We spent a wonderful week in Hawaii celebrating Aidan's second birthday, last week. We snorkeled at Kahalu'u (Children's beach), splashed in hotel pools, and visited Kua Bay, Hapuna, Magic Sands. We filled up on strawberry papayas, liliquoi, li hing mui mango, dragonfruit, ahi in coconut milk over rice, poke, lau-lau, caramacs and chocolate coconut covered macnuts. Aidan warmed up to everyone quickly, decided to love the beach, and had a blast hanging out with cousins, Aunts, Uncles, and grandparents, having so much fun that he frequently fell asleep either in a car (on the way back from the beach), or on Daddy's shoulder. It was WONDERFUL!
Tuesday was Aidan's birthday, and it was great! In the morning, we all went to Kua Bay. There, Jon-Michael, Frances, Nana and Mama built an octopus sand castle with drip-drop turrets with a tunnel for sand balls to roll through; Miya, Gabe, Pop-Pop and Grandpa Ruane built an Incan walled city next door; and later Daddy led an expedition across a lava path to a point where Frances found a lobster head! The water was crystal turquoise, the water was calm and warm, and Aidan (and everyone else) blissfully soaked up the sun and floated in the waves.
After a nice afternoon nap for Aidan, the Ruanes, Rosses, and Mama's Aunt Helen and Uncle Bill all came over to Nana and Pop-pop's house for a birthday party! Aidan was thrilled with his pile of presents, and Miya, Rae, and Elsey did a great job helping him open them and try them out, leaving a trail of trains, dollhouse bridges, dinosaurs, trucks, cars, and truck books. After presents, we ate ahi and coconut milk, terriaki chicken, Maui onion chips, and more delicious food, drank banana daquaris (courtesy of Jon-Michael), and finished up with a "trash truck" ice-cream birthday cake (made by Mama, Jon-Michael, Frances, and Nana)! (Aidan actually asked for this: Mama asked him what he wanted to eat at his birthday party, and he said "cake!"; when she asked him "what kind? bus? truck? train?" he said "trash truck!" - so that's what we made!) Everybody had a great time. Mama and Daddy are so amazed that Aidan is really two years old!
After a wonderful week, we flew back to New York on a red-eye on Saturday night. Aidan was wonderful on the plane, sleeping during the Kona-Denver leg, and happily watching the Wonderpets on the DVD-player, reading truck books, and walking up and down the aisles during the Denver-NYC leg. Since then, we've been working on overcoming jet-lag, starting out going to bed at 1:30AM on Sunday, and slowly improving those numbers since then. Since Mama usually writes the blog at night time, that is why this post is so late! But the transition is worth it. We had a wonderful time in Hawaii! We hope it is not too long until our next trip back.
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