One more hawaii picture...

This is from when we went to the Luau--Trevor did enjoy it... he's just holding back his enthusiasm for the camera.

Check out my ride

I picked up a tricycle for Trevor last week and he went for his first ride this weekend. Turns out he can either focus on steering or focus on keeping his feet on the pedals, but not both at the same time. So he decided to forgo the pedaling for now and focus his energy on steering. Probably a good choice.

Christmas in Hawaii

We just got back--here are some highlights. And lots of pictures...

We were very happy to find that Hawaii is indeed warmer than Ridgecrest this time of year--though I have to admit I still had a sweatshirt every now and then (and got made fun of). We made it to the beach a few times--Trevor loved the sand, but could do without the water. The picture of him by the ocean is before he found out that it would touch him, so no screaming at that point. John on the other hand, loved the water and spent quite a bit of time boogie boarding.

We went to a Luau the first Sunday we were there and got to see the super fast Hawaiian sunset. The show was pretty neat, Trevor was pretty entranced by the whole thing, especially the fire twirling songs.








Christmas part duex was pretty exciting. Trev was into the handing out gifts at first, but then ended up a lot more interested in the unwrapped toys. So pretty quickly when I'd hand him a gift to give to someone else, he'd take it, hold it out towards the person's general direction and then drop it if they did not take it from him in a timely manner.

(Trevor was very into this toy--one of those sticks with rolled up paper that shoots out when you swing it--turns out it's good for whacking people with)
It's Grandpa Steve camouflage--can you spot the Trevor?

Trevor wasn't a fan of the ocean or swimming pools, but did appreciate the fountains that seemed to be everywhere. He made a couple of attempts to climb right on in.

John and I got to do some touristing by ourselves. We went on a zodiac boat whale watching/snorkeling trip one of the mornings and saw three humpbacks pretty close up. A different night we went on a sunset sail cruise that did not have much of a sunset, but was pretty cool because it was on a cataram boat with big canvas areas to sit on.

We also went to Volcano National park to look at many many many craters. And steam, lots of steam. John was a bit disappointed that he wasn't there a decade or two ago when there was actual lava that you could see. But, he still seemed to be satisfied with all the craters. Did I mention there were a lot? And we had to pull over for each one? It was a nice day though--barely rainy and a bit tropical. The last full day was spent at the Hilton hotel in their many pools and lagoons. We had a cabana, and were able to set up the pack and play for Trevor to have an outdoor nap. The lagoon area was a success--shallow water, sand, minus the waves. Trevor and Grandpa Steve were very involved in a game where Trevor would bring Grandpa water from the lagoon to dump in the hole--entertaining for quite a while.

We had a great trip and are almost settled back into being home again. I suppose real life doesn't start until the week does. In the meantime we're still working on getting out Christmas/New Years/Possibly Valentine's at this point cards.