Quick belly update... I am 27 weeks and 2 days, the baby has started moving a lot more, yay. My belly button is still out of control, but I decided that it would probably be cuter if it was tan, so I spent the week trying to tan my poor belly button :o) We see Karen on Tuesday, Kylie is already talking about how excited she is for the appointment. I am more uncomfortable this time around then I was with Kylie and I am already considering taking a little time off before my due date. I am hopeful that this baby will wait until June, but I have a feeling it might come a little early and I want to feel like I got some good time to rest and hang out with Kylie before our world changes :o)
Here are a handful of the photos from the week...
Kylie having some snacks before we got on the plane to Hawaii.
Oh look at that airplane!
The view from our room, we were on the 6th floor, the pool and deck you can see is the 3rd floor. We had breakfast sitting by the pool almost every morning and enjoyed the live music and hula dancer.
Our second day, Kylie was enjoying the water with Papa.
Sad faces when we found out we could not go in the water because of the jellyfish. We still spent a little time at our beach before my parents picked us up and we headed to the east side to enjoy the water without jellyfish. While we were still at the beach we saw one jellyfish, it was about 4 inches and very hard to see. From then on she asked us every time she went close to the water "jellyfish right here?"
Our longest beach day was Sunday with my parents on the east side of the island. The sand was wonderful and the water was perfect! We enjoyed a lunch down on the sand and even stopped for Shave Ice on the way home.
Kylie wanted to pet every dog we saw, this one she actually spent some time with, I love this picture because it looks like she and the dog have exactly the same expression.
The next day we went to the Zoo, twice! We got up, head breakfast then made the not-so-long walk across the street to the Zoo. We paid the entrance fee, rented a stroller and headed to see some fun animals. Within 30 min Kylie was wanting to nurse and totally over it. She said she wanted to go back to the hotel and take a nap. So we turned in the stroller, hoped they would give us a stamp so we would not have to pay again, and we walked back across the street. Sure enough she fell asleep right away and after a 2.5 hour nap, was in a much better mood for the Zoo.
This photos was our first attempt at the zoo, she was watching some monkeys swing back and forth, she thought it was so funny.
The monkey she was watching.
Telling daddy how the monkey was swinging from his arms.
The next exhibit with a little family of three monkeys was fun until they all disappeared in to a little hole. Where did they go? Then they came back with little snacks. This is one of the many Hawaii stories that Kylie tells over and over.
Take two at the Zoo...possibly her favorite part. Getting to milk a cow and touch it's "nahnies." She was so excited, it made us think that maybe she needs to live on a farm.
The zoo had a great jungle gym in the middle of it, she was so proud of herself for being able to hang like a monkey.
This beautiful tree was right outside the entrance to the zoo.
We headed to Duke's for a wonderful dinner and we also got to enjoy a beautiful sunset.
The dinner was wonderful and so was the company.
Our last day on the beach, Kylie eating a granola bar and just hanging out with her mommy :o)
Enjoying the water even though there was a small chance we might still see a jellyfish, Kylie was very cautious.
Our attempt at a family photo on the beach, not an easy task to balance my camera without it getting covered in sand :o)
Our last Hawaii sunset from the delicious restaurant located under our hotel. After dinner we asked Kylie what she wanted to do..."walk on beach, go to ABC store, go on escalator and elevator," so we did.
during our walk on the beach we came upon a hula show. We found a seat, made ourselves comfortable and just then the show was over, everyone cheered and got up to leave :o(
At least get got a quick photo with the hula dancer before we left.
By the end of our trip Kylie seemed like she was a 5 year old trapped in an almost 2 year old body. She was able to tell us what hotel was ours, point out her letter "K" on the hotel Waikiki sign, take the escalator up to the third floor where she then used our hotel key to scan and enter our floor number. Then we get off the elevator and she knows where our room is, crazy. She got more and more comfortable visiting with people and asking their name. And she got very good at watching the street crossing signals and telling us when the "man walking" sign was up and we were able to go and when there was "hand blinking" which meant we needed to finish getting across and the "stop hand, don't go yet."
We had such a wonderful time, it was amazing to spend a week as a family. It was obvious how much Kylie enjoyed having us all together everyday. We are already talking about wanting to make another trip next year with the new little one and it only made us more excited about Johnson Beach Week this summer. When we told Kylie that we had to go home she simply said "no, I stay here." Exactly how Craig and I felt as well too.
Our flight home was great, Kylie slept for a little over an hour and was completely pleasant the rest of the time, it was a little hard having her in our laps the whole time, but I think part of that is because I already had a baby in my lap for the trip :o) I'm sure there is more to say about our wonderful trip, but Kylie is about to wake up so I am out of time.
Aloha,
Natalie
