DIY and our New Sofa!

Hello Again. Here is another night of blogging for me! Crazy huh? Now this is a post to update you on other things that I am so excited about!
have discovered.. Mod Podge. If you have never heard of this amazing product then let me just tell you... its like magic. Its amazing. You can make remarkable things out of Mod Podge. What have I made you ask? Nothing. Not one thing. Because I couldn't find it anywhere in town and finally drove out of town to the only place I knew would have it. Michael's. Now, even though I haven't done any sort of amazing things with this miracle making glue I have seen soooo many DIY projects on other blogs that come out so cool. If I knew how to add a link that would take you to one of these blogs so you can see these Do It Yourselfers.. I would. But I don't know how to do that. So Sorry! When I figure out more of this blogging stuff I will show you :) So I give you a picture of the Mod Podge.

And I realized tonight that I didn't show you a photo of our new couches! This is the sofa and we also have the matching loveseat. The photo shows them a lot more blue than they are green. We thought they were blue, but they are actually more of a blue/green which we didn't notice until they arrived. But we love them still. It makes me want to change everything in our house! We have a lot of black furniture and i really want more white and cream colors with these pieces. AC really wants a piece of furniture with alligator skin. We are big fans of Color Splash: Miami and David Bromstad always has an alligator skin piece. When I find a good one I will definitely have to snatch it and bring it home with me.

Oh and I'm sorry about my blog layouts. I am so frustrated because I can never get my posts to look the way I want them to, and the photo loading is so difficult. So my last post didn't make any sense as far as the "captions" for each photo. I promise it made sense as I was typing them, but after I publised they made NO sense. And now I am trying to figure out how to change my layouts and play around with the templates and that just made things worse. But whatevers. Its cool. At least I get the message out.
Aside from making my own cloth diaper (which I have yet to start, but am going to tonight) I have many other projects/things I have to start doing:

1. I'm sewing pillow case covers out of old curtains. Well they are actually new curtains that I bought and we decided not to use. They looked funny hanging on the wall, but will be perfect on the new couches.
2. Making my cloth diapers of course...
3. Spray painting a plastic side table from Wal Mart and Mod Podging it into something fantastic. For those of you who don't know what Mod Podge is let me just tell you... its like magic. You can do amazing things with Mod Podge.
4. Mod Podge and food coloring some old jars, spray painting and fabric covering some old wall art.

Okay so now I am going to start my cloth diapers. I bought some water prrof "dry baby" material for my cloth diaper and found that it was 9.99 a yard. OMG. So I then found some Gerber waterproof diaper covers, 4 for $1.50 at Wal Mart and bought them a few sizes too big. I am going to try to cut them and sew those into the cloth diaper. We will see if it works, and if not... at least it was less than two bucks!

Hello Again!
Here are a few spanshots from random events over the last three weeks.


The photo on the far left is another from our family photos.

This photo here on the left is from the Aloha Festival! Thats right, we had to take Kekoa to the festival of his Homeland. Duh! He slept through the whole thing, but the hawaiian music in the background was all he needed to feel close to his roots. :)

This is Kekoa with his "Puna".. (AC's mom) He is Sound asleep at Auntie Linda's BBQ.

On the far right.. that picture pretty much speaks for itself. Kekoa is officially a ladies man. He has Kenley on the left and Lailah on the right.




OH MY GOSH isn't he adorable? I just can't get enough of my little man. We've been doing so much these last few weeks and each time I stop to look at these photos it just blows me away, yet again, at how big is growing and how quickly it is all happening. I don't want him to grow up yet, I want him to stay little and never leave me!

Here is Kekoa with his sticker from Etsy! He was actually 5 weeks and 2 days in this picture, but its close enough to one month. I ordered the stickers a little late. Be ready for his two month picture on October 7th! I am going to take his picture each month with an update of all his accomplishments. Last night, he woke up AC and I by pretty much trying to talk to us. He was making all kinds of happy noises at 5 this morning and AC and I were cracking up. It was like he found his voice! And he also just recently found his hands! He LOVES to grab his face. He will get a good grip on his nose or his hair and he won't let go. haha It makes me laugh everytime. He has been sucking on his Bink for a while now, but lately he's decided that sucking on his fist is so much better. Its adorable.

This is my Papa and Kekoa's Great Papa :) Can I just say that both my Noni and Papa LOVE him. Oh my gosh. They LOVE him soooo much and get so excited each time we make the trip up the mountain to their house!

