Finishing Off the Day

While the girls were napping I ran back up to Tripler to check in on Trey.  I took him up some dinner so he wasn't stuck eating the yucky hospital food.  Yes, I know, I'm a great wife!  I spent a little while with Trey keeping him some company and trying to keep him calm since he hates hospitals.  We also found out that Trey won't be getting out of the hospital until Friday.  He has to stay in longer than anticipated so that he can receive the proper amount of antibiotics to prevent any type of infection in his ankle.  That just means more work for me...back and forth to the hospital.  But I'm not complaining.  I'm superwoman.  I can do it!

I got home from the hospital and told my mom that Trey was staying in the hospital until Friday.  She was surprised too.  I was too tired to even think about dinner for us, so I took us all to one of our favorite spots, Schooner's.  It's a small little joint that sits right on the water.  I love going to eat at Schooner's because it's always peaceful and I get an awesome view.  Riley loves to look out at the water, boats, birds and ducks.  It's nice when she's entertained during dinner so that I can enjoy mine.  

Riley got to enjoy a popsicle for desert!  Hadley was wondering where hers was!

I ordered a yummy desert because I felt that I deserved it!  My mom helped me eat some, but Riley helped me eat even more.  When Riley saw my desert come out she dropped her popsicle so fast and came running over with her mouth open.  I didn't want to share with her, but I did!  I even let Hadley have a couple of bites.  Dinner at Schooner's was just what I needed to help me relax just a bit.

Busy Day

Needless to say with the events of last night I got very little sleep.  I headed up to the hospital early this morning so that I could take the patient some breakfast and check on him to see how surgery went.  We were expecting Trey to be released from the hospital today, but found out that he would have to stay another night.  So after spending some time with Trey and finding out he was alright I headed home to pick up the girls and my mom.  Despite the fact that Trey was in the hospital I decided to go ahead with our original plans and go to the zoo.  Riley was excited to go and there was really no need to cancel plans other than the fact I was exhausted.  Nothing a little caffeine wouldn't cure!  Off to the zoo we went.

Riley was fascinated by the elephants.  I think the size of them is what amazed her.  Then we were off to see the monkeys.  Riley loves monkeys.  That is thanks to the show Go Diego Go and the Bo Bo brothers that are in the show.  We spent a good amount of time looking at the monkeys and gorillas.  As a matter of fact I'm pretty sure my mom and I had to convince Riley that we were going to see more monkeys to get her to start walking again.  Here is shot of Riley telling us what a monkey says!  

Much to my surprise Riley was very interested in the reptile exhibit.  She was having a blast looking at all the different species of lizards.  They were just giving me the chills.  I'm so not a fan of lizards and snakes and creep crawly things.  Blek!  I was enjoying watching Riley and all of her reactions to the creatures though.  She wanted to climb over the railing to get a closer look.  

We stopped at the playground so that Riley could run around for a bit and I could feed Hadley.  We were also needing a water break.  It was a pretty hot day and we were all thirsty as could be.  Even Hadley was in need of some water.  I couldn't believe how much of it she drank either!

After our cool down time we went over to the Keiki Zoo.  This is the children's area.  They have a little petting zoo area in here too.  Of course after reading the sign that the animals may bite, spit, defecate, kick, etc. I didn't want to enter.  Kiki stepped in and saved the day because Riley desperately wanted to go and pet the animals.  Riley was having the best time walking around to eat animal and petting them.  I guess there were goats and I don't know what else in there.  But then I realized with me standing outside of the gate I was missing great photo ops.  I decided to run in super quick and take a few shots of Riley with the animals.  This is what I got!

Kiki and Riley probably walked around that little area five times.  Riley was in heaven petting each and every animal in there.  I think we could have left her there all day and she would've been fine with it.  Kiki got Riley to come out and they both got their hands washed.  We went over and looked at the pony and the cow.  Riley asked to ride both of them, but that wasn't a possibility.  It was just about nap time for both of the girls so we decided it was a good time to head home before any meltdowns occurred.  We weren't in the car two minutes and both Riley and Hadley were passed out!  I was only wishing I could join them.  Too bad I had to drive!

