Baby

This morning I was greeted at my mom’s office with my mother looking me up and down. A look I have seen before but not since I was a teenager. The look like, I know what you did last night.

Mom: “So, I was reading your horoscope for 2012.”
Me: “Ya?”
Mom: “And it said, there is a baby coming this year. “
Me: “What?”
Mom: “Do you have something you want to tell me?”
Me: “Are you high?”
Mom: “Well, I’m just checking because your horoscope says baby. “
Me: “That’s great that your Reader’s Digest 2012 Horoscope Edition says baby for Sagittarius this year. But I can tell you it is not gonna happen. “
Mom: “Well, we’ll just see about that.”

The transition from one child to two was brutal. I’ve heard going from two to three is WAY brutal. But then once you have three you might as well have five. Right?
Do we have plans of adding another hapa to the family? Probably. Within the next two years? NO! We are really enjoying having just two children. And we are going to just enjoy the two for a while. Thanks for asking.

Summer 2009

Summer 2009

Laugh it up

His laugh has not changed...it still makes me smile! Even if its after me discovering he has just eaten all my cake pops.

Always with wings

We couldn't wait for him to talk! Now...he won't stop talking. People used to tell me, "Oh when he starts to talk you are gonna want him to stop." I kinda get that. However, the things that Kael says and does I don't think I could even make up. A few nights ago he skips up to me. "Momma, come quick, the walls are bleeding." I think, "Oh god....where are my sharpies?" I follow him cautiously, not sure what to expect. I follow him to the bathroom to discover he had broken a child safety lock, gotten under the sink, opened a box of pads, unpeeled the stickies, and stuck about 12 of them to the wall. And there you have it....the walls were bleeding. He laughed and walked away....He always does that. Leaves me behind with my jaw dropped, laughing.

The Walls

Last night, Kael was sitting with me on the couch. He says, "Momma. What's in the walls?" I respond, "The other side of a wall is another room. The other side of the living room wall is the kitchen. You see?" He says, "No." Shaking his head. "In the walls is poop." He then laughs at me and hops away...awesome.

Oregon Coast Aquarium before Mae was born. He sure was a little and didn't talk back yet. I had no idea what fun I would be in store for.

FB Posts

Random stories and facebook status updates I don't want to forget....

Walking into Kiddoz (playland) Kael says, "Momma look a bird." I say, "Where?" As I kick something high into the sky...a dead bird. Dec, 2011

Asked Kael where he wants to work when he grows up. He says, "With Keoni." Ummm...I thought you called him Daddy?

Washing the dishes and turned around quickly and ended up kicking Maeli. She screamed...Kael comes running into the kitchen, "Momma, what happen to Maes?" "Oh, Momma didnt know Maes was behind me and I kicked her on accident." Kael's response, "Oh, can I kick her?" Dec, 2011

Today marks a happy, happy day. Kael just said, "No more Blues Clues!" Sigh...Ive been waiting for this day! Nov, 2011

Kael is bellowing at me from his room. "Hey Hon. Come here. For one moment." Night night child. Go to sleep! Nov, 2011

Whaaaa? How did he learn to bite his toenails. He thought it was the coolest idea ever. Weird.... Oct, 2011


Kael: "No bite Mae-zie, no bite Kael." Momma: "Stop putting your finger in her mouth!" Oct, 2011

Kael just took a big drink of milk and spit it all over me. Looks at me and says, "Oh, sorry momma." Ummmm....yaaaa... Oct, 2011

After Maeli was born we did a sweet foot print of her and hung it on the wall. Kael looks at it and beams, "Momma, a clue!" Jan, 2011

Three is Rad

Kael has officially entered the, "I Am a Complete Freak in Public" phase. Today our trip to Fred Meyer consisted of the following:

• Kael refusing to get into the cart or hold my hand in the parking lot. Instead he wanted to
  "hold his own hand". I sighed.


• We arrive safely to the produce area and he picks up a tomato and bites it, screams, "Gross" and throws the tomato towards a lady in a motorized cart, she doesn't notice and runs over the tomato. I'm looking around to make sure no one noticed.


• I run into a girlfriend just a few moments later and put on my best momma face that everything is just, great.


• We circle around to the deli and I order 1/2 lb of pastrami. I turn away from the cart leaving Maeli buckled unsupervised for a second and I hear, "Bye Maes." I turn around in time to see my cart flying away from me straight into the Boar's Head display of various mustards and such. Mae slams into the display and bottles begin to roll. At this point I had stalkers watching me. I bent down, grab Kael's shoulders, only to see a woman stop and stare at me. I pull out from within, "Kael, I'm frustrated because you are being a freak, you have lost your choice to walk, you now have to ride in the cart. What I meant was, "Are you f*&^!ing serious right now?"


• We make it through the frozen foods section.


• Enter the Meat Department. Apparently there is speed floating in the air. He begins to just run. Back and forth multiple times from end to end poking his finger in the meat packages. I'm quickly trying to pick out stew meat. I look up to see Kael running full speed towards the freezer with the shrimp and he hits it, falls, and laughs. Now, everyone in meats is staring at me....the meat guy is staring at me....I watching Kael and see him run back to me close to Maeli. He grabs her cookie out of her hand and she kicks him in the face. He screams, "No Maes!"


• I head towards canned food. At this point I'm about to have a melt down. He completely runs away from me and all the way down the canned aisle knocking items off the shelves. I yell towards him to come back. Then try Red Light. Then just let him go....


• I caught up with him heading towards the check out. Now I'm really panicking. Check out is hell. All the candy on display...I bend down and tell him to ride in the cart and help me put things on the belt to buy them. He screams, "No," and begins to have a major tantrum since I trying to keep him form falling to the group. At this point people aren't staring, they are glaring. I then begin to say to people, "Glaring at me isn't helping the situation right now, thanks so much for you concern!"


• Keoni carries him out kicking and screaming.


• I get in line and the lady in front of me turns around and says, "Wow, he was out of control." I respond. "He's not out of control. He's three."

Ducks

I think she may have been a duck in her past life. She loves ducks!

Good-bye 2011

What was the highlight of 2011?

My girl, Maeli. I have to admit, when we found out the baby was a girl, both of us were freaked. Keoni disagreed with Brian, the most amazing Ultrasound Tech at CORA, that it wasn't a girl. It had to be a boy. Keoni said, "We have a boy, we have no idea what to do with a girl." Brian's response was, "Well, if its a boy, then your boy has a vagina." Needless to say, on January 4th, 2011 we discovered Brian was correct. Maeli Marie Ku'uipo Feurtado was born and she was a girl.

Now, a year later, Maes is very much a girly. She loves to be held and cuddled, she has this drama cry that she only uses on her brother, and every chance she gets she tries to bite him. We love her. Kael says, "Maes has a brown head, I love to kiss it and squeeze it. She has little eyes that I poke. She eats my toys. She eats other food. She loves Momma. I love her. I not kick her."

Happy New Year! We hope this new year brings everyone hilarious times, delicious wine, and pure happiness!