Power Outage in Oahu

So as many of you might know already last Friday Oahu lost power over the entire island. You also may know that the Obama family was vacationing here at the time so I would just like to show you this article written about the outage. WASHINGTON (Washington) -- Emergency crews were working to restore electrical service to Honolulu and across most of the Hawaiian island of Oahu following a storm packing heavy rain and lightning Friday night, reports said. Some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists, including President-elect Barack Obama, were affected by the outage. The storm triggered failures in a pair of power generators operated by Hawaiian Electric , a spokesman for the utility told the Associated Press. The utility's reportedly aiming to restore power by morning. Authorities dispatched an emergency generator to serve the compound where Obama's vacationing with his family, according to Gov. Linda Lingle. So they took generators to a resort where the Obama's were staying and the enitre island lost power, how awesome is that. Danika loved it, she got to play with the flashlight and see what happens when you push the button. Lowell and I were not so happy about it. We went to bed and it was freaking hot without a fan at least and no a/c either. We got power back on at 6am on Saturday morning and then we had to wake up and we didn't get much sleep. Well if this makes your day let me know.

Fun Pics of Danika

Here are some pictures of Danika being Danika, enjoy!!

Things Danika Says

So here are a few things that my 2 1/2 year old says, and most others can understand what is being said without translation from mom or dad: tower, water, shoes, socks, Wall- E, Eva, Mo, pants, poop, butt, deer, Manny, Tootles, castle, yes please, light pole, playground, head/hair, bed, seat, car ride, draw, open, MINE, cloud, sky, sun, moon/Luna, tree, rock, window, clock, bear, Einstein without the s, Turner, onkey(monkey), bunny, bald eagle, she can also count to 12 and then back down to zero. I am not sure if she really knows what she is saying is actually being understood by that tiny brain of hers, but it is fun to listen to. She also says away, paper, doodle, as in doodle pro, church, popcorn, cheese, piano. We watch baby Einsteins and they do the signing with the pictures and she will try to do some of the signs like book, flower, tree, and window. Who knows she may do a whole lot more when I am not looking, but I like to just watch sometimes because it is so fascinating to me how fast she is learning and growing. So next time you don't think you have anything to do, go and watch your kids and see what they are doing and learning when you are not around, who knows they could amaze you!!!

Just the cutest thing

Today we were at a play group and Danika loves going to this house because it has everything you can imagine. It has been through 11 kids and now lets others play with the toys that have been acquired over the 20+ years of growing up. Anyway today Danika just couldn't wait to go and she had found one of her hair ties. She likes to put them on her wrist and use them as bracelets. I asked her nicely to take it off and give it to me. You will never guess that she was going to give it to me, but she did, I then asked her if she wanted me to put her hair up for her and she went to her seat, sat down and said hair please. Which obviously means okay mom you can put my hair up. After I finished putting her hair up with out asking for a thank you she said, "Thank You Mommy!" How cute is that when your kid is polite without being asked to, and shows that she is learning the manners that you are trying to teach her.

Well we hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving and ate til you could no longer breathe, if that is what you are into, Lowell did, but I only ate what would fit without feeling like I needed to barf all over. Have fun today and tell someone a silly joke to make them laugh.