The Accident

Last night was like any other night.  My mom and I took the girls down to the park after dinner.  Trey rode down to the park on his dirt bike, as usual.  We were all heading up to the house because it was getting dark and close to bath time.  Riley was throwing a fit because she didn't want to come inside yet.  As I'm trying to get her into the house I heard a funky noise come from around the corner.  I thought Trey's chain came off of his dirt bike.  That's what it sounded like to me anyway.  So I didn't think anything of it.  I focused on getting Riley inside.  Once the girls were inside I left them in there with Kiki and walked back outside to check on Trey.  I see him pushing his dirt bike towards the house with a smirk on his face.  Then I looked down and saw him limping.  Once Trey got closer to me I saw that he was bleeding and his ankle was completely swollen.  I knew it was time for the ER.  Wonderful!  Trey was pulling a wheelie on his bike and went too far back and fell off.  The bike fell on top of his leg and the peg of the bike gashed into his ankle.  Nice, right?  

It was time for the girls to get their baths and go to bed.  I told Trey that either he could wait for me to get the girls down to bed to go to the ER or my my could drive him up to the hospital and then I would come up after I got the girls down.  Now I would've let my mom put the girls to bed, but Hadley still eats a little before bed and since she won't take a bottle I'm required at bedtime.  So my mom drove Trey up to Tripler and came back about an hour later.  Both of the girls were asleep so I headed up to the hospital.  He had been x-rayed and found out he had fractured his ankle.  But the doctors were more concerned about the open wound and it possibly getting infected.  Trey got some morphine to help ease the pain, but it didn't help too much.  Then he had about ten injections around the wound to numb the area.  I seriously thought I was going to vomit watching that take place.  I got all hot and sweaty, as if I was the patient or something.  Once the are was numb the doctor was poking around in the wound and Trey was in serious pain.  I'll spare you the rest of the details of examining his wound because it's making me nauseous just thinking about it.  Fast forward two hours...the news was in that Trey would have to have surgery because the joint was exposed and the doctors wanted to clean out his wound completely.  So Trey sent me home to be with the girls when the woke up in the morning because there wasn't anything more I could do for him while he was in surgery.  I got home around midnight and my mom was waiting up for me.  I told her what was going on and she couldn't believe it.  I could barely sleep last night thinking about my poor husband having to go through surgery.  Lord help me!

Waikiki

I thought it would be fun to take the girls and my mom down to Waikiki to walk around, grab some lunch, and just enjoy the glorious day outside.  We walked around the Hawaiian Hilton Village so that Riley could check out all the ponds filled with Koi and the little waterfalls that are located throughout.  Then we just cruised down the path by the beach taking in the beautiful scenery.  The weather was perfect for our day outdoors.  We went over to the International Market Place where they have tons of vendors selling all sorts of coral necklaces, pearls, and loads of other stuff.  I found a really pretty red coral necklace that I fell in love with.  Mom bought it for me for my birthday...thanks mom!  Then Riley picked out a necklace with a flip flop charm, so I bought that for her.  I got it for $2!  Riley was in love with her necklace because it matched the flip flops she was wearing!  The market place would be a much cooler area to walk around in if everyone wasn't trying to haggle you to buy something every two feet.  I was happy I got my necklace though.

Once we were done with the market place we crossed the street to enjoy lunch at Duke's.  I enjoy this restaurant a lot because it sits on the beach so you have a great ocean view.  It definitely gives you the vibe that you are on vacation in paradise.  We all sat back and relaxed during lunch.  Riley and Hadley were both fascinated with all of the birds flying around.  When Riley was done eating she decided that it would be fun to chase them around.  I'm sure everyone dining around us appreciated that!

Once lunch was done we walked back towards the lagoon because I promised Riley if she was a good girl I'd take her to the water.  Both of the girls dipped their feet in.  It really felt refreshing.  I'm pretty sure Riley would have gotten completely soaked if I had let her.  But we didn't have bathing suits, so I bargained with Riley to get her out of the water which meant we were heading to get a scoop of ice cream!  I normally don't do that, but she was behaving very well, so a special treat wouldn't hurt!

Shopping Day

I dropped Aunt Terry off at the airport this morning so she could go on her excursion to Maui.  I'm not going to lie, I am a tad jealous that she is going to Maui.  We were planning to go awhile ago when the Super Ferry went there, but the government got rid of the ferry before we had our chance.  That's ok, we'll get there before we leave to come back to the mainland.  After I dropped Aunt Terry off, it was time to take Riley to gymnastics.  Kiki was super excited to watch Riley at her gymnastics class.  Of course Kiki whipped out her camera during the songs and dance in the beginning of class, which Riley saw, and so Riley decided she wasn't going to participate.  Riley doesn't like her picture taken unless she wants it taken!  (If that makes any sense.)  Once it was time to do the stations and flip over the bars, walk on the balance beam and jump on the trampoline Riley was ready to go.  Kiki decided to keep the camera off and just enjoyed watching Riley.  

