Why do we even have wisdom teeth?

Why do we have to even have wisdom teeth? We grow them just to have them surgically removed. Why do we even have to have them surgically removed and pay tons of money? And why do we have to do this] The whole thing is just stupid to me. But anyways.... I am feeling better. I had to switch my Vicodin to Tylenol with Codeine though, the Vicodin was just WAY too strong for me.

So I have been trying my best to relax with the help of AC, my mom and my sister Missy. But it is so hard when your once oh so quiet-and-little-did-nothing-but-sleep-all-day-itty-bitty-baby grows into a Monster. Thats right, a monster. What happened to my child and where can I find him??

Some 9 month pictures!

The Monster.

Teach me how to Bloggie.. Teach me, Teach me how to Bloggie.

Everbody love me.. eh everbody love me..
:) So I am baaaaccckkkk. I've taking a long few months of not even having the slightest interest to blog again.. I'm finally back. Yes I decided to come back to this little blog of mine at 1:51am with an aching mouth and nothing but Vicodin and my snoring hubby to cheer me on, but hey... im back!

I had all four wisdom teeth removed yesterday. By yesterday I mean May 16th at 8:45am and I cannot sleep at all. I went to bed at 10 and woke up at 1 to a baby crying so I've been rocking and snuggling my little Koa and now he is finally back to sleep. And now I blog.

Koa has been growing so darn fast.

• He is 30" and about 26 lbs.


• He is constantly pulling himself up to a standing position where he likes to hold on to whatever he can with one hand and swing the other arm like he is King Kong, he is crawling everywhere. He has turned into quite to fast little crawler. Jaaaaaammin all around the house. He just recently started WALKING with his lawnmower style walker and is looooooving it.


• He will hand you a toy back and forth, "give mama the toy" and so on..


• He listens, for the most part, when I tell him No. Wahoo hoo! We'll see how long this lasts. haah


• He is currently saying "bababa" and "papa" sounds. He has said mama only a handful of times where I can actually swear that it was indeed the word mama.


• Waves Hi and Bye.


• Will move his lips like a fishie when you say "What does the fishie do?" haha My mom taught him this one..


• He will squint his little eyes and crinkle his nose when you say "Show me your pretty eyes" This is a Papa Bill and Koa thing that he thinks is hilarious!


• Dance to all music!


• Feed himself like a champ.


• Struggle to find the perfect toy from his toy bin only to lift it up and over the side of the pack and play and drop it on the floor.


• He is eating about 18-24 oz of formula a day and about 3-4 solid food feedings each day. OINKER.

Bounce Bounce Baby.. Duh nu-nu-nuh nuh..

Okay so as crazy as it may sound.. we didn't take any pictures of Christmas. I know.. CRAZY. What was I thinking? No pictures?? That is because AC got me a FLIP CAMERA for Christmas so we took VIDEO. whoop whoop! We got soooo many great things for Christmas, and Kekoa got so much stuff. OMG. so much stuff. He has more clothes and gadgets than AC and I combined.

So Santa.. my Noni and Papa/Mom and Dad..brought Kekoa a "Jungle Jumperoo," which he kicks butt in by the way..

Cloth diapers

Christmas books and DVDs

TONS AND TONS of clothes

All kinds of toys

A Bumbo and Bumbo tray to keep in Berryessa

A UNLV jersey

A night music lullaby light up playing thing that hooks onto the crib :)

Stuffed animals

A silver spoon

Soooooo much stuff!

I got a SHARK STEAM MOP! aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Let me tell you, this steam mop, is the most amazing cleaning machine I've ever held in my hand. It is necessary for every household to have one in order to have clean floors.. in the matter of minutes... with hardly any work involved. Bye bye Swiffer! I also got running shorts and a fleece jacket from Missy, a water bottle console thing for my jogging stroller, a HUGE heavy and thick crocheted blanket for AC and I both, money and more money.. and all kinds of goodies

Ac finally got his Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag that he has wanted for quite a while. Thats right.. Petunia Pickle Bottom. It doesn't sound like a very manly diaper bag.. but it is very much a manly diaper bag. hahah he also got some Nike sweaters that he really needed, Xbox headphones from me, everything that he needs for his diaper bag, movie tickets for the both of us, slippers and soooo much more that I can't even think of right now.

