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Monday, March 23, 2015

hilo botanical garden

coen, grandma and i spent a morning walking thru the hilo botanical garden. i had never been to the garden before and i was super impressed by it. it is really so beautiful. coen packed along a bag with science books and some note paper. he said he was going to do research while we were there. so it goes as the son of a scientist. the plants and flowers are breath taking and it walks you right down to the ocean. amazing! i am so glad we went, and i will definitely go back.
 























grandma is paradise

holy moly did we get lucky. we just spent 10 days with MY grandma. she flew into kona on a monday night, meaning a whirlwind trip over the saddle road to pick her up and get back home. the kids were just over the moon excited for her to arrive. well, coen was. to be honest i don't think marin understood who we were picking up till the moment she saw her. but they became fast friends, and everyone was happy. 

 
coen had to go to school the first week of her visit. so we kept grams a home and did nothing fun while he was gone. it just wouldn't be fair to go out on the town with him. um, wrong. but he has no idea. day one, we walked through the famers market and had a lovely lunch downtown.


 
reading books.
 
watching cat videos on youtube. people, this is what our life is coming to.

visiting aunty mae's fam.
 
the zoo! whoo hoo!




 
after coen's little ninja class we walked down to the candy store. on the walk back we were looking for a place to sit and snack on our treats. coen got fed up with all the walking and plopped down on the sidewalk and insisted that we sit right here. in front of a boarded up building. so we did.
 
cosmic bowling! wild.




 
breakfast and a tiny show on the kindle. how cozy.

marin maisie update

since my blogging has suffered the past few months i thought i would update a bit on each kid. they are so fun, and so different. it is paralyzing how you love them so much but so differently. marin is hilarious. like a cartoon character of sorts. she is so independent and determined. she wants to do anything and everything by herself, but yet she still loves to be held and snuggled. she is so happy. she skips and sings and dances everywhere. it is like her heart is over flowing with joy and she just can't help it. she is tough. so so so tough. nothing gets her down, and she always bounces up and announces, "i OK!" and then keeps going. we adore her quirky silly sweet girly self.
 
 
little mama. always loving on and caring for her baby. 
 

i had this crazy idea that her eye was a little bit lazy. no one agreed with me, but i took her in for a check up anyway. i was wrong, her eyes are perfect. she took her doc mcstuffins kit with her and had the whole office laughing at her willingness to cooperate. 

she is such a local girl. loves the food and the beach. 

 
she adored christmas. it made me so happy. weeks later i found her outside decorating our dead tree. she also hauls loads of toys out to the living room, piles them up where our tree once was and yells, "it's christmas!"

 she loooooooves animals. aunty mae's goat had babies and marin just about died from the cuteness. but she also gets very sweet about anything small and tiny, even bugs. if she sees something small that resembles a baby version she says,
"oooooooo, a baby. it's looking for it's mama."

she is not afraid of anything. i realize that swinging isn't really scary, but her brother thought it was terrifying. so it counts. 

her hair is ridiculous. it just keeps growing and growing. i feel like i will have to cut it at some point, but i am not ready yet. 
 
if she could go to school right now, she would. she loves getting into coen's classroom. this was her reading to some stuffy friends in his class. it super stresses all the kinders out when she marches in a starts pulling things down.

such a silly sense of humor. i found her like this one day. she thought she was hilarious. also, she was. 
 
probably her biggest claim to fame right now is her desire to pack things up. she is constantly packing up and hauling stuff around. it stresses me out. i have let go of all reason to her toy organization. she will pack up her whole room in a few minutes if left alone. one day she got into my gift bag storage. it was bad news, well for me. she was in heaven. packing, packing, packing. she got a goody bag from the dentist....hauled it around for a week. it is really no joke.


i love having a girl. i mean, i just love her. i don't think gender has much to do with it. but i do love painting her nails, and doing her hair and dressing her cute. i love that she is naturally so gentle and nurturing to her babies. i love that she wants to be like me. i hope that i can show her and teach her all she needs to know about this world. as odd as it sounds, i want to eat her. she is just delicious! 




 
she adores her brother. listening to them play is the best sound in the world. of course they both know how to make the other scream and cry, too. but it is so sweet to see them become friends. i think i love it the most because i have a big brother, and i love him. so i am happy for her that she has that too. miss m, we just love you!