He's TWO!!

It's true. This little guy...

On his BIRTH day (November 1, 2007)

smiling in his sleep when he was a couple weeks old...

...is now a TWO year old!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!!

I don't even know where to start to tell you how awesome he is.

You don't have to read it if you don't want. It's mostly for me to remember since I have a horrible memory!! :P

He cracks us up everyday with all the little things he does! He is very independent and likes to do things on his own. Knows what he wants and doesn't want and tells us! "I donwanit! I donwanit!"
He's super smart.
He knows his ABC's and is working on singing the song. He can count to 5, almost 10 (mostly because he knows he's trouble when we start counting and helps us count to 5 as well)
He loves to watch PBS Kids and always asks us to turn to that channel. He loves Super Why, Elmo, and Cars and recognizes a lot of other tv shows and the characters. He sings the Elmo's World theme song...LOUD. He sings the Barney theme song..."I love you, I love me, HUG, KISS" and gives you a great big hug and kiss! It's adorable!
(Yes, he watches way too much TV but he balances it out by running and jumping and playing that I'm not too worried he'll turn into a couch potato!)
He knows his shapes too and draws circles and lines and then wants us to help him write the letters he says and gets mad when we won't do it for him.
He still sucks his thumb even though we've been trying to get him to stop and he knows he's not supposed to.
He loves technology, especially our DS and David's iTouch.
He still loves throwing and playing with any kind of ball, be it a basketball, football, baseball, beachball, you get the idea.
He's really into ROARing and does it really well!
He loves to say hi and wave to everyone he sees and he can totally make your day!
He can also be a really big pain in the neck but you can't stay mad at him for long!
We love this little guy and I'm sure there's more but this is it for now.

Stay tuned for pictures of Halloween!!!

Ice Cake

After one of the Young Women activities, we had some bubble gum flavored ice cake.
Aaron LOVES ice and so of course he would LOVED these ice cakes. He kept asking for more! I think he ended up eating like 2 1/2 of these puppies!

and yes, his shirt is off because I knew he was going to make a mess and I was not going to have a stained shirt. and yes. he did make a mess.

Ward Camp

Our ward had camp over the Fall Break and it was the HOTTEST week EVER! No tradewinds!
On the Thursday, me and Aaron went to Hukilau Beach to go hang out with the Young Women. We saw them learn how to stand up paddle while we played in the sand with our buckets and shovels.
--I would want to learn how to stand up paddle but knowing me, there's no way I could. You're probably thinking, yes you can! But for real, I can't. I don't like deep water mainly for the following reasons: I can't tread water (very well...even though David has tried to teach me), I can't swim very well and I don't like that I can't touch the bottom. silly. I know. Don't you just also love the irony of me living on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? LOL. (PLUS the face that I have balance whatsoever on a skateboard, rollerblades...let alone a surfboard!) --

I love this picture of Aaron playing with his shovel and bucket. He would much rather play in the sand than in the water.

Although I think since he saw all the other kids playing and running into the water that he decided he wanted to go swimming too. Usually he'll yell and scream "NO! I don't wan it!" if we try to convince him to go in.
This time, he started heading toward the water and told me to "C'mon MOOM, sweeming, go the wAHter". He still wanted me to carry him though.

My friend (and YW President) took this picture of us in the water and Aaron decided he wanted his foot in the picture (and in front of my face....see how I have my hand on his foot so you can see me! hehe.)

The water was very refreshing and nice and the sun was shining bright that I got burned!
So burnt that it hurt to have anything on my shoulders. Luckily, the pain went down in a couple days and a couple weeks later, my right shoulder started peeling.
Good times. I was sad when Fall Break was over and I had to go back to work.

The story of the lost Cars DVD

If you follow me on Twitter or read my Facebook statuses, then you'll already know this story but here is the long-er version. :D

One night I got Aaron ready for bed and turned on the TV in our room for him to watch Cars so I can get ready for bed and then the TV told me there was no DVD.
"WHAT?!" No Cars?! Where is the DVD?
I ask Aaron where he put the DVD and he looks at me and goes "Where'd it go?" and looks under the bed. He walks out to the living room and walks around to the TV and turns it on to watch PBS Kids. Obviously not there nor does he care.
I was so upset. I really like this movie. I look under the bed, in the trash, in the couch, and everywhere in between.

