Visiting Daddy

I know I am RIDICULOUSLY behind on my posts...in fact, it's a bit overwhelming to think about how much I haven't posted about yet. But for the moment, I'm going to try and stay current this month, and I will eventually get back to some posts dating all the way back to January...yikes!

Ely had to fly a mission on the Saturday after our trip to the mainland, and since Leslie was here visