The Yearbooked Palefaus

I've seen a lot of "Yearbook Yourself" photos going around lately (www.yearbookyourself.com) so I decided to make some of us.
Here is my handsome hunk of a husband:

Myself:


Our sweet little Taisoni:


And our family all together:

Just a little fun maumau taimi. *LOL*

The Hickey

The other night right before bed Taiyo and I noticed a mark on the side of Soni's forearm. It didn't look quite like a normal bruise or quite like a burn, and neither of us recalled Soni crying at all that day (not a pain cry anyway), so we were puzzled about what it could be. Finally we figured out what it was... it was a hickey. When Soni gets hungry he loves to suck on his hands and arms, and he must have sucked on his little arm so hard that it left a big hickey! It's mostly gone now but I thought it was quite funny when we realized what it was. We know he's destined to be a heartbreaker but his first hickey at 3 weeks old?! haha...

Our little family

He's here! Our little Taisoni Reid Palefau was born July 3 (I know I'm a bit late posting...), 8lb 4oz, 20.75" long.


He was born with long black hair and looks just like his dad. :D He's three weeks old tomorrow, and we love him more and more each day. He's soooo sweet, and he has been super strong since day 1. Actually, I've known how strong he is for months but now everyone else can see it too! haha... It's so fun to see him getting more and more attentive to things around him, and just the past couple of days he has been smiling in his sleep. We can't wait to hear him coo and laugh and play with us!

Another Quick Update

Just an update on my "condition" (I have a Japanese friend who always asks when he sees me, "How's your condition?" referring to the pregnancy and I just think it's funny, lol). It's hard to believe it's still growing bigger and bigger! Only 4 more weeks til the due date! (Oh and please excuse the mismatched clothes, this was late at night when I was about to go to bed! haha)

Robot Wars

This past Friday was the school's closing social for Spring 2009. For the first three hours there were four giant blow-up things for people to play on, and then a dance afterward. Since I was not allowed to participate in any of the blow up toy activities due to my "condition" I was the camera girl and took some pictures of Taiyo and some of the other guys battling against each other.

Taiyo and Hema going at it in an Air Bot war...




Unfortunately they broke the thing and the workers had to deflate it, fix it, and then put it back up.


Taiyo "velcroing" himself to the wall.


Racing through the Iron Man obstacle course



The boys did this one sooo many times trying to beat each other's scores. They had to run forward with a bungee cord strapped to their back, and see how far they could reach. Taiyo was proud of himself for getting the best score of the night :)


And finally one with me in it to prove I was there

Memorial Day Feast

My plan was to get quite a few things done over the weekend for school, particularly yesterday since we didn't have any big plans for Memorial day, but it didn't end up as productive as I had hoped. Yesterday our neighbors Paula and Lose called and then Taiyo said to me, "Do you want to go to Hauula and see how to cook a pig? Paula is going to cook one at their uncle's house." So I just thought Yeah, sounds fun! And off we went. Little did I know that we were actually going for a two-pig get-together feed, with some friends of Lose's uncle's that were here visiting from Canada. So anyway we ended up staying there for the rest of the day, late enough that we just went straight to bed when we got home. But it was quite fun to see the boys preparing the pigs, from freshly dead to pulled apart on the table in front of us. I helped prepare some of the other food inside with the aunt. And all the food was really good!! Some cousins even came by and put on a show for us with 4 boys under the age of 15 doing fire knife dances (they're Jr. champions~ so good!!) and a couple little girls dancing Tahitian. It was adorable. Here are some pictures.




Notice the tourist neighbors watching from the porch next door, hehe...



Taiyo roasting one of the kidneys before they put the pigs up.... eww.



I even got a couple turns, haha. Although total I spent maybe 5 minutes doing it. Paula and Taiyo sat there and turned the pigs for almost 2 and 1/2 hours.



Mmm, finally, looks about cooked and crispy!


The feed:


The entertainment:

I love chocolate milk.

Not the thick, strong kind you get pre-made in the cartons, but just regular milk with some Nesquik powder mixed in... Mmm... This weekend we stopped by Taiyo's uncle's house to visit because we hadn't seen them in a while, and we ended up coming home with a bunch of food, including a big bottle of Nesquik powder! They are always soooo giving... I was especially grateful for the chocolate milk though, lol. Yum~