Happy Birthday Joey

Last Sunday Joey turned six years old.

He was excited to see a sign for him when we got home from church.

But not as excited as he was when he saw the cake creation Liz made for him. She covered every detail--even talking the bakery lady into making huge donuts with chocolate frosting and brown and green sprinkles. He must have been surprised that she matched his request (see previous post and drawing) so well...

Imagination and Pronunciation

For the kids birthdays I usually let them choose what they want their cake to look like and then I try to create it. With Joeys birthday right around the corner I thought I better get an idea of what he wants. After several failed attempts of me understanding his explanation, he decided to draw it for me on the dry erase board. His explanation is a round cake with rainbow sprinkles on it and then on top of the round cake three very big donuts with green and black sprinkles on it and then a cherry on top. Hmmm, sounds interesting, we will see what I can create.

The way that Tori says some words is so funny. One of my favorites right now is licorice in Tori talk pronounced "tick-el-ish". She discovered this new treat after trick or treating this year and is always asking for green or red tickelish. The funny think is Tori is very ticklish and it give us a good excuse to tickle her every time she asks for tickelish. Probably not what she had in mind but you can never pass up a chance to hear her giggles from being tickled.

Halloween Mega-Post!

Halloween is one of our very favorite holidays (to be fair, there aren't many holidays we don't like, but still...). We especially enjoyed getting into full swing this year with a bunch of cousins around--a new thing for our family. Here are the pics:

We started on Halloween Eve, with a big roast dinner and pumpkin carving extravaganza at Chez Wihongi.

Joey with most of the Wihongis.
Dave and Inez with the black paint.
Baby Jonathan in his normal spot on the blanket, getting ready to roll away, no doubt.
The pumpkin 'workshop.'
We were even graced with a beautiful sunset out the kitchen window.
Here are the finished jack-o-lanterns, complete with one of baby Jonathan throwing up.

Halloween morning we went fishing, where Teina caught the biggest one.
followed by Tainui catching one that was smaller.
and Vaughn with one that was WAY smaller.
Soon enough, it was costume time. Here is our little Cinderella.
In deep thought.
Telling me about a bug that was crawling toward her.


This is what she did when I said "cross your arms in your lap."
But she eventually got it right.
Superman and Captain Jack Sparrow were there too.




Trunk or treating at the church, with the Lesue cousins.
Kewish, Lesue and Wihongi cousins getting ready to maraud. Cinderella was NOT happy at this point, but the night had a happy ending with lots of candy and an extra hour of sleep to boot.