Field Trip Friends at Kualoa Ranch

Field Trip Friends is a group headed by an ex-teacher, who now sets up field trips for kids to different places around the island. On this day we visited Kualoa Ranch.

Dino footprint from the filming of Jurassic Park.
You can barely see the girls in the footprint, but I wanted to show the size of the footprint better.

The girls trying to spin the tops. This is one of the toys the Polynesian children played with years ago. The tops are nuts from the Koa tree.

Seriously, can she get that lip out any farther?

Some beautiful flowers there.

Hudbond & Pssss

Sienna drew a picture of herself with a head band on (she's really been into wearing a head band recently). Anyway above the picture she wrote: Sienna Hudbond. I was impressed that she even attempted to spell the word head band and also am excited to have that 1st written thing with a misspelled word.

Rylie has been extremely interested in the potty for the past couple weeks. She takes her diaper off as soon as she pees & then runs to sit on the potty. The past few days I've been setting her on the potty right when she wakes and every 90 min all day to get her to do this in the right order. However, she can sit there for up to 20 min while I read or sing to her and has never went on the potty & then as soon as I put the diaper back on her she goes pee & then says "pee pee potty" and takes the diaper off and runs to sit on the potty.

Tonight when after 20 min she still hadn't gone I said, "Rylie we gotta start getting you to go pee on the potty, I really want to hear you pee in the potty." And Rylie said, "Psssssssss. Pee pee go out Mommy."

Sienna's Favorites

For fun I asked Sienna some questions about her favorite things. I hope to do this every year. It'll be fun to see how the answers change over time.

Favorite song: ABCs
Favorite color: pink, green, and yellow
Favorite toy: Snow White doll
Favorite game: hopscotch
Favorite food: healthy cereal
Favorite Animal: none, I don't like any animals
Favorite place to visit: at my families' houses

Sleeping Beauties

More often than not this is what I find at night when I check on the kids before I go to bed. I think when Paul gets back we need to convert Rylie's toddler bed to the double & remove Sienna's single. It'd give them more room in their room and they seem to prefer snuggling. It's so sweet I've caught Sienna rubbing Rylie's face or hands & wrapping her arms around her. She's such a sweet big sister.

Special treat of a pink doughnut.

Lunch:

Gave Sienna egg salad sandwich in her lunch today to try something new. When I picked her up she said, "And mom, don't ever give me smashed up eggs on a sandwich again."

Misc

Ashley & Lauren with my girls. Poor Rylie broke out from a new sunscreen we tried, which is why her face is so red & blotchy :(

They were playing "daycare" & taking turns patting each others' backs at nap time.

Oh how they love dress up. Amy this one is from the bag you gave me in KS.

The places I find this child......

I heard "Mommy! Mommy! Help Mommy!" and ran up the stairs to find this.

Came in to check on her before I went to bed & found her here with the bedroom light on. I'm just to thankful she didn't fall off the changing table.

Sienna's 1st Day of School

Sienna calls this her butterfly shirt because of the sleeves.

The butterfly shirt reminds me......the other night I was teaching Sienna that saying, "Star light, star bring, first star I see tonight......." And we were talking about how people would wish on a star. So she decided to wish on a star for wings like a fairy. Then next morning she was trying to remember how "Star light, star bright" went & right in the middle of her trying to say it she paused and then said, "Hey! How come I don't have wings?!"

The last of the visit home photos.

Forgot the swim suit so Sienna is wearing Makenna's 18 month clothes. I'm surprised she was able to get in them.

Little Angel

Way belated 4th of July photos

So happy that Rylie played with Makenna this time :)

The girls.

There were at least 20 shots I took trying to get all 4 to look at the camera, the following are literally the best ones.

My attempt to get sparkler photos.

VBS 4

VBS 3

VBS 2

VBS 1

VBS & Sungglely Rylie

Before their performance at VBS. Sienna is kneeling & waving at me.

Ashton during his performance.

Snugglely

Fair Oaks Farms

Although we couldn't take photos of the calf being born, it was the highlight of the day for Sienna. However, it did elicit a lot of questions: "Mommy did that hurt the baby?" "Did it hurt the Mommy?" "Why is the baby all wet?" "Why did the baby come out the Mommy's butt?" "Was I all wet like that when I was borned?" "Did it hurt me when I was borned?" "Did it hurt you Mommy?"

This was Sienna's favorite thing besides seeing the baby cow born.

Lots of fun action shots.