punahou football!

some of the kindergarten moms planned an outing to the state champion football game. we met to "tail gate" and then sat in the front row so the girls could watch their favorite - the cheerleaders! although we didn't win, fun was had by all!

just before the game, posing in their Punahou gear

it's blurry, but such a cute picture of the girls walking with their arms around each other from the parking lot to the stadium

Nanea and her classmate enjoying the game, and stadium food of course!

glamour girl and flower child

playing dress up:

a hippie flower child

breakfast at tiffany's?

and, the combo!

makena is making a "pua" with her hands. good hula influence!

fall crown

makena made this at school. i think she liked it!

early december

since we were spending the second half of december in so. cal, we thought we had better take some pictures in front of our tree at home in hawaii. of course, i'm the one that always takes the pics, so am never in them.

it's a tradition at nanea's school for all of the kindergarteners to go christmas caroling at school on the last day before winter break. they walk all around campus, stopping and singing for the kids all the way up through 12th grade. they were asked to wear red, green and/or white, so they were quite festive indeed!

nanea's class: room 2, the explorers

halloween recap

for some reason we got lots of makena posing solo, and by the time nanea was ready to pose, makena was done. makena decided to do a repeat of last year's costume (that she only wore for a short time), and nanea chose to be a cat. the day i had to go in to start my radioactive iodine treatment. since i was not allowed no human contact after treatment for 11 days, i had to rush to target and luckily found a cat tail and ears and black sparkle leggings. thank goodness for target!

recent makena

loose (and now missing) teeth!

well, the tooth fairy has now made two, what i think is too early, visits to our house. nanea announced her first loose tooth to me, and i actually did not believe her. i was totally shocked when the bottom middle tooth was indeed loose, thinking that she was MUCH too young to be losing teeth! alas, this is not the case. she wiggled and wiggled that tooth for i'd guess almost 2 weeks, and finally, while sitting in makena's ballet class, i suggested she just pull it out and SHE DID! kinda grossed me out, but then again i was never a fan of losing my teeth. she was quite proud of herself and that night got a dollar from the tooth fairy. she was thrilled!

1st tooth pulled out at ballet, VERY proud of herself!

about a week later, her second lower middle tooth fell out at school. she got a great note from her teacher, along with her tooth in a little treasure chest. it was the cutest thing i've ever seen! pics below are from her 2nd lost tooth, taken when we picked her up from school

nanea has the BEST teachers!