Back to Hawaii

Hey, remember these guys?



Well, here they are again -- it's one year later, Jonah is bigger, Mommy and Daddy have a few more grey hairs, and we're all back in Hawaii!

From Hawaii (2008)

That's right, at then end of May we took a last-minute trip to Kauai, Hawaii. This was a vacation on toddler time: we didn't go to far (mostly just to the beach, and occasionally for a hike), took naps in the afternoon, and tried to go to bed early. Jonah was much more mobile this time around, of course, and enjoyed sitting in the surf and playing with sand. We took a few pictures too, which you can access with the link in the photo above.

"And was it relaxing?" you ask (as everyone did). Well, here's a little slice of life on vacation with a toddler. Watch it and you be the judge.

Jonah Talks!

But wait, there's more: now he talks too! Jonah's vocabularly has been growing steadily over the last few weeks. Popular words include: agua (water of any shape or size, from drinking water to the Pacific Ocean), 'nana (banana), 'ack-ack (cracker), shoes, socks, hat, doggie, cat, duckie (for both ducks and more or less anything else Jonah can't figure out the word for), horse and 'ish (aka fish). Jonah also has a few signs, like the sign for more (fingers pointing at palm) and his own one-of-a-kind sign for music, which involves waiving his hands like a maestro while clucking his tounge.

We tried to capture some of this on video -- here's the result: