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.

i tired

tonight after dinner the girls were eating dessert (peaches) on the couch and watching a show as i finished up the dishes. when i walked over to survey the damage and wipe hands, makena, who was sucking her thumb and clutching old baby and blankie by this point, looked at me and calmly stated, "i tired." so, I asked her if she wanted to go upstairs to which she nodded and said emphatically "yes," and then wanted me to carry her up (she normally wants to walk herself, or rather, be chased by a monster - a game we do every night to get the girls excited about going upstairs). bath, short story, lights out and in to bed she went. no snuggling, nothing. as soon as the lights went out, she climbed out of my lap, into bed and said "i love you too. goodnight."

she's a maniac, maniac...

...on the floooorrr. and she's dancin' like she's never danced before!

or maybe vogue? or dancing queen? so many songs come to mind!

who would think?

that these funny, happy littles were actually little monsters tonight when i took these. kids are funny...

you just can't beat this...