After gymnastics class we headed to Waikele to hit up the outlets.  It was lunchtime so we grabbed something to eat at Chili's first.  Riley scarfed down her pizza like she had never eaten before.  She also had to take every ones straw from their drink and put them in hers.  Kiki was on double baby duty.  Riley was sitting next to her so Kiki was playing with her and then whenever Hadley would drop her toy Kiki would pick it up.  I just sat back, watched, and relaxed.  But it's ok, I treated my mom to lunch for all of her hard work!!  Not to mention I know she was loving every minute of it!

So once our tummy's were full we walked across the street to start our shopping.  I really needed to pick some clothes up for the girls to get us through the winter.  The crappy thing here in Hawai'i is that they sell winter clothes here even though we are still wearing shorts and tank tops.  Therefore I have to stock up  on summer clothes while they are still being sold so that my girls have weather appropriate clothes to wear.  We first hit up Carter's.  Ahhh, I LOVE Carter's.  They have such cute clothes.  It was pretty funny to watch Riley shop with Kiki and myself.  I was grabbing things left and right and Riley followed in my footsteps.  She kept picking clothes off the rack and handing them to Kiki saying, "this, and this, and this."  It was too funny.  Riley even picked out an adorable jean skirt.  Yes, I said skirt.  I asked her if she was sure she wanted a skirt and she told me "yeah mama."  Well ok then!  The prices were so awesome I think I could have picked out one of everything but I held back.  I probably would have picked out more, but they actually already had a lot of cold weather clothes.  Time for the next store.

But before we could go into the next store we had to stop and let Riley ride in one of the cars.  We had to do this in between every store that had a ride!  It was cute.  Until I thought about all of the germs on them.  No worries, I whipped out my hand sanitizer and cleaned her right up!!

We were of to Osh Kosh B'gosh next!  Now, this store has just the sweetest things for kids.  We picked up some really cute things for Riley here.  They didn't have the sizes I needed for Hadley so she only got one outfit.  But I grabbed up a couple of capris(only $4.99) and some tops for Riley.  Riley also picked out a necklace, bracelet, and some rings that she just had to have.  Riley is blossoming into quite the fashionista.  I like it!

Next up was Children's Place.  I'm a big fan of this store.  They always seem to have cute outfits and have great sales.  I enjoy sales!  That's the only way I shop.  I think it's from all the years I worked retail, I just refuse to pay full price for clothes.  Especially with my munchkins that know how to trash some clothes.  I was a bit disappointed though because it was practically all winter clothes in the store.  I managed to grab up a windbreaker for Hadley, a pair of capris for both girls, two tops for Hadley and another top for Riley.  And do you want to know my grand total?  Ok, let me tell you!  It was only $9.56.  I almost passed out!  I'm a better bargain shopper than I though!  Thank you Children's Place!

So I thought we were done until I saw the Gymboree outlet.  Now I absolutely love Gymboree clothes but they are seriously way too expensive for me.  I just don't see paying those kind of prices for kids clothes.  Even some of the thing in the outlet were too pricey for me, but then I found a little watermelon collection.  OMG!  It had the most adorable outfits.  I was trying to buy all of it in both 3T(for Riley) and 18mos(for Hadley) but they were out of 3T in almost everything.  That's ok though,  I managed to snag up 2 outfits for Riley, 2 dresses and an outfit for Hadley.  I was in watermelon heaven!  They also had an adorable cherry collection, but I steered clear.

I had the most fabulous day with my mom and the girls.  It was a load of fun and great bonding time!

Sea Life Park

Today we all got to experience, for the first time, Sea Life Park.  I was super excited because I've heard awesome things about this place.  I've been wanting to take Riley for awhile now and I couldn't imagine a more perfect time than now with Kiki and Aunt Terry in town.  The first area we walked through had a giant aquarium tank with loads of windows for us to look through.  We got to see stingrays, sharks, and an assortment of fish.  Riley was in heaven and I think all of the adults were enjoying it too.  At least I know I was!

One of the first things we did was feed some sea turtles.  My mom went and got a cup full of lettuce and some other green veggies for the turtles.  I honestly think that Riley could have stayed with the turtles all day long.  She just wanted to keep feeding them more and more.

