Wow! Maya and Sawyer have been practicing all summer as late as 10pm, four times a week (during the last month) to prepare for the 2024 49th annual Keiki Hula Competition in Honolulu. They just finished the competition yesterday and are taking some well deserved rest. They placed in every one of the divisions they entered. Here are some highlights and videos.
Sawyer and I went to bamboo forest (apparently it’s called Nailiilihaele Stream) and did some serious rope swing jumping.
The excitement helped me kick start the second half of my life… just 50 more years to go. I did the work in the first half. Now I’m going to try harder to start having some real fun. 😉 maybe build a house or something like that.
Maya wanted to stay home even though I threatened her with every daddy threat under the Sun… like no more daddy hugs if you don’t come! 😉
She stayed home and made some chocolate bunny rabbit cake. We tried to make some coconut cream icing but didn’t come out perfectly. But was tasty.
We went to Our German friends house nearby to celebrate a European tradition called St Nicklaus where santa comes and asks the kids if they were good or bad and reads off three good things they have done in the year and three (bad) things they can work harder at.
We ate bbq and got a little stocking stuffer gift from Santa.
Here is the list of good and bad things from santa.
SAWYER + Is kind to his friends. + is very good at baseball. and pitching. + enjoyed participating in the violin holiday concert with miss Skinner at Makawao union church. – sawyer needs to learn to be honest at all times and not try to deceive ayone. – Sawyer needs to practice violin -Sawyer needs to help daddy around the house preparing the table for dinner, folding his clothes and cleaning up after himself.
MAYA + Enjoys reading + She is always very considerate of her friends + Her drawings in her main lesson books are beautiful. – She needs to work harder to clean up after herself around the house. – She could be very helpful helping daddy with dinner more than he already does? – Stop punching her brother 😉
