Bath Time

This is how Warrior 4 takes a bath to release stress.

CHEER!!!

I wasn't a very good cheer mom for Princess. We went to the football games twice. Not to watch the game but to watch my little Princess cheer. I love her facials. Maybe I am just being biased but she is maturing to be a beautiful and lovely young woman. She is so grown up! Oh, my "gulay"! Time does fly.

Here are some pictures that we've downloaded from her fellow cheerleaders.

First Wind at Kahuku!

at the Kailua Shell Gas Station

CAR WASH ANYONE?

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Girls in action in the rain.

Car Wash. Long day for me and Warrior 4 who hung around the Kailua area.

There's Princess in the back talking to her neighbor cheerleader. Check out her calves.

Esther Pasi and Princess. Just lovely.

Cute the hair! I curled her long hair every night before game days. She went to seminary and school with the curlers in her hair. Used tons of aerosol hairspray.

Cute candid shot of the girls!

uy! Who did your makeup? Some funkiness going on with the eyes! YOu are sparkling like one ornament from a christmas tree.

"Dude! Everyone's eyes looked like that, Mom! The girls sweat and wiped them off." Princess didn't sweat that much.

JV Red Raiders! They placed 3rd in the East and OIA.

Guess where she is at? Far left or far right?

Good days and Not so Good Days

Wakes up crying from a nap. I don't know why?

Clean that boogie off da nose and then he goes back to sleep.

Warrior 4 wakes up in a better mood and he looks good.

.................so he starts combing his hair.

Yes, please comb that fuzzy bush. =)

piano

i was wondering why it was so quiet...

i come out and this is what i saw

headphones set

piano on

demo song full on playing

warrior 2 pressing on the keys

future piano player like sister and Daddy?

Downward Dog

Warrior 4 doing the downward facing dog pose. =)

Play = Exercise

Warrior 1 and Warrior 4 enjoying themselves playing right outside. "ray" playing with "whoawhoa" =)

Surprise!

I don't work but I babysit. I am able to stay home and have been blessed by this opportunity. I would get calls here and there to watch their little precious ones. I have a total of 4 young ones, ages 3, 1 and under one.

Anyway, this one particular day in October...as I was about to change one doodoo diaper...there was one big scary gross surprise in the wipees container. It totally freaked me out! What the heck is this? HOW IN THE WORLD DID IT GET IN there? Is it dead or alive? Who would put that in there? EEW!!!! Short story made shorter...just look at the pictures below.

Is it dead or alive?

from left to right: we have the hammer, the ginormous centipede and Warrior 4

It was so alive. I killed a centipede!

Good Morning!

Warrior 4 awakens me at 3 a.m. "Mama, dede. Dede." At least he doesn't whack my face anymore to wake me up. Time to eat again? Well, after 10 minutes or so he goes back to bed. At 3:30 a.m. he is up and wanting to eat again. Nurse, nurse, nurse. Hello! Can I sleep now?

Just as I was about to fall asleep... Princess wakes me up at 4 a.m. She wanted to go try the INSANITY workout at the Kahuku chapel I mean the cultural hall. Girlfriend...that doesn't start 'til 4:45 am. Why so early?

Anyway, we went. It was a great workout. I had to modify all the plyo movements. I am no longer a spring chicken...my knee joints aren't as good. So, I modified a lot. I still broke a sweat. Princess plans to make it our Tuesday and Thursday workout date. She tells me that she wants to get me healthy and fit. Aww, too cute. I need to lose 5 more pounds. I hope this will help me accomplish that.

I feel good. I'm grateful for all my many blessings. My family. My honeybuns, the King who works so hard to support us. I'm grateful for him because I can be a stay-at-home-mom. I can enjoy watching my little and not so little GooBabes grow up. Seeing them laugh, cry, work together, whine, tease, yell and all that wonderful and not so wonderful stuff makes me go nuts and crazy about my GooBabes. That just means we are normal.

Anyway, I am going to have a good day today. =) I need to cook rice now.

We're BACK!

Well, it's been a good half a year since I really posted anything interesting, boring, dramatic, chaotic, negative, positive and all the ups and downs of life. Well, life has been really good. We've been in our new place and we are loving it. It is still not quite in order but it is now our new HOME. We finally had our yard sale at the Keni's yard on the 13th of this month. We did good for just posting the night before that we were having a yard sale. I got rid of all my stampin' UP stuff. All 3 years worth of collecting and making making things.

