the girls

Mommy and her favorite girls....


Makenna looks so deep in thought... Is she pondering the meaning of life? ....or just working on the next poopy diaper?

just cute pics

Makenna trying on daddy's hat...


Up close and personal with Kayla


A future movie star


She's really stylin' in daddy's hat!


The girls sure love their daddy (plus, it's fun to chew on his glasses.....)

Cafe by the shore

It was a nice little open-air cafe.. small, but with a big view. There were really only two meal items on the menu: Taco Pizza (that's one item) and Okinawan Udon noodles. We got one of each, and both were really tasty! They had lots of desserts, so we tried a piece of cake.. tasted a little like banana nut bread, not too bad..

This was the only clue we had as to what the place was...


nice view... we live basically straight across the water from here.


Daddy and his gals

Banana Man

One our way home from lunch last weekend, we stopped to check out the road-side stand that we'd seen so many times in passing. We knew it had something to do with bananas because of the signs leading up to it, and discovered a very "hippie" looking Japanese couple making banana smoothies out of the back of a van.. I'm not kidding, the guy's wife went up and started the van so he could run the blender!! I would probably never buy something like that in the states, but we just couldn't help ourselves!!




250 Yen for one, please... (that's roughly $2.50)


"Banana Man" poses for a photo


This was the inside of the card he gave us, I have no clue what it says, but I love the drawing of the little dudes with big noses wearing banana peels on their heads! I'm guessing this was some kind of Okinawan tradition...

randomness

The girls "stroll" around the mall with mommy..


I thought it was funny to see the Japanese men sitting in the mall watching TV waiting for their wives to finish shopping... Guess that's an international phenomenon.. haha!


A bit blurry, but Kayla is standing everywhere now.. she fell a couple weeks back and had a nice shiner - that didn't make mommy feel very good! But she's getting more and more stable.. Makenna pulls up to kneeling so far, but that's it.


Another blurry one (I'll have to read the manual for this camera...), but this is what we dubbed the "nap shack" though nobody has successfully napped in there yet (I tried once!). It's actually quite cozy!


Kayla is getting pretty good with the sippy cup. Makenna just gnaws on the spout..

sleepin' - yoga style

I can't imagine that this is the most comfortable pose to sleep in.. there is a yoga pose called "child's pose" which is supposed to be comforting - and this certainly is not it!! Babies are so flexible... like little gymnasts! For the record, I didn't let Makenna keep sleeping like that - my joints ached just looking at her!

summer fun..

It's been a little while since I've posted any pictures, so I'll start with some recent pics of the girls...