chip-chip-hooray!

Gordy's Uncle Chip made 50 this month, so we celebrated with him and 70+ of his friends and family on the north shore of Kauai for the weekend.  Lots of beach time, monks seals, good food, nice people, a muddy hike to the Queen's Bath, driving lessons, a new best friend/girlfriend (Scout), caves, and even a slip-n-slide!

kaena point

We've recently been introduced to the trails at Kaena Point, and they are perfect for kiddos to do some mountain bike riding!  We've been out there twice now and are already planning our next trip.  The views are gorgeous, the trails are fun, there's a cool tree tunnel to climb through, plenty of mud puddles to play in, and tide pools to rinse off in.  I'm can imagine that the trails may become unbearable in the summer due to heat and dry conditions, but at this time of year, they are perfect!

so many trucks

Gordy loves things that go - trucks, constructions vehicles, boats, emergency vehicles, airplanes, helicopters, trains, rubbish trucks, monster trucks, etc.  Sometimes, he'll line them all up in some sort of organized manner to proudly display his "collection".  Todd is pretty sure that Gordy has way too many, but Gordy couldn't disagree more.  

i love you mommy

I'm pretty sure that I have the sweetest kid on the planet.  At least once per day, he's been cuddling up to me, giving me a squeeze and sometimes even a kiss and then he'll say, "I love you mommy".  My heart melts every time. 

Melemele

Nana was given the ok to give Gordy his first pet (a fish) for Christmas, so she kitted him out with a mini tank that she doesn't use anymore, a filter, two decorative monsters, rocks of his color choice, and a promise to take him to the pet store where he could pick out his new friend.  A few days ago, after getting his tank all set up, we took a trip to the pet store and came home with "Melemele". 

Gordy absolutely loves his fish - he feeds him twice a day, he talks to him (and even makes the voice of Melemele talk back to him), and he turns the tank light on and off each day so Melemele can "sleep better".  He even gives him fish kisses!

happy end to 2019

So many great times in 2019... looking forward to all that 2020 will bring!

quite a happy holiday

Gordy LOVES holidays, and Christmas is definitely at the top of his favorite holiday list.  For the last few weeks, all he could talk about was Santa and presents, pineapple and Christmas lights.  He would wake up each morning asking, "Is it Christmas today?".  And then, when he learned that it was not, we would go through the same line of questions - How many days until Christmas?  Can I open my presents?  Can we see Santa?...

Since he was so excited about it all, we took him to the mall to see Santa for the first time - which he loved!  He gave him knuckles and asked him about his reindeer.  

Gordy and Nana went to town to see the Honolulu City Lights and to ride on the trolley.

We brought our living Christmas tree in from the garden and decorated it with lights and ornaments.

We baked sugar cookies and painted them - as was my granny goodwitch's tradition.

We wrote a letter to Santa asking him lots of questions including: (1) Do you give whisker pies? (2) What do your reindeer eat?  and (3) Can you bring me some pineapple please?

And, we left out some cookies and milk out for Santa with the letter and some fruit salad for the reindeer.  (Mall Santa said that the reindeer liked carrots, but we didn't have any.  So, we decided that the reindeer might also like fruit salad.)

Finally Christmas day was here and Gordy bounded out of bed right past me without a hug or much of a good morning to check to see if Santa had come.  He politely asked Daddy if he planned to get up to participate or if Gordy should begin without him and then he tore into his stocking looking for dried pineapple.  All in all, it seems he scored on his gifts and of course - Santa did leave some pineapple for him.

Mele Kalikimaka!