Isaiah

Isaiah's 13th birthday 2009
Photos by dee photography

We ate fresh Waimea strawberries, thanks to Nancy, fresh salad from the Ko's farm, pizza(Isaiah's favorite)tender rotisserie chicken, from Noelle, potato salad, and two kinds of cheese cake, New York style which took 7 hours, and a lovely little cheese cake that took 10 min. to make, then 3 hours in the fridge haha!
Oh, and adult guests enjoyed two kinds of home made wine from the famous Claudia Riley.

Isaiah got to show off the potato cannon he built himself. The cannon works well, especially if you like your potatoes to be flaming, and loud. He also let off a few fireworks. The young guests swam till late at night, and then had a sleepover.

January Sun

More chickens!

Now we have Silkies! Basil and Rose. Kealani is with Rose, and Isaiah is holding Basil.
My hope is that one of them really is a hen, and she will sit on eggs for us. Silkies are known for being eggcellent mothers.

Me and the tiny baby boy

Flash back 12 years ago.

As I type this my 12 year old son is in the pool swimming with a friend.What a contrast. When I look at my giant child it is hard to imaging him wearing a fuzzy teddy bear bunting.

Waipio Valley

The hike down the valley road on Tuesday was very hard on my legs, but the beautiful scenery made up for it. The kids had fun playing in the river,in the waves, and digging in the sand. The beach is a black sand beach. Because of the volcanic rock on our island we have quite a few of these. I sat in the sand next to one of the many streams that flow through the valley. The sand has green sparkling olivine in it that you might not notice unless you were as tired as I was. I sat staring at the green glittering sand, the silver stream, and a dark cherry colored wild horse eating water hyacinths on the edge of the water.His mane and tail were dark black, and he had a white star on his forehead. He slowly sauntered down the river until he was about 20 feet from me, and then he slipped into the water, and gracefully swam across to the other side. I guess the hyacinths were greener there? The boys carefully crossed the river, and ran down the deserted side of the beach to swim in the waves there. The hike back up was so easy for the kids. It was a little more difficult for me hmmm, and felt like I was hiking straight up a wall at times. I was glad we had a good breeze, and the clouds shading us overhead while we hiked. We had Kealani and Arah pushing us up the hills too:-)Thank you Sarah and Y.B. for the photos!

Wrapping party

You can have a wrapping party too. Here are some friends and family happily wrapping shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Apparently Andreas is a excellent shoe box wrapper. I think he should do all the Christmas presents this year.

Pumpkin

So, I did not take pictures of the carved pumpkins, but they did carve them. My frugal farmer idea was to steam the pumpkin, store it in the refrigerator to make pumpkin soup,and pumpkin muffins. Well, I was still steaming and storing pumpkin till 10:30 last night. I will have enough pumpkin to make pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins,pumpkin fondue,more pumpkin muffins, and Goompy, and Speckle had pumpkin for breakfast this morning.Oh, and the skins went to the compost, and the seeds I roasted slightly and salted lightly.

Gardening with kids

Here is Isaiah when he was 2 and a half. He planted the sunflower himself.
He did not actually care about the flower. He liked digging in the dirt, and he really liked that Star Wars space ship he is holding.

The best kids gardening project is to allow them to stick a seed into the ground, and then, you water it because if you don't water it it will never sprout.My kids don't remember to eat their cereal in the morning if I don't remind them, so there is no way they are going to remember to water a seed.

I found this web site about gardening with kids.
Just look at the lady in the picture, she looks just like my hall leader one year at BJU.
All these articles just don't look realistic. I would stick to a single seed, and preferably in a pot.

Potato Cannon Continued....

Isaiah built the potato cannon, but it just needs the spark plug,some hair spray, and he will be ready to defend our family against marauding...French Fries? If you are using a potato as a weapon, who would your enemy be?

Photobooth conversation

"Ok now, Isaiah sit on my lap, and Kealani you sit on Isaiah's lap." "Maybe we should do two normal photos, and one silly one at the end." "Kealani, don't lean back, you won't be in the picture." "Ok, get ready the next one is the silly one." "giggle"

Potato Cannon

So we went to my parent's church picnic where there was a pie eating contest,food,a water slide,an egg toss,bingo,sling shot water balloon games, and to Isaiah's delight there was a potato cannon.
Isaiah was not the only 12 year old there, but he was the first 12 year old to appear when the man with the green Jeep arrived with the potato cannon. Notice in the picture there is a boy smiling next to the men with the cannon.That would be Isaiah. About 10 min. later there were about 30 kids crowded around the potato cannon man.
Isaiah is now saving his money to buy all the materials to build one.

Happy Birthday Isaiah!

I love you Isaiah! I can't believe you were once so small, and now you are almost 5 feet tall!
Happy Birthday to the best 12 year old in Hawaii!
Love,
Mom

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Maybe the next Sydney Pollack? No, better. Just my humble opinion.

He is more handsome than Brad Pitt, as creative as Nicola Tesla, and he wrote his first screen play at age 9.
His name is Isaiah.
What I like most about him is that I can have a conversation with him about silly stuff, or spiritual things and he understands. I love it that he has common sense too.He is a great kid. Sometimes, when he thinks no one is watching, he will do something really goofy though.