Uncle Stephen’s mom always brings fun presents with her on Thanksgiving. This year she brought us … turkey hats!
Yep, its a turkey that's a hat!
We put it on Daddy while he took a nap. Hehe...
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Maile Girl here – it’s been awhile since I’ve written and thought I’d say hi and tell you a bit about our Thanksgiving so far in Boston.
It looks like Daddy already covered the snow … which was awesome! If you could take the temperature in Hawaii and add snow to the mix, I think that would basically be the best thing ever. We should talk to Olaf.
Just two California Girls bundled up and enjoying the beginnings of winter here in Boston...
It’s definitely a full house here and Grandma and Papa’s and Lauren and I have been taking full advantage. Papa, Grandma, Auntie Elyssa and Uncle Stephen are all here and that doesn’t even count the other people that have stopped by to say hi and play with us.
Lauren and I in our Big Sister/Little Sister sweaters - (Thanks Susie!)
On Wednesday and Thursday there was LOTS of cooking going on for our Thanksgiving feast. The whole house smelled so yummy. I even chipped in this year making mini Apple Pies that I learned to make at cooking camp a few weeks back.
Check out the apple pies I made for Thanksgiving - my first Thanksgiving dessert!
Helping Daddy carve the turkey - I think I might be ready to go solo next year. (Dad note: not quite, Maile Girl.)
It’s not all cooking and eating though – we’ve also been spending a lot of time outdoors (even with the cold weather). Daddy has taken Lauren, Mommy and I on some walks and showed us where he grew up.
Wet leaves are FUN! I wish there were more of them in San Francisco!
Daddy and I went to the beach to see what the ocean is like in the winter - I hope its different when we go to Hawaii next month!
On Friday, we went to Daddy’s school that he went to for Kindergarten and met up with his old friends – people that he’s known as long as I’ve known Tori and my other friends! We played in the snow and then Daddy played football with his friends. Well, at least that’s what he called it – it didn’t look like the football games he watches on TV. At all.
StanFoot 2014 - Daddy says we'll be playing soon enough!
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Maile Girl here. Did you know that today was my Mommy and Daddy’s anniversary? It celebrates the day they got married. I have them tell me the story all the time – it was a really fun day.
But I’m not here to talk about that – today, I wanted to tell you how to write a great anniversary card for your daddy. NOTE: This probably works for mommies too, but Mommy was the one helping me so this time we focused on Daddy.
First, head to the card store and find a good card. I like to find the music cards, but apparently they don’t make those for Anniversaries. Instead I got one with fishies on the cover kissing. Cute, right?
Next, ask a Mommy (your Mommy will do) to spell out all the nice things you want to say to your Daddy.
You can ignore the crossed off area at the top, Mommy used upper and lower case letters and I wanted to focus on upper case only. Clearly.
After you have your message, get to work writing it all out.
Take your time and write it all out very, very carefully.
And make sure you have at least 10 “so”‘s at the end when you say “I love you so much” – trust me, it makes a big difference.
The finished product - Daddy said it got dusty in the room when he read it 🙂
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Today Daddy and I went to meet a new friend, Eamon. Daddy said this was a special day because Eamon and I will be friends for a long time. He’s even smaller than Lauren, but I love him already. His hair is really soft.
Meeting Eamon
I was a little nervous to hold him, but then I didn't want to put him down!
I already can’t wait to see him again AND for him to meet Lauren!
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Maile Girl here! Thought I’d write a hello for Mother’s Day. This morning, Lauren and I woke Daddy up early (surprise, surprise) and we set to work making a yummy breakfast surprise for Mommy. Daddy said that Grandma Jill’s Strawberry Soup would be perfect. Now, I love strawberries (and soup is typically pretty good too) – but I had never had strawberry ANd soup before. Plus, isn’t soup supposed to be hot? Daddy told me that Strawberry Soup was served cold AND that we could make bowls out of cantaloupes. For a second I thought maybe we had indeed woken Daddy up too early, but he had a plan so I went along for the ride.
And, boy am I glad I did. Not only was the soup super fun to make, but it was delicious too! Mommy was super happy when we surprised her with the breakfast. We even let her sleep until 8:30 AM – which is pretty much the latest she has ever slept (at least in my lifetime!)
Bowls out of cantaloupes? Crazy - but Daddy told me to start scooping...
I get very focused when I'm cooking...
After you get the bowls done, you just need to pour in the soup! (Daddy made it the night before so it was all chilled and ready to rock...)
