Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
From the category archives:
Lauren and Mommy arrived on Kauai on Friday (Maile and I followed today – more on the delay a bit later – we stayed behind for a performance Maile did with her choir.)
I think this video perfectly captures how we feel about being back on Kauai…
(And yes, she did that many, many times!)
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At school, Maile has started learning about poetry. It’s been fun hearing about her explorations of this new literary style. She seems to really love it.
Tonight she came home from school with a little piece of paper with her “Christmas” poem written on it. It kind of blew us away.
Maile's Christmas poem
I smell the christmas tree
it is lovely and some times
even pineconey
I feel the warm hugs and the
nice cool air
I see the tree and oh my gosh
could that really be so much presents
I hear the Jingeling of Santa’s bells
I taste the ginger bread house and
the lovely cookies
I love christmas it is so much fun
And, of course, Maile being Maile, she wanted to perform it as well…
’tis the season 🙂
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The program for Lauren's performance
This morning it was Lauren’s turn to show all the dancing she’s been learning at school this fall! I was lucky enough to be able to attend and had a blast. Lauren definitely enjoys being up on stage and did a great job with all the steps she’s learned.
There were lots of laughs and smiles, some tears – but all in all good times. In the newsletter they send each day they captured what the kids said when they asked them about the day:
“Lauren: I like my daddy coming to watch me. I dance with my daddy.”
Yep, that made my day 🙂
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Never one to miss out on the opportunity to perform a bit, Maile spent time after school this fall taking dance classes with Miss Angela and the PKS “Dance Team”. (I have to admit, I don’t really understand how she keeps all the steps straight between the different dance classes she takes!)
Maile & the PKS Dance Team
Last week, they had their end of fall performance and Christine and I were able to attend. These videos are always a bit longer, but figure I’d post, as I know the Grandmas eat them up!
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Every year as a fundraising event, some families from the girls’ school rent out an outdoor ice rink downtown and invite everyone to come have some skating fun. We headed down this year and it was Daddy’s turn to get out on the ice with the girls. Maile is pretty much out on her own these days, but I got some quality skating time with Lauren.
We started out hugging the wall:
But soon enough we were out on the ice properly:
My skating date 🙂
I took a few spins with Maile Girl too - she isn't completely embarrassed by me ... yet.
We fell.
Still upset about the fall.
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The holidays seem to start earlier and earlier every year, don’t they? This weekend Lauren got a jump start and put together a letter for Santa. We don’t know what she asked for because she insisted that the letter was for Santa’s eyes only!
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At Maile’s school, they organize the year into “units of exploration” – the first unit for this year was about “My City” and they learned all about San Francisco. As a final project they needed to pick something about San Francisco and put together a project about it. It was Maile’s first real “project” where she chose her topic, did some research (at the library and on the computer), decided what questions she wanted to share and put together a display to share her findings. She also prepared a little speech (in Mandarin) about her topic.
Maile decided to do her project on the Palace of Fine Arts. They did a field trip one day to a bunch of San Francisco landmarks and Maile fell in love with how beautiful and cool looking the Palace of Fine Arts is.
Maile showing off her Palace of Fine Arts display
Proud Mama and Maile Girl
And a very proud Daddy too!
Here’s a video of Maile talking about what she did in Chinese – pretty cool that she memorized her speech. And lucky for us, she presented to us in English afterwards too 🙂
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Tonight at dinner, out of the blue, Maile started talking about Trump and the wall he wants to build and how she thinks its a really bad idea. I caught some of it on video.
She must have picked this up at school because we haven’t really talked about “the wall” specifically.
Best quote: “It’s basically breaking the world.” Out of the mouth of babes…
#vote #imwithher
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Always fun to look back on Thursday night’s and find one of your old favorite videos. This one from 2012. I still remember messing around with Maile like this whenever we’d get ice cream…
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Today is our 9th anniversary(!) – we’ll be celebrating a bit this weekend. Tonight we showed the girls our wedding video for the first time (I just recently got it digitized) and after the girls went to bed, Christine and I had a glass of champagne and looked over old posts of the girls on the blog.
This one from way back in October of 2009 gave me a good laugh…
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