morning in Chinatown

Nu'uanu Avenue
Hotel Street

our wee budding thespian..

Pics from Kainoa's preschool's Christmas program. Kainoa played the role of Simba with style and grace.. apologies for the amateur video grandma and grandpa, we'll make you a copy of the better version... wish you could have been there.

Diamond Head hike, the best rainbow ever

snow day

dreaming again of the mainland..

School has ended and I'm desperately trying to slow myself down when everything around is still saying go. I find my mind wandering back to simpler times before life here in Honolulu when we could take off on road trips and camp wherever we ended up with a bit of sunlight left. I'm thinking about the Oregon coast alot inparticular, probably to an unhealthy degree but what a place. hence the pics

figuring it out..

Walking up from Black Point Glenn did a little traverse on a wall we've walked by 1,000 but failed to notice its climbability before. Kainoa gave it a try and he's at a point now where he can apply logic to problems and he really enjoyed getting to the top. I'm perpetually amazed by him. Did I mention he's getting huge?

Slowly becoming well rounded people again...

It's been so long since we went to an actual movie at an actual theatre that I took a picture for proof that we didn't dream it.....

"Hiroko" must mean smile

Banana, Coconut, Pineapple with ice cream and beans...

Matsumoto Shave Ice

A serious learning curve

Mary set up a digital loom workshop with Emily Dubois, who recently moved to Hilo and donated her compudobby loom to the program. I been going in and out in between teaching but it's been nice to stop and be a student if even for a couple of hours. With a digital loom a weaver can input patterns into a computer and the program figures out the warp and weft and then with the push of a button lifts the proper heddles. Emily bought fabric paint and showed us how you can paint on the threads, for example you can paint different colors on the warp threads before you weave and then a pattern will emerge after the section is weaved, and, and.. Basically I got teased with lots of options and new possibilities for making and I don't know when I'll ever have the time.

It's up!

The info on the upcoming TCM show is finally up here

As Kainoa's mom it makes me so happy to see him with such a good friend in Kai. The two of them can just go for hours on the beach and even though they are very different children they compliment each other well and enjoy each other without limit. We were up every morning before them and Kainoa would hang as close to the door of their tent as I would allow him to get and say in a soft voice "come out. come out. come out." and then when Kai finally emerged from the tent Kainoa would bust into a wide grin of satisfaction and anticipation. By the way, that's no sunset, that's the sun rising at 6am. lovely.

another lazy weekend at Malaekahana

we got to go camping this weekend with John, Hiroko, Kai, and Frank. it was restful but not without weirdness. i'd heard about the treacherous bugs in Hawaii but had only ever seen cockroaches and termites. this weekend I almost plopped my hand down on a giant centipede while collecting firewood and then I came way too close to sitting on a scorpion who had made a bed in my camp chair. Kainoa and Kai roasted their first marshmallows and Kainoa gets more comfortable with his abilities in the water every day. so, first a great video of Kainoa on his boogie board, and more pics to come...

Lesson learned

Never get your child a new bicycle and then expect them to sit through dinner at a quiet little Vietnamese restaurant before you go home for his first ride ..... pictures by Kainoa

Halloween..