Thanks to everyone who followed along while we were on our Hawaiian
adventure! We've been back for over a week, and school started up
again today. It's a good thing I had a week off when we got back,
because it took poor Sethie (and all of us) quite some time to get
back on a normal sleeping schedule. You can't blame him - when it was
midnight here, to him it felt like it was 6pm). But after several
days and some advice from our pediatrician (Benadryl for a couple
nights before bed to get him back on track), he seems to be back on
schedule.
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We started the process of saying our good-byes this morning, sending
Tom
off to work and hanging out with the Williams family.
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This morning, Anne found a rocking horse that she had in the house and
thought Seth might like. She was certainly correct: Seth
had a great time rocking back and forth, and could even get on and
off it himself.
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We headed out this morning to pick up malasadas at Leonard's, and
brought them with us on a visit
to Sarah
White. She had a blast playing with Seth, and he had fun poking
around her apartment looking for her cat Lulu (who hid under the bed
most of the time). Seth even sat
still for a group photo at the end of the morning.
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Today we decided to take a drive around to the North Shore to do some sightseeing. We started with a trip up to the
Pali lookout, where we had a great view of the island. Seth thought it was very windy!
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This morning, Jason cooked a great brunch for the Williams, complete with eggs, bacon, and sweet bread french toast. It was fun to have a leisurely brunch together. Seth had been just a little fussy over the past couple days, and he had had an ear infection before we left home, so we decided we wanted to get him checked out just to make sure his ear infection hadn't come back. Anne told us about an urgent care center right in Kahala that was very good, so he brought him in for a visit. They were great - it was very quick, and they were very nice. We were happy to find out that Seth did not have an ear infection anymore!
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When we woke up today, Seth was excited to play with Tommy. Tommy, Ivana, Anne, Tom, and Bandit have all been very good sports about playing games with Seth. This morning, Seth created a game where he would
Bandit.
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Aloha Friday! Today we headed back to my old stomping grounds: Punahou School. Because school is still in session, we didn't set up too many appointments ahead of time. We just went and ran into whoever was around.
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We were very excited that Seth finally slept in until 7:00 am this morning! Yay for all of us! We got ready, and then decided to head off to the Honolulu Zoo before the day got too hot. We all had fun at the zoo. There were lots of animals, and Seth recognized many of them from his baby Einstein animals DVD. We saw elephants (Seth's first comment was "I get on him"), tortoises, monkeys, gorillas, flamingos, tigers (there was this very big picture viewing window where the tiger was on one side and you were on the other, very cool, but a little terrifying!), zebras, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, peacocks, and much more. Seth also had fun running around and playing on the playground.
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Seth had another early wake-up this morning (4:30am), so we took shifts with him until the sun came up and we were ready to face the day. We took the opportunity to catch up on some pictures, pre-cook some meals, and play with Seth in the Williams' lovely (carpeted!) living room.
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Seth woke up bright and early at 4:00am, but we managed to get him to go back to sleep for a couple hours before waking up for good at 6:30. After having some breakfast, we got our beach stuff together and headed down to Waikiki for our first beach trip.
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Today was our first full day on O'ahu. We were lucky enough to wake up to a beautiful rainbow over Diamond Head, so we knew our vacation was underway!
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It's been a very long day, but I'm pleased to report that we're
finally here in Hawaii! Seth was a very good boy on both of our
flights, and he got several compliments from his fellow passengers.
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Well, the day before Seth turns 22 months old we are scheduled to
arrive in Hawaii! We are so thankful for the people of Hawaii that
the tsunami missed the islands, and we can't wait to get out there and
introduce Seth to all our favorite sights! He will be surprised that
all of a sudden it is warm and we can go to the beach. I am also
looking forward to going to places I haven't been before, like the zoo
and the aquarium. We are very lucky to be staying with Cathy's
parents on this trip! We will try to update the blog a couple times
while we are there!
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