So needless to say, Christmas was GREAT! We really got some great stuff for all 3 of us!

Wedding Wedding WEDDING plans!

Okay so here is my "Inspiration Board" for the wedding... thank you Picasa! We have thrown out quite a few dates and it looks like it will be this July. We have yet to make a solid decision, but July seems to be the most promising so far. We know we have food, tables and chairs, cans and bottles I have been saving for the decor, I know I have my make up and hair peeps (thank you Christina and Auntie CC.. even though I have yet to talk to you about this I think its written in our imaginary God Mother contract that you do my hair) ... and that is about it so far! We need to chop to it!

October 2010

I know I'm a little behind... two whole months behind! But here is some October Fun.

I just discovered Picasa Collages... :)

"Got a drill bit?" "Nope. But I've got a hatchet."

Yup. And I was totally serious.

I had the sudden urge to rearrange my "entertainment center" the other day. So I did. My good ol' sis Missy and I moved the "china cabinet" (which was really an old TV stand turned china cabinet turned storage unit/home of sewing and crafting supplies) and we moved it through the dining area (turned Tank's new home until we move into our new home where he will have an amazing backyard!) through the kitchen and into the living room. I needed to make a hole for all the TV, DVD player, Comcast and of course the holy XBOX cords to go through. Missy asked me if I have a drill bit. A what? Missy insisted on us finding one to make the perfects holes... so being that...

1. I didn't know what a drill bit was.


2. I didn't have one.


3. I have absolutely NO PATIENCE.

I suggested a hatchet. That's riiiiiggggggghhhhhtttt. A hatchet. Miss refused and couldn't even believe that I suggested such a thing, but hey.. whatever will make a hole is fine with me. The TV would have covered it up anyways right? So with hatchet in hand, Miss obviously shot me down and went home to get her boyfriend's drill bits. When she comes back, we marked the spot to drill the big hole and proceed to drill. So excited to finally drill..... and then the drill dies. Yes. It dies. Charge it you say? Can't find the charger. ANYWHERE. We looked in every cabinet. The outside closet. The inside closets, the kitchen drawers everywhere and still no charger.

HATCHET! Just use the damn hatchet!

Nope, Missy goes home to look for her boyfriend's drill and/0r charger.

She comes back with an electric SAW! Muuuaaahhahha The DIYer in me gets pretty excited. All the while Koa is hanging out in his swing watching us like we're crazies. We pretty much were going insane over this damn TV stand.

We were finally able to make the hole and set up all the cords. It was GREAT. So this whole story is here to direct you to a NEW blog! My new Blog! Another blog. One for Baby and one for me. It is called "Drill Bit Branco"

Mama Branco

First we fell in love with eachother..

Then we fell in love with our baby...

Now I've fallen in love with...

A RING!!!!!!!

Aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Is what I did about thirty times tonight after AC got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Is what I am doing right now while I write this post. I am so exhausted from the many glasses of wine and DELICIOUS champagne we drank tonight, but I am too excited to sleep... AC has found a way to get some shut eye during all of this excitement because he is snoring on the couch right now hahahaha

Last night AC asked me if I wanted to have a date night tonight. Of course I always want to have a date night, but because we are moving soon and will have more expenses I was going on and on about how we shouldn't spend money and we to save and blah blah blah. AC decided to call tonight our "last hoorah" (We have actually had many "last horrahs" There was the last hoorah of coffee drinks, the last hoorah at Ross, Home Goods, Rutherford Grill, Nike Outlet... the "last hoorah" never ends.. but I am serious this time!) and we decided to go out and try this new restaurant called Carpe Diem downtown... AMAZING by the way. Our favorite was the music.. Jack Johnson Bubbly Toes and Banana Pancakes both were played and it was just perfect. Carpe Diem is now our little spot.

We started talking about our wedding in Hawaii.. and I asked him when I could really officially start planning.. hint hint.. and he said he had "things he needed to take care of before a ring.." and thats when my face turned red and steam came shooting out my ears. But, I just let it go and enjoyed this delicious romantic night. We don't get too many date nights with a 4 month old and I need to enjoy them as much as possible.

So after some delicious appetizers and amazing wine we walked downtown to the HUGE Christmas tree by the Riverfront.