On a Side Note we are going to try....
CLOTH DIAPERING. We were going to cloth diaper, but then decided to just use disposables... which are totally burning a hole in our wallets. We go through about a package a week... which is about 80 bucks a month. UGH. SO, I decided to try to sew my own cloth diapers using the New Conceptions pattern called "Poo Pockets". I know I said this before, but now I am very serious about it. I just purchased all of my own materials and now I am going to give it a whirl. Wish me luck and I will post pictures of my diapers as I attempt to sew them! :)

7 Weeks already...? REALLY?

Hello Everyone!! We got our photos back from Caitlin O'Reilly Photography. Well, these are just the ones that are on the CD because I haven't scanned the other ones yet! But here they are!!

So much has happened these last few weeks! Kekoa has finally hit seven whole weeks!! OMG. No WAY. Reeeaaallllyyy?? Has he really been in this world and out of the womb for seven whole weeks. This is crazy... Time is flying by too fast!!
















Here is the little man update:

1. On September 14th, and at five weeks old, Kekoa officially weighed in at 14lbs 3oz. O. M. G. He is officially in his 3-6 month clothing.
2. His eyes are very blueish greenish with only a HINT, and I really mean a hint, of brown. This excites me more than anything! I hope and hope and hope that his eyes are somewhat like mean. Which leads me to number 3..
3. He still looks nothing like me and everything like AC. In the beginning this was just adorable, but now its just irritating! I mean come on!!
4. He is very good to me at night. He usually sleeps a good five hour stretch each night with another three hour stretch to follow! And that is great for me.
5. He finally takes a big boy bath. By that I mean we bought a new bath tub that fills with water (we originally had a mesh tub that didn't fit in the sink) and he LOVES it.
6. He is breastfeeding like a champ! And no morer pain!

Isn't this photo the best ever? I love the timeless look of it. This glove is AC's dad's and his basball as well. So cute.

I have to say that being a mother is the most amazing gift I could have ever asked for. I feel so fortunate to be able to stay home with Kekoa everyday. I am still amazed every time I look at him that he is mine and that he is so beautiful! I love him and he is my everything! I will post again tomorrow with some really great DIY projects I've done and some more recent photos.

XoXo

Makayla

A Big Post of "Firsts"

Good Morning Everyone!
This post is a post of our "firsts" with Kekoa.
He finally took his first Bink, drank from his first bottle, my first time being away from him for more than an hour and a first for all of us.. family photos! :)
We had been trying to give Koa a pacifier for a few days and he just wanted almost nothing to do with it. But he finally gave into temptation. It has so far been the lifesaver to hold him off for a little bit while I get everything situated to start feeding him. I need to get the boppy (because he is way too heavy already,) my cell phone, something to drink (I get VERY thirsty while breastfeeding,) and the TV remote control. So the Bink is awesome!
The Bottle! OMG he drank from a bottle! Breastmilk that I pumped of course.. but we were really excited and AC was very happy to be feeding him finally. The first attempt at the bottle, he was SO hungry that I just don't think he could comprehend exactly what was happening. So I ditched the bottle and just put him on the boob! The next time we tried the bottle it took him a few minutes, but then he just started drinking away! I actually wasn't here.. this was my first.. I was getting my hair done.. and that was about a three hour process.. so he was home. ALONE. with AC. AC did a great job with him because he is the most amazing dad in the world. But I was still freaking out inside. Partly because I was nervous that he wouldn't take his bottle and mostly because I didn't want to be away from him. AC said that he drank the bottle SO quickly (I left 3.5 ounces) that he started warming up another bottle! Babies drink from bottle so fast compared to the boob. It took me almost twenty whole minutes to pump that bottle! But then after he burped he fell right asleep. No need for bottle number two and total waste of another twenty minutes of pumping milk. That milk is no longer good apparently because I was told you can't RE-regrigerate breast milk after you've already warmed it up. Bummer. But thats okay! There is more to pump. While I was gone, I looked at my phone every five minutes! Michelle, my hair dresser, was making fun of me. I didn't even have her blow dry my hair after the trim because I wanted to get home to see Kekoa! I ran right in and scooped him up and I just missed him so much. I definitely don't like being away from him. How do working mothers do it!?! I don't ever want to leave!
And finally, the first for all of us are our family photos! Caitlin O'Reilly, a friend and former softball player whom my dad coached, majored in Photography and just started her own photography busines.. Caitlin O'Reilly Photography. We took so many pictures and I can't wait to see them! She sent me a few that she quickly edited for a little sneak peek.

This is the very first family photo!! :)

This is my little man with his crib blanket. We special ordered this from Pottery Barn and I LOVE it. Right before leaving to do our outdoor photos, Kekoa was hungry.. so of course I fed him and was burping him here. :)We get to see the rest of the photos and place our print orders on Wednesday and I am SO excited!

This was from the other day at my friend Christina's house! :) Isn't he ADORABLE?!