Jimmy will never forget!

So the bike stroller is getting a bit crowded and heavy to pull lately, and Jimmy's birthday is coming up...



It was decided to get Jimmy his present a bit early.
We tried out a couple at the store...
This one wasn't quite right...


This one wasn't right either.


We found FLASH! FLASH is perfect. It is even his favorite colors.




We got Jimmy helmeted and padded him up and sent him on his way.


Pneumonia got to go for a ride, too, strapped on much like a deer hunters' trophy.


Bye Jimmy! Be back for dinner!



Jimmy also helps keep the bikes clean.


And what is Joey doing during all this bicycling excitement?

Napping, generally, or reading a good book.


And what has Mama been doing? Painting murals! Click here to see the finished* murals in the boys' rooms.

*Jimmy has asked for more animals and birds, and then a snake and a turtle...

Happy Happy HAPPY!!!

So we went and watched this submarine pull in...



We were all excited that day, Jimmy so much I couldn't get a picture!


DADDY'S HOME!!!!


Just in time for an egg hunt!

Everyone has their buckets!


Now I wonder if they will find any eggs...


Younger kids got to go first.



Jimmy had to wait.


Then all eggs broke loose.


After some preliminary running, Jimmy gathered a fair bunch.





Jimmy has gotten to share a couple of nice breakfasts with Daddy.


Joey likes to share ice cream.


The boys do a great job filling my fountain/planter with rocks.


My orchid on the top is starting to bloom! It smells like chocolate.


I also have been working on Jimmy's big mural. This was the first days' work.



Happy Easter!

Another mural down

Well, we are rapidly closing in on the time before daddy arrives, and I finished another mural.

This is the second one in Joey's room and I will eventually add to the pattern.
Here is the start of it.


The boys helped in their own unique way...


I know Jimmy isn't wearing a shirt, don't ask...


This is the mural finished as the pattern allows. I will eventually add more road behind the red car and add our family riding our bikes, but not until I finish Jimmy's mural...


Joey likes it! I modified the pattern a little to make the truck an ice cream truck and the plane more like one of the local carriers...

odds and ends

Ha-cha-cha!


The lost pictures from our weeks in the hotel... Jimmy enjoyed the big beds.


Got some work done...


Had a rest with brother after swimming all afternoon.


yea... I guess


Some activity at the school caught my eye and made me smile...


The boys make me smile every day!


I am slowly getting my sewing corner set back up.
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I love my castle of cloth!


I also am loving the automatically self cleaning cat box!


Joey's first mural is finished. The boys like to pretend to paint with me. Joey would rub his brush on the wall and then throw his brush down with a flourish and exclaim, "DONE!"


We (I have a friend helping) have started on the murals in Jimmy's room. They are going to take longer due to their size...


My friend and I went to an orchid show and saw some beautiful displays.


I also found this beautiful sugarcane spider on a car in the parking lot.
The owner of the car came out while I was taking pictures, wondering what we were doing to her car, but asked us to remove the spider when we pointed it out.


I put it on a nearby fence and got a few more great shots of it. Click on the picture for a larger version, if you dare...

Can you hear my teeth grinding from where you are?

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Whew...!

That was a lot of work! I'm glad it's done!



Let's see what the boys are up to!

Mama kept the least crinkly sheets of packing paper and put them to good use.


Thomas helped, too!


Jimmy likes lining up the chairs to play. Sometimes it's a train, sometimes a bus.


Today it was a roller coaster.


I have made progress on Joey's mural. I have gotten to the OMGomgOMG I-can't-make-a-mistake-now-because-you-can't-cover-up-black part of adding in the black lines. I am also to the point where I need a ladder to trace out and paint the high up parts of the design.


Let's go have lunch at one of our favorite places!


Yum! Real ramen!


Jimmy experimented with using chopsticks.


Success!


We also found the pinapple plantation and I tried to convince them to pose with pineapples. There are just some things you need Daddy for... *sigh*


Neither of them liked the Dole Whip, either.


But they but enjoyed riding the train in Ewa Beach.

Jimmy wouldn't take his eyes off the engine (a green center cab switcher- green- his favorite color)!


Yeah! Happy boys!


Now we are counting the days until Daddy gets home.

Aloha!