Now if you don't already know this about us, we LOVE Christmas. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Last year, we got our Christmas tree waaaaaay too early because we were so excited to have one decorated and lit up that it was literally brown, dead and almost needless by the time Christmas actually came. We've decided to wait at least until next week for our tree this year.

So back to the ring... we walked through the shivering cold (it's been getting pretty cold these last few nights) and stopped by the tree. It was beautiful and AC was telling me all the great and romantic things a girl loves to hear from her hubby. Like... how much he loves me ::kiss:: how much he loves me some more ::kiss kiss:: and then we both turned and looked at the tree and he was moving much more than I was and when I turned and said "what are you doing?" and there he was down on one knee...

With this BEAUTY in a box!!

He said, "Boo.. Will you marry me?" And I of course started crying and I was so happy and said YES!!! And I couldn't believe it was actually happening. I just told him how much I love him and how much I love our son and I feel so complete.

I honestly had NO CLUE. We went and looked at rings at a few different places throughout the my pregnancy and after Kekoa was born and I had no idea he had actually purchased one. AAAAAAAAhhhhhhh!!!!!

Yesterday morning I woke up and he was gone...for over an HOUR!! I called his cell phone six times and I texted him maybe three or four times. I couldn't believe that he woke up before me and left the house without telling me, that he wasn't answering my calls, and if he was going to ignore me.. he better not come home without bring me a coffee!!! hahaha Apparently he was at the jeweler picking up my ring. :) He even brought the ring to my parent's house at Thanksgiving to show my family without me knowing!

I am the luckiest girl in the world and I love my family. We might not being doing things the conventional way, but its the way we're doing it and everything is falling into place just as it should. I wouldn't change one thing about it.

Get ready for some wedding plans!

Hello Again.

Hello again! I now have time for a real post. :)
Kekoa is 3 months! OMG. I can't even believe it. He is growing so fast and I don't like it.
Milestones:

1. He laughs and smiles AAAALLLL DDDAAAAAYYYYY!
2. He gurgles all day long and spit bubbles.
3. He drools and drools and drools.. we think he might be teething and Sophie the Giraffe is he absolute favorite thing right now. We don't leave home without it.
4. He grabs onto almost anything you put in front of him. It takes him a few seconds, but once he gets it.. its his. You better hope he doesn't get a grip on your hair or it will be ripped from your head.
5. He is an amazing traveler! He slept the entire 5 hour flight to Hawaii only waking up to eat on the descend. The flight home was just as nice. He was awake for about 2 hours of the 2.5 hour flight, but was just cruising on mama and daddy's laps. :)
6. He is rooolllliiinnnnggggggg. I put him down for his afternoon nap on his back and when I went back in to check on him he had rolled onto his side. Sleeping soooo peacefully. SO CUTE.
7. He is rooolllliiinnnnggggggg ALL THE WAY OVER! Okay, maybe not all the time... well actually he's only done it once. haha When we were in Hawaii he rolled from his back to his belly. And of course he would do this when I am NOT THERE. Yeah, I wasn't even at the house. I went out to dinner and AC was home wiht Kekoa. I of course was so excited, but very sad that I didn't get to see it. I'm still waiting for the next big roll.
8. He loves to do a great hamstring stretch and he loves to grab his toes.
9. He laughs OUT LOUD everytime we lay him down on his playmat to play with all the hanging toys.
10. He pulls himself up when sitting on your lap and holding onto your hands. He goes from a flat back position to pulling hiself up to a sitting position. Again, so cute!

He is so flexible! He must have gotten this from his mama.

Doing his favorite hamstring stretch at the hotel at Mauna Kea.

Sleeping like a little child! I just love this picture. He is so adorabble.

Some other big news for us. I purchased some cloth diapers! Kellyscloset is a cloth diapering site that always has great coupons. Right now they are giving a free cloth diaper with a $29 purchase so I went to the site to order $29 worth of diapers, but once I got to the site I saw that if I would just spend $20 more I would get free shipping! Free shipping and a free cloth dipe!? Yes Sir! mainly because I hate spending $10 on just shipping.. like reeeaaallllyy ? So I bought three Perfect Fit Fuzzibunz (Which are on sale for 15.00) and a roll of Bummis Liners (which had great reviews!) and I get once cloth diaper free! That's 4 dipes and 100 sheets of flushable liners for $50. When we were in Hawaii we went to a cloth diaper store called Moon Sprout and they had 2 Bumgenius diaper for $15 USED.. which I was suckered into buying of course. I might as well try them out. Now I need to buy detergent that are cloth diaper safe so I can wash my new diapers. Any suggestions??