Everytime I ask him, he gives me a look like I'm nuts!
I go in the back and search in his bed, his laundry basket...you get the idea. Then I decide I better ask Heavenly Father to help me find the DVD.
Then I "get the idea" to put my fingers in the VCR side of the TV and lo and behold I feel the DVD. That little stinker tried to put the DVD in the VCR. I was so thankful for the answer to my prayers and relieved that the movie was found!
It may seem like such a small and trivial thing to worry about but it wasn't to me. I'm just glad we found out so we can watch more "MahQuEEn and MayDer" and Aaron clapping and cheering when the cars race!

HOOH-RAY!!

Aaron's hair with gel. I tried to make a little mohawk but he kept touching his hair and messing it up.

This picture is of his face when he says "HOOH-RAY!" when he's watching Super Why and the Hip Hip Hooray song comes on and decides to jump/dance on the couch.

I should take a video of him saying it because it is hilarious.

He can get out!

David has been trying to get Aaron to climb out his crib but all Aaron could do was get his leg up and then get stuck and then cry to get out...until last night! (10/6/09)

David had just come home from playing basketball and I had him in his crib and he was whining/crying to get out.

David told him to climb out and he finally succeeded!

This is of course one of many successful climbs after the fact.

He'd climb out and touch his stomach and say "tummy" with a sad look on his face or "leg".

Yeah, I'd expect my stomach or leg to hurt after getting out of that crib. He has yet to climb back in though. That'll be the next thing to work on until we get him his own bed. :P

David's Birthday Part II

Cake/Pie his mom made since we have no oven to make the crust.
Thanks Mom Imi!!
(This is seriously the best pie ever!!)

Singing "Happy Birthday" to the birthday boy...er...man!

Smiling at Aaron "singing"...I think...

Blowing out his candles!

Happy 26th Birthday!!
Hope you had a super great birthday!

Some Random Pregnant Pictures

I'm really not good at the whole documenting me being pregnant (even with Aaron) and have some random pictures here and there. Just thought I should finally put some up for remembrance/record.
Here is a picture of me on Sept 12 (27 1/2 weeks).

We were at a wedding for the students' that were in David's student ward. He went to the Big Island to be at their sealing. The other couple is Bishop Ellis and his wife. (They are so awesome!)

This was on Sept 19th (28 1/2 weeks)...ok so not that much difference from the above picture. Oh well. I don't have that many pregnant pictures anyway.

We had just picked up my brother from the airport and went to Hukilau Beach to meet up with David's cousin, Nephi and his family. They were here visiting and it was great to see them and hang out!
(Aaron was wiping his cheesy, Dorito-y hand on my hair. He wasn't patting me on the head!)

Ping Pong II

David's ward had a Game Room Night last week Friday. It was a lot of fun! We played Ping Pong and Aaron was sitting on the chairs so patiently that after our games, we let him in on the fun!
Aaron figured out how to serve the ball and he totally hit it too!
I just didn't catch it on the video!
This is one of his first attempts.

Below: In the process of serving the ball

I love the face he's making as he tries to hit the ball back to David.

"OH YEAH!" ( like the fist action! Looks like a victory shot!)

Smile plus sticking out his stomach. Why? I have no idea!

Trying it out with two paddles!

He did so much better but then my camera died!
He wanted to play Ping Pong all night and would go up real close to the table to watch the students play and would get mad if we tried to pull him away to do something else!

Different set of wheels

We were in our neighbor's garage for a Young Women activity and Aaron found this little car and headed straight for it. He had a lot of fun turning the steering wheel, honking the horn and (for some odd reason) talking to the side mirror.

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Can you tell from the collage that he was enjoying the car?
Look at his hand in the middle picture! He cracks me up!
He was actually just sitting there since he was kinda stuck in that spot. But once he could get out and drive around, he didn't do so hot going forward but going in reverse, he was the man!
(not like his momma who can't reverse without someone helping!)