Update from Aki

Hi folks, it's me Aki. I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I would give you all an update on what I've been up to.


I can scoot backwards now. Sometimes I end up in unusual places.


I am easily entertained by this guy. This is Owen pretending he's seen Kung Fu Panda, which he has not. This makes me laugh.

And most importantly, mommy has started feeding me real food! With a spoon!


My first bite of real food


I'm okay with it


Really, I am


Got milk? rice cereal mixed with breastmilk?


Oh, forget the cereal. I want something solid! This finger will do.

Garden in the Woods

I've been really into gardens lately. I arrange my comforter into a circle and then tell mommy that I'm sitting in my garden. Mommy and daddy aren't allowed to touch my garden or I might squash the bunnies.

So to celebrate my interest in gardens, mommy and daddy took me to the Garden in the Woods last weekend. There was some kind of big bug walk they wanted to take me on.

The bugs were big!


Giant Ladybug


Giant Praying Mantis (about to eat some other little boy)


Looking at a real bumblebee

They had neat plants and flowers too...


Peppermint twist candy flower


The pink version of daddy's state flower growing in Massachusetts (with turtles sitting at its bottom)


My state flower growing in Massachusetts

Afterwards we went to the Lego Store.


My first time playing with little Legos


You could buy a little Lego man. $3 per little dude!

I got a little Lego bulldozer to start my collection. I think maybe I need some bigger ones though because it keeps falling apart.

Exersaucer is Back

This week mommy took out my old friend, Exersaucer. But it wasn't for me, it was for Aki...


I am eying the Exersaucer. Aki is eying you.


I am in the Exersaucer


Ah... fond memories. Me at Aki's age.

Outside My Window

Is it fall already?
Originally uploaded by Mikenan1

The weather is still warm but this tree outside my window is getting ready for the winter already!

Blueberry Picking

Last weekend we went to go blueberry picking. This turns out to be much easier for the grownups than strawberry picking since you don't have to bend down so much. It wasn't too different to me... Here are some pictures from our adventure.


Look at our loot


Aki checking out her new forward-facing view of the world


Giddy up blueberry horsie

Back in Boston

Honolulu Zoo Music
Originally uploaded by Mikenan1

A couple of days ago we flew on a big airplane over the sea all night long until we got to another airplane and then arrived back in Boston. As soon as we got on the airplane, I said, "I want to go home!" I meant back to Hawaii. Also, "I want my guitar!" which meant my ukulele, which of course, was back home.

So now we're back in Boston, and I stay up super late with mommy and daddy because I don't feel tired. Aki is sleeping on a regular schedule, which makes life fun for mommy and daddy with two different sleep schedules, mine and hers.

We had an awesome last week in Hawaii. I don't have the energy to describe it all, but there are some pictures if you click on the pictures thing on the right. Hopefully once daddy gets over his wanting to sleep all the time, I can do more blogging. I hope we get to go back to Hawaii soon!

The Rest of Mommy's Family's Visit

By the time we woke up on Wednesday, daddy had gone to the airport to go to a place called Moloka'i.

Ah Gu took Ah Mah and Ah Gong hiking up the mountain (!) and we went to work out by the beach.


Ah Mah and Ah Gong on Diamond Head

For dinner we went out to a special restaurant called Roy's. I had the juice.


And I enjoyed the view


Ah Mah teasing Aki with grown-up food

On Thursday we went for a long drive to the North Shore. On the way we stopped to play with pineapples and have some pineapple juice. Daddy says that when he was growing up there was pineapples as far as the eye could see and burning clouds of caramel smoke from sugar cane, but now there's only this pineapple museum. Eh, it was fun anyway.


Even as a pineapple, I love my ukulele


There was a pineapple train


For pulling us pineapples

After we left the plantantion, we went even further up. We had shave ice at Matsumoto's Grocery Store, if only to compare it to Waiola's. I drank the juice.

Then we got to this island theme park, the Polynesian Cultural Center.


They have fishies to feed here


And fishies to fish too!


Hawaiian chiefs of olden days


Three amigos warriors

That was a long day so everyone just collapsed at home after Chinese food from Lung Fung.

On Friday, daddy played hooky. Hooky from us that is! He took Ah Gu hiking up in the mountains.


The hike they went on


Koolau crest


Ah Gu wading in the pool at the end

Looked like fun. Maybe next time I go?

Later on Friday we went for a party at Sea Life Park. We got there early so we had to wait for the doors to open.


Aki loves waiting!


Finally we got in


Gizmo is a baby sea turtle. He looks fake but he's real!


Ah Gu getting in the spirit


I liked the dolphin show

Then it was time to eat. And watch dancing. But really, it was time to eat. Daddy led the way with two plates of the yummy Hawaiian food. I had some fried noodles, rainbow jello and juice. Hey, it was late.


Polynesian dancers


Ooh, I almost went to sleep before this guy came out

On Saturday we woke up extra early to go to the Farmer's Market at KCC. Grandma likes to get there before it opens at 7:30.


Mommy fueling up for the day with the special high-energy loco moco. Looks good!

Then it was on to the Windward side. We saw lots of plants and flowers at the Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens. I mean, Ah Mah and Ah Gong did, since me and Aki were asleep.

We woke up in time to get to this place, the Byodo-In temple at the Valley of the Temples.


Buddha sitting outside


We fed the fishies here too. These ones were bigger. Must be the huge bag of food you get for your $1.


Daddy helped me ring the bell

In the evening, Aunty Marlene, Grandma and Kung Kung came over to have dinner.


We put them to work wrapping up plastic mesh to make into dish scrubbers. Really.


I wanted a mesh t-shirt, but this was the best we could do


So instead of the mesh t-shirt, I went outside to play bubbles

Today Ah Mah and Ah Gong had to go back to California. I was sad to see them go...


Hanging in the back yard before they left

Ah Gong stuck around a little longer, if only to get a little more sunburned.


Eating plate lunches at the beach with Uncle Jeff


Most importantly, we got some shave ice at Waiola's! And I drank the juice.

We had a great time with Ah Mah, Ah Gong, and Ah Gu. Next time, maybe they can stay for two weeks? And can I have some juice?