NEW DIYS! I am making so many holiday decorations this week. Stay tuned for some cheap DIYs! :)

ALOHA!

Hello! We're bbaaaacccckkkk! This post is a haphazard post. No real rhyme or reason. Random as random can be. But at least its a post! :)

I just love him. AC that is. Which is why I posted this picture. I love him. Smiling away as I type this caption.

This is Kekoa at 2.5 months in his Bumbo chair for the first time! And I just love him so much too. He loved it!!

We just got back from a two week vacation visiting family and AC's mom at her new job in Kona! We had the best time and were able to intr0duce Kekoa to his family in Hilo for the first time. The scenery was beautiful, the hotel his mom works at is beautiful and it was just beautiful all around! I can't wait to go back for another trip in March.. where we will be running our first half marathon! (that's another post to come soon)

This is happy Kekoa on the flight preparing to land.. he was so happy to be home!

Good bye Puna! See you in a couple months!

Our little family at the King Kamehameha statue in Hawi, Hi. This is the original statue that was found in the ocean. It sunk with the ship. But they found it. So there we are!

We have so many pictures from so many different adventures! I haven't even posted a photo of Koa in his tootsie roll costume from Halloween! I honestly just loaded 935 photos from my iPhone alone and still need to load AC's.

We are going to be moving in the next couple months, we have a half marathon in Hilo to train for, some pounds to shed, Thanksgiving, Christmas... aaahhhh so much to do. Now that I think of it.. how the heck are we going to train and be stict with our diets with Thanksgiving and Christmas.. omg. I will NOT pass up the green bean casserole my Noni makes. Or the gravy. omygooossshhhh. AC and I will be starting a new blog to keep us motivated for our Marathon. With weekly weigh ins, exercise tracker and food logs! He didn't know this until I started typing it in this post at this very moment, but he is just as excited as I am.. even though he doesn't show it and looks at me as if I'm crazy. But he is. He has no choice. :)

Blog ya later!

Deuce Bigalow Kekoa Gigolo

Let me start out by saying I have the happiest baby in the world! He wakes up like this every morning! The one in polka dot onesie was yesterday morning and the one with the paw print was this morning. Kekoa will be 8 weeks tomorrow!! ahhhhh What a perfect way to start my day. :)

He is sooo Happy! I sing to him every morning and play with his little chubby cheeks and he loves it! He was trying to talk to me again this morning all morning! Once I figure out how to load videos on here I will post one of him making all his cooing and aweing. He is so funny!

Okay, now for his diaper. I made it. Yes I did. I cut out fabric, patterns, pinned and sewed. I seriously am the most impatient person ever, so being as impatient as I am... I didnt want to spend time marking my measurements that the pattern so easily has MEASURED OUT FOR ME. And has clearly marked on the pattern the exact measurement so that I can transfer it to my fabric. In my mind I think, you really want me to get up off the floor and go get a pen that will show up on this fabric.. and make markings on the fabric?? Like reaaallly? Nope.. I'll just wing it. So I did. And this is what I ended up with.

Yeah. I don't suggest "winging it" unless you want your baby in a little cheeky cheetah diaper. Oh and let me explain the cheetah print deuce bigalow male gigolo diaper.. AC LOVES cheetah print. And he actually has his very own pair of cheetah print fleece shorts that he wears to the lake every year. He actually just loves anything animal print.

But anyways, the pocket actually turned out right! I have the idea of it down and it really wasn't difficult at all. Now I just need ot measure and hem right and it will be perfect. I was only supposed to do a 1/4" seam allowance and I ended up doing a full inch all the way around... which is why its so narrow and not covering his little cheeks at all.. like I said.. Deuce Bigalow Kekoa Gigolo. Haha I sewed in a prefold with a soaker pad, a waterproof covering and the cheetah fleece on both sides so its soft on his bottom and on the outside as well. I used elastic around the legs and a small horizontal piece on the back. The elastic on the back is to keep inserts from sliding up when I put them in the pocket. I didn't attach any velcro because we obviously won't be using this one and I don't want to waste it. So lets hope the next one will be even better! No more Gigolo for Koa.