Red Eye

Kai and I took the direct red eye to Newark.  It is a 10 hour flight and we were fortunate to have an empty seat next to us.  Kai slept for all but an hour of the flight.  He made friends with all the children while waiting to take off.  Everyone was so helpful to us.

Our flight back was a full flight and 11 hours long.  Thankfully we sat amongst 40 Chinese students who had taken a seminar a Harvard business school and they loved Kai.  All of them.  After the flight attendant held Kai they were all ready for their turn.  Kai played with their ipads and hit them on the head.  They loved it.  One of them shook his rattle for an hour.  The only bump in the road was when the flight attendant took Kai and then turbulence occurred.  Really bad turbulence.  She did not return with Kai for 20 minutes.  All I could think of was the Jodie Foster movie where they steal her child.  Finally she returned even with the turbulence.  Kai was in good spirits and had pooped.

My dad came and picked us up at the airport and to long island we went.

Thanksgiving

On Kai's first Thanksgiving we walked to the local beach, then ate at the DFAC at Schofield Barracks and shared dessert with our neighbors Benita and Arvil.

6 months of fun

Today Kai turns 6 months old.  We are spending the weekend in Waikiki at the Hale Koa for a Strong Bonds Retreat.  Caspian is at doggie daycare at Tails of Hawaii.  Kai will spend his first day of his 6 month in day care. Kai did really well in the daycare and I was able to go down and feed him whenever.  Several of his friends were in the day care and he was happy to crawl around and play with all the new toys.  The Hilton Hawaiian Village does fireworks every Friday night and accidentally we had front row seats.

Early on the 19th we went to the beach at Waikiki to do Kai's 6th month photo shoot.

Photo Card

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Cooking Lessons

Head Chef

Sweet Potato Casserole, ready for the oven

Just being cute this week

As Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching I  took some time to teach Kai how to make (great) grandma Millie's sweet potato casserole. He was a great supervisor And we were both pleased with the outcome. Kai loves everything with pineapples.  He smiles at the pineapple because he was a pineapple too. Even though we are so far from New York, I will work hard on sharing our traditions with him.  I really wish that I could come home for the holidays, but I am sure one taste of traveling to NY during the holidays with a baby would scar me for traveling for life.  In traveling news, Hawaiian Air has a new nonstop flight from HNL to JFK.  I am excited to not have to land in Jersey but be able to go straight to Long Island.

Nana Package

Reading his new book

Every month Kai receives a package from Long Island from his Nana.  The boxes are packed with toys, books and clothes.  Kai looks forward to getting the packages and seeing what is in them.  The postal employees know us at the post office and call us 82 when we show up to pick up our packages.  Some of his favorite books have arrived this way.

Boys Time

Kai spent the evening alone with his father.  He stayed up until after 9.  Victor did not see the bottle that was in the fridge so he defrosted some milk I had frozen and put it in the sippy cup for Kai.  I had bought a sippy cup for Kai and had been letting him play with when I cooked dinner so that he is familiar with it.  Unbeknownst to Victor, it was Kai's first sippy cup experience and Victor tried to nurse the sippy cup.  Kai's face turned bright red and Victor states the milk was bad.  So he defrosted yet another batch of frozen milk to give him this time using a bottle.  The 4 ounce bottle I left was untouched in the fridge.  I now do not have a back up supply of milk, so I will need to start pumping.

I had a nice time with the ladies and played Bunco.  I arrived home at 10:45 to everyone asleep.