Katelyn turns 3!

I can't believe Katelyn is three. Even typing the title for this post I had to remind myself that she isn't two, but three... already. All she wanted for her cake this year was a smiley face cake. Easy enough, even I can handle that. We made it a smiley face party. We had smiley face pancake men for breakfast. We had smiley face pizzas for dinner. Everyone got to make their own pizza face. We even printed an ehow article on how to throw pizza dough and tried our hand at that. We also made our plates into smiley faces. After dinner we had cake and opened presents. What a loved little girl. She was so excited to open all of her presents. Kyleigh was so excited to get her a gift this year. She got her a horse coloring book, wrapped it in two layers of wrapping paper with about a whole roll of tape and helped Katelyn open it. We got her a dance cam, so she can dance in front of the TV and watch herself while she is dancing. For quite awhile now she has claimed "I dot dis for my birday," every time she plays with any toy. Now she can actually say that about all kinds of fun things.
Happy Birthday Katelyn. We love you!

Why even buy toys when all you need is a mattress propped up in the hall. It's a climbing gym, secret hideout, and place for toy storage all wrapped up in one.

Yesterday we were driving home from the beach and Kyleigh was reading words along the drive. She came across Kukuiula and asked what it meant in English and how you would say that in Spanish. She then decided to try her hand at combining a word in English and Spanish. She chose the words hola and hello. From the back we here her say... O hell. It took us a second then we both started busting up laughing.

We tried our hand at homeade pretzels...



We measured,



and concentrated,



and one of us wanted to make a boat instead of a pretzel.



They turned out good and we ate them at the lagoon with Daddy for lunch.

We have said good-bye to our Princeville house and are official residents of Kalaheo again. I promised Kyleigh we would have a welcome back play date when we returned. The timing coincided with the end of our study of the 6 be's. We decided to make it a 6 be's party. We made sand man bee's...



and bee cupcakes. The girls also had plenty of time to play.





Kyleigh didn't think it lasted long enough and made me promise that her next playdate could be ATLEAST three hours.

Movie night

Yesterday Rusty got to come home from work early. It was windy and rainy so we spent the afternoon reading books, playing games, making cookies, and having a movie night (we watched the original Benji).





Kyleigh told Rusty it was the best day ever.

I know, Katelyn should be entered in a contest for the best rambo mullet.

Yesterday the girls were playing PBS kids on the computer. Katelyn didn't find it too exciting.