My name is Kawika and I approve this message.

Lately Kawika has been upset about the lazy light with which he is portrayed in these posts.

He is not, in fact, lazy.

He would like me to point out the hours he has put into figuring out how everything works, as evidenced by the fact that he can unbuckle himself from his car seat. He also puts great effort into collecting baby paraphernalia and bringing it to Leilea wherever she may be, whatever she may be doing.

Kawika is a dedicated, active citizen in this household and he promises to never, ever raise your taxes.

Rockabilly Fest

This Saturday Millington hosted a Rockabilly car show and festival. It was free and there were really really cool cars plus a children's area to entertain the kids.

Here's Leliea and me. I want to say for the record that I didn't know that my picture was being taken. I would have smiled or something.
Here are Iwa and Kawika riding the ride. The rusty, squeaky ride. Let's watch Kawika's excitement escalate over the next few pictures, shall we?...and this was just the first three passes of the ride. By the way, is anyone getting a load of the sweet mullet in the red bucket? Oh yeah, pure Millington, baby. Anyway, contrary to how it would appear, Iwa is not pushing him down in that last picture. He gets his enthusiasm for roller coasters from his father, apparently. Here's how the rest of the afternoon went for him:

A ball...


...and unconsciousness.

I was tagged.

...for real this time. I have another more entertaining post in mind, but until I get some photos from my parents computer, here is my post for now.

Five years ago
1. I measured giant boobs for work
2. I was a lot smaller
3. We lived in a tiny apartment
4. I had a lot less stuff
5. I was about to graduate

Things on my to do list today
1. Keep the kids alive
2. Shower
3. Laundry
4. Trim the pots I made yesterday
5. Cook something

Snacks I enjoy
1. Kawika's ears
2. Fruit
3. Popcorn
4. Halloween candy
5. Swiss Cake Rolls

Things I would do if I were a millionaire
1. Pay everything away
2. Move
3. Save
4. Hire a personal trainer
5. More art

Places I've lived
1. Houston, TX
2. Martin, TN
3. Memphis, TN
4. Ohio (??)
5. Illinois (??)

Jobs I've had
1. bra fitter
2. art teacher
3. hostess
4. honors english teacher (what?!)
5. mom

Tag you're it
1. Jennifer R.
2. Valorie W.
3. I don't know anyone else who reads my blog and has one...
4.
5.

Photo dump

I just dumped a bunch of pictures on my computer so I wanted to post a few.

First, we have pictures of Iwalani's new haircut. This is actually the second haircut she got in one weekend because of a completely incompetent stylist (the second stylist actually asked if her little brother got a hold of scissors and did it himself). Anyway, this is Iwa and her daddy on the carousel at the mall right after her second haircut in two days. Also, there is a photo of her holding her little sister- her new favorite past time.

Here are some photos of what Princess Leia did today. The Force is strong with this one. She is always trying to hold he head up so I thought I would try some tummy time. As it turns out, she's quite a reader. She'll start on the Tolkien books next week.

Meanwhile, this is what Kawika did today:

Forrest Gump, your momma was right.

Someone recently got me thinking about all of the pictures I DON'T have on my computer. You remember when you had to take a little metal cylinder out of your camera when it was full? You couldn't see the pictures until they printed them out for you. Well, I have a bunch of those in a box and much like the way they were taken and processed, my life is very different now. Thank goodness- in most ways- but there is this one guy who keeps showing up in my photos.




Here is a particularly unflattering photo of me (and yes, that's a guy in a cape) and a bunch of my friends waiting for school to start. See the guy in the Hawaiian shirt? This was 1996. My sophomore year of high school. I was always with the guy in the white shirt.

Here's another one, taken a year later. Same guy in the white shirt (maybe even same white shirt) and there's my future husband the Hawaiian shirt guy.

If you had told me then that John was going to be the guy on my couch- the love of my life- with our (3rd!) newborn curled up on his chest, watching the newest episode of Mythbusters, I wouldn't have believed you. At all. I would have thought that throwing in the Mythbusters bit was a good try for believability, but no way.

I'm thankful that I didn't know then what I know now because it has made the trip much more interesting. You never know what you're going to get.

Taking the monkeys to the zoo.

Today Grandma Lorna, Auntie Kaylani and I took the kids to the zoo. It was Leilea's first big trip out. You can see for yourself how she spent the day. You can also tell by the accessories on the other kids who went with us. Thanks Grandma Kiko and Aunt Kaannie.

Tagging myself.

So as I'm reading my friend's blogs, I see that occasionally people get "tagged". This usually involves answering some questions about yourself or telling stories about the first time your kissed your husband, etc... and then listing three people who read your blog and have blogs themselves to do the same.

Well, I've never been tagged before but I found one that was interesting. The tag was to post the fourth picture in the fourth photo file on your computer. I got curious, so although no one has tagged me on this, there it is.

Dinnertime at the Frisky house.

Here's a little video of dinnertime at our house. It's complete with Iwalani being a ham, Kawika trying to make a deadly escape out of his high chair and Leilea wondering how the hell she ended up with these crazies.

The ol' morning routine.

My mom loved this story, so I thought I'd share it with you all.

About a year ago, Iwa realized that since she was in a big girl bed, she could get out at all hours of the night and spend who knows how long watching mommy and daddy sleep. As sweet as this was, it was the creepiest thing I'd ever experienced, so we made it a little more difficult for her to leave her room on her own. Besides, who knows what shenanigans she could get into in the house, unsupervised at 3a.m.

Anyway, one of the first nights John and I had been home from the hospital after I had Leilea, Iwalani woke up in the night and he went to check on her. He also left her door cracked and I didn't know. The next morning, I woke up to the sound of someone letting General out- one of the first things we always do when John or I wake up... but John was still in bed with me. I waited to see if I had been dreaming and then heard his food bowl being filled.

I knew it must have been Iwa so I thought her next stop would be our room to wake us up or stare at us (you know- for old time's sake) but I waited and waited and nothing. Curious, and a little nervous, I looked out in the living room to see her in her Ariel jammies sitting on the couch by the coffee table with everything but the Sunday paper and a cuppa joe. She was so grown up I wanted to turn the news on for her or something.

Now if we can just get her to fill out those job applications I've been gathering for her...