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.
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 😉
Maya managed to get dressed for Halloween on three different occasions and three different costumes. So she obviously had a wonderful time this Halloween.
Some of the pictures are of her school costume dance party, the face painting was for her hula dance and finally trick-or-treating Halloween night with Moony at a place they call Sprecklesville.
Link to iliahi hula dance below.
Sawyer on the other hand mistakenly had a little dairy at the Haleakala Waldorf School Night of Delight Halloween Festival and shortly after that came down with the flu so he wasn’t able to do the trick or treating this year… But look at the bright side! he didn’t have to eat all that candy! … isn’t that wonderful! 😉 plus its so rare and peaceful while sleeping when he’s sick. Shortly after Halloween Maya and Daddy also got sick because we had some of the dairy too.
You can see sawyer in the car sleeping. I was going to hang out with him in the car on Halloween night but he told me he wanted to go home and sleep.
And finally Maya painted a Halloween pastel drawing with a black cat that reminded all of us of Lucy and her beautiful new home in San Jemez National forest in New Mexico.
Ami, Alastar and Miwa came to Maui to visit and perform at the ukulele festival at the MACC center. Alastar plays in the band called Beetlele which is like beetles songs on the ukulele and tours all over the country.
At the festival we entered into a raffle for each of us Edward Maya and Sawyer to win ukulele prizes throughout the festival. Almost at the very end of the festival when we were getting ready to get going, They were announcing the final ukulele give away which was the most expensive one, called a concert edition Kamaka ukulele worth over $1,600 and they called Sawyer’s name! The announcer said that Sawyer jumped 3 feet off the ground when they called his name. He loves playing his cheapo swap meat ukulele that only cost $50. So he totally deserves that prize and has really enjoyed playing it since he won it. He had all the ukulele performers sign it and also the organizer.
The next day we had a lot of fun together going to the beach and then at the end of the day we all crammed in and broke the record for the most people in our two person sauna!
We had a lot of fun and we hope that Ami, Alastar and Miwa can come and visit again soon!
