Tairawhiti 2 months

Weight: 15 pounds 8 ounces

Length: 25 inches

Mommy weight: 147.4 pounds

Hali'a 21 Months

Weight: 26 pounds
I have been really horrible keeping up with her posts, but here is the latest from her Early Headstart Program.

Hali'a is beginning to:

• accept redirection from adults' respond appropriately to others' expressions of wants; to move purposefully from place to pace with control; to use refined wrist and finger movements; to grip drawing and writing tools with whole hand but may use whole arm movements to make marks; initiate and attend to brief conversations; use appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts when communicating; practice an activity many times until successful; match similar objects; imitate actions of others during play; use real objects as props; sing songs and recite rhymes and refrains with repeating initial sounds; orient book correctly; turns pages from front of the book to the back; recognizes familiar books by their covers; make simple comparisons between two objects.

Hali'a:

• Seeks to do things for herself. Uses trusted adult as a secure base from which to explore the world.  Reacts to others' emotional expressions.  Expresses feelings during a conflict. Experiments with different ways to balancing. Identifies familiar people, animals, and objects when prompted. Follows simple requests not accompanied by gestures. Names familiar people, animals, and objects. Uses some words and word-like sounds and is understood by most familiar people. Reacts to a problem; seeks to achieve a specific goal. Recognizes people, objects, and animals in pictures or photographs. Joins in rhyming songs and games. Scribbles or makes marks. Verbally counts (not always in the correct order). Demonstrates understanding of the concepts of one, two, and more.  Follows simple directions related to position (in, on, under, up, down).  Matches two identical shapes.

October

• 1st (Wednesday) Papa's here! He's heading to Marshall Islands for work, so we get to spend a few weeks with him. The girls have been so excited.
• 2nd (Thursday) At our weekly play dates, Tairawhiti and I had our first day back in the water!!! He loved it. Totally taking after all 3 of his names, Tarawhiti Ocean Kalaniuli! Went to RS Activity
• 3rd (Friday) Signed for our new house. Received our key and started moving in! We feel like the riches poor family living here at our beach front property.
• 4th-5th (Saturday) Moved the rest of our house. Watched General Conference! 
• 5th (Sunday) Took Papa to airport hotel to fly out to Marshall Islands
• 6th (Monday) Officially check out of our place in Hau'ula. Mailed in Food Stamp renewal application. Finally named our son!
• 8th (Wednesday) Received my last UH paycheck.
• 10th (Friday) Papa came back from the islands to spend a week with us.
• 11th (Saturday) Papa flew to Big Island for the day to see grandpa Calles.  We hung out with the Peaua's at tutu's house.
• 12th (Sunday) Tairawhiti was blessed in our Laie 2nd Ward by daddy. Those in the blessing were: Papa, Uncle Hyran, Martin, Jermaine Kaka, Moa, and Bishop Bybee.
• 14th (Tuesday) I went to Nia Sidal's baby shower.
• 17th (Friday) Papa left for NZ. It was truly a blessing for us to have Papa here and spend time with us. We did much relaxing and hanging out in the mix of studying and school. They girls loved having him here. Hali'a took a little while to warm up to him, but as usual he won her over with lots of fizzy-Root-beer. Nanea took easily to sharing her bed with papa. Was a little taken back by his sleeping mask the first night, but was fine with it. Papa helped watch kids when I needed to go and study. He also accompanied Jason to the beach and absolutely enjoyed the sea breeze outside our door. He was definitely papa and his calming presence was felt with the simple help of being able to pick his brain for knowledge in many different aspects. We all enjoyed getting to read Jason's class book for his assignments as we drove to and from UH. 
• 22nd (Wednesday) Jason signed up for the the Purium 10 day Transformation with Jamie and Chris Blake at their house. 
• 24th (Friday) Jason's Day 1 of the 10 Day Transformation.
• 28th (Tuesday) The girls and I went to our Ward Trunk-or-Treat as Fairies!
• 31st (Friday) Happy Halloween! Nanea had her first Halloween party day at her preschool in Kahuku. Did trick or treating with Peaua's in our Laie 8th ward Boundaries, Moana street.

3rd (Friday) signed our contract with HRI and got our keys to move into our new house 55-435 Kamehameha hwy in laie. Started moving some stuff over to see what our spacing would look like.