first bike

Kekoa's good friends, Milan and Kasper, got him this bike for his birthday! He is still a little short for it, but will be able to ride it by himself in no time. After dinner last night, I asked him if he wanted to go out and ride his bike. He was SUPER excited about it. He made sure to tell me that he needed his helmet, of course!! I pushed him around as he balanced on the bike. When he was done riding, Kekoa didn't want to take his helmet off. It was so cute, we were playing soccer with the helmet on and picking tomatoes with the helmet on. We actually came back upstairs and Kekoa still wanted to wear his helmet. I was a little nervous he was going to want to keep it on in the bath. :)
Today Kekoa wanted to show off his biking skills to baba. He made sure to tell baba to put his helmet on and off they went, speeding around the apartment. He wanted to keep his helmet on again. I think this is so funny because he used to hate it when I put his helmet on.

So early

The past couple weeks, Kekoa has completely changed his wake up time. He has never been an early riser but has decided that now would be a good time to start. He has pretty much woken up between 7:30 and 8:30 his whole 2 year existence until now. Now Kekoa is waking up at 6:00 or this morning thought it would be fun to wake up at 5:30! I tell him it is still night time (since it is dark out) and he needs to go back to sleep. This at least buys me a little time, he doesn't go back to sleep but will cuddle for a little while so I can slowly wake up. Once I am up out of bed, I can usually bring him into his room and snuggle with him some more on his bed. Needless to say, both Scott and I are completely exhausted as we get used to this new early wake up time!

no more "coldy treats"

On Wednesday afternoons, Kekoa and I have been going to the farmer's market to get "coldy treats" (shave ice). It was so incredibly hot today that I almost didn't go. The market is set up in a parking lot and the heat just radiates off the blacktop. But, today was the last day of the market until next May and Kekoa was asking for a "coldy treat", so how could I refuse. It is funny how the first time I took him to have a shave ice, he didn't really want it. Today he was holding it and sucking down the sweet juice. Notice how red his cheeks are...I told you it was HOT! :)

Hello? Sir Topham Hatt?

Kekoa has such a wonderful imagination. He has been playing "Sir Topham Hatt" with Scott, where he calls Sir Topham Hatt to tell him what is happening at the railroad station. It is so cute. (In case you do not have a child that is a train fanatic, Sir Topham Hatt is from Thomas the train, he is in charge of all the trains)

dinner buddies

Tonight Kekoa and I had a dinner date with Noah and his mama, Jessica, and Kasper and his mama, Tina. We were all a little nervous about how this would go...dinner out with 3 toddler boys...it went surprisingly well. We all got to eat (I should have taken a picture of the table when we were through) and the boys were so excited to be eating dinner with their friends. Kekoa loves having dinner out at a restaurant and even better that his friends were there.
After dinner, the boys had a blast running around. We found the perfect spot where they could run to their hearts content and they were contained!
Thanks for such a fun dinner date!

Before dinner, Kekoa met up with Noah at the park.







This "foot massage" sign was a big hit. Kekoa loved pointing to the letters and saying the alphabet.