Maile is Crawling now!

So a few nights ago Maile was playing on the floor, and I was checking my email and I saw her on all fours and kinda rocking, then I saw one knee go forward, then the next and again and again! She was crawling! Very slowly, yet still crawling! I am so excited, yet scared at the same time. She has since done it a few times, but she's a smart girl, when she gets tired she cries to be picked up, she'll cry and then look up at you and cry again, or she'll stick her arms up and cry to you. I'll have to post pictures soon!

Maile can sit up on her own now!

So Maile still crawls backwards...but she is now able to push her self up to a sitting position! I can't believe she is getting this big! We visited with my cousin Tricia this weekend, we met up with her at the Fashion Show Mall on the vegas strip. Maile was a little shy, but she'll be seeing TT again this weekend when she graduates this weekend! We leave tommorrow and won't be back till late Saturday. Hopefully we'll have good pics to post next time!

Maile at 8 1/2 months!!

We took Maile to have her pictures taken by Ladonna. They both did such a good job. Maile was having a great time and Ladonna was her own Paparazi. If you look closely to Maile's toes you'll see that they are painted!!! She was asleep when I was painting my toes....so I did her's too! I can't believe how big she is getting, 8 short months ago she was a little blob, now she has sooooo much personality. She is starting to wave her hands, sometimes at the appropriate "Bye Bye Papa", She loves to feed herself ! ( she likes to eat the Gerber Puffs, Banana, Strawberry-Banana and Apple Cinnamon) Maile loves to eat OUR food and definately knows the difference between hers and ours. Maile loves kids! She loves to follow her cousins, with her eyes only now, but knows how to get their attention by yelling. I think that she is probably the loudest baby I have ever heard. But we still love her!

Next week we are off to San Diego for my cousin Tricia's graduation from San Diego State. It will be nice to see our family from Kauai!

What a difference a year makes!!!

Such a different day from last year.....Last year was not a pleasant Mother's Day for my family. I was 5 1/2 months pregant..and my mom had passed away. Living in Indiana it was very had on me, not being here with her, flying in from out of town, having all these hormones running through my veings as it is, add such a stressful day as this. We had gone to the Funeral Home for a private family viewing and driving up there were people passing out Mother's Day Poems..........which I took and had to put away imediately upon viewing...it was too much to take that day. Fast Forward to 2008........ We are now living back in Las Vegas. It's my first Mother's Day.....and we go to church for the first time as a Family. It was GREAT! It was so calming for me, and all the women over the age of 18 recieved a nice gift (anti bacterial lotion to keep our hands soft and clean). After church we changed clothes and went to Seth's step mom Suzi's house. Maile had a great time! She put her feet in a pool for the first time! She loved it! Maile also loved the cupcakes we brought for Suzi! Then we went to Uncle Trent and Aunty Stacy's house. Where Maile ended up in ANOTHER pool! I totally forgot that I had her bathing suit in my car....thanks to Tay tay and makayla for handing it down to her!........so we put her little suit on and in she went! Kahla and Ean were great with her. Pictures will follow. After they were dried off and changed we went to dinner at Memphis Barbecue.....I had the best Pork Chop EVER! it was grilled and was so moist and tender, like eating a steak. Seth had a brisket....that too was delicious! For being a mother we (stacy and I) got FREE strawberry shortcakes! They weren't so hot though! We let Trent and Seth have them.....Happy Father's Day!!! ha ha........So my mothers day ends with me blogging...what a beautiful day!

The pictures above are both old....the one on top was taken while we were in town for the funeral and the bottom was from feb 2008. I need to upload more pictures to my computer...it just takes more energy than I have right now. :)