babybug

obon season

it's obon time in hawaii.

 this year grampa sent babybug a sanrio yukata.  it's my favorite so far.

 i love doing the up-sweep hair.

strawbery shave ice

 i'm so into taking pictures from behind.

new girl

happy girl's day!

here is this year's addition.

 

all of the girls.

 

babybug wore her red yukata to preschool today.

 

the craft activity for the day.

year of the ox

 

kung hee fat choy!   

hello 2009

we celebrated with...

 

sparklers...

 

fireworks...

  

jook...

  

and another party with poppers.

    

reindeers

we made these after opening presents.

   

merry christmas! 

christmas party

aloha tower marketplace

  

  

   

 

sugar, spice and everything nice

that's what little girls are made of

last year babybug sort-of picked her own kokeshi doll.  this girl's day she knew which one she wanted.  this cutie was her choice.  i just love my little girl.  sweetness.

year of the boar

it was chinese new year yesterday.  wednesday we went shopping in chinatown.  i spent saturday helping my dad wash the dry ingredients for jai.  let's just say i now have a hard time eating it after soaking and washing all of that stuff...more on that later because i did take pictures.

since my dad has been back for a visit, we've been eating out a lot.  last week we had japanese food at aloha tower.  babybug got to look at the ships with her daddy.

hopefully, i'll be back to more regular blogging.  got lots to share. 

easter weekend

we started the easter weekend by teaching babybug how to hunt for eggs.  there was a easter fair and egg hunt at our local elementary school on staurday.  i wanted babybug to be fast and quick with the egg collecting.  a ruthless little easter bunny for her first egg hunt.  i know, kind of terrible, what am i teaching my child.  anyway, husband coached her like a good competitive father.  she was ready.  we arrived at the fair at 2 p.m. only to find out the egg hunt started at 4:30 p.m.  the poor child was so ready and armed with her basket that she began picking up leaves and twigs.

easter sunday we colored eggs and made origami easter baskets.

spent the afternoon with friends at the honolulu aquarium (check out the live cameras of sharks, monk seals and coral)...

i knew something like this would happen.  below is a picture of my cracked wall.  the construction company claim the cracks were already there.  give me a break...that many cracks concentrated where they were working?!  we already contacted our lawyer.  the house is fifty years old but the wall is NOT!  we had it built to since we have a corner lot on a busy street.  my grandfather was always afraid a speeding car could crash into the house.  you can totally tell the cracks are fresh.  pieces even crumble off when you touch it.  the thing that pisses me off is the fact that we were being nice to them.  we let them use our water bib and babybug even passed out soda to them a couple of days last week.   just another week (i hope) of this crap.

coming tomorrow...a thank you.