Cinnamondee

You say its your Birthday

C-boy finally had his long awaited 6th birthday.  Movies and popcorn and more chocolate cake than you could shake a stick at. 

We went to see "Where the Wild Things Are" which got very mixed reviews in our little bunch.  I enjoyed it, while the kids were about 50/50.  I would highly recommend this for much older kids (maybe 12 and older) who can understand the childhood angst and anger factor and what the monsters actually represented to Max.  All in all not a scary movie, just somewhat dark, although very beautifully made and wonderfully performed. 

C-boy got a Ripstick from my sister.  I was fine with it until W said, "I better teach him how to fall properly" then all the ER scenarios went swiftly through my mind.  They must make full pillow bodysuits for this type of thing, no?  He totally digs it though, and can't wait to get on it again.  We got him a pogo stick...the options available for him to hurt himself just keep on coming.

I'm also Transformered out at this point.  If I have to hear, "Mom can you fix this part again?" I will seriously go into a Transformer coma. Although I have to say those Transformers do give him hours of play(which includes making contraptions in his room for them to slide down and rescue each other).  He totally did get a lot of great gifts, and he enjoyed every single thing he received.  Almost too much, it made me wonder if never buying him stuff during the year makes for a deprived kid but really he just ends up LOVING his Birthday and Christmas like crazy. 

Happy Birthday little boy, worms and dirt and all.






 

All I Wana Do is Have Some Fun

 

 

We went to the beach on Sunday. Ahhh, doesn't that look like fun?

Cruisin on the beach watching your kids play in the water and swim out to the reef.

Until....

Your son starts screaming madly and the husband swims him to shore with...

 

Wana all up in his toes. 

Good thing the lifeguards are ready with vinegar and gauze, 'cause I sure as heck wasn't.

 

So back home we go, with a vinegar foot soaking and slipper wearing to school for the rest of the week (weeks?). He was good trooper about it.  Although, he said he is NEVER going near reef again.  EVER. 

Ugh, me neither man. 

A Birthday, Looking Forward, Looking Back, and Hanging On

I've been having random thoughts lately having to do with my firstborn turning 9.  Mindblowing.  I mean 9, really?  At nine I remembered all those things.  You know, really remembered them. 

I hear songs on the radio, like the one with the pony she called Wildfire, and Time Passages, and The Winner Takes It All and they take me way back, they give me that weird - good but weird -feeling in my stomach.  So this same age that shes in, these are the days, she will remember these days.  Mine were days of doing the "Hustle" at Summer fun, of wearing those Hawaiian print wraparound shorts my mom sewed(ok maybe that was a Hawaii thing) of playing "Charlies Angels" in Jordache jeans and roller skates and pretending I had flippy Farrah hair.   I still remember the feeling, the one where you ache to be older but at the same time cling to mom, cause she's solid, familiar, you can count on her. 

I can see it in C-girl, I can feel it with her, I don't want to miss it.  When she's older, in maybe 5 years, likely sooner, it won't be there anymore, she won't need me like that. 

So gone are the times when I can say "ah, she won't remember this anyway" cause she will.  These are the days. 

So to my tomboy girl who loves everything Muppet, animal and Pokemon.  Who wants to be a rock geologist (thats the career choice of the moment) and who can make me raging mad one moment then charm me crazy the next, Happy 9th Birthday.  May you remember and cherish the happy moments of these sweet years.

Perfect Day

I had the sweetest bestest Mothers Day.  Acai bowl breakfast with a skinny mocha and gift openings - I love those ceramic homemade hand and letter plaques!

Then hiking up Tantalus with the kids.  It was so beautiful. 

 

 

This was the lookout before the hike.

After that Round Table Pizza in Waikiki with beers on tap.  No sir, this was NOT a low carb day by any means.  Especially since after that was Japanese Beard Papa Cream Puffs. 

Bring it.

Soccer and football in the park and a picnic for dinner. 

Perfect.

I am Superman and I can do anything

 

 

If we really had Superheroes this fun the world would be in trouble.  Thats C-boy on the ground by the way, taking a dramatic beating by Batman.

Hot and Sour

We made some Tom Yum soup tonight.  C-girl and W's favorite. 

She gets to smash the lemongrass...

C-boy is too destructive, that would end up a mess if I let him do that. 

So he gets to tear up the kaffir leaves-add both to boiling water

 

Then all that's left is add some mushrooms, firm tofu(or shrimp if you eat seafood), broccoli, lime juice and stinky fish sauce- sprinkle some cilantro and/or Thai chili sauce if you like it hot like W...

Serve with rice and smiles

 

(that looks like a thumbs sideways, but I'm assured its a thumbs up)

Here's a easy recipe link (we changed some stuff to suit the kids taste).

Memories of it still, keep calling

Going through my kids backpacks, I found their Japanese eraser collections.  These totally reminded me of the ceramic and metal pin craze circa 1980-ish.  So a shout out to that and to Nonnahs who totally remembers. I can never get myself to purge this crap, goodness the memories they bring back of fun times!  I can't believe what ridiculous stuff I still have-

If you grew up on Oahu, anywhere near Pearl City, there was 'Summers' Place' where we would spend hours looking at the pins. 

 

Good grief, I don't get it now but it was fun back in the day.

Ollie's got a new pad courtesy of Costco extra boxes.  This is the second one C-girl has made.  The first got partially ingested.  Cute dog, just not the brightest bulb.

 

In other recycling around the house - we try to do as much of not throwing away as possible since our pledge to go 5 weeks with one kitchen bag this time around -

 

C-boy has taken the empty cartons I was saving for who knows what (we don't have tetrapak recycling here but the kind lady at our State Recycling has informed me instead that ALL of our household trash like tetrapaks are sent to Hpower for incineration for energy- I am sincerely doubting it ALL goes there but it seems like a nice fantasy nevertheless. She either doesn't read the news or thinks I don't) So anywho,the cartons are now in his room and a great addition to Buzz Lightyears' space program. 

And the 5 weeks of one kitchen bag goes on, we're on week 3 and lots of room left.  Yes, even after W bought a Vietnamese takeout in a moment of weakness on Sunday night when he was left by himself.  Sabotager.

Show and Tell

C-girl wanted to show off her favorite Christmas animals... big hedgie and little hedgie (my girl is so original when it comes to names) 

and C-boy had to then step in with part of his growing army of Transformers-

This was part of our New Years Eve Festivities...

training of a pyromaniac, the early years. 

A Day at the Park and Some Crazy Gingies

  

My sister recently did a awesome Christmas photo session with the kids... I love this one, its so C-boy.

 

As you can tell its not very cold here (never is really) I keep hoping for chilly weather but obviously this is not the place for it. 

C-boy can't wait to make a snowman like we did in Colorado, but in the meantime, he's been drawing them and gingerbread men like keerayzee.

 

Dude, I don't know what mr. gingerbread is looking at with that demented smile, but I think he's up to no good.

 

That goes for mr. alien gingerbreadman too.

All the Monkeys in the Zoo...

A certain little boy had a 5th birthday last month....

   

here he is waiting for a song and ice cream at Farrells...
happy birthday to the sweetest little rascal of a kid.

We ended up going to Maui for the weekend for W and C-boys birthdays and meeting up with our friends from Seattle that were celebrating a 3rd birthday as well.

 

How cute is that? Keep in mind that she is three and he is five.  And her parents are basketball players.  And I have to tilt my head all the way up to talk to them, which I predict will be doing soon with her as well.

yikes.

 

We hung out at the Grand Wailea for some water fun.  The kids (and the adults) had a blast-  happy birthday guys!