Eric had charge of Emerson and another little girl named Mandy. Here they are sailing away! And being very safety conscious, wearing their life jackets!

I think this is the grocery part of the museum. The kids can take turns shopping, and running the register and checking out the groceries....lots of hands on experience!

One area of interest for my two family members was the theater area.......I don't think I have to say anything else!

Hawaiian Waters Adventure park

We tested out the water park here on Oahu a couple of weekends ago and had a BLAST!! It was so much fun watching the girls have so much fun! We went with our new friends James and Beth and just wore ourselves out! The fun wasn't all for the kids, though, the adults were able to sneak away and get a few rides on the big slides.

Here's Macie going down one of the little slides. She wasn't scared of the slides at all....when she'd get to the bottom, she'd turn around and say "gin...gin" and try to climb up the slide!

When we finally took a break to eat lunch, Macie discovered how much fun it is to dip your fries in ranch dressing and ketchup! Here is a shot of her with her ketchup mouth!

Remember I said the kids didn't have all the fun? The big splash on the left is Eric, and coming in second place is James, on the right. Why they think riding down the Wedgie slide is so much fun I'll NEVER know!

And finally, here is Emerson coming to a stop at the bottom of the slide after going down all by herself! At first she wouldn't go down unless she was sitting in one of our laps, but after a couple of times, she was going up and down, up and down....we couldn't hardly keep up with her! She had a blast!

Easter Fun

Emerson was really excited about coloring eggs this year. She did a really good job, and only a couple of eggs got broken. Next year will probably be a different story because Miss Macie will likely be involved!

Easter Sunday. I FINALLY finished Emerson's ladybug dress just in time for Easter. I didn't intend for it to be her Easter dress, especially since I cut it out last January before we moved! I just happened to finish it right before Easter, and since I didn't find anything that I liked any better, let her wear it! We also dressed Macie up in her dress, but couldn't let her go to church because she was getting over the Chicken Pox! (It was a really mild case, so she never really felt bad, we just had to quarantine her until all the pox were crusted/gone....you moms know the drill!) Anyway we had to get pics of both girls because they both looked sooooo cute!

While Eric and Emerson went to church, Macie and I stayed home and cooked Easter Dinner. She happened upon a Recee's Peanut Butter Egg (that I thought I had picked up), unwrapped it, and proceeded to take a big ole' bite out of the end of it! I think she liked it, because after I strapped her in her highchair to finish, there wasn't a whole lot to clean up!

We had an egg hunt in our back yard for the girls before we had Easter Dinner. I think they had a pretty good time getting to find all the eggs themselves, and not having to share with others!

Showing off their new bunnies from Mr. James and Ms. Beth!

Recent, Random Pics of the girls

I don't know where we took this picture, but it sure is a cute picture of Macie!

Macie's new favorite toy is the little car. She will go in the back yard and just sit in it. Doesn't even have to be going anywhere, is just content to sit! Luckily, I can see her from the kitchen window and don't have to be supervising!

We are going to try to enjoy eating outside more often. We enjoyed having grilled hot dogs on Good Friday. Where else can you grill, wear shorts, and eat outside almost any day of the year? One of the few perks of living in Hawaii!

Trying to get a cute pic of the girls before church one Sunday morning. Macie looked like such a big girl in that halter dress! It's so difficult to get both of them to look at the camera at the same time!

Emerson's new digs

We finally finished Emerson's room a couple of Sunday evenings ago. We were pretty proud of the way her grass skirt bedskirt and window treatment came out. And no, for all you family members out there, no animals were injured, in any way in the trimming of the grass skirt (Lynda). Ha! We couldn't stop laughing about the "incident" that occurred the last time a grass skirt bedskirt was attempted by someone in our family!
And, I think Emerson enjoys her new, finished bedroom, too!

Church Easter Picnic

We went to our church's annual Easter picnic a couple of weekends ago. The girls really had a good time and the park was way up in the mountains and had lots of trees and was cool. Not at all what you would expect in Hawaii!

Emerson and her friend Hannah enjoying playing with their new bubbles!

Macie going on her first Easter egg hunt. It didn't take long for her to get the hang of putting eggs in her basket!

Emerson, Hannah, and Ryland waiting their turn to hunt eggs.

Emerson's turn!

Macie and Daddy enjoying their chocolate cupcakes ...maybe a little too much!

Both my girls! Aren't they the cutest?