After feeding the sea turtles we decided to feed ourselves just a little.  It was pretty hot out so we all grabbed some drinks and split some french fries.  Then we headed over to watch the dolphin show.  The cool thing about Sea Life Park is that you can have encounters with the dolphins and/or seals.  So before the dolphin show started we got to watch some of the people who were swimming with the dolphins.  It definitely looked like a fun experience.  I'm sure Riley would've loved to do it, but you have to be at least 3 years old to participate.  Maybe for her birthday!  As soon as the show started it was time for Hadley to eat so I had to go find a quiet spot where I could feed her and still see the show.  Yes, I was that excited to watch a dolphin show that I was only able to feed Hadley if I could watch the show.  I honestly was a little upset that I wasn't able to see Riley's reaction to the dolphins jumping in the air.  But afterwards, seeing the smile on her face showed me just how much fun she had watching.  

After the dolphin show we walked around the park more and saw seals, penguins, and birds.  Riley was in animal and water heaven.  Kiki treated Riley to some dippin' dots, Trey got a funnel cake, and Aunt Terry and I enjoyed an ice cream cone.  It was hot out, so that ice cream was totally refreshing.  After the  ice cream break we headed over to see another sea life show.  This one was mainly focused on dolphins, but also included penguins and sea lions.  This time I got to see all of Riley's reactions which were absolutely priceless.  Hadley was enjoying the show as well.  Whenever the crowd would cheer Hadley would squeal super loud and throw her hands up and down.  It was adorable to watch.  By the time that show was over I think just about everybody was ready for a nap.  So we all packed up in the Tahoe and headed home for a little relaxation.

29 & Feeling Fine!

My oh my how the years just seem to fly by.  I can hardly believe that I have entered the last year in my twenties.  It seems like I was waiting forever to turn 21 and now I'm going to be 30 before I know it!  I'm not depressed at all about it though.  I just think it's amazing how fast your life goes by.  I'm happy that I had my mom and Aunt Terry in town to help celebrate my birthday this year.  Since we were going out to dinner later I decided we should do something low key earlier in the day.  We all went to Pearl Harbor so that Aunt Terry could see the memorial.  Yes, I know.  Pearl Harbor isn't the most upbeat place to be on your birthday, but it was something on the to do list while my guests were in town so I didn't really think much about it!  Not to mention I've been there a ton so I didn't watch the video that will bring you to tears.  I just let Aunt Terry watch that while mom & I played with the girls in the piping hot sun!  Riley thoroughly enjoyed the boat ride over to the memorial, as usual.  I felt bad for Aunt Terry though.  Normally on the boat ride they give you information about the USS Arizona and how much oil it leaks and how long it will leak for and some other instructions.  The sailors didn't say diddly squat!  It was kind of disappointing, but I don't think it affected Aunt Terry's experience.  

With the exciting part of my birthday behind us, we headed home to have some lunch and relax before it was time to leave for dinner.  Trey got home a few minutes after we did which is when he presented me with my birthday gift.   I open up my present to find a blue box.  Yes, a Tiffany & CO. box.  As I open the box I realize I have been tricked because it had a coach clutch in it, which I liked a lot.  Trey told me to open the clutch, so I did.  It contained a pretty necklace with an anchor charm(since he''s a sailor).  It also had money for me to go get my hair and nails done.  Of course I owe a big thank you to my Aunt Kathy who sent my mom here with a blue box to give to Riley with a pretty necklace.  I was totally jealous that Riley got one at age 2 and I had yet to ever receive one.  So thanks Aunt Kathy for Riley's necklace and for helping me receive my first blue box!  Trey did awesome on my birthday gift!  Thanks honey!  I also owe a  thank you to my dad & Miss Kathy, my Aunt Leslie & Uncle Time, and Madeleine for sending me birthday money,  I will be able to pamper myself thoroughly!!  Perhaps I should get all of my grey hair covered up!  

After opening my gifts the girls and Aunt Terry took their afternoon naps.  I just relaxed and chatted with my mom and Trey.  Then it was time to head to one of my favorite restaurants for dinner, Kona Brewing CO.  I love to go there and sit out on the waterfront and just enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.  Well it's normally relaxing, but not so much with a 2 year old and a 9 month old.  However, I still got to enjoy the company of my family and my scrumptious steak dinner.  Plus I managed to squeezed in a delicious brownie sundae contraption for desert.  Mmmm, I was definitely in heaven.  Except at that point I was 29 and feeling fat!  It was an enjoyable day and evening and I couldn't have asked for anything more!