Here's to tradition!!!

There's a Palauan tradition when it comes to girls. First of all, it's a very special thing to have a girl in my family. Being that women rule Palau, the more girls I have the happier my Edil is (that's Grandma in Palauan). Don't get me wrong. My Edil LOVES all of my kids, including the boys. But again, a very special thing when we have a girl. So the Palauan tradition is, when you have a girl right after they are born you shave their head to make it thicker. When I was born my mom shaved my head and I'm pretty sure her mom did it to her too. Well, for a long time I didn't think I would do it but recentley my brother J.J mentioned that I should shave her head because she kind of had a mullet. He was right! She definatley had a mullet and has had it for a while. Her hair was growing really long in the back and would break off really easy in the front. So I got to thinking about Bubba's hair before his first haircut. And how when after we first cut it the texture changed from being like Kickboxer's hair to my hair. So I thought..what the hay! Hair grows back and she sure could pull off a shaved head. Not only did she pull it off..soon people are gonna be shaving their heads too so they can look as cute as our Lilybug. So here are some before photos.















Hanging out with Daddy.


























Saying goodbye to her beautiful locks.














Shaving it off!













Beautiful after photo! I call her my lil Natalie Portman.

Musical Palauan Princess

The other day while visiting at my parents house, Lilybug was going through the toy box that my mom has for all the kids and she found this colorful block toy and decided it would work perfectly as a necklace for her. Shortly after my mom and I noticed it looked a lot like palauan money. Anyway, Lilybug would not go home without it. So a couple days later I was doing dishes and I found my talented baby girl on the kitchen floor doing this.

Daniel's baby blessing

Well, we were finally able to bless our beautiful sweet boy before he could walk up there on his own.














It was a beautiful baby blessing.














As always, Kickboxer did a wonderful job blessing the baby. My Mom,Dad and Moey were able to be there. That meant the world to me.















They had to leave right after the blessing so I got pictures of my family with the baby. But I'm kinda bummed cause we didn't get any pictures with Ian and his family with the baby. But they were definatley there.

Kai's new shades

The other day we made a Walmart trip and Lily saw these sunglasses and insisted that we get them. I decided she looked way too cute to pass them up. Here she is strutting around the house.

Our handsome stud

If you ever want to see the grown up version of our beautiful boy Daniel just look to my gorgeous brother Moey. Gosh, it's like I've traveled back in time sometimes. They look so much a like..it's crazy!!! I've always felt so lucky to have such a stud as a younger brother and now I get to re-live that excitement with our baby. Not too long ago my brother dug up this little tuxedo sleeper that he used to wear when he was a baby out of storage. The gnarly thing is I soooo remember holding Moey while he was wearing this! He has now past this cute tuxedo on to our Danny. Behold, Moey's doppelganger...Daniel! What a cutie! I only wish I could find a picture of Moey in it. I also have to take this opportunity to talk about how sweet of a baby we have. He is absolutly, without a doubt the sweetest, smiliest baby I have ever encountered in my life. And I have held and met a lot of babies in my day. I'm such a blessed mama to see his sweet smiles everyday!

Danny Boy is 3 months old!!

Danny Bear is now 3 months old!! Wow that went by way too fast!! These are pictures taken within the last couple weeks so he isn't exactly 3 months old in these pics but who cares?? They're cuter than heck and that's all that matters.

The Many Emotions Of Kai Lily

Sweet baby Lily.



















Crying about who knows what.



















Still crying.


















Suddenly stops crying and strikes a pose.


















Being playful.














Crying about who knows what...again.

















And back to sweet baby Lily. It's quite a job to stay on top of Lilybug's emotions but we sure love it and wouldn't have it any other way.