Mele Kalikimaka

Christmas was another beautiful day in paradise.  Kai awoke to many spoils from Santa.  He loved his basketball hoop and his bike from pop pop.  I loved watching him open all his gifts.  It took most of the morning.  The neighbor boys stopped by and so did Kai’s babysitter and Kai was still opening presents.

December Beach Time

Kai loves the beach.  We spend lots of time there because I love it too.  We ride our bike or sometimes drive the Prius so we can bring Caspi.

Love his little feet

Buried in the sand

Christmas Lights and Parade

Kai loves Christmas lights this year.  Thankfully, many of our neighbors have decked thier houses with lots of lights.  Every night Kai loves to look at the lights.  He calls snowman "syballs" and immediately asks for them in the evening.  Kai loves all the houses and syas " pretty, ohhh, ahh and whoa".  My favorite house has their lights flashing to Christmas music.  Our nightly walk has extended to see all the good lights.

Kai went to the Haleiwa Christmas Parade.  First we stopped at the St Michael’s craft fair and ate some delicious local thai food.  We also bought some chocolate covered pretzels.  Kai had fun playing in the rocks with his friends.  Then we went to the parade.  We had a great location on the grass near Haleiwa Cafe.  Kai, Olive and Mckenzie loved watching the parade.  There were lots of horses and lighted up trucks.  Our pockets were overflowing with candy by the end of the night.  Kai fell fast asleep on the car ride home.

Haleiwa Christmas Parade

The annual Christmas Parade through Haleiwa was on a Friday night.  Before Kai headed to the parade with his friends, Mckenzie and Olive, we all went to the St Michael's craft fair.  There was a large variety of food for sale so we ended up eating some food while shopping.  Kai had a blast running around and playing in the rocks with Mckenzie.  After we ate, we headed over to Haleiwa to secure a good location for the parade.  We were able to find plenty of room in a nice grassy area.  Kai loved the parades and all the lights.  He was given lots of candy.  The parade was exhausting and Kai fell fast asleep on the quick drive home.

Christmas Tree Farm

We went to Helamano Farms in beautiful Wahiawa to cut down our Christmas tree.  We walked through the tree forest and were able to find the perfect one.  Kai liked watching the man cut down the tree.  An interesting fact about the Hawaiian pines is that they regrew from the stump after they are cut down.  We had had dinner at Killer Tacos and then drove to see Christmas lights before setting the tree up.
Kai enjoyed redecorating the tree everyday.

Delay in Blogging

I have run out of free space for photos.  I am printing up the blog and then will be deleting entries to allow for more room.  I should be back up and running by the middle of December and apologize for the delay.
Erika