This morning Leif woke up at 5:30 am. That was too early for me. The cats had woke Holly up just prior and she took Leif out to start their day. I re awoke at 7 am. As I walked out of the room, I saw Holly and Leif crawling on the floor towards the bedroom. “We were just crawling in to surprise you”, Holly told me. Leif was in a good mood and giggling and smiling. Holly stood up and picked up Leif and he looked at me and said “Dada” all cute like with his hand extended in my direction. It was so cute. Holly followed with, “Who’s that Leif?” And he happily replied with his hand still extended towards me, “Dada”. D’aaawwwwww. So cute. I think that passes as his first word.

Last week was Gavin’s last week of kindergarten. He had a little party at the school on his last day. Since it was pot luck, we made some brownies to bring to the party. The paper said that we should be there at 8 and would be done at 11, which was perfect because Holly had to be at work at 10:30. But silly me read the paper wrong and really we didn’t have to be there until 11, and that meant that Holly couldn’t go. I did bring her down some food though. She does like her shoyu chicken.

It was neat seeing Gavin playing and interacting with his class mates. He was running around and playing with friends and climbing on the playground and what not. He even had kids coming up to me asking where Gavin was, and when I told them they would call to the other kids, “hey, Gavin is on the playground. Let’s go!” He had a following and a girl who claims to be his girlfriend. And it begins.

The Saturday after his last day of school he had a birthday party to attend. He’s was so excited about this party. We bought her a present when we went to town the week prior, which he begged us to wrap for a week. The day finally came for the party and Gavin couldn’t wait. The party started at 1pm so we told Gavin that we would go to the party after lunch. That was at 6 am. So every 30 minutes Gavin would ask us if it was lunch time yet. Such a cutie.

Of course it eventually was lunch time and then time for the party. Gavin had a blast. It turned out that they had a blow up pool on the back patio for the kids along with a laundry basket full of water balloons. We didn’t bring him spare clothes or a bathing suit, but that wasn’t going to stop him from enjoying the water activities. He was soaked in no time. Leif also had a good time. There was another baby there, though slightly older than him, who he played with quite extensively. Overall it was a nice party. The grown ups there would fun and interesting, Gavin had a super blast, the birthday girl really liked the trick cockroach that Gavin gave her, and Leif played so hard the didn’t sleep for 6 hours straight.

Which brings us to Sunday. Sunday was the day we traded our son in for a kitten. We drove up to Kahului and met Mary at the airport. She flew over to drop off her cat with us ( who knew it was cheaper to fly your cat to another island to get her spey ) then take Gavin back to Oahu on the next flight back. Now he is over with Granny for a few weeks while Tattoo ( the pretty grey/blue cat ) is here on Maui scaring us and hiding all day instead of going to the vet to get spey. How did she know? We thought she climbed the screen and fell out the window and ran away. Instead, she was hiding inside the couch all day. Now she is back. Dog gone kitty. She is so cute though.

I would post a few pictures here, but I plan on updating my website very shortly which will include a photo album section. I will be adding new photos there. It will also replace my flickr page. I will finally be self contained. 🙂

