1 + 1= 2

Ok so another 2 more days and it will be a month since Maile turned 2! Pathetic I know. She is an amazing little girl. I get teary eyed every time I think that she could possible not be in my life. Some of you know that she was not at all planned. In fact I was more than convinced that I couldn't handle anymore children. After a hard trial I had come to the realization that Heavenly Father really wanted us to have her. I am so blessed to have her continually bless my life. Oh how I so forgotten how cute 2 yr olds are. Some of the things she does and says HI-LAR-IOUS!
No she didn't get glasses but yes this is what she would look like if she did. She put the glasses at the tip of her nose (what nose she has) and said "Grandma Hansen"-that is how my mom wears her glasses. She now thinks that Aubree's glasses are hers-not a good thing.
We kept on asking her what she wanted for her birthday and all she wanted was "BOOTS" and "BOOKS" Well boots and books is what she got and more of course.

Hard to tell but Maile has her 2 fingers showing that she is 2!-one on each hand!!! It is so cute :) She is also my lil parrot. Her favorite things to repeat one of Lou Gehrig speeches...Today... today...is the greatest day....is the greatest day....! It is pretty comical. My favorite is "tot-ta-looo" instead of bye bye and "peace out"(she kisses her 2 fingers and does peace) and "shaka bra"(still working on the sign) and "bounce"(she evens bounces her head thanks to my brother-in-law). Her absolute favorite things is puzzles and books. She has named all of her babbies "baby Kyson" after a cousin that she has only see pictures of. I really could go on and on but I won't!

As many of you know we don't "do cakes" unless they(my kiddos) request it. Maile hates cake she will eat the frosting and say all done and when I ask her to finish she tells me "no likey"! So we did brownies and ice cream cones.

With the kiddos gone to school I spend most of my day with her. She is the most polite and kind 2 yr old I know-constantly saying "thank you", "excuse me", and "sorry" for things she never even did. She is so precious and just like her middle name she does strive for righteousness. I am one lucky mom!

It's Tradition

I am so behind on blogging. So this week is catch up week :)
It's tradition to spent Christmas Eve at Dave's parents house. Here are all my nieces and nephews with my kiddos.

It's tradition to get Christmas Jammies on Christmas Eve. In fact the all kids asked,"Can we open our jammies?"

It's tradition to have matching jammies (or at least coordinating jammies) however I was working SO much that I didn't get around to even looking for jammies till a few days before Christmas. I struggled even finding jammies at all!!!! It's tradition to read Christmas stories and read the actually Christmas story together! This year we added the Hawaiian Night Before Christmas!
It's tradition to play musical chimes. One year my wonderful husband made 15 set to give everyone. I must say that they have gotten pretty good. Here is a video of Jingle Bells

It's tradition for the girls to stay up all hours of the night wrapping presents and playing santa. This year was the record till 3 o'clock in the morning. Needless to say there is a rule-the kids can NOT wake up before 6 am!

I love this picture that Dave took of my sister-in-law....my mother-in-law passed out in the background!

It's tradition for the boys to stay up with the girls and play with the kids toys and to play video games. It gets pretty loud and out-of-hand. In fact this year the old girls kept on texting us to keep it down. I am surprised that the kids even get any sleep!

Unfortunately some of our traditions will stop next year. We will not be spending the night there. It's kind of a bittersweet. Kind of excited to have Christmas at our house...by ourselves. We have only had one Christmas at home since the Malulani was born!

We had a wonderful Christmas-the kids got spoiled (not by us) Dave and I stick to 3 gifts usually consists of an outfit, a game, and something they asked for. Well and their santa gift! It's the grandparents that spoiled them rotten!

I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!