lazy days 2

Thanks to YouTube, I finally got to upload the rest of the videos I recorded on Sunday to my blog. (Very ANNOYING)
Everyone in our house has a cold that we're getting over, so please excuse the raspy voice (I lost my voice last week), coughs and booger noses. We were relaxing after church, just hanging out with the kids, and they were doing what they normally do.

This clip is of Sesi. The little booger has boogers down his nose, but I couldn't - actually, it was more like I didn't - want to stop recording to wipe his nose cause I didn't want to miss the good stuff.

This little boy is going to be trouble. He's a good boy, when he's stuck to my leg, but when he plays with his siblings... mischievous is his middle name.. or first. He's perfecting the "fake cry" right now, and I detect a little bit of "baby" Ela in there when he realizes he lost. My sister used to do that "leg" thing when she was a baby.. hmm.. can't be a family thing.. haha. Anyway, he stole 'Ala's shoe and made a run for it, I caught him when she chased him halfway through the room.








Caught this girl in the act of talking to herself in the mirror. I wish I would have got it earlier, she was being pretty funny. She asks me at the end of the video to watch "Surfs Up". Anytime Ala wears this dress, Ini calls her Gigi. I think it's a size 4T or 5T dress, so if it looks a little big, that's why.

lazy days.

I've been going over the first Article of Faith with the kids for a while now, I started reading it with them in Florida. Usually it's my scripture of the day with the kids. I would say it line by line and I had the kids repeat after me. I never expected them to memorize it, but they always show me that they are capable of more than I think.

A couple of nights ago I was putting the kids to bed, as I got up to leave the room, Ke'ala said, " Time to read scripture". She proceeded to say the first Article of Faith but could only go so far as " ..the Eternal Father.." and then she finished it with, ".. and in the Holy Ghost". I was shocked that she knew that much, but to my surprise, Leva chimes in and says, " No, Ke'ala. It's, " We believe in God.." and started going through it with her, as I did with them. He said it word for word until the very end. I couldn't believe my ears. I wonder if he realized that he knew it before that night or if he just said it because Ke'ala tried to say it on her own. Kids really are smarter than we give them credit for!

The bag Leva is wearing is his "costume". He's going trick-or-treating.

just for fun

 

 

 

 

These are old, from a few weeks ago. This is what happens when two moms don't get out of the house enough. Sesi's wearing Leva's old Halloween costume that got passed down to Sai, then to Tonga boi. It's size 3-6 months, btw. hhahaa! You can't see it very well, but the feet of the costume were almost up to his knee..

Camp out

We moved out and into a condo down the street from my sister's place on the first of the month. We got a play tent, among many other things, from my sister's friend, who remarried and didn't need most of what she had. (Thanks for looking out, sis!) We put together two of the twin beds that we had for the kids to sleep on until we get bunk beds. They slept on it for the first night and did good, same as always. Until Daddy put the tent up. Now, they insist on sleeping like this....




King Sesi with his own bed. He doesn't even try to get in the tent with them. I'm sure he's loving the extra space. It's the third night that they've slept this way. I wonder how long it will last?

Ke'ala's first cut

Ke'alas hair has been bugging me for a while. I thought her hair would grow in a little more evenly if I gave it some time. I posted a while back, in Florida, that she had a natural grown mullet, but this mullet has turned into a complete mess. It was getting more obvious, to me, that her hair was growing more on the left, than it was on the right. No one else could see this except for me, because of course, I'm her mom and I notice these little things that drive me crazy. When I pointed it out to other people, they never seemed to notice until I combed her hair. I threatened Jesse that I'd shave it all off so it could grow in evenly, it bothered me anytime I looked at her.
Laverne told me that her sisters hair grew in this way and so did Kelly's. She said that they ended up cutting they're hair into a bob because it was so uneven and asked me if I'd do the same with Ke'alas hair when it came to that point. I said no, i'D probably let it grow out, and hoped that Ke'alas right side would catch up to her left. NO SUCH THING.
Today was the day we finally did something about it. I cut it all off. I didn't want to cut it so short, but that was the longest length that her hair was on the right side of her head. IT's crazy. I've never seen anyone's hair grow in that way. But I love it. It's fun, she looks so cute and funny at the same time. I miss her curls, but I know they'll be back.

 

 

I wanted to take her to a salon and get it done, but Jesse insisted that we do it ourselves. Not wanting him to butcher it, because he had the scissors in hand and attempted to cut away, I took it from him and did it. Ke'ala hates having her hair done. HATES IT. The whole time she kept saying, "no mommy, please don't touch my hair." "Thats enough" and "am I done?" But she also says that while I put her hair in pigtails so I don't think she even realizes that her hair is cut. I asked her if she liked her hair afterward and she put her hands over her hair and told me, " no, don't touch my hair, mom!" She would not sit still for the "before" pictures, I didn't get a picture of her face because she was pouting. She was only smiling so hard for the "after" picture because she was eating lunch. The proof is in the pb&j smeared on her cheek. Little piggy, she really has no clue that she just got her hair chopped.