What a day. It’s the day before Mother’s day and we went to Kahului to do some grocery shopping as well as picking up a few Mother’s Day gifts. Gavin and I dropped Holly and Leif off at the fabric store so that the two of us could go find some gifts. We failed to get the specific thing we were looking for, but managed to pick up a little secondary gift along the way. It’s a good thing too. After picking up Holly and doing our Wal Mart run, we ran over to Home Depot to get  a maintenance item for the library. We spit up at the entrance so that I could change the baby’s diaper. Within 30 seconds of splitting up (Gavin with Holly, Leif with me), I lost my wallet. Within 30 seconds of losing my wallet, it was then stolen. So we spent a little longer in Home Depot than we planned. I looked all over the one isle I had been down and found nothing. The customer service person showed no interest in my problem short of taking my name and phone number and wishing me luck. I called my mom for comfort. She did just that and then told me to report all cards stolen and have them canceled and replaced. An hour of dealing with unconcerned employees, we left to finish our shopping. Or at least what we could on a budget that was immediately split in half. Which meant we shopped Costco, hit Krispy Kreme, pumped gas and headed home. Unfortunately I lost my wallet after my banks had all closed. Therefore, I could not just go to the bank and take out money to shop with. I could not buy the two main things I wanted to get Holly for Mother’s day. At least not to give her on Mother’s day. I will certainly pick up these items next week after receiving my new debit card. Now that I’m home and exhausted, I’ve called my CC companies and had my cards canceled as well as my bank card. I’ve had my cocktail to sooth me and made plans to visit dmv to replace my license as well as replacing other such cards as my Gordon Biersch card. We did manage to pick up a bbq ribs dinner for tomorrow. And we do have the little gift for Holly. So it’s not a complete bust. But dang, that sucks.

Oh, yeah. Haha. I mentioned that we hit Krispy Kreme to help soothe the mood. We certainly did. We walked out with 9 donuts and a cup of decaf. And then we tried to drive off with the leftover 6 donuts and Holly’s wallet on the roof of the car. Fortunately there was some crazy guy screaming at us the 3 donuts we did eat soothed us enough to keep us from yelling back at him and driving away. Could you imagine. Arriving at the gas station to find that neither of us had a wallet. OMG. Time to laugh in hysterics. Hahahahahhahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha. 

Hahahahhahhahahahahahhaha.

Haahahahha. Wooooooo. Yayayayayaya. Yoing yoing yoing. Zooooooooooo. Bababababab. 

Ahhhhhhhh.

Ok. Better now.

It’s later than it ought to be. I’m tired and wanted to go to bed an hour ago. Today was a long lonesome day. It was Holly’s long day. Meaning she started work at 10:30 am and finished work at 7:15 pm. My meeting today started at 8 and ended at 10 am. So I didn’t get to spend much time with her this morning. I dropped Gavin off at school this morning at 7:30. After school he went to his friends house. I didn’t pick him up until 7 pm. Other than Holly’s lunch break, I’ve been alone all day. Of course I have Leif though. He was really good today. He was a happy hungry child. I do enjoy him. But I missed my other two peoples. I loves them.

In other notes:

1. Sunday is Mother’s Day. Need to order stuffs.

2. Five more days until I find out if my latest batch of beer is drinkable.

3. Skeezy smoking neighbors just got a new kitten.

4. Skeezy smoking neighbors just acquired a Yamaha 300 keyboard.

5. Tomorrow is one of skeezy smoking neighbors birthday.

6. Tomorrow is May day.

7. It is 75? and breezy out.

8. My “esc” “~” and “tab” keys do not work anymore.

9. I had to look up “tilda character” so I could copy and paste it for #8.

10. Leif had three teeth now.

11. We are almost done with quilt number 2.

12. Sookie is back to her old (young) self again. Minus the girly bits.

13. I think a summer trip is in order.

14. I did 8 loads of laundry last week.

15. About 80% of Leif’s food is solids now.

16. I wish I had more time to knit.

17. I get to color illustrations for Holly’s next book.

18. I have a new sketchbook.

19. We actually got to spend some time in Pa’ia this past weekend.

20. The pizza in Pa’ia was delicious.

21. I’m happy and life is good.

Sookie is feeling much better. She is hopping up on lamps, climbing her way to the top of our cupboards, fighting with Moura and playing with her toys. She tries to pull out her stitches, but doesn’t seem to be in pain any more. She is much happier. Too bad for the tom that came prowling last night. I heard fighting on the porch and ran out to see what was what. Moura was protecting Sookie. She puts up a front, but she loves her. She cornered the tom and forced him to freak and jump over Moura to make for the stairs. We have such good kitties. And one that craps in the tub. But what are you gonna do? We love our kitties.