nanea's jack-o-lantern

makena as snow white

the last picture is by far the best. not sure if she was trying to smile or what was going on.

a trip to the zoo

what's a trip to the zoo without climbing on the big, fake giraffe?

sometimes....

they don't fight, and cozy up together on the couch with their favorite babies (makena) and dog (nanea) and blankies, quietly watch a show, and it's nice!

ice skating!

yes, there is ice skating in hawaii! we were invited to spend a saturday morning at the ice palace for a birthday party.

thank you tutu!

tutu sent twinkle toes...

jumping and showing the twinkles...

posing with their twinkles...

running with their twinkles...

nanea could not get over the fact that everything she did made her shoes light up. hence, all the action shots of twinkle toes.

happy halloween!

well, i didn't get nanea to wear her "witch queen" costume. in spite of my hemming efforts, it was still too big, so she refused to wear it. i then talked into being a clown, and she was SO excited to paint her face. i made her a make-shift wig out of a pink grass hula skirt, painted her face and she was all set. the next thing i know, she's downstairs, face scrubbed clean and in her snow white costume from last year. once a princess...

as for makena, she needed a little convincing to wear her adorable witch costume (which I somehow managed to NOT get a picture of the cute cut-out tulle tutu bottom of the dress) since she decided yesterday that she was going to be snow white. luckily her obsession with dora paid off and her dora halloween book has dora dressed as a witch. crisis averted. unfortunately, she ended up throwing up her dinner all over herself and me, so she ended the night in last year's costume as well. the combo of being too excited and shoveling food into her mouth without chewing so she could go trick or treating, as well as being completely terrified of a lot of the kid's costumes (i.e. the scream ghost), did not bode well for her digestive system. or my shoulder.