Entertainment Taba Style

We regularly have dinner on Monday nights at Wes's sister folks house. This past Monday she had a friend from college visiting that knew Wes's cousin, Matt, as well, so they joined us at our dinner. Its always a riot to see the kids playing out in the yard together and the games they can create using swings, a slide and a trampoline, but what was even funnier are the things that can happen when there is a box of dress up clothes lying around...

So Kaytin and Aliyah are the only two girls that live on the compound full of boys. Somehow their inner girl has emerged and princess dresses are high fashion. They were too cute.And we have the flapper, princesses x two, batman, and a pirate. (aka anna, aliyah, kaytin, hans, and cole) It was quite a show. I think Cole tried the Batman costume first, but found it to be a tad snug. :)

Just so Caleb doesn't feel left out, here he is...

I swear he was smiling two seconds before the shutter snapped. He's now four months old and weighs 16 pounds. Holy smokes!

Distractions

Oops...looks like I have been neglecting this for awhile. I blame facebook. I know I mentioned before that I'm completely addicted to social networking sites and now that I've reconnected with a bunch of friends, I seem to be constantly on and catching up and laughing and everything else. So here's a sorry to all two of my readers. hahaha. You know I read somewhere that to really be a blogger you're supposed to write something everyday. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.

Anyway, we participated in our first craft fair last Saturday selling Wes's gyotaku artwork. The fair was at the local elementary school and we sold two prints! Yahoo. Gave out a bunch of business cards, as well, which has also proved fruitful seeing as Wes did a print last night for someone who called after picking up his card on Saturday. We're planning to do another fair before the end of the year that will hopefully provide us a little extra Christmas money.

Faithful blog stalkers will remember that last year we spent Thanksgiving on Oahu which we'll be doing again this year. :) Here's hoping that I'll be back with another entertaining monkey story...and pictures to go with it!

Halloween's Done...On To Thanksgiving!

So I wouldn't be an official mommy blogger unless I posted Halloween pictures and here they are....

Careful followers of this here blog will remember that a few posts back I mentioned that Kaytin was going to be Tinkerbell for Halloween. Well, for some reason, in my sleep-deprived haze, I never tried the costume on her once we got it in the mail. Around rolls Halloween morning and I think to myself, hmm...maybe we should open that costume up and see how it looks. Much to my chagrin, it was SUPER small!! It fit, but barely covered up her booty and she kept saying, "mommy, its hurting my tummy, its soo itchy!" Woops! While my mind raced with panic thinking I'd have to run to Lihue and scavenge through whatever was left to find my poor baby girl a costume for that very same evening, a light bulb flashed and I remebered that she had recently come into a huge bag of dress up dresses from her cousin, Anna, who just so loves to be a princess. Found the above which worked like a charm and she still got to wear her Tink wings. (which is the only thing she wanted in the first place.) Phew...crisis averted.

Wes, the master costume creator himself...who has dressed as a kissing booth and Vili the Warrior in the past...created this:

All of the younger kids kept saying, "Cool, Uncle Wes, you're Bumblebee from the Transformers, right?" And he'd be like, "Um NO." For those not in the know, he's that thing from Aliens that Sigourney Weaver used to fight the aliens. (Does that mean he's dressed as Sigourney?) I believe its called a power loader or something to that effect. It was quite the contraption and all made out of the styrofoam stuff that protects your computer while its being shipped to you. Pretty crazy. After Halloween I'm always left in awe of my husband, who can make costumes himself spending less than $10. What a guy.

It took me forever to decide what I wanted to be and finally came up with this:

Ugly Betty. :) And I'm holding the cutest little ninja in the world, Caleb. So fun. So fun. We had a great evening. Kaytin was super excited to go trick or treating and then was over it after just like 6 houses. (haha) Now I'm off to dream up costumes for next year....