New Do's

A little while ago we had Jesse's cousin, Kara, give the boys a haircut. They needed them big time, the problem is their hair grows so quickly we had to cut it again. So the picture of them in the bath post is their most recent haircut, we just shaved their heads. If i can get Leva's picture up I will but here's Sesi's in the meantime.

 

Letters to our Missionaries

For an FHE activity last month, we wrote letters to our missionaries. I decided to take a picture, for our missionaries, of the kids hard at work. I busted out the camera and said, " Say CHEESE! " To which everyone said, " CHEESE! " I started to put the camera away and then Leva said, "Say 'hamburger'!" I took another with them saying hamburger. I went to put it away again and Ke'ala said, "Can we say 'Fries'?" So we took another one with them saying 'Fries'.






They make me laugh.

Silly Nilly's

We LOVE to take baths. Well, the kids do.
Yesterday Leva did this silly thing and said he was on the toilet.



The things they come up with!

Random Pictures

I turned on my old camera the other day and realized that I
had a few pics that I never posted. They are nothing
special, but they're four or five months old so I thought I'd throw
them on here so I can start fresh on the next post.

I actually took this picture a week ago. I sent the pic to most of my family members, but for the sake of my youngest sister, I'll re post. If I don't put pants on this kid, he usually takes his diaper off. It started a while ago, so I made sure never to leave him without pants, but lately he's been really good about leaving his diaper on. I ran out of shorts for him and I didn't want to stick him in sweats, not in this heat, so I thought, what the heck? I went in to check on the kids in the middle of the night and found sesi sleeping in the nude.. almost..



What child doesn't climb? Ini left her son's toy here for my kids to play with a month ago. I couldn't get Sesi to stop doing this, so I had to hide the darn thing! At one point, the car was about a foot away from the window but he still had is toes curled on it, gripping to the edge of the window sill.



This is the most recent pic, taken today. I told him to smile and he said, "DEEE!" (cheese)


Took a picture of Sesi's side profile so I can remember his pot belly forever. Forty years from now I'm going to show him this picture and tell him that he started out an old man from the very beginning, belly and all!


Breaking in the new room.





I can't remember what we did with the kids, but I do remember it was a cold and windy day, they had gotten wind burn on their cheeks. When Sesi would sit on the couch to watch t.v., he'd never sit back. I always pushed him back to try and help him relax, but he'd slide himself to the edge of the couch again. It seemed he was very into what was going on, but it never lasted. A minute would go by and he'd hop off the couch and find something better to do. He is the one child out of my 3 that does not care for t.v.. I laughed every time because he looked so intense. Now he sits back like the big kids. It makes me sad to realize how quickly they grow up.

The way she eats..

makes me laugh! I love to watch her eat, except she's so slow at it.

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.