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Maile Minute

Annual Questions for Maile (2014 – 5 years old)

by Papa K on July 13, 2014

(We got this idea from friends of ours, Angie and Gabe. They came up with a list of questions that they started asking their son when he turned 3 years old. They ask him the same questions every year and see how the answers change.)

Maile Girl all ready to answer her 30 questions as a 5 year old...

Maile Girl all ready to answer her 30 questions as a 5 year old...

1) Where do you live?
San Francisco

2) Where do you go to school?
PKS

3) How do you get to school?
Car

4) Name the members of your family.
Chris, Matt, Lauren

5) What is your favorite color?
Well, kind of turquoise blue, white. [Is that it?] Pink and after that dark pink, dark blue, purple, and seriously like all of the colors

6) What is your favorite toy?
Umm, princesses.

7) What is your favorite food?
Watermelon

8) What is your favorite fruit?
Watermelon (hahah)

9) What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Oatmeal

10) What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?
Sandwiches

11) What do you want for your birthday dinner?
Cupcakes. No, that’s for dessert. [What about dinner?] Chicken katsu.

12) What is your favorite snack?
Goldfish

13) What is your favorite drink?
Milk

14) What is your favorite outfit?
Dress

15) What is your favorite animal?
Cheetahs

16) What is your favorite tv show?
Olivia

17) What is your favorite book?
Too Pickley

18) What is your favorite story?
Umm, we already did that, Too Pickley

19) What is your favorite song?
Call Me Maybe, no, Frozen

20) What is your favorite game?
My favorite game, umm, is McCallah. [What’s that?] It’s a game. We play it at camp.

21) What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?
Play. I mean cooking stuff with her.

22) What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?
Cook stuff. [Do you cook stuff with Daddy?] No, I mean do art.

23) What is your favorite thing to do with Lauren?
Play.

24) What is your favorite thing to do outside?
Chalk.

25) What is your favorite thing to do inside?
Play. [Play what?] Play kitchen. No, play restaurant. Play, Lauren’s the orderer.

26) What is your favorite holiday?
Christmas

27) What do you take to bed with you at night?
I take nothing.

28) Who is your best friend?
Tori.

29) What do you want to be when you grow up?
Doctor

30) Anything else you want to say?
No.

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Maile Girl – In Her Own Words (3 years, 3 months)

by Papa K on October 23, 2012

It’s been awhile since we did a Maile Minute-type video, so in this one you get a full 5 minutes of Q&A with Maile Girl (well, 4 minutes with Maile and a minute at the end where Maile turns the table on me…)

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Maile Minute – 21 Months

by Papa K on April 19, 2011

In this Maile Minute, Maile reads us a story – which you can’t really understand for the first half of it because she has her pacifier stuck in her mouth. Speaking of the pacifier, astute followers might have noticed that it has made a big return to Maile’s daily life. Originally, the pacifier was basically a trigger for Maile to go to sleep – around 6 months though she completely rejected it since he knew it meant it was time to go to bed. A couple months ago, she found one lying around and latched on to it again. She wants it constantly now. Our theory is that at least part of it is that she is going through some major teething with her molars. Regardless, the end of this second pacifier phase is coming… Maile just doesn’t know it yet.

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Maile Minute – 20 Months

by Papa K on March 20, 2011

In the craziness of March Madness, we never posted our Maile Minute from this month.

One of these months we are going to move away from focusing on Maile eating, but for now its the easiest time to actually get her in one place for 60 seconds. Keep an ear out towards the end for Maile’s newest phrase (courtesy of Mommy): “Oh boy!”

As always, click here for previous Maile Minute entries.

(Click here for the video.)

 

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Maile Minute – 19 Months

by Papa K on February 15, 2011

We’re a few days late on our Maile Minute – just too much going on around here.

This month’s episode features Maile and her new favorite food: waffles!

Or as Maile says in the morning as she waddles into the kitchen: “wah-FOO? wah-FOO?”

As always, click here for previous Maile Minute entries.

(Click here for the video.)

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Maile Minute – 18 Months

by Papa K on January 11, 2011

18 months – wow! It’s been awhile since we did a Maile media count:

9,074 photos
828 videos
504 blog posts

I don’t even want to think about how many diapers. But many, many kisses and good times too.

See below for the continuation of our Maile Minute project (previous entries can be found here):

(Click here for the video.)

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Maile Minute – 17 Months

by Papa K on December 12, 2010

Last month we started a series of posts where we film Maile for one minute and just see what she does. We created a category so you can see all the previous posts here.

We increased the degree of difficulty this month by taking her out of her high chair for the filming. I also cheated a bit by using the front-facing camera on the iPhone so she could see herself.

All in all, 17 months has been a good milestone for Maile Girl (although to be fair, they are all good milestones). We definitely experienced a bit of a regression sleep-wise over the past couple months, but now she seems to have figured all of that out and is sleeping much better. She is no longer in the crib, probably for good at this point, so there is still a chance she’ll waddle out of her room in the middle of the night to say hello, but for the most part even if she does that she goes right back down.

One fun development is her capacity to enjoy projects – Megan has been great doing all sorts of fun art projects with Maile over the past few weeks. It feels like every day we come home and there is something new to see. Our apartment looks like a Maile and Hannah museum right now.

Speaking of Hannah, its fun to watch Maile interact with Hannah and also other kids. When we went over Harold’s house for Hannukah she followed him all over the place. In the past she would play alongside other kids, but not really interact. Now more and more interactions are taking place – and for the most part, they are hilarious!

Can’t wait to see what happens next!

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Maile Minute – 16 Months

by Papa K on November 11, 2010

Maile turned 16 months old today! We thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce a new feature here at Hapa Haole – the Maile Minute. The Maile Minute was inspired by a blog that Christine reads called Pacing the Panic Room. The blog follows the adventures of a little girl named Tessa and her family (with amazing photos to boot because the dad is a photographer). Every month they film Tessa for 2 and a half minutes uninterrupted. We thought it’d be a cool way to see how Maile changes from month-to-month.

Below is our first installment. For now we are filming Maile in her high chair during her dinner. (It’s kind of hard to get her to stay still otherwise!) Admittedly not terribly exciting, but we think it will be fun to watch her progression as time goes by.

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