playing with cousins.

only tiana can remind me how to correctly use the terms "second-cousins" and "cousins-once-removed".  in either case, kaimana had a great time today playing with the nelson girls up at their nana's house in mill creek.  there was playground time, lunch time, trampoline time, even pool time!  thanks for playing with us eva and maia!

eva (2.9 yrs) gets ready to slide.

kaimana (11 mo) and maia (1.5 yr) take a moment to chill.

my little boy.

i've been thinking about it for a couple days.  ever since i noticed a hair in kaimana's mouth while he was eating one meal or another and found that it was a hair still stuck to his head.  i'm forever brushing it out of his eyeballs, and today he starting pulling on it.  hair-cut time.  we did it this evening before bathtime and kaimana, while doing his best to grab the scissors and comb out of my hands, was a champ.  not one tear.  (not from mommy or daddy either.)  and now he really looks like our little boy.  11 months old.  wowza.

beach house fun!

this past weekend, we had a great time visiting with our hendrickson friends out in west seattle.  it's fun to see kaimana starting to interact with other kids!

daniel (1 yr) and kaimana (11 mo) show the daddies how to REALLY play in the sand!

daniel does some digging...

coolin' off inside and watching some baby einstein.

mamas and sons!

playin' on the playground.

fun on the fourth!

we spent a nice long weekend in spokane over the 4th of july weekend.  caught up with family, went sailing, went swimming, spent lots of time outdoors!  oh, and worked on a jigsaw puzzle, tie-dyed some shirts, and found the perfect playground for kaimana.  here's a slideshow of our trip (note:  though i managed to take many pictures, they only revolve around a few events.  somehow i didn't take any pictures of kaimana swimming : (  other family members did, however, and i'll try to post some copies soon!)

somersaults!

i haven't seen it myself, though i have seen him practicing his downward dog yoga pose, but zach reports that kaimana has been practicing somersaults on our bed.  it is my belief that this gymnastic endeavor is rooted in his new hobby of tossing himself about on our bed or on the couch (with supervision, of course.).  he likes to fall backward, roll and roll and roll around... basically act as though we have rented a bouncy-house.  this afternoon, he brought it to the next level.  hopefully he won't try it on the hard ground just yet.

a video or at least pictures will hopefully be coming soon.  of course, whenever we pull out the camera he stops whatever it is that he is doing in order to attack the camera.  but we'll do our best.

super snuggle.

i'll be the first to admit i get frustrated.  especially from 2:00-3:00 am when kaimana is having trouble sleeping and i pop out of bed every 10-15 minutes to replace his binky, rock him for a few moments and lay him back down.  this was my night last night.  

typically, if he wakes up at all, it is only once and all he needs is a few minutes in the rocking chair to settle back down.  not last night.  was it due to teething?  gas?  bad dreams?  bad dreams of teething and gas?  we'll never know.

what i can tell you is that after getting up about 3 times i was done.  on these rare occasions, kaimana gets to come and sleep in the big bed.  that is, he sleeps on my chest for a minute, and then i roll him off into the middle of the bed.  ahhhhhhh... then he slept.  

he started stirring around 6:00 am, and i thought to myself, "oh man. i really don't want to get up yet."  half-asleep, he sat up, flung himself onto his back (as he likes to do whenever he is on a soft surface.  sometimes even when he's on a hard surface.), and laid upside-down for a minute.  then, still half-asleep, he sat up, crawled up toward me, laid his head down on my shoulder and fell back asleep.  

until 7:15.

that's what i call a super snuggle.