xzibit meets tristan

The other night we went into Waikiki to have dinner with Shandra's mom and some fam that was visiting. We sat outside and took turns the whole time chasing Tristan around and letting him ride up and down the nearby escalators (his new favorite thing in the world).

Later, at the end of dinner, I was following him as he headed past the entrance to the restaurant toward the escalators and saw someone I thought I recognized.
He was walking into the restaurant with a couple others and stopped and kind of laughed when he saw Tristan running at him. He even commented on his little 'flip flops'.
I looked at him and thought, "That's Xzibit!" Then he went inside.


For some reason I have an uncanny ability to recognize famous people, and even though I hardly listen to hip hop at all, I knew it was him. I also am proud of my ability to research and obtain any information from the internet. Once, we were in F21 and heard a song we liked. I went home after and worked my magic. Through the wonders of Google I was soon able to find out what the song was. It was on some random girl's MySpace page, she may have worked at an F21 or something. Shandra was impressed.

Yesterday, I was thinking about the previous night's event and had to prove it to myself. I worked my internet research skills to track down Xzibit's exact whereabouts. Sure enough, his Twitter page from Thursday morning said 'On my way to Hawaii'. Nailed it. It was him, and he had given a shout out to my son.

To sum up, Tristan and Xzibit are now boyz.

my boys

Wow, my photos are kind of too big. Please be patient with me while I experiment with my photo sizes. Mahalo!

I'm going to confess something, and it's the first time I will be saying this out loud (or typing it out loud), but I wouldn't mind if I ended up with all boys.

(Did I just jinx myself?) I just love having a little boy right now. He has so many crazy things he wants to do or get into.

You can also tell that he just adores his "da da" by the way he looks at him or how excited he gets when he comes home from work. It's really cute.

He wants to do everything his dad does, and he thinks he can! He's obsessed with his boards, surf and skate, and tries to stand on them and ride

them on his own. T also loves to rock out when Christian drops a beat. He's just a munchkin and we just love the little man.

Now don't get me wrong, I would love to have a little girl as well, I just wouldn't mind if Tristan had a couple of brothers to tackle.

larger photos

wow! I've always wondered how to make our photos bigger on here. Now you will be able to see how blurry our photos really are! Actually, this is a little too big, but it's still fun.

Photo taken by Christian. Is it wrong that I want to put mascara on those lashes?

easter sunday

Easter was really nice and relaxing for us. We attempted to get a few general conference talks in but for some reason Tristan decided that he likes to scream over the people talking on the computer, so it was hard to hear any of the talks. It rained all day, which isn't unusual for Manoa, but I think that the whole island was wet, so I'm sure that many Easter egg hunts were canceled. :( We had a small dinner party with a couple of families here at our house.

Easter morning. Tristan wakes up and exits his room knowing that it was going to be a magical day.

The Easter basket is spotted.

The basketball in his basket is a recycled toy. In fact, it's not even his, it's a friends and we need to return it. I'm so mean.

Finding gold fish in his plastic eggs.

Chewing on his gold fishies.

Destroying the basket.

Reading his card from Tutu and Grandpa.

He climbed into Christian's lap thinking it was story time.

Thank you Tutu for the monkey beach towel!

Post dinner discussions with Paul and the Larsons.

Abigail in her cute Easter dress.

We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter!

more beach time

A couple of weeks ago we went to a beach near Diamond Head with some friends. Tristan has taken a strong liking to the ocean. He could probably stay in the water all day if we let him, but normally when his lips start turning blue and he starts shivering, we figure it's time to take him out. Even with goose bumps and blue lips, he's still smiling and splashing in the water, as happy as can be. We are exciting for the warm Summer water to hit us in a couple of months. Not that I should complain, the water is close to 80 degrees right now on most days.

Blue lips.

Tristan's favorite thing to do after he plays and swims with his dad; snuggle up next to mom (diaper-less) and eat snacks in the warm sun.

Check out those teeth!

his phone

Tristan loves talking on his new phone that he got for his birthday. I probably shouldn't say talking, I mean yelling. Whomever he thinks is on the other end of that phone, he must not be a fan of because he's not very nice to them. I'm also pretty impressed that he knows how to use a land line phone, being that he has never seen one in his life. Only cell phones here. Well, he mostly uses the back of his head to talk into the phone, but he's getting the hang of it. It's really cute.

he's walking!

We've been a little behind with blogging. Too much has happened this past month. Tristan is no longer crawling. 100% walking! I feel like it all happened so fast. The video below took place in only two weeks. It's crazy how comfortable he became after such a short time.

Crawling to running in two weeks.

finger foods = messy boy

It's always a toss up; do I want to let him feed himself so I can get a few things done? But that means major clean-up for the floor and highchair and he will need a bath immediately after, OR do I just take the time to feed him myself (with lots of patience because he takes his time) with minor clean-up. Oy! The decisions I need to make these days.

Tristan enjoys shampooing his hair with pasta sauce.

It's messy mom, but finger foods are so much fun!

The double point.

he turns one!

A year ago on Friday, we welcomed our sweet little boy into this world. This past year has been quite the journey. We were able to celebrate his first year of life this weekend with our friends and some family. Christian's parents were able to fly out for the weekend to join in on the festivities. Special thanks to both of them for all of their help! We also have great friends out here that helped us celebrate the big day. We love them all and consider them our family as well.

Opening presents

Thank you everyone for the fun presents!

The Party

Saturday morning we were planning on having his birthday party at the beach in Kailua.

Late on Friday night we got a call from a friend warning us about the earthquake that just hit Chile, and the tsunami alert for Hawaii, scheduled for 11:00 am, right in the middle of his party. We really didn't think much of it. We thought that by tomorrow morning the warning would be called off and everything would be fine. 6:00 am Friday morning, we woke up to the tsunami alarm. I'm not sure if any of you have heard this alarm before, but it is really really loud, and really really scary sounding. They test this alarm the first Monday of the every month, and the whole island can hear it. So we were pretty startled when the alarm went off, and a little nervous about it, because it wasn't a test, it was real. We checked the news online and read that all of the beaches would be closed.

We had to come up with Plan B for his birthday party. Do we even have it? Where? Do we move it to the afternoon after the tsunamis have hit? So, the indecisive people that we are, we finally decided an hour before the party that we were just going to move it to the park and keep it at the same time. We rushed to the store to go fill up his balloons and find ice and we were surprised to see that the island had gone mad. There were long lines at the gas stations, and everyone was frantically trying to stock up on supplies before this tsunami hits. All of the store employees looked pretty stressed out, so I felt pretty dumb when I asked one of the workers if I could get some helium in my balloons. Of course the ice was all out.

Aside from the crazy/confusing morning that we had, the day couldn't have been better. The weather was beautiful and everyone turned up! Maybe because everything was closed and they didn't have any other place to be, or they just love our little Tristan. :)

Yes, he does live in these shorts. He took a quick nap when we got there and then he was ready to party!

The Entertainment

Since the party was moved from the beach, we had to quickly come up with some fun entertainment while at the park.

Shiloh and Haley impressed us with their juggling act.

We filled up our leftover balloons with water and launched them with our towels. I take water balloon volleyball very seriously.

Tristan got a hold of one of the water balloons.

Be careful Tristan.

Oh no, danger.

pop.

The Cake

He used his thumb as a spoon.

He LOVED it!

Happy Birthday sweet Tristan.