Maile’s first Christmas was action-packed. We had Christmas parties with the whole Morisato family on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
In addition to meeting all of her aunties, uncles and cousins, a highlight for Maile Girl was definitely meeting Santa. Apparently, she didn’t get the memo from her cousin Emily – as Maile was quite pleased with the man in red. She sat in her lap and loved the present he gave her. Very nice of old St. Nick to stop by and make some time for Maile Girl on Christmas Eve.
Unfortunately daddy was trying to balance both video and photo duties so he apologizes for the jumpiness of the video capture for this historic moment:
We took lots of pictures over the Christmas holiday – see the slide show below for the highlights…
(Click here for the Maile Meets Santa video.)
(Click here for all the photos.)
Hi, I'm Maile - as my older cousin I look forward to doing whatever you tell me to do...
On Thursday, we headed to Oahu to celebrate the Christmas holiday with the extended Morisato clan (Grandma Gail’s side of the family). Christine’s brother Steve and his family met us on Oahu. They traveled in all the way from Japan! Since they live so far away this was the first time Maile met her cousins, Katie (age 3.5) and Emily (age 21 months). We’ve been very excited about getting all the girls together in one place. Two things you’ll learn from the pictures:
1. Grandma Gail made sure we didn’t lose track of the girls by making sure they were pretty much always wearing the exact same outfits (just different sizes).
2. It is REALLY hard to get 3 girls under the age of 4 to sit still for a picture and face the same direction all at once. (Forget about smiling!) We did our best, but generally went with a 2 out of 3 ain’t bad approach.
My cousins sure are giggly...
More silliness with the cousins...
For their part, Katie and Emily were fascinated by Baby Maile. They kept staring at her and “petting” her – kind of like their new pet.
Maile was great with the cousins. Although she did need a little help keeping up:
(Click here for Petting Maile video.)
(Click here for Keeping Up with the Cousins video.)
We’re back from Oahu and lots to catch everyone up on. First, here’s a couple quick videos of me having fun with Grandma and Daddy. Vacations are the best!
Did you know my Grandma was a horsey? Neither did I – needless to say, quite hilarious when I found out!
And my Daddy suddenly turned into a kissing monster! I was surprised too, but I wasn’t scared…
(Click here for the Grandma Horsey video.)
(Click here for the Kissing Monster video.)
