Oink oink

                                                       We were out and about on the farm, the kids were playing at the pavilion.  I caught Sale stuffing his mouth full of tangerines.  Kind of cute.  Kind of scary.  I could've stopped him but some times you gotta let kids be kids... until they choke... and die.. kidding.  Lately he's all about chewing up food, sucking out the flavor and juices, then spitting it out so I knew he'd never try to swallow it all.  Eventually he made his way to the other tangerines laying around the field and did the same thing... oh my goodness.. I JUST remembered that I forgot to pick up the tangerines he spit out!!  What a horrible neighbor I am. 

One month + pics

Here's Jeremy at one month old and below are 5 wk photo's.  Not much of a difference. I like the one's below because it show's his blue eyes better.  All our kids start out with blue eyes, then they slowly change to brown as they get closer to the age of one yr.

Close call, Santa

Tonight this conversation went down in the car ride home.

Leva: Santa's not even real
Me: why do you think that?
L: he didn't bring what I asked for. I asked for a real life robot and he didn't give it to me.
M: well maybe he didn't cause he didn't want you to hurt yourself with a life size robot. I don't think Santa gives kids things that they might hurt themselves with... But didnt you get the other things on your list?
L: your right, mom. I could get hurt with a big robot. It's too dangerous.
Ke'ala : Ya! Santa doesn't even LISTEN to us!!
Me: what now?
Leva: keala wanted a rocking horse.. (From the Elf movie)
K: and he didn't even bring it!!!
L: well.. Maybe he couldn't read her words. Keala writes very sloppy. Next time, keala, ask me to help you so I can write your letter for you so Santa can read it, ok?
K: ok!!

Phew!! Almost blew it, Santa! Hopefully this yrs list isn't as crazy as the last one.



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Back to the Beach

 JBoosky is officially one month old.  Look at him.  (If you can peel your eyes off my hair.. nothing like the beach and short curly hair to make you feel like Richard Simmons about to shoot a workout video..add wind factor and then you just look like a poodle, and there was wind.. did I say it was windy?)  He's so cute! Jeremy, not Mr. Simmons.  Or me.  Saturday was our first outing to the beach since a couple wks before Jlove joined the family.  What's up with the nick names?  No clue, we've been calling him every thing under the sun lately. 

                                                                                                                                                        

Salesi is all about taking pictures.  He likes to say 'cheese' and show ALL of his chiclets.  He is a tiger shark.  See this pic of him below?  He heard me tell the older boys to look at me for a picture and he ran right in front of the camera and said cheese.  Sale also likes to smash his face into mine multiple times when he wants kisses.  We can't get enough of the younger 2.

The older boys were especially happy to get back in the water.  They've gotten so pale, unlike our other 2 coconuts who look like they haven't missed a day at the beach ever.

Some times it's hard to live on the Rock, especially during the holidays, specifically Christmas.  It doesn't ever get cold enough to feel like Christmas.  But most days I am grateful that we can go out on any given day at any given time and enjoy the beauty of the island, where the weather is almost always perfect and the ocean is always warm.

2 weeks

2 wks.  I'm contemplating doing that annoying photo every week post.  Most likely not.  But since I love this stage, fresh little newborn, and this guy is always in my face, here's a 2 wk post.  Funny ears and all.

One week

    

Here's the little guy at one week.  There's big baby brother Salesi at 18 months.  Funny how a wee babe can make the older baby look and feel like a mighty giant.

A day with Jeremy

       Every thing about this birth has been perfect.  The location, the staff, midwife, labor.  Perfect.  Look at the view from our room.  Beautiful.  Lucky me, I got to wake up to our baby and this sunrise each morning we were there.  Behind the trees were the mountains of Mauna Kea. We were given the choice to walk Jeremy around outside and give him some sun after he'd been born.  Nice.  

Shout out to Jesse.  He's come a long way.  Guess what he did?  He cut. the. cord.  So proud.  Not sure if I was happier to have had the baby or that my husband had grown so much since our first birthing experience.  He stuck with me the whole way thru.  Guts of STEEL he had that evening. Flashbacks to the moment of Leva's birth where he got sick and my nurses left me alone on that delivery bed with my OB, to tend to his weak stomach.  GET HIM JUICE & CRACKERS! They said... It was a moment of many firsts for this Markovitz family on Thanksgiving day.  A very happy day indeed.