Chase is 40 Months Old!

Now I'm old enough to help Nana and Pop put away coasters at the end of craft fairs. I carefully carry them and sort them into the appropriately labeled boxes. Nana says next year I can replace Dad (who you can see is working really hard in the background)...and Dad is ecstatic.

I am pretending to be a viking as we watched "How to Train a Dragon" with Taiga and Aika. This is my serious viking look. Do I look intimidating?

Here we are at the beachhouse in Waianae with the Keanes. Colonel Patrick and Elizabeth are longtime friends of the Halsalls from when Pop was in the Army. They live in Florida now, but come to vacation in Hawai'i before Thanksgiving each year. It is a fun time to see them because they have cool Irish accents (They are originally from Limerick.), and they have all these funny stories to tell.




This year, we tried stand up paddleboarding and here I am standing on my bucket.

Pop and Colonel Keane "tried" to SUP. But they didn't really get the UP part. Mom and Dad were more successful.
They had the best cabin this year, with a big yard and private picnic area that could fit about 30 people, and this hedge surrounding the whole house, with a cutout view of the beach, and a patio bar table set right up to the hedge.



These days, I don't want to sit in my high chair anymore. I am a big boy, so I prefer to make my own table out of these stools. Oh, and I love to eat Vanilla flavored Activia yogurt.

Zack's 1st Month

GlamMa had fun meeting Zack and helping Mommy take care of him for a couple of weeks.






Mommy's friend Linh loves her "youngins" as she calls them. She stayed with both Marika and baby Zack in their first few days of birth when she helped Miya and Mommy by sleeping overnight in the hospital.
Marika is a few weeks older than Zack. Don't you love the cross-eyed looks and Moro reflexes of newborns?

Elizabeth and Colonel Patrick, friends of the Halsalls, were visiting from Florida on their annual vacation to Hawai'i. So, they got to meet baby Zack and he got to go to his first day at the beach at the beachhouse in Waianae.

Below is Jennifer visiting the house. Her daughter Jade was a bit jealous of her mommy carrying another baby.

Glam Ma's Here!

GlamMa has been visiting from California for the past week, so I've been getting reacquainted with her (since it's been a year and a half since I've seen her), and she and Mom have been decluttering and reorganizing the house like crazy. She's been sleeping with Mom in her room to help with baby Zack, and Daddy's been sleeping with me in my room (Mommy's hoping he doesn't forget how to get up in the middle of the night).

Tonight, she gets to watch me, feed me dinner, and put me to bed for the first time. Daddy, Mommy, and baby Zack are going to a wedding in Waikiki.

Glam Ma got me some cool socks and gifts from her trip to Japan this summer. Notice that I'm wearing my red superhero cape that Auntie Shelley gave me (with a sticker that Auntie Jolene gave me, that says "Awesome Big Brother"). I wear my cape proudly. Below, Glam Ma shows me her funny app on her Iphone...you know, the one where the cat copies what you say. I just couldn't stop laughing (and punching the cat in the face)!




It's been 4 weeks since we brought baby Zack home, and I love my little brother. I love giving him hugs (sometimes a little too hard, Mommy says) and kisses and petting his hair (I rub my face and hands all over his soft hair).




Here is a picture one of our friends from the ALS Support Group took of me when they had a baby shower for Mommy at Ala Moana Beach Park. He wanted to share it with a photography group he belongs to. Mommy thinks it's one of my best photos!