honey girl

today was the last day of school for kalei, so we thought we'd show a bit of what she's been doing lately. kalei's kindergarten put on a zoo performance (note the cages), and kalei was a bear. the bears did this cute dance to a japanese song, "kumasan," but our video camera's battery was dead and we didn't know it till we tried to record! bummer! but, we did get a few pictures and a little video of the end of the program.

kalei is the second bear from the left in the video.

here's a little montage of one of kalei's soccer games. what can i say - this girl's got rhythm in her soul!

first attempts

kawelo really did take his first steps on friday - this is james' attempt to recreate the moment.

happy mother's day!

i tore this out of a magazine several years ago, and it remains my favorite quote on motherhood. happy mother's day, ladies!

dissed

so the other day kalei and i were in the kitchen working on assorted projects (i think she was drawing and i was making cards) and i started singing like the singing frog from the warner bros. cartoon. (you know, the one where the frog only sings for the construction worker and not any of the producers he takes the frog to.) so, picture me: "hello my, baby! hello, my honey! hello, my ragtime gaaaalllllll! send me a kiss by wiiiiiiiiiire! baby, my heart's on fiiiiiiiiiire!" and kalei calmly looks around the room and says: "I wish it were quiet in here." ouch!

success!

here are some of the candidates that are eligible for picture frames. i'm sure it would've been interesting to be a fly on the wall while the kids and i were having our photo shoots ("go sit next to your brother. hug him, please. i said hug him!"), but the kids had fun and were their silly selves and now we have over 100 pictures that totally capture the moments. how did we ever survive without digital cameras?!

the silliest children in the whole world!

as you might have noticed, i'm really enjoying making sweeping, exaggerated statements lately (says the most exhausted - and luckiest - mama in the world)! i've had three photo sessions with the kids to try to get just a few good pictures to put up on the wall. (kam's pictures will, of course, have center-stage, but i want at least one more of each to fill it out.) here are the results from one of the sessions. good thing i'm looking for photos that capture their personalities, right?