October 29th

We just squeaked in our one beach a month goal. It was a yucky, rainy day, but our power was scheduled to be out until 5 pm and I could not sit in the house with the crazies all day. It rained the whole way we were driving there, so we decided we would just let the kids play in the sand and eat lunch, but it ended up being beautiful, and there was almost no one else there.

First touch of ocean! She liked it :)

He liked looking for "treasure". He found driftwood, a shell, a crab claw, and some crabs.

 sleepy baby

 almost all looking. I tried to trick them and asked how many fingers I was holding up to get them to look, but then Harrison copied me

jump! and repeat

3....4....3.... jump!

his hulk pose

 lazy boy

that hair!!

Happy to not be getting sunscreened anymore

Testing the waters when we got there, not too cold!

We bought this bathing set the day after we found out we were having a girl. I think I paid full price. No regrets, it's sooooo cute!!

see the fishy?

One different beach a month - check 1 out of 12

Hickam Airforce Beach

October 7th

We decided to head down to Waikiki Beach to watch the Friday night fireworks that they do every week. On they way, we stopped by the Iolani Palace to take some pictures, and it happened to be across the street from the building they use on Hawaii 5-0.

Happy to be out of the car seat!

 Everyone is looking! And when did Ethan get that tall??

The other one kept wandering....

 King Kamehameha the First

All 3 boys loved their night swim. Since when is sunset 6:12? That seems so early!! Lincoln must have jumped in 100 times, he fell asleep on the way home and we managed to get him to bed without waking up! Woot!

Short, but a good show. Harrison was scared, but liked watching them.

September 30th (Bellows Air Force Beach)

I think Bellows might be the prettiest beach we have gone to. At least in a long while. Bill's company had a picnic out there, and even though we were missing Ethan, the little boys had fun playing in the sand for a few hours. Millie was a great baby too, she slept in her little beach tent pretty much the entire time we were down there.

65 Days Old

Then when we got home, Daddy decided we should go to Chuck E Cheese because they were so good at the beach ( and we owed them from last weekend when the car broke down). Ethan won two jackpots, and Lincoln won one. They had just short of 1,000 tickets. The big prizes? A small bouncy ball, a chuck e cheese figure, 2 plastic lizards & a jelly bracelet. A beach ball was 2,000 tickets!! What the crap.. I ended up buying Ethan cotton candy and he let the littles have the lovely prizes. Such a nice big brother :) Millie liked it too, she was peeking out of the tula to watch the lights. Harrison of course chased the characters around hugging them. He particularly liked the chef tonight.

August 27

I can't believe she's already a month old!

Millie enjoyed her first trip to the beach. We went to Pokai Bay because they offer free stand up paddle board lessons. Ethan & Bill did them ,and though he fell a few times, dropped my camera into the ocean (which miraculously bill found a bit later), and got beached, I hink he did pretty darn good :) He said it was fun, and he would do it again.

31 Days old!

Her bathing suit is a bit big, but oh so cute.