First School Photo

So they thought to put a flower in her hair, brush her sweaty bangs, and give her a kukui lei. But no one told her to SMILE ??!!

She definitely has a heap of Melinda with accents of Ephraim. Cute girl, huh?

Smeagol Bus

We thought this bus was entertaining. Although I'd be too creeped out to actually ride it.

Ouch

Isaac is famous for hurting himself. In our playgroup the other moms were surprised if he DIDN'T have a huge bump on his head every week. This is one of his latests.

He rolled off the bed at night onto the floor and cut his lip. This was taken at breakfast the next morning. Poor little guy. What can I do to help him not hurt himself so much?

Thanksgiving 2008

We had Thanksgiving with the Pili's this year and enjoyed all the traditional dishes, even down to the cranberries.

Well, we enjoyed almost all the dishes, turns out Ella doesn't care for pumpkin pie.

But Isaac sure does.

It's nice to think about what we're thankful for, and at the top of the list is YOU, our family and friends both near and far. We love you!

So Po'

If only we had money to afford a real bunk bed for our kids. Oh well, this takes up less space. And doubles as a bathtub.

Tuesday's To-Do

It's always interesting for me to find my old to-do lists. Here's mine from yesterday.

• Drop off Ella at school (1/2 mile down the road)
  
• Call Maima (my friend who cleans our house--I had to tell her not to come today because Isaac is sick.)
• Stop by Barb's house (I had to pick up fabric for costumes I volunteered to sew for our stake Christmas play)
• Bug Bomb the house (never got around to that one because I wasn't out of the house for the required 3 hours, thus our cockroach population has one more day to increase)
• Get mail from Leone (our mailbox is about 10 minutes down the pothole road. We check it once a week because it's "so far away", and mail only flies in twice a week. Yesterday was a good mail day-- I got a letter from Sis. Fillmore in California, from Evie in Oregon, and the swimsuits for Ella I'd ordered from Lands' End, since there are surprisingly no swimsuits on island. Yay!)
• Get Ike's medical card at hospital in Faga'alu (so he can see the doctor. He has a cough. And skin fungus.)
• Pick up Ella
• Swim lessons at 2:30 (Cancelled because several kids have dengue fever. Yikes!)
• Return videos (to CTR video across the street--we watched Evan Almighty and Peter Pan.)
• Eph's play practice at 6 (He's Joseph in the stake Christmas play and has practice every night but Sun and Mon.)

And the rest of my day was spent sewing Roman soldier costumes that maybe look Roman, but not like soldiers. At least they're easy.

So what's on YOUR to-do list?

Ella's Bugs

Remember my run-in with little hair bugs in Fiji?



Well, now it's Ella's turn. I guess it just goes along with sending little kids to school on an island. I'm sure learning a lot about lice!