The best part of the cooking part is the EATING part 🙂
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On Saturday, Mommy introduced me to one of her favorite movies, The Sound of Music. I can’t really tell you what it is all about because we mostly just fast forwarded to the parts where the kids are singing. But the music was fun!
Mommy and me getting ready to watch The Sound of Music!
Towards the end, we just let the movie play through and I have to say, I really didn’t like the parts where the children weren’t singing. Their family gets chased by some bad men. I would recommend just fast forwarding through that part – I know I will be next time!
Get away Von Trapps! Get Away!
Oh man, I really don't like this part - can you let me know when the children are singing again?
(Dad note: I am thoroughly enjoying the beginning stages of Maile’s movie watching. I was in the other room when Christine started sending me these pictures – they just absolutely slayed me. I love her so much.)
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Maile Girl here – aloha from Hawaii! We’re still visiting with Grandma and Papa, but I’m very sad to report that Katie and Emily already went home to Japan. I miss them so much already! I had so much fun playing with them – check out all the fun things we did…
First things first, I showed them my new baby Lauren - they hadn't met her before - they hit it right off with her. I knew they would!
We attempted many times to take pictures all in the same purple dresses that Grandma got us - they didn't all work out, but we still had fun trying...
Grandma and Papa taught us Pokeeno - which is kind of like Bingo. None of liked losing, so that made things interesting.
We did LOTS and LOTS of art projects with Grandma and Mommy...
Grandma Gail read us stories and let us play the puzzle game on her iPad...
Katie, Emily and I decorated the whole back patio with chalk!
And we pretended we were Hawaiian warriors with the toys Uncle Steve got for Katie and Emily...
I love you Katie and Emily! Lauren and I can’t wait to see you again next year!
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On Sunday, Mommy and I went on a special date to go see the Nutcracker at the San Francisco Ballet! I was so excited all week – every day I counted the days and it got closer and closer. When I woke up on Sunday morning, Mommy helped me pick out a special dressy to wear – I decided on the purple one I wore at Auntie’s wedding – it felt like it would well at the ballet.
BTW – Guess who was at the Nutcracker!!!
Apparently, a couple Sundays before Christmas, Santa hangs out at the ballet!
Okay, back to the show. It was amazing. I was a little scared at some parts, but Mommy was there. My most favorite part was the Waltz of the Flowers. It was magical.
Every year for Christmas I get a new ornament for our tree (it's a tradition Mommy started when she was a girl). This year I got three dancing fairies at the Nutcracker so I can always remember!
Do you think one day I might be able to be in the Nutcracker? I think so – I’ll keep working at this…
Thank you Mommy for such a wonderful adventure!
(Dad note: Special thanks to neighbor Bill for getting us the tickets!)
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On Friday, Mommy, Daddy and Papa Mike took me on a safari! Do you know what a safari is? It’s basically a zoo without any fences! At first I was a little nervous and thought maybe the animals would eat me, but they were really nice. The guide told me that if we are nice to animals they will be nice to us … usually anyways. That makes sense to me.
The safari was super cool. I liked the pink flamingos and the giraffes the best. I took LOTS of pictures.
Papa Mike and I ready to get our safari on!
What's that Daddy we should look behind us?
Woah.
Look how close we got! So cool!
I took pictures.
Lots and lots of pictures...
Say cheese!
(Dad note: The safari was pretty cool. I’d say Maile was a little too young – she was great, but it was a long day – ~3 hours. The guides were super knowledgeable, we learned a lot!)
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(My daddy apologizes for the lack of posts last week – we were a little busy in Boston celebrating with Auntie Elyssa and Uncle Stephen!)
As you probably already know, my Auntie got married last weekend in Boston. She invited me and Mommy to get ready for her. And let me tell you, getting ready for a wedding is WAY more than just taking a bath and brushing your teeth. We went to this special room in the hotel and me, Auntie, Grandma, Mommy, “her” (Dad note: inside joke) and Uncle Stephen’s cousin got our hair AND makeup done by these two ladies whose job it is to do hair and makeup (how cool is that job?!)
First Auntie gave me a very special bracelet as a gift - it's awesome!
Okay, I'm ready to rock!
Blush
Lip gloss
Awesome!
My sister is SOOOOO lucky, I can't wait until I have more hair!
Oh man, this is so cool.
Mommy says this is called an up do...
... and I can't stop looking at it!
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