Anyway, this move has been a blessing because it has helped clear some (a lot) of clutter. I don't know how many truck loads of stuff we took to the dump that we were just hanging on to. We've donated a lot of things to CP and Salvation army but we are not done yet. We still have a lot of junk.

I don't have a garden yet. I hope all my plants in the container survives. They've been neglected. Oh, the Goobabes now have to weekly clean the yard. Rake the leaves of the ULU tree and mow the lawn. I prefer weed eating. (I know what your thinking. No, not me eating the weeds.) It's so much easier I think.

Since the move, the Goobabes have learned to be more mindful about using electricity, water and being more frugal.

Warrior 1: To save on electricity, he thought that he wasn't supposed to use hot water to take a shower. I found this out when I was talking to the Warriors one afternoon, a month after we moved ! Oh, hello! Warrior 1 had been taking cold shower for a whole month.

Warrior 2: He is the electricity police. He reminds everyone to turn things off when not in use. He unplugs chargers that are not charging any device. He tried saving his bus passes by taking the early or late bus since they just let them go without checking for the passes. That didn't last long because they weren't guaranteed a spot on the bus.

One day after school he came to me and said that he wanted to serve lunch everyday...so he wouldn't have to pay for lunch. I said okay and asked him if he didn't mind doing that everyday. He responded and said ..."wow, what is so hard about taking a plate and handing it to the next person?" So, a couple of days later he brings home the permission slip that I had to sign so he can start right away.

Princess, busy with cheer leading, fundraisers, practices and games. School work, seminary and piano. She was hardly home.

Speaking of Warrior 4, who is now a year and a half old. He is starting to mimic things we say. He was pretty good at saying Dada and MahMah! Then he started combining different words he knew. Like mahmahda. dadamahmah. dadamamawuhwuh. HI! beebee. dadamamawuhwuhneirees. He learned to say Warrior 1's name 1st. "WuhWuh". It was always, WuhWuh this and WuhWuh that. Then he learned how to say Warrior 2's name: Ree and now he says, Rees. He calls Warrior 3: Neigh. Warrior 4 is still learning Princess' name.

Warrior 3 is still into legos. He is in the 3rd grade. Mr. G said that he is one great scientist in his class. He has good days and bad days.

A lot has happened and my head is just loaded with random things that are flashing from the past 6 months.

JUNE: summer came and went.. PAP SMEAR. bleh! Weighed myself after a year of Warrior 4's birth... I still weigh the same after all this time. I need to lose all this extra baggage! I'm going to lose 20 lbs!!! I WILL! I WILL! I need to learn zumba routines and teach RELIEF SOCIETY sisters in July once a week. I need to! This will be one of my projects for PERSONAL PROGRESS.

JULY: ZUMBA TONING AND AQUA ZUMBA TRAINING, shared routines. practice a couple of routines at BYU. I choked but what the heck. I need to start somewhere. Mistakes and all. I'm hanging! I'm out of breath! that's not good.

School is going to start again. I don't even have school supplies. Lucky thing I just have one in elementary. I just gathered whatever we had at home. Recycled old and not very used composition books and glue and blah blah blah. Good to go. The older 3 just needed filler paper, writing tools, back packs and that's basically it. I'm so not prepared for school to begin.

AUGUST: packing and moving. I have little K and Warrior 4 playing in the boxes as I pack.

Blessings! Single adults from Bishop A. Christy's ward help paint. Friends help move junk out of garage. (that's a lot of JUNK!) Uprooted the garden. missing my lilikoi and papaya trees. I have to start a garden over.

SEPTEMBER: unpacking, decluttering, and (re)organizing. Babysitting resumes. Blessings! I get a raise! Thank YOu K family. Another blessing...I get to watch another baby. BAby Tyde. Baby Tyde cries for his mum...Warrior 4 also cries and throws a fit. It is all good.

Goobabes busy with Cultural presentation for the temple re dedication in November. The King is there with his sound system.

Service project at Sunset. The King is in charge of making breakfast, at least the meat section. Someone else made eggs and rice.

We still have a lot of clutter.

The KING's birthday is this month. Didn't do anything special. Sorry King.

The King planned our PEC social. Ballroom dancing taught by the OLEOLE'S at the Kahuku Chapel's cultural hall. The King made dinner, decorated and set up using whatever we had at home. It turned out beautifully. Simple and sweet.

