She turned seven months two weeks ago!

I'm really behind on this post. I'm trying to keep everything updated so when I print this to a book it's in there. As you can see from the picture she's growing really well! Right before she turned seven months a top tooth broke through and just after that the other three came. They're all kind of half there so she's looking pretty cute. As you can see in the picture she pushes her tongue forward all the time! She just crawls around like that. It's not sticking out all the way. I think she's feeling her top teeth but who really knows.
I don't know if you can tell but there's a little divet in the tip of her tongue. It's because the skin under her tongue is shorter than most people's so it makes a heart shape. It was a little problem for nursing when she was new but it's cute now! Isabelle is also starting to try and free stand. In the past two days she's done it four times, and smacked her head three(one was on the bed). She's also been crawling into the bedroom, onto the mat Sio and Aisea sleep on, and laughing to herself? I don't get it but she thinks it's funny!

My little skateboarder

Alekisio has been wanting a skateboard for an extremely long time. He's always into sports that he's not ready for yet. I'm the one who realizes he can wait at least a few more months until christmas. Aisea is so excited because Alekisio wants to do these things that he wants to run out right away and buy whatever Sio needs. I think alot of it is because Aisea is athletic and would have loved to skateboard, surf, BMX, dirtbike....you get it, but because he grew up poor in tonga he couldn't. So it was no surprise that Saturday they went to walmart for a frozen pizza and came home with a spiderman skateboard. Aisea was leaving monday morning for the Big Island(I'll post that later) so sunday night we went to the park to let Sio try it out. We do have pads, but only found one elbow and one knee, so they were useless. He lived. The poor kid has a huge disadvantage since neither of us can skateboard! Here are some pics and videos. Isabelle wouldn't take her eyes off of him. She thinks everything he does is great!

This is him being sad that he keeps falling.

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Sometimes recently Aisea was coming home around 2:30 while Alekisio was sleeping. Isabelle won't rest until he's holding her so as soon as he gets home he takes off his sweaty shirt and plays with her for a minute before his shower. If he takes his shower first she's been crying. She laughs when we play but with daddy it sounds like she's going to start crying she laughs so hard.

Picture tag

I was tagged and my instructions were to go to my picture files and choose the fourth picture from the fourth file. Of all the pictures I have at the beach this is the one that was there. It's one of the pictures I take every month on the 10th to chronicle how she's growing her first year. She used to do that with her lip all the time. I don't really know who to tag but it's kind of fun so if you haven't done it and you're reading this you've been tagged.

Pele pulu

I made tongan food the other night! I've made it before but usually Aisea is around so I can ask if I layered enough leaves or put enough coconut milk. The other night I wanted to surprise him and do it myself. His auntie had given us some pele leaves because I mentioned they were the kind I like and she had some. The next day I went to costco and got some corned beef and I was ready.

I'll give you a little info about tongan food. The basic food that they eat is lu which are taro leaves. They boil meat, usually lamb or chicken, and then add coconut milk and taro leaves. They call this lu sipi(lamb), or lu followed by the word for whatever meat is in there. The way I like lu is when you lay the leaves out on foil, put the meat in the middle with some onions, and then gather up foil and pour coconut milk in the middle, then you seal it up and boil the packages in a pot or bake them with water in a pan in the oven. Lu pulu is the only kind I really like or pele pulu which is what I made with the pele leaves. This is before

this is after
The picture of the after doesn't look that appetizing but that's because of the lighting. The white stuff in there is the coconut milk fat I believe. I'm sort of picky but this really is good. After we ate I said, "I did good didn't I honey?" To which he replied, "No you did great!" I was really proud!

Alekisio's new ties

Alekisio has wanted to wear a tie like daddy since he was about 1 1/2. I mentioned that to a friend at church so she brought some of their's for him to try. He loved it and was really excited to look like daddy. Of course he's got his own hawaii influenced style with shorts and slippers(flip flops), and of course his untucked shirt. We'll be working on the ensemble but he's only three so we've got time.

Mmmmm chicken nugget!

Last night Alekisio had a parent orientation at his school. Aisea is on another island working so I took both kids and we grabbed McDonald's afterward. I chose the lazy way out because as you can see behind Isabelle, the house is crazy at the moment. Those are towels that need to be folded and their toys are always on the floor. Anyway I put the kid's meal far from Isabelle and ran to turn Sio's movie on. When I ran back in that's what I found. She had run right over there, grabbed a nugget out, and had already gnawed off some breading. She was not happy when I took it away. The other day I was putting food in my mouth and she lunged at my mouth with her mouth wide open. Surprisingly she's been refusing her actual food until she's downright starving. Last night she also started humming while she strummed her lips with her fingers. So I started doing it for her and she thinks it's really funny.