February 2012
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Sammy’s first real drawing

For some reason Sammy really wanted to learn about bats yesterday. He mentioned it during prayers the night before, so we fired up youtube and checked out some bat footage. Then later in the day we were outside and I gave him a bunch of chalk to draw with. He came up with this completely [...]

Sammy gear-testing his trail-a-bike

This was as much a present for me as it was for Sammy. Dave hooked it up to his bike first to test it out, and after a shake-down ride to the marsh we hooked it up to my mountain bike. It was pretty weird at first – the center of gravity is way different [...]

snow on the tracks!

Sammy and I found a way to have some snow here Thomas found the tracks to be a bit slippery with all that snow…(flour). It was fun to make it snow in Hawaii!

the hibiscus makes a comeback!

We are so excited to see a plethora of new leaves and even some buds on our hibiscus that we rescued from neighbors who did some landscaping. We cut this ancient tree back about 1/3 (it was 20′ tall!) and planted it with little hope that the small root ball would sustain the plant. It [...]

Christmas Day

We were joined via webcam by Dave’s parents – Sammy’s Nana and PopPop! It was really fun to have them sitting in with us and watching Sammy open gifts. I’m sifting through over 100 pictures from this morning alone…but here’s one, above! The Craftsman tools and belt were a big hit. Thanks Daddy! Our traditions [...]