Sandbar Day and Hickam Beach

Last week we spent the day at the Kaneohe Sandbar for Memorial Day. The sandbar is a place in the middle of the ocean, only accessible by boat, that at low tide sometimes has a huge island of exposed sand, or its about waist deep, and then with high tide its completely covered by water. When low tide is in and the sand is exposed its a great place for kids.
love inflatable toys!

lol. Lexi in the food stash. thanks to Michelle and Brad for bringing us out in their boat!

on a sunnier day its a gorgeous view. it was still beautiful and warm, though.

little Kylee swimmer.

Michelle and Peyton

Rylee and Kylee. Besties!

look at this beautiful view!

Ah sand eater.

playing in the sand

Lexi chasing her shadow

footprints for Josh and I grabbing sand

eating sand

cool pic

Kylee swimming away from mommy to make friends

my little Pebbles

Kylee and Daddy enjoying the beautiful viewKylee swimming around Daddy

Waikiki Aquarium

A photo they took of us as you walk into the aquarium
our long walk to the aquarium. i bet it was at least a mile. gotta love no parking in hawaii!

thats diamond head in the background

my little babies in their matching outfits

ok. pictures finally back in order. Kylee and Lexi looking at the huge fish tank.

another exhibit

Kylee was mesmorized by this huge tank of jellyfish. perhaps she had fond memories of last summer when her and Grammy got stung?

ha ha i love this one.

wow those fish were huge. and real.

the shark exhibit. yes, that is kylee at the bottom and a real shark in the tank.

i have no idea what this is. but its cool looking, right?

little posers.

kylee could touch it...but she didnt want to

checking out all the coralthe lone seal

look - a Ficus!

checking out the view behind the aquarium

the first video is quick, but Lexi takes a few steps then tries to run from Kylee. Lol this must be why she started walking so early!

The next video is just a cute pic of her walking...she takes so many steps now! Sorry the videos are sideways...camerawoman error.

Sesame Street Show and Toy Story 3

During Memorial weekend the military offered a free Sesame street show at a few of the bases on Hawaii.
So along with our neighbor Michelle, we packed up Kylee, Peyton, Lexi and Rylee to go to the show.

At the door we were greeted with cool (free!) Sesame street toys.

they spin and everything!

our little stander/walker Lexi wanted to wander around

the girls also got cool USO bandanas

awww....best friends!

my little non baby Lexi

the characters dancing on the stage

Lexi and Michelle

the girls dancing :)

after the show Kylee got a picture

A few nights before the Sesame street show, the local Commissary/Post Exchange offered a movie in the parking lot. It was free, and it was Toy Story 3 on the big screen! Josh was sweet enough to hang with Lexi and Peyton so Michelle and I could take the older girls.

Michelle and Rylee

their makeshift bed/couch. lots of snacks, of course

the screen.

besties :)

i love this picture!

and of course, whats a blog post without a picture of the girls playing together (i.e. Kylee torturing her sister)

little matchers!

look closely...you will see Lexi has a little Pebbles style pigtail. my little cutie patooties!

Guess who's walking? She took her first step about 3 weeks ago. Josh didnt believe me, and for the first few days, Lexi only took 1 or 2 steps to me. On the third day, I got this video.

The day after this video, I got on skype with my mom, dad and brother Mike. After a few minutes of talking, Lexi looked at the computer, let go of my hands, and took 8 steps to my mom and Mike. A few hours later we were skyping with Josh's parents, and Lexi again took about 8 steps towards her Grandma. Yay baby Lexi!!!

A video of Kylee and Lexi dancing together at the Sesame street show. So sweet!!!