Day 6 in Maui brought my nieces birthday. My SIL had to work, so my brother and my niece and nephew, and LFD and LF and I headed to the beach out past Kihei. I don’t know the name of the beach and it’s way to early to call my brother in Hawaii to ask. But this is the only picture I got from the beach excursion.
It got really hot, really fast that morning into the early afternoon, and we had to leave the beach ASAP. The kids started to show signs of burning which actually wound up not being sunburn at all actually. It was just the kids having water on their skin with their suits over it, making that part of their skin look paler than the rest which made it appear as though they were getting burned. But we left the beach. It took forever and a day to wrangle up the kids, get everyone de-sanded and dressed in dry clothes so they could sit in their car seats Before this day, I had no idea that my brother actually HATES the beach. Never knew that. Noted!
So we headed home, but on the way home we stopped at this store and I bought some fun little things for LylaBean and Lexi, because they are new babies and needed to be given a Hawaiian thing (Cass, you’ll get Lexi’s this weekend). So i did a little shopping and then we headed home. Later on in the afternoon after the kids had napped and were full of energy again, just before dinner, I filled up the baby pool for them to play in. They had a blast.
Li’l Foot LOVED the baby pool. (yes, that is the color of my brother’s house in the background of this next picture!)
She also loved when we turned the shower head on to rinse them off, because we wound up giving them their baths right in the baby pool too. Fun was had by all.
Can you stand that buddha belly? Seriously?
And she loved to have the shower rain down on her tush…heehee
We didn’t plan very well apparently though, because the bath came BEFORE the butterfly cake decorating!?!?!
My niece loves butterflies. What can I say? She LOVED helping mommy decorate her cake. (The middle piece that is the body of the butterfly is a twinkie…heehee
The following are pictures from her cake decorating adventures…My niece helped! A lot!
More icing here mommy…
You missed a spot here mommy…
This piece needs to be tasted for quality control testing…
We need to then test the smooshability of the icing by rubbing it all over our face mommy…
And then I’ll need to rub it in between my hands to make sure it’s just the right consistency…
And then more taste testing…
Mmmmmm…mmmmmmm…mmmmm…delicious…
The artists of this fine work of confection…
The piece de resistance…The confection…
Dinner was eaten, and the confection was ready to be consumed…
Only what’s that? In the corner? Oh Nooooooooooooooes…it’s the big older brother looming on the sidelines threatening to blow out his little sister’s candles for her and put a hole in the butterfly wing…
There’s the big “2″
By the way, how did my niece get to be TWO already? This is just insane.
Ohhhhhhhh noesssssssssss…here comes big brother’s hand, swooping in for the kill, watch oooooooout!!!
Phew…big brother’s wrath was averted…narrowly…but averted…
Mmmmmm…the ultimate test…lick the icing off the bottom of the candle…
Blowing the candles out on her cake…
Ohhhhh….wait…what’s this…big brother is back for round 1,543,976…ding.ding.
Alas she takes back full ownership of HER cake by hovering a bit too close to the 2 candle and nearly cinges her eyebrows off…
Hey, wait…didn’t she alredy blow that out…how’d that candle get lit again?
It’s like ground hog day…all over again…
Except maybe with more intensity…
Do it with feeling this time Lil….
Whew…that was a tough birthday cake blow out fest!!! Fun for the whole family…Oh wait, what’s this? Could it be? Why, yes, yes it is…Li’l Foot is clear across the other side of the table.
She was strapped in the whole time and never had a chance of stealing her cousins birthday thunder!!! “What cake?” she says through crumb encrusted lips!
nomnomnom
Oh look, niece and nephew enjoying their cake too!
Can we do this every day?
Yup, the cake was perfect…it’s potential for maximum smooshability and smearability was exact!!!
And delicious…
Oh, but wait…presents!!!
Wheeeeeeeeee…presents and cousins…fun!!!
Oooo…Ouch…Suddenly my knees hurt…in the OMG please get me to that knee replacement specialist kind of way…
I make you glamorous cousin Lil…
Oh wait…shhhh…she’s opening my gift now…
oooo ooo ooooo, she likes it…there’s a smile…
Happy Birthday to my niece…ummmm…3 months ago. That was a fun day. A good time. And I am so happy we were there to celebrate her birthday with her. These are memories I am so happy I caught on camera. There’s video too. I’ll have to make videos of Hawaii a separate post altogether. That one should be fun.
Guess what, the next day we venture off on our OWN!!! Just our little family. We do some fun things. Sorry it took so long to get this day up, but with the crazy November we had and NaBloPoMo…and then the start of a crazy December, it’s been rough. I’ll try not to let a month and a half pass by before I post day 7.
I ♥ those little turtle earrings on lil’foot.