May Day 2013

Remember our first May Day last year? Here it is. Man May Day is so cute.

This year the boys were so excited. Ambrose practiced his "Korean" dance for weeks leading up to the big day... it's that Gangam style song. With MC Hammer mixed in of course. The kids loved it! I am so impressed with all the talented parents who put hours of their time into these programs. It is all volunteer service and that is amazing! The kids feel so cool and special and have a blast. I vow to actually help out next year.

Asher's preschool group did a cute dance in their own cultural costumes so we dressed that haole as a cowboy. Ambrose's grade represented Korea and it was crazy adorable.

I love this community so so much!

Oh my gosh I forgot Ambrose had that giant mohawk. Who is his mother???????

Magic.

It's like magic.  You can have a day with a bored five-year-old, cranky three-year-old, over-worked mom and dad and just like that- everyone's in a great mood.










The beach is magic.

In ten minutes.

In ten minutes I get to slowly make my way over to their school.  They will smell like their classrooms, peanut butter, sweat from the playground, and have pencil or paint smudges on their hands from their hard work.  I can grab them up, squeeze them, hold their little bodies to mine and breathe their wild little selves in.  They belong to school from 7:50am-2:15PM, but at 2:16PM they are mine all mine.  I better get going!

Home.

Found here

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea 

E. E. Cummings

Growing Up In Paradise.

Growing up in paradise from Stephanie Robertson on Vimeo.


Today the boys had some friends over and were playing so nicely that I had time to make this beautiful little video that makes me cry when I watch it.  I love that my family gets to grow up here together.

Let it fill up your screen and I hope you enjoy!

Preschool Graduation

If you learn nothing else from reading this blog, know this: they do things BIG in Hawaii.  It's all a big celebration with lots of ceremony, music, a ton of dancing, and FOOD. And I love it.

Bright Beginnings I love you so much it hurts.  I will work myself to the bone to get Asher on the right track so we can have this amazing experience again when he is four.  What a fantastic year.  On to Kindergarten!