Honolulu Zoo

One morning, we went to check out the Honolulu Zoo!  Elodie wore her animal print dress, and since she seems to like to wear crazy outfits, I tried to get her to wear her giraffe print pajama pants with the dress, but she said, "No Mommy, that's too silly."  We saw lots and lots of animals.  The best part was definitely the gorilla with his frog friend and the spider monkeys (we didn't get any pictures of them...) 

Hi Monkeys!

turtles!

what's that?

rhinos!

watching the funny gorilla

Here is a little video of Elodie playing/thinking at the Zoo Playground.  The last 40 seconds is probably the some of the smartest and ridiculous things Elodie has ever said.

(She says something like:  E, that's for me, the first letter!  Oh my god, there's so many! I'm pooping! giggle giggle...)

Parks on Oahu

We went to a few parks on Oahu so Elodie could play.  It was fun for Elodie of course, but also interesting because we chatted with a few local moms and got a taste for local life (a very similar park scene to Brooklyn!)  I've compiled all the park pictures here... 

slide with Grammie (she would not take off the helmet!)

not sure what she's doing here

cool fish theme park at an kailua elementary school

omg, this is so fun!

together with mommy

contemplating the shark slide behind her

loving the swings

peek a boo!

dancin'

did you notice my crazy outfit? i picked it out myself.

daddy's fire department hat looks good on me

let's go!

Letting loose on the ball field...

Hang Loose Brah

While in Hawaii, we also spent some time at the pool.  Here's some pictures of Elodie looking cool in her shades, surfin' on kickboard with Daddy... 

Waimea Bay

One day we drove to the North Shore and spent a couple hours at Waimea Bay.  Elodie relaxed in a beach chair for a bit.

And had fun building sand castles with Grammie and Papa.

And then we decided to bury Daddy in the sand!

And helped him get out of the sand too.

We also played a little football on the beach and El showed off her new-found accent.  Is it a Brooklyn accent? We don't know...  but she likes to throw her football "up into the skoi!"

Lanikai Beach Day 2

On the second day in Kailua, we went to the beach in pajamas to try to recreate Elodie's famous beach crawl photo and decided to take the tricycle there.  Elodie was so serious about her riding and helmet!  She got a kick out of crawling on the sand and frolicking with Daddy!

We also found a little Sand Man and Elodie showed it to her Monkey... 

Lanikai Beach Day 1

Aloha!  Last month we took a 9 day vacation to HAWAII!  Elodie was great on the plane, though it was still a tough ride.  Elodie sat on our laps for 12 hours!  Except for about 45 minutes when she kicked out Daddy and he hung out in the airplane kitchen...  Despite the fatigue and jetlag, Elodie was sooo happy to be in Hawaii.  She got lei'ed by Grammie and Papa and then proceeded to pull Grammie while she ran around.  She loved our rental house with the long corridor and couldn't stop giggling.  Below are some picture from our first day at the beach near the house.  If you ask her what her favorite thing about Hawaii is she'll say, "the sand!"

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have to get more water

making sandcastles

waving to a helicopter