Baby Gianna

Nobember 2, 2008

2008-11-02T07:23:00.002-10:00

Today we headed down to LA on our trek to Disneyland. We stopped over in Santa Monica, and spent some time at the pier.

November 1, 2008

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This morning Gianna woke up and found her Halloween stash of candies in her basket.

She immediately opened up a lollipop and began savoring her treat. :)

October 31, 2008

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Here's our Halloween greeting to everyone.

This afternoon we went to State Street in Santa Barbara to take Gianna out trick-or-treating.
It was a new experience for Gigi. She was very interested in all of the children dressed up in costumes, especially the ones who dressed up as witches! I think she's seen the Wizard of Oz too many times.

October 30, 2008

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We went back to the zoo today, since Gigi had fallen asleep during our first visit. We were out for most of the day, since we also stopped at the carousel and the park on our way home.

Here's a slide show of our day.

October 29, 2008

2008-10-29T18:21:00.004-10:00

This morning we headed out to Santa Barbara's Museum of Natural History.

Gigi went in costume, because the museum was sponsoring a Halloween scavenger hunt for children who came dressed up.

The museum featured a dinosaur exhibit. She enjoyed seeing the huge skeletons. Gigi met this 2.5 year old boy there. :) They are standing between two humerus bones.

Although the museum was small, it was the perfect size for Gigi. The exhibits were all geared toward children, so there were a lot of hands-on activities.

Gigi is looking at this guide catch a grasshopper for her to touch. She didn't want to touch it. Instead, she asked me to touch the grasshopper.

We saw so many groups of field trip children. Gigi followed many of the kids around the museum.

Gigi also got to 'dig' for dinosaur bones outside. We both had a really fun time at the museum!

October 24, 2008

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Here's a photo scrapbook of our day at the playground.

October 23, 2008

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Gigi woke up early this morning and found Auntie Josephine.

They played with the McDonald's play set. :)

Later in the afternoon, we all went to the market. Gigi really likes the child-sized shopping carts at Lazy Acres, a local, organic-friendly market.

October 22, 2008

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We went to the park with Anma and Auntie Josephine who came to visit with us for a few days.

Gigi played on the play structure.

Then she had Anma push her on the swing.

We all went out to eat dinner at a very nice Chinese restaurant.

Gigi really liked the soup they served. She had two bowlfuls!

Gigi also like her fortune cookie. :)

October 21, 2008

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Last night Papa baked a pumpkin pie from scratch!

He used the pieces of pumpkin that we carved out of our four pumpkins.

He worked late into the late, so we didn't have a chance to eat the pie last night.

Instead, we all had pumpkin pie for breakfast! Gigi really liked the pie!

Gigi had to say goodbye to Uncle Marcel and Auntie Charlotte. They had to go back to Huntington Beach today. :(

Hopefully we'll see them for dinner when we go to Disneyland next week.

October 20, 2008

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We spent the afternoon with Auntie Charlotte and Uncle Marcel. Our first stop was the carousel.

Gigi liked it so much, that she rode the carousel twice!

Then we headed to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Here's a little photo book of our time there.

For dinner, we went to a seafood restaurant that had a lobster special.

Gigi passed on the lobster, but she did enjoy the chocolate pudding that came with her kid's meal. :)

October 19, 2008

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Today we went to a real pumpkin patch with Auntie Charlotte and Uncle Marcel.

These huge pumpkins were on display, but they were not for sale.

Gigi's saying hello to a donkey that was at the farm. There were also goats, turkeys, chickens, a horse, and a sheep.

Everyone went into the corn maze.

Gigi's trying to find her way out. It was quite an elaborate maze.

Gigi rode around the pumpkin patch in this wagon.

She got out to pump some water.

Then she jumped on the tractor. Luckily, Gigi was too short to reach the gas pedal.

When we got back home, Gigi had a tea party with Anma.

Here she is trying to give Auntie Charlotte some tea.

October 18, 2008

2008-10-18T14:45:00.003-10:00

After a very rough, red-eye flight with a sick Gianna, we arrived at LAX quite tired.

We hopped onto the rental car shuttle, and went to get our rental car at 5 AM in the morning!

When we arrived in Santa Barbara, we picked up Anma and went out to run some errands.

Anma had borrowed this McDonald's play set for Gigi. She loved it, although I think she's only had a Happy Meal once before. Papa taught Gigi to say, "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order please."

Anma also picked up a cake to celebrate Gigi's 2nd birthday, except Gigi wouldn't blow out the candles.

Gigi enjoyed the cake, though. :)

After dessert, we played Wii with Auntie Charlotte and Uncle Marcel. They had a game called Samba de Amigo. It was very fun!

Gigi liked the music and the dancing that was part of the game.

October 10, 2008

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Gigi was playing nicely with the building blocks today when I picked her up from school. I'm not sure why the children weren't out on the playground, but she was playing nicely anyway.

In the afternoon, we all went across to KCC to attend a champagne sabering class.

Papa pushed Gigi in her tricycle, since she can't quite push the pedals yet.

Here we are in the classroom. Gigi is paying close attention.

When we got outside to do the actual sabering, Gigi wasn't interested.

Gigi was busy watching her Einstein videos on my iPhone.

Here's Papa sabering a champagne bottle. Nice job, Papa!

October 9, 2008

2008-10-09T09:54:00.002-10:00

This afternoon we met Halle and Auntie Maile at Punahou to see a football game.

Here's Halle and Gigi with the cheerleaders.

After cheering for a bit, the two girls went to play on the grass.

Halle's practicing her high V, while Gigi is practicing her low V.

October 8, 2008

2008-10-08T09:48:00.002-10:00

When Papa and I came to pick up Gigi today from school, she was playing with a soccer ball.

She was very happy to see both of us come to pick her up.

Gigi gave us a very warm greeting. :)

Here's our happy baby!

October 7, 2008

2008-10-07T09:44:00.002-10:00

Today in Japanese class, Gigi made a fox with origami paper.

Peterson Sensei had the children make foxes, and then we all sang a song about foxes.

Here's Gigi showing Sensei her creation. :)

October 6, 2008

2008-10-06T09:36:00.006-10:00

At gymnastics today, Coach Mike made this cool house.

Gigi liked crawling around in it.

She kept going back to the house to hide in it. :)

Here she is wearing her birthday shirt from the Setos. :) Everyone who came to her birthday party signed it.

Gigi came over to the table to get some water.

Here's Gigi running circles around Coach Mike. She LOVES playing with Coach Mike!

October 5, 2008

2008-10-05T09:21:00.002-10:00

Today Gigi and I went to church at Central Union. I haven't brought her to church since she was about a year old. After the sermon for the children, I took her to the day care, which was in Connor's classroom. Gigi liked playing with the train set.

October 4, 2008

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Today we went to Auntie Kay's house.

She immediately started to play with Chibi.

She found Chibi's brush and started to groom him.

Look at that CUTE attack puppy!

Gigi found another one of Chibi's brushes.

October 3, 2008

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Today when I went to pick up Gigi from school, the children were playing on the big playground. The preschool children didn't have school today.

Gigi's wearing a red shirt in the cube structure.

Here's my smiling, happy, pre-preschooler. :)

In the afternoon, we stopped off at Punahou to watch a football game.

Here's Gigi running on the football field.

In the evening, we went to visit Grandpa again. Gigi found the closet this time, and she decided to hide in it.

Then Gigi found the bar in the closet and decided to hang on it. :0

Gigi is really good at holding herself up and swinging.

Then she went back into the shower to play hide-and-seek.

October 2, 2008

2008-10-02T08:36:00.003-10:00

Today we visited Grandpa in the hospital at Pali Momi. Grandpa had knee replacement surgery.

Gigi started to play hide-and-seek in the shower.

Then she decided to practice some gymnastics.

Look at my silly monkey!

Uncle John came to visit Grandpa, too.

Gigi made Uncle John play hide-and-seek with her.

October 1, 2008

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Today we celebrated Gigi's birthday at school. I brought Jamba Juice smoothies for everyone for their playground snack. The teachers gave Gigi a present.

September 28, 2008

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September 27, 2008

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Gigi received this outfit from Uncle Ted in the mail today. As soon as she opened up the present, she wanted to put it on.

Here's my Pumpkin modeling her pumpkin outfit. :)

September 26, 2008

2008-09-26T19:05:00.002-10:00

We checked out of the condo this morning, but we relaxed by the pool until it was time to leave for the airport.

Auntie Amy drove down to see us, so we had lunch with her on the way to the airport. Gigi is showing Auntie Amy her Japanese song book, and she's singing to her, too.

We had lunch at a very nice sushi restaurant. Gigi enjoyed the ambiance. :)

While we were waiting at the Kona Airport, Gigi played nicely with her new baby doll.