Cheerfest was that same night. After Warrior 1 and 2 finished with the setup at the cultural hall, they walked over to the high school to watch the cheerfest where Princess was a part of. They got soaked that evening. It poured and the cheerfest still went on! At the football field. Die hards.

OCTOBER: Ward Camp. Princess had another birthday. We didn't really camp. We just set up the tent and spent a couple of nights there. Relieved that we didn't have to bring all the camping gears and the whole kitchen or should I say...the whole house. Camping is a lot of work but it's all worth it seeing kids enjoy themselves.

General Conference. Yummy feast at the FKTV home.

Still a lot of clutter. Trying to organize stuff for yard sale. I just want it all gone!

I can sense stress building around me. Feeling SNAPPY, crHAPPY, MOODY, BUSY. Some one's stress bubble is going to explode!

Warrior 3 at the shopping center selling POPCORN to help support the scouting program.

The day before my birthday... full of drama. Miscommunication. UGLY. Scary experience. The bubble EXPLODED! I hope it will never happen again.

I had a birthday. I got a lei. Quiet day. A lot of FACEBOOK friends and family greeted me. YW sang to me during opening exercises and got dark chocolate covered MACADAMIA. yum! After church was silent and gloomy. I got sugar cookies from MELISSA WILSON later that evening.

4th Wednesday of the month is Pack meeting! No new awards. I haven't worked with Warrior 3 since our move. =( I need to get back on the ball.

Pack meeting over....on to the parking lot for our Ward's trunk or treat! While the King and the two older Warriors help the King set up his sound system at Malaekahana. "Meet and greet your candidate." Some dude name _________Martin. Gosh, the King is just all over the place. SERVING! Yes, I can't complain because I know service brings blessings. We have been recipients of many blessings. So, we must serve others. I must not grumble.

NOVEMBER: PRENATAL YOGA TRAINING, more cultural celebration practice. Temple open house. yard sale. got to see Uncle Lehi and Aunty Jenn. Gramma here for the temple rededication. Beautiful ceremony. Watched 1st and 2nd session. Thanksgiving@the NAUMU'S with Gramma and Grampa Goo.

PRESENT: Well, i've babble on. You probably want to see pictures of what the GooBabes look after all these months. I will do that later. i must go to bed now. Or perhaps learn another routine for Zumba class tomorrow. GUESS WHAT! I'll do that another day.

Lego Creations

Warrior 3's lego creations. He loves to build things. He made this one without any instructions. Pretty cool, eh?

*November 15, 2010

Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy

Warrior 2 is finally getting his tonsils and 1/2 if not most of his adenoids removed. Why is he getting them removed? They are huge! They touch each other. It makes Warrior 2 snore. He speaks through his nose. He always had enlarged tonsils since he was little but the ENT we saw when he was younger... said not to worry. Yes, we saw this ENT twice (he was an older man--ready to retire) 1st when Warrior 2 was 3 and then a couple years later when he was 5. Still, this ENT didn't see the need to have them removed.

So, 7 years later...during one of the Gooey Goos routine check up, I asked Dr. Douglas Sutherland to have another look at Warrior 2's tonsils. He agreed that they are HUmangous! He referred us to another ENT and long story short.. Warrior 2 is going through tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

Today is the day. His ENT is Dr. Lenhanh Pham Tran. We went to Kapiolani Hospital. I had with me Warrior 4 and Little K. They were so good. For lunch we went to the cafe. Warrior 4 was so hungry he was going a little nuts. Anyway, not much to do at the hospital but walk around.

Here are some pictures before the operation.

All smiles!

He doesn't like taking pictures. arrrrrrrgh!

check out these bear paw socks.

Warrior 4 and Little K being patient.

Warrior 4 getting antsy. He is wanting to get out of this stroller.

What is showing on TV guys?

Finally free from his little umbrella stroller.

Got the IV in. Did it hurt?

All smiles until the end.

We didn't leave the hospital until 3PM. It was another long day.

Liquid foods. No school for 10 days! lots of popsicle and pain meds. You can do this!

new sink!

Yey! New sink is finally installed! CheHOo! Great find on craigslist! Thank goodness King is a very handy man. =)

KING and the Warriors finished stripping and rewaxing the floor at the old house. The house is in such disarray.

I wonder how long it'll take us to finally settle in? Blogging will definitely be put off until there is some organization. I tell you ...the inside of the house looks like a hoarders house. Anyway you look wall to wall and floor to ceiling... there are stuff? ugh!

I better get off and start sorting through our junk. Laters.

What pose is this?

Princess posing while waiting to be picked up from practice. Her friend Tiff took the picture.

*September 2010

Empty house

GOOBABES emptied and cleaned the house all night (Fri) until 6am (sat). napped for an hour. 7am YSA and their leaders came and painted the house while the goobabes washed window screens. showered at friends house. mini BYUH Alumni get together with the Shortland's. Enjoyed the MANGA with sauted ARAMANG...King drove to MIlilani ..spending the night with the NAUMUs..slept from 5pm to 5:30 am. now I'm all caught up with sleep. =) Thankful for my many blessings.

cars!

Warrior 4 is enjoying Little K's toy car. It's a torquise Dinoco 55 from the movie Cars. He likes little boy toys. We had a crate full of little cars but got rid of them before I got pregnant. Since Warrior 3 was into Legos and were not playing with the little hotwheel cars I got rid of them.

We Are Truly Blessed!

Heavenly Father knows each one of us. He sees the big picture. He blesses us daily. He loves us. We are truly blessed. Things don't just happen coincidentally. The Camblin's moving out and we are moving in.

Well, we found a place. We are not moving far. Just 4 houses down the road. =) Mean huh? We are all relieved and happy. The rent is a little more than what we are paying now. Plus we now have to pay for our own electricity. However, we are very grateful and feel very blessed.

What Happened?

After being MIA from blogging I noticed that most of my pictures from my older posts are gone? What happened?

What a Way to End the Summer

Well, the King wakes us up and calls everyone to the living room. He takes a breath and says, "I have bad news." He picks up a piece of paper and looks at it and then hands it to me and suggests that I read it. At the the top of the page it read: NOTICE TO VACATE AT THE END OF SPECIFIED TERM--RESIDENTIAL.

YES, Mr. Blevins is not renewing our lease which expires the end of this month. Wow! I didn't see that coming. Mr. Blevins told the King that since his kids are now in charge of managing all his rentals...his kids were the ones who wanted to renovate. The house sure needs that but we are bummed. The King is overwhelmed with emotion ....composes himself and tells me and the kids that we are going to be alright.

That means we have to pack all our stuff which we've accumulated in 11 years in less than 30 days. Where do I begin? School starts tomorrow, orientation for Princess and WArrior 2 and back to babysitting...The King still has to go to work.

Where are we going to go? If we don't have a place...we will be homeless...the kids will qualify for free lunch and free bus transportation. That's looking at it as the glass half full! LOL. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Be positive yeah!

So, our summer ends.

Writer's Block

I don't know what to write. A lot has happened but I haven't made the time to post anything yet. Warrrior 2 has graduated from elementary school, he's had a birthday, we went hiking, gone to the beach a lot more than usual so they are so dark right now. I finished reading the BOM. I still need to lose weight. I need to work on Personal Progress. Practice some more ZUMBA...because I'm subbing sometime in August. The Gooeygoo Babes are driving each other nuts. They are driving me nuts. Helping Warrior 3 work on getting his Bear Badge...(I think that is what's next) Trying to grow a garden. Trying to get organized...but seems impossible. ugh! Driver for Princess to cheer practice, fundraising and car wash.

this is all for now. Princess is taking forever to change. She's been in the room for 20 minutes. How long does it take to put on practice clothes. Hello?!

Camp Pupukea

Warrior 2 attended Camp Pupukea this year. He paid for it with his own money. Warrior 1 could've gone but he didn't. He was being Chinese with his money. Kuripot. Anyway, it was a rainy week and the boys' tent got wet and muddy inside. Ewww! Not my kind of camping.

Here we have some beautiful greens.

Just lovely.

Warrior 3 being inventive.

Playing with the stick on the wet ground. He should've worn his shoes. Now his feet is all muddy.

Ready. Aim. Fire!

Warrior 2 missed his little brother.

Having fun as usual.

Cracking up over a stick.

Simple JOY. PURE JOY. I love it. I hope they remain this way even when they grow up.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Warrior 4 sees me!

Wall Climbing

The Climb!

Horizontal Climb.

One rock at a time.

Remember not to go up.

But you can try just for fun.

Effortless finish.

That's cool.