-BIRTHDAY PIC'S OF LIL' DANNY-

LIL' DANNY HAD A BLAST CELEBRATING HIS 6TH BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR WITH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDS!!

*OUR LOVELY ANIMAL FREINDS*

At night here you can always count on the geckos to be hanging around the outside house walls. Some even are sneeky & get inside the house but they are not dangerous & eat spiders they find.

As for the big toads they are always hanging or should I say hopping around in the grass. We have even seen some bigger than the ones in the pictures. These ones decided to chill out in the boys swimming pool.

Lil' Danny is always tryin to or askin us to catch a gecko or a toad so he can keep it as a pet because he thinks they are so cool & neat. Guess these animals are just another bonus to us living in wonderful Hawaii!!

-PIC'S OF OUR CAR-

We are so blessed & grateful to have a vehicle. It may not be a nice fancy bran new '08-'09 car but if we have learned anything from our past mistakes & parents it is "to pay cash for anything so you avoid debt". We love not having a car payment & being able to say we "own" our car is so wonderful. Plus it is so nice to not have a huge insurance bill to pay every month because our car is a '92 & we own it so we only need half coverage. It may not be a bran new car but it is in good condition, runs great, we own it & it has blessed our family so much.

*ROBERT BEING SILLY*

Robert always finds anything so entertaining to play with!!

-THE LATEST FAM NEWS FOR YOU-

We'll as you all probably know we are expecting baby #3. The due date is set for February 9th. Of course give or take some days if the baby comes early or late. We all are very excited to welcome another addition to our family. We don't really care about what we are having just as long as the baby is healthy & has all ten fingers & toes. But I-Mindy am secretly hoping for a girl. I really miss all the things from my childhood. Like playing barbies , my little pony's & cabbage patch dolls with my sister. Danny says if he sees Lil' Danny or Robert playing with barbies he will go crazy nuts. So you can see why I secretly want a girl but will ultimately be grateful with what ever we get blessed with. And having to playing batman, lego's & army men if our 3rd child is a boy wouldn't be all that bad. Believe it or not you actually start to enjoy those things after the 2nd boy has arrived. We now have our car officially licensed & registered. WOOHOO!!! No more having to pay for taxi's to get places & Danny is able to drive to work & back without having to worry about rides. Our car is a big blessing for us & our family.

As you know pregnancy wise my blood sugar level came back the first time high at 208 & came back 231 the second time. My doctor has me on medication that should help lower my blood sugar level & prevent me from getting gestational diabetes or having more problems than needed. I had to cut out all sodas & sugary drinks & now have to watch what I eat to avoid consuming lots of food containing sugar. Basically I have to eat like I am a diabetic but without all the pills and test meters being involved. We are hoping that the medication will do it's job but who knows. My blood pressure is slightly elevated & I am having trouble gaining the weight I'm supposed to. It is just hard for me to get used to needing to eating 6 small meals a day & having to increase my calorie intake by about 300 but I am working on that. Other than that I am doing good & feel blessed that my problems aren't allot worse than they are:)

Danny had his surgery on the 13th of August & all went we'll with that. We were very blessed that his condition wasn't something life threatening. He has been in allot of pain since the surgery but that is to be expected with any surgery. The doctor did give him some med's to help with the pain & they seem to be doing there job so far. He got a week off from work to recuperate & rest up then he will be on what's called "profile" at work for 30 days which means he can't do any heavy lifting or do morning p.t exercises like push ups or sit ups. The only thing he will be able to do at work is walk. But what ever he needs to do to become fully healed up, he says he will do.

Lil' Danny is in love with 1st grade & also getting in trouble. He has a homework paper that has mon-fri on it & will list what he has for homework to do each day & on the other side it has the same thing but it's not for homework, it's for school behavior & progress. The teacher will write notes or concerns about lil' Danny's progress or things she feels he needs to work on. And also she puts a check & writes what Lil' Danny did that day to get in trouble. School has been in for 2 weeks & he has gotten already 5 checks from the teacher. 2 of the checks were on the same day.
He got checks because he was talking during a test, & he was playing in the boys bathroom & the biggest of all that gets him checks is not listening & following directions/instructions. We hope that this doesn't continue & that he is just still adjusting & getting used to a new teacher & new classroom kids & all. He does have more homework now. He went from 1 page homework in kindergarten to 2-3 pages of homework in 1st grade which he doesn't like but it needs to be done. He also loves to have school breakfast & lunch which makes us very happy:)

Robert is getting chunkier by the minute. He loves to open up the fridge & pull out all types of food. His favorite is cheese. He is always handing us string cheese to open & can't get enough of it. One day I-Mindy found Robert in the kitchen eatin a block of velveta cheese & saying mmm, mmm, mmm. Also he will pull out juice boxes or yoohoo's all the time. It's like he can't get enough of them. We bought a couple child safety proof lock things that you can put on your fridge or oven to keep kids out but with Robert none of them worked. We have a feeling he will be very smart in school. He has learned where his eyes are & points to them saying "eye" & when you ask him where his nose is he instead of pointing to it he puts his finger up it, says "no" & laughs. We have a hard time keeping a straight face & telling Robert "no that's gross".

But it's like we say, "Because of Robert & Lil' Danny we can always count on our good old
"Family Life N Hawaii"
to always be full of love & laughter":0

~OUR LITTTLE HELPER~

How great it is to have a helper around the house. Our chunky monkey Robert who isn't even 2 yet loves to help unload dishes from the dishwasher. Robert is also a good helper at putting laundry in the dryer, loves to help fold laundry by handing clothes to us out of the laundry basket & best of all... he throws away his own diapers in the garbage. HURRAY!!! for mommy's little helper. It's little things like this that make us love our chunky monkey even more :)

*THE 1st DAY OF SCHOOL*

HURRAY!! The 1st day of school did arrive on the 31st of July. It was sad to see Lil' Danny go to 1st grade because it meant our son was growing up but we were so happy for him as well to have finished kindergarten & moving on to the next grade level. He cried when I-Mindy told him that we needed to look at new backpacks while school shopping. He is so in love with his star wars backpack that he had from kindergarten & just didn't want to give it up for a new one. In a way it was a good thing because it was still in good condition & it saved us some $$$ from having to buy a new one.

His new 1st grade teachers name is Mrs. Fukagawa. Now how you pronounce we aren't even sure & if you ask Lil' Danny what his teachers name is he says something not even close to her actual name. But it is so funny to hear him try to say it. We are grateful & love the fact that there is a bus that comes to pick up Lil' Danny. When I-Mindy see the bus pull up it reminds me of the story my dad would tell from his childhood about how it could be a whiteout blizzard of falling snow outside & yet the bus driver was always there to pick him up no matter what. Now we here in Hawaii don't have to worry about the blizzard of snow preventing the bus from picking up kids but when there is strong winds or its raining so bad that roads are becoming flooded then you won't see a bus driver at all. I know it is so weird huh, that they close schools here for stuff like that. But what can we say...that's Hawaii for you!!