Just Catching Up

In-flight Wi-Fi is awesome!  Mommy is on her way back from a conference in Washington DC and she actually has time to catch up on things like the blog!!!  It was hard to be away from the kids for 6 days but daddy had the help of all our family which we couldn't have done this without them.  While I was in DC and not in the conference I got to see some sights.  I even made it down to the Korean War Memorial where I looked up some info on my great Uncle Chan Jay aka Junior who was POW/MIA.  Our little guy Chan is actually named after his father, my great-grandfather.  The weather really cooperated and I got some great shots of the sunsets and full moon over the monuments.  

 

While I was gone daddy got a lot of quality time in with the kids.  He said they were acting out initially because I was gone but it got better.  These pics was taken before I left but this is probably what they did a lot of while I was gone :)  The kids love to ride on his back.  As you can see Esme's just chillin and reading a book and Chan's hanging out, just along for the ride.  Oh yeah, and he's in his underwear!  He's doing great still with the potty!  

The weekend before I left was busy filled with events around town.  There was a lot of face painting too.  Esme and Malia got painted at the Blue Zones kick off rally in Hilo and then Chan got his very own face painting at the HPA pumpkin patch on Sunday.  He was very serious when it was happening and told the high school student who was doing it that he wanted a monster.  See below for his monster face and pose.  Too cute!

 While we were at the pumpkin patch where there were rides and games, it turns out Chan had just as much fun playing on this container when I took him aside to go potty.  Go figure.

Esme also got her school pictures back.  I still need to send them out to family so if you normally get one, don't worry, they're coming!  I'm not sure what happened to her hair.  We put a clip in it when she left for school but apparently her teacher added the little pony tail.  And she also added the same pony tail to a few other girls too.  Haha!

 The kids are gearing up for Halloween.  Chan found one of Tosh's old costumes in our Halloween bin and hasn't taken it off since.  And Esme wore her Elsa dress from Disneyland for the Yacht Club Halloween party this past weekend.