Spunky

Autumn - your spunkiness is so much fun!  This last month has been full of lots of fun memories!  You insisted on going for a surf board paddle with daddy at Kahaluu to look for dolphins and even told me the other day "I want a dolphin for my birthday."  I ask if you wanted a real or pretend one and you replied, "well I don't want the pretend kind!"  We took a family kayak trip out in Kailua Bay and have had many many picnic parties as you call them with our friends at the beach.  You've taken more of an interest in doing crafty things so we've made pictures with construction paper, painted on special paper, learn how to make snakes and things with play-doh and finger painted.  You really like using the stick glue - sometimes successfully and sometimes not so much!  You still love to climb anything you can - this is fun but I'm fairly certain it will lead to trouble sometime soon.  On Easter I caught you climbing up a huge rock wall.  Lately you have taken to the Ipad that I get to use from work and can spend a lot of time hoping around doing puzzles and starting netflix shows that you stop so you can navigate around the slide bars.  You're going to miss it when we have to return it and we've already started preparing you for the reality that we will be giving it back soon. You enjoy swimming at the pool and ocean, you have no problem getting you head in and trying to kick and paddle.  You also enjoy your ring and will kick to swim around in it.

You've really enjoyed our new neighbors and ask about them all the time.  What they are doing and if you can go over to see them.  We have gotten to do a couple of dinners, beach and swim dates and evening play sessions with balls and bubbles with them and you always have fun! They have a 5 year old boy, 3 year old girl, 2 year old girl and a baby on the way like us! 

You continue to blow us away with what you can say!  Lately as we drive home at the end of the day you label the bank, gas station, Kona Boys and the shops we went to with Nana.  As we drove by the bank on Friday you said, "there's the bank." I replied "yes and we probably should have stopped to get cash."  You responded, "I don't like cash. I like cake and fruit!"  This same night on the way to town you talked to Nana and Papa the whole way into town.  You asked Papa how many baths they had, told him that we do not live in Colorado, that when you slip in the bathroom you get your clothes wet (which you have done once before bath) and that you know to take your clothes off before bath. You talked and talked and talked - it was so cute!  Today with daddy you were playing with play-doh and daddy suggested making an outrigger and you decided that it needed a mommy, daddy, baby and they needed paddles and life jackets! Such a smart girl!

You have also have a very cute relationship with your friend Jackson! He is our friend's son and goes to the same daycare.  So you see him everyday and sometimes see him at the beach for surf dates.  Other than your over protective attitude about your own stuff, you play with him pretty well.  When you don't see him, you ask to go over and say hi to him.  Today we got to go over and you guys played for awhile.  Jackson came over and gave me kisses after he pretended to saw on me. He went back over to you and you said, "Yes, Jackson you can give me a kiss."  Later you had a shi-shi accident and were sitting on the toilet. He ran in and gave you the biggest hug on the toilet - it was so cute! 


















Lately your babies have become your new friends at daycare - Kamahao and Malia.  You feed Kama kau kau in the shower, wash him up, diaper and dress him.  Last night you even breastfed him in the tub as we had been to the great diaper change and I'm pretty sure you observed some of the other babies breastfeeding.   "I think he needs the other side."  "Come on dude just drink the mama's milk..." You had so many great comments! So funny!!   Oh, we're not sure where the 'dude' came from - but the other day you said to me, "hey dude."  I didn't think too much of it and then you said, "Hey I just called you dude... hahaha."  We rolled laughing. 

 Autumn we love you so much and you bring so much joy to our lives!

Love, Mommy and Daddy