Adventures in parenting and in life!
Posted in city living, family life, green living, keilani and malia on Jul 18th, 2008
When you are a family of four with two children under the age of two! (OK, my eldest is almost 2.5, but was just potty-trained recently (if you’re interested in those sordid details you can click here for the previous posts on that!).
My husband and I (OK, particularly my husband, but I am learning [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jul 17th, 2008
I have a mini-me, and her name is Keilani! It starts at 5:45AM when I am awakened by my mini-me wanting to “sleep in Mommy’s bed, yes?”. (My mini-me is also working on some Jedi-mind tricks that she must have learned from her Star Wars-loving Daddy — she phrases each of her questions [...]
Posted in city living, family life, keilani and malia, working mama on Jul 15th, 2008
…your two-year-old’s most favorite game to play is “Let’s find parking!”.
It’s true…Keilani has recently discovered the magic of pretend-play, thanks I’m sure to her new friend Boobaby, and her most favorite game (aside from pretend calling her favorite people on the phone, which is adorable) is “Let’s find parking!”.
To play “Let’s find parking!”, Keilani pushes [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jul 12th, 2008
Today, July 11, 2008, Malia Jane Fujii rolled over from front-to-back while playing upstairs on her sister’s Learn & Groove music table. Rock on MJ!!! We are proud of you!
Posted in family life, keilani and malia, potty training on Jul 8th, 2008
…the saga continues!
Day Four of potty-training again met with mixed success. On the previous evening Keilani watched a DVD that we had purchased called “Potty Power” and lo and behold, she LOVES this DVD! This is a girl who has shown absolutely no interest in television or videos whatsoever her entire life, but [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia, potty training on Jul 7th, 2008
OK, I admit it… like many Americans these days in search of “better faster cheaper” I fell prey to a book (supported by Dr. Phil, though!) that proclaims to “Potty Train Your Child in Just One Day!”. Yes, my first name is Susan, spelled S-U-C-K-E-R.
Honestly, though, reading about this approach it [...]
Posted in family life, keilani and malia on Jul 3rd, 2008
Today we had my 5-month-old’s 4-month checkup (don’t ask) and found out that she is one long lean baby! She is in the 90th percentile for her height for 5-month-olds, 25th percentile for weight, and 50th percentile for “head circumference”. We’ve never taken much stock in these “averages” or growth percentiles (and still [...]
Posted in family life on Jun 30th, 2008
Are ridiculously hard to come by. I have just spent the better part of an hour looking for just ONE decent photograph of all of us to use as the banner for this blog. We have one “OK” picture of us but it will not crop to the correct size. But really, [...]
Posted in family life on Jun 30th, 2008
So since I wrote such a lovely (hopefully) post on my in-laws, I didn’t want to leave my own mother out, just because she happened to visit before I started blogging!
I certainly won the “Mother” lottery, too. I have the absolute most amazing mom in the world. My mom raised me on her [...]
Posted in family life, sahm on Jun 30th, 2008
Today I just have to brag a little and share how unbelievably lucky I am to have my in-laws. My husband’s parents are amazing– I definitely hit the In-Law jackpot! I feel so blessed to have them in my life (and in my daughters’ lives, too!).
Last week they came for a visit (why [...]
