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 as statements [...]
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 keilani and malia on Jul 4th, 2008
So, like Spinal Tap, I must need to turn it up to ELEVEN posts to get to another page. And you thought this blog was just about my adventures in parenting! Yesterday was a typical San Francisco summer day, freezing cold, foggy, and downright depressing. So what is a mommy to do with two kids [...]
Posted in keilani and malia on Jul 4th, 2008
I am now “Mommy”, and sometimes even “Mom”. I miss the days of “Mama”, and I’m not quite sure when “Mama” turned into “Mommy”! Keilani’s name has also evolved…. her best friend Sebastian (also 2) calls her “Lani”, and she calls herself “Kani” or more recently “Kei-nani”. She calls her sister Malia “Mia” or “Ma-EE-a!”. [...]
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 don’t– just [...]
