Happy September Birthdays!

We've had a few birthdays this month. My niece had a birthday on the 3rd, 2 of my sis had their bdays on the 8th and the 23rd and my nephew Longani thats here with us turned one yr old on the 24th of this month. Not to mention my brand new baby nephew, Lincoln, who will now add to the bdays in september. To celebrate Longani's bday Lusi wanted to go to the beach. Longani wasn't afraid of the sand this time around as you can see, but I think it's going to take a few more tries to get him used to the water. It was so cute to see him crawling around the beach with a huge smile on his face. We tried to get Leva to try out his boogie board but it was pretty rough out for the kids so he wasn't too into it. He was more into the girls that were playing in the sand, little flirt! He kept running back and forth in the middle of their group and finally plopped himself down and started playing with them. I don't know if its because he's used to being around me and my sisters all the time but the girls thought it was cute. Latu decided to try out leva's board and had a good time with it himself. We buried the kids in the sand.. after a little while Ala was the only one who was still enjoying herself. I took a picture of all the kids in the sand, some girl thought it was cute and wanted to take a pic next to them.. it had to be a tourist.. but she got in my pic.. it was kind of weird..
This is just a short video of Ke'ala and the way she is at the beach...

Birthday Love

We got some birthday love from Gigi and Papa. They sent a card for the kids birthdays, Leva's was in August and Ke'alas isn't for another 2wks, so we went out and got the kids some toys and clothes. The last time we were at the beach Leva kept trying to take someones boogie board and run off with it. I really wanted to get him one so we went to pick one out. Sure enough, as soon as he saw it he started to get crazy and would not let it go. He kept holding it right up to his face and wouldn't stop staring at it like he was afraid it was going to disappear. He dragged that thing around for the longest time when we got home. We haven't taken him to the beach since we got it but I'm looking forward to it. The little princess basically got clothes since she plays with all her brothers toys. She's wearing 18 mo clothes in this pic. I thought she'd have room to grow in them but I thought wrong. They fit her perfectly, the little heifer. I took them to the dr for a check up last wk and the little one's 22 pounds and Leva's 28 pounds. Besides a little runny nose they're in great shape.

Lincoln Friberg

This is a pic of the newest addition to my family. My sis Lusi had her son last wk thursday. They named him Lincoln.. I'm not sure about his middle name.. but I'm happy to report that he's a healthy, beautiful baby boy!

Pumpkin

The lighting sucks on this pic, but I couldn't stop cracking up at her new teeth. She looks so funny with just one of her front teeth and a side tooth. Jesse says I should just paint her face orange for halloween and make her go as a jack-o-lantern.
no matter what she does, whenever she's done doing it this girl crosses her feet after everything.
.. and of course more pics of her at the beach.. my little beach bum!

Kua Bay

I love that our kids love the beach. I'm surprised Ke'ala reacted this way because she usually shows no emotion. But everytime we go to the beach she starts kicking, smiling and babbles. It's the cutest!
After a few minutes of being in the water this girl knocks out. I don't know how she does it, even in the waves.. but i guess its nice to hold her and still be in the water knowing that she won't wake up.
Leva definitely loves the water. He's usually in from the moment we get there until we leave, which is a long time. These are just a few pics of Jesse, Leva and my nephew playing at the beach.
It's soo nice to let the kids out and enjoy the outdoors. I don't know if they even know whats going on or if they'll even remember it but it makes me happy to see them enjoy themselves and do things that they werent able to do in Vegas..

Bubbles

These are a few pics I took a wk or 2 after we got here. It's been a little crazy getting the kids used to the time change while trying to get used to it myself. I wish I were'nt so tired most of the time because the kids are getting to the stage where they're starting to play with each other. I love it, it only lasts a short while, usually until the little misses starts crying cause Leva gets over excited and starts to play rough because she's actually starting to respond to him. My little cousin had some bubbles the kids found and once I showed Leva how to blow in it he got excited and kept trying to do it himself. I let him go and watched him from the side and Ke'ala crawled over to him to see what he was doing. To my surprise he held the wand to her mouth and said "bow tita bow".. (blow sister blow) she of course tried to eat it, but I was just happy that they were content with that little thing for almost an hour.
Before we left florida Leva tripped and hit his head on the concrete. That white dot in the middle of his forehead is just the remainder of what was left of his injury.