The Pineapple Train

We were invited to go on a Pineapple Train ride out at the Dole Plantation with Ava's little cousins. The ride is about 15-20 minutes long and throughout the ride, we were given a history lesson about the plantation and the pineapples grown there. It is more of a touristy thing, but I had loads of fun!

The Tam Family and Grandma Yomogida (can you believe she is 95 yrs old?!)

Ava doesn't look too excited, but she really did enjoy the ride.

Trying to get Ava and Chris to smile at me.

Finally got one....

And of course we had to have the pineapple ice cream!

Grandma Yomogida decided that her coffee would be better with some pineapple ice cream mixed into it.

Oh and by the way, the pineapple ice cream was delicious!

Thanks for the invite Joy and Jeff!

Explorations of The Ava Bun

It was a really hot day so we decided to go outside and play.

Ava the explorer found a tiny twig...

She discovered that it would be fun to use that twig to dig

Ava had a great time exploring and playing outside,

But then it was time to go back inside.

Ava and the Tam Boys

Every week, Ava and her cousins Zach and Chris get together for a field trip day. So far, we've done days at the park, beach, visited the dolphins at Kahala Hotel, took a bus ride all the way to Moanalua from Kaimuki, and just hung out at Zach and Chris' house to play. Here are some pictures from a day at Ala Moana beach park where we had a picnic.

Lunch time!

Ava and Chris played under this tree together for a long time

Soon Zach joined in the fun

Where ever Ava went, Chris would follow

These two are so silly together.

"Sand CasTles"

We took Ava to one of her favorite places... The BEACH! Recently, she has been into building "sand casTles". Why is the "T" capitalized you ask? Well, Ava pronounces the word castle with the hard T sound instead of keeping the T silent.

First, she fills up her bucket with sand...

Then she picks the perfect casTle spot

Finally, the finished product... it's not really a castle, it's more like piles of sand hehe.

And of course, what would a beach day be without swimming!

Ava's loves and I mean LOVES the water! She always asks us to put on her floaties so she can swim away from us alone. She also asks us to help her find Nemo (The fish from the Disney movie, Finding Nemo) or tells us that Bruce the shark is coming.

We love our little Beach Bum!

Happy 28 to Daniel!

Sunday was Daniel's 28th Birthday! He insisted that he wanted a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Thanks to my very beginner cake making skills, he got his wish... good thing he didn't ask for some fancy cake that I can't make. With inspiration from food network, I decided that I could take on the task of making, for the first time in my entire life, a layered cake with homemade frosting! Yes, layered and homemade frosting! Okay... it wasn't that fancy. It was box cake and it only had one layer of filling in the middle, but I have to admit for my first try it came out pretty good! (Keep in mind that I never ever bake! Maybe once a year if you're lucky!)

So Happy Birthday to an amazing Husband and Daddy! We love you!

Our Very First Blog! -Laundry Folding Fun!!!

So I signed up to blog maybe about a year ago, but I never got around to actually posting something... so today I decided to finally start. As I was folding a batch of clean laundry this afternoon, Ava decided to help me! Horay!!! (I've been waiting for this blessed day! haha) She grabbed a little towel and worked so hard on folding it. To my surprise, it was actually folded really nice and neat! She was so proud of it, she ran to get her toy camera and take pictures of her masterpiece.

Then she decided that she wanted to fold it again....

and flatten/smooth it out

She was so proud of her accomplishment!

I'm so proud of my little girl!

Pretty soon Mommy will teach you to do all the laundry by yourself! (So I won't have to do it for you hehe)