Dress-Up Fun!

Here's Haridas and his best friend, Keanu, who lives 2 houses away. They play together everyday now! Keanu's a few months older. He gave Haridas one of his Halloween costumes for dress up fun:

Silly Little Boys

They thought this was sooo funny when Haridas put this blanket ("cuddler") on his head!

Finally! New pictures up!

Here's some recent pictures...sorry for the long delay. I tried several times and the blogger site was not working. Navin has 5 teeth now, he got a bunch at once, so he has been more fussy than usual. Haridas got to pick out a toy for a late b-day present, and he chose this excavator, which has been lots of fun for a while now. We have started doing school, pictures of that to come.

More Birthday Fun

We had some more birthday fun today as more packages arrived! Thanks so much for everyone who sent gifts for the boys. Every one is well loved! As you can see in these pictures, Haridas is VERY serious about his new crane, something he has wanted for a very long time!





I'm sorry I haven't been posting much. I've been very busy with the boys with homeschool preschool and teething. Thanks for checking in and I will post as much as possible. :)

Happy 4th Birthday, Haridas!

We had a small celebration for Haridas's 4th birthday. Thank you to everyone who sent cards and gifts. The birthday party with his friends is postponed, and we just did a little family celebration because Haridas was really sick last week with flu like symptoms and is still recovering. We will have another party for him once he's all better. We still had a blast!

Cute Navin

Did I ever tell you how cute he is? :)

Best Buddies

Here's Haridas and Nimai on a fun day.

Navin The Mustard Thief

The silly boy was caught in the act of taking the unopened mustard bottles and trying to drink them like baby bottles! Good thing he didn't taste any mustard!

At The Zoo With Grampa Don

My dad is visiting this week and we are having fun going out and about. Haridas really likes The Magic Schoolbus, so when he saw these 2 seater schoolbus strollers at the zoo, Grampa Don treated the boys to it. They had so much fun. Navin was even pretending to steer.

Shaved Heads!

All of my boys have shaved heads now! Here's some recent pics!

More Birthday Fun!

Here's the boys playing with more birthday presents that were being held hostage at our mailbox for a while. The card is singing, and they loved the cars! :)

Navin's First Birthday!

We are celebrating Navin's first birthday today! Here's some early morning pictures taken with the wonderful gifts sent by our sweet family and friends. He really liked the noisemakers, and is having a lot of fun with the wooden froggy pull-toy. Navin also got his first tooth yesterday after a whole day of having a fever. He's all better now, thank God. More pictures to come!

Brotherly Hugs

It is so cute. They like to give each other hugs. It's a sneak preview of many fun times to come. This was taken yesterday, before the hair cut. Too cute to not share.

Haridas's First Hair Cut

I finally brought myself to cut off Haridas's beautiful curls, although part of us did not want to. He was not wanting to brush it or let me tie it back, and it was getting really out of control. So we had some fun with the scissors, and the experience was much funner than our brushing struggles! He likes it a lot. We made a nest with his hair for a bird's egg that we found on the ground and hope may survive. Here's his new 'do and the nest, too!

Haridas Can Read!

Haridas surprised me today when we were doing school. Navin had woken up from his nap, so I went to be with him, leaving Haridas with a page in a workbook...without me to read the instructions to him.

When I returned, he had correctly colored in three according to the color labeled in the workbook, red, yellow, and green. I have showed him how to spell these colors a few times, but I did not expect him to read them all by himself! Impressions on a young child's mind are amazing.

Here's pictures of him and the workbook as well as his "palace" he made, plus a picture of me and the upcoming birthday boy taken while the camera was out.

Flower Boys

This amazing flower blooms once a year and surprised us for Navin's birth and now again for his coming first birthday! We don't know the Hawaiian name...we just call it Navin's Flower. It is so special in many ways!



And here's Haridas with a lei of dried flowers as a crown from his special, sweet smelling, and favorite climbing tree, the Puakinikini. These are our favorite smelling flowers in Hawaii. And, yes, I know his shirt is on backwards and inside out. The silly boy does it that way on purpose.