Kawika's 1st Christmas

This year we went to Utah for Christmas. Ku'uipo had a blast with her cousin!! G-pa and Nana are opening bank accounts for college. Yay!!! We had Chinese food for Christmas Eve dinner, courtesy of Mom and Ting. On Sunday we attended the Westover family reunion. It's always nice to see aunts, uncles, cousins and of course grandmoms!! We also went to church. Nana Janna was singing and Ipo's cousin went on stage with her- Ipo was jealous and went too and Nana Janna held both of them while she sang!! (Ipo's cousin is almost two and two year old Ipo is much bigger than many 2 year olds!!) Kawika had a six month old cousin to play with too- well maybe "play" will have to wait another year or two!! Ipo and Kawika have a cousin on the way!! So exciting. They are also getting another aunt January 2!! (Well, we already refer to her as aunty but it will be official January 2!!) So many neat things to look forward to in 2012!! (Ku'uipo is going to be a flower girl in June for her Aunty in Ohio- we might make a vacation out of it and go see Niagara Falls too.) Merry Christmas everybody and Happy New Year!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We went to Aunty's. We were all thinking about going to a buffet but last minute Aunty was able to put together a wonderful Thanksgiving feast with all the fixings- including deviled eggs that we didn't remember because there was already so much food and Aunty doesn't like them. It was a post dessert snack. =P Another Aunty was there visitng from Hawaii for her 50th birthday and Ku'uipo took to her pretty quickly, including a good bye kiss before Aunty went to the airport. We didn't take many photos but here's one of Ku'uipo cuddling with her Uncle. (He pulled the tendons in his arm seperating his thumb during flag football. He had surgery the day before Thanksgiving. Ku'uipo tried being very gente. Once she fell asleep her uncle suffered through his circulation being cut off because he didn't want to wake HER up! =) Another win for Green Bay- his team. (He said he's Kawika's favorite uncle because when Kawika got sick we postponed the open house, which was originally scheduled during a Green Bay game. The following week the Packer's weren't playing. =P) Also this weekend a good friend of mine from high school came and visited. She is in the Army and will be going to Afghanistan in March. It was nice to see her and she got to see Ku'uipo again and meet Kawika.

Breaking Dawn

Kawika attended his first movie in the theatre this week, Breaking Dawn Part I. At almost two, Ku'uipo still hasn't been and little Kawika is only 5 1/2 weeks old!! (That's okay Ipo, it was not a memorable experience for your brother I am sure, he slept through the entire thing- thank goodness for Mom!! Plus, it was a total chick flick, LOL.) Like his sister, he is experiencing other firsts early as well. He's already been to California for his shower and we are planning on taking him to Utah next month for Christmas. Also like his sister, he does not enjoy long car rides- preferring to be held over being in a car seat. We are attending a wedding in Ohio in June and he'll already get to experience air travel! (Ku'uipo is the flower girl. Her dress is so pretty. I will have to post pictures in a later blog.)
In other news this week, I will officially be going back to work in two weeks. Dave was unable to secure employment in the last six weeks and back to work I must go. =( I treasured the 16 months I had off with Ku'uipo and maybe that is why this is so hard, because I know how much I will be missing. Lots of women must I suppose so me and Kawika will do this one day at a time. =)

It's A Boy!

It's a Boy!! Little Kawika was born October 11, 2011 at 1:01 PM. We had bought some boy clothes but luckily his aunt came out with some of his cousin's clothes and one of my aunts came out shortly after with some clothes to hold us over to the Open House (and beyond!) The Open House was originally scheduled for October 23, 2011. 4 days after getting out of the hospital poor little Kawika started to run a fever. We took him to Urgent Care and because of his age they directed us to the Emergency Room. They ran tests, again because of his young age, including a spinal tap!!! =( We were admitted into the hospital for 3 days while waiting to receive test results back. We postponed the Open House to October 30, 2011. (All test results came back negative and as of Kawika's last doctor's appointment on Wednesday, he is a healthy two and a half week old baby. Yay!) A shower is scheduled in Riverside for November 5, 2011. Ku'uipo did have to adjust to sisterhood but I would say she loves Kawika more than she is jealous of him. =P