Aloha 2011

We had a really nice visit to Hawaii to visit Papa and Tutu! The kids LOVED the beach....so fun to watch them play in the waves! Here are some pics from the trip....

Dear Apple,
Thank you for inventing the iPad....our kids were so well behaved on the flight over, we kept pinching ourselves!!
Thanks,
Jill

Jake tried boogie boarding (though he will tell you it was SURFING).....he also loved the blue "surfboard" that Tutu bought him with a viewing window to see the fish!

Down the waterslide....he did it all by himself and later in the day, graduated to going without his life vest. Daddy taught him the trick to going fast and he was a HAPPY boy! Tutu hooked us up with a pass to the Hyatt for the day and doing the waterslide there was one of the highlights of Jake's trip!

One of the projects Tutu had ready for Jake....he LOVED doing all of them!

This is what happens when you wake up at 4:30am every day.....Mia never did adjust to the time change. The good news is that she slept in late the day we got home ;)

Melt my heart.....

Best part of the whale watching trip.....his own can of Hawaiian's Own.

Noisy

Mia is a lot of things.....and NOISY is towards the top of the list :) She's been hitting some high pitch tones recently that Jake just can't handle. I couldn't help but crack up when I looked in the back seat and saw Jake.....coping with the noise.
Thank you to my iPhone for capturing the moment ;)

Misc.

Their new favorite rainy day activity....take all the cushions off of the couch and play and make a bed, a fort, a jump zone.....it can turn into a WHOLE day worth of fun.

Booties

They do love to hug....typically followed by a body slam of some kind.

She loves her bath....

Thank you to the genius who came up with WASHABLE markers.

Jake on skis

Jake going down the small hill.....later in the day, he did the big hill on his own too!

Trip to the cabin

Here's our super skier at the top of the hill! Jake made HUGE progress this weekend.....we got rid of the harness and he was on his own down the Super Cub hill ALL on his own, and doing the chair lift with us. So fun to see him doing this.....such a big boy!

Daddy and Jake on the lift!

My little ski buddy!! We're taking the pic of ourselves, so it's a little off :)

Gramps had his own team of helpers to shovel off the deck.

Change in plans....building an igloo instead of shoveling

We had a great time at the cabin with Grammie and Gramps!

Monster Jam

We took Jake to see Monster Jam and it was SO fun. It was pure entertainment.....and that's saying a lot, as I don't think I'm exactly their target audience. Jake loved every minute and has insisted on wearing his monster truck t-shirt (that's 3 sizes too big) every day.