Ahoy There, Matey!

We enrolled Ava is a week-long sailing camp at the Lahaina Yacht Club.  They learned sailing lingo, etiquette, and most importantly, how to right a capsized boat.



Ava rigs the sails!



Ava and her cousin, Amelia, at the right side of the pack.  (A nice way to say last place...)



Ava getting back in her boat after tipping it while rounding the buoy.


Before the week began, my sailing knowledge consisted of knowing what "tacking" meant.  Pretty much I am still there, but I will sail with Ava any day.

Be Your Own Migrant Worker

Living in white suburbia doesn't afford many opportunities to teach my girls about living off the land.  We were granted access to a pineapple field north of here and set to work harvesting our own crop of pineapple.




The pineapple grow low, along the ground and one twist releases the heavenly fruit into our hands.  Picking is addictive and somehow we ended up with a whole trunk full of em.



What we don't devour, we have sliced up and are dehydrating.

Breaking the Cycle

The baby looked perfect. Arms, legs, heart, internal organs...everything you want to see. Except for this strange third leg in between the other two. Now I have never seen that on an ultrasound before. Weird, huh?

Neglect

Neglect---the worst form of abuse.

Apparently, what this blog is suffering from.

Here's my excuse...


(Baby coming Nov 16.  Will let you know sex next week.)