Jace: "You're too big."

Me: "What do you mean?"

Jace: "You're too big. Turn four."

Me: "Why?"

Jace: "Because I love my mommy. You should turn four."

July 2013

Updates

I've been working on a couple videos for the blog. Sorry it's taken me so long to do it!

I'll try and post the new ones here as I do them.

 

Piano Recital Video

Mykala's first piano recital! 

June 2013

Makutu's Island

Makutu's Island is, in short, an indoor mega playground. The kids loved it - but really, what's not to love? They got to climb, crawl, run, jump, slide, explore, and walk across really high beams. They loved it so much, they wanted to spend all day there. When we left, they were already looking forward to going back!

This is a little glimpse of the obstacles you had to go through in order to get to the top of the playground.

I was surprised that this TV sort of worked. It didn't turn on, but the buttons lit up. 

Jacer and Grandpa

Grandpa played with the kids the whole time -  he impressed us all! He was able to climb through the obstacles and keep up with the kids! He was Super Grandpa!!

Mykala and Grandpa

Mykala and Jace

Such an awesome Grandpa...

 Grandpa, Mykala, and Jace making their way to the large twisty slide. It looked like so much fun, I had to go on it myself!

Grandpa coming down the slide.

Here are the kids waiting for me to come down the slide. Mykala said she could hear me screaming and laughing on the way down. It was a blast!

This was high above the playground! 

A few times while we were there, they held mini classes. In one, they played the drums and in another did a hula dance.

Not sure what brought on this pose, but it's really cute. :)

Mykala took this picture!

Grandma, Grandpa, and the kids

We are pretty crazy about our family. :)

Us

(This is more like it...)

(...and this)

Note from Mykala:

We went in a blue cave and had lots of fun. We went on the slides and we jumped and took lots of pictures. My favorite part was going in the blue cave and going down the slides with Papa. At the end I got a headache from all of the slides. When we were taking a picture, Jace was being silly and didn't want to. He thought we were going to leave after. But we didn't leave after. We stayed until like an hour and a half and then we left. Grandma brought jellybeans and licorice to snack on at the park. 

Note from Jace:

I went on the grey slide and I went through the purple thingy and then the yellow slide. And I went in the blue cave and sliding on the blue cave slide and sliding down those things that are those things you hold on to and slide. My favorite part was going on the turn around slide - the grey slide. I didn't like climbing up the pole. That was so scary! 

Jumping

For some reason Jacer thought he didn't know how to swim this summer. He was convinced he didn't know how and wouldn't swim far from us or the wall - he would barely let his head go under the water. One morning while I was going through some old family videos, Jacer came in and watched one of him and Kala last summer. In the video, he was diving off the side of the pool, swimming across it without help, and even wanted me to push him in a few times. Jace was absolutely amazed by this. Needless to say, he didn't have a problem swimming after that. His "fears" vanished over night, and here he is jumping off the diving board.

Oh, the power of the psyche.

Summer Party

Mykala in the bouncy house

Mykala and Jace going down the water slide. They loved it! (And no, the water isn't clean.)

 

The orange-pineapple snowcones were yummy.