Walking Waikiki

Our morning almost started at 4:30. Brandt seemed fully awake, but he didn't insist on getting up (phew!), he just looked around for thirty minutes and finally fell back asleep. So our morning really started at 6:50--not bad considering it felt like 9:50 to us. We left the house with Tammie and the keikis at 7:30 to walk Jake to preschool. It's pretty warm and humid here, and there is a big hill so the other moms were very impressed with us.

With the 3-year-olds busy at school, the moms went to the park to get to know each other (the school year started yesterday). They had snacks so Brandt and I tagged along. There were a couple 20-month-old boys there and Brandt and Baby Hannah had a great time playing around with them. Of course now Tammie tells me that both those boys tend to bite other kids, but I checked Brandt for teeth marks and he's clean. Brandt went down a couple big slides by himself. Super cool because that is part of my master plan in which he plays by himself and I sit on my lazy butt and watch.

The rest of the day was spent walking and shopping in Waikiki. Don't worry, Jeff was busy with work stuff so he didn't have to come shopping with us. An old Hawaiian auntie (everyone is "auntie" here) tried to make Brandt and Baby Hannah smile for the camera in the picture above. It didn't work. And they got more and more suspicious of her by the second.

Brandt's been working on his walking quite a bit, but he's still mostly crawling. Just a short while ago he was crawling around the house (normal crawling--not lazy leg crawling) and Jake and Hannah were both crawling along behind him. It was too cute! It's so cool how they all play together. Now hopefully they'll all be walking together soon...that's much better than the alternative of them all lazy legging around the place. Hannah has already tried to mimic the funny crawl by scooting around on her butt. Still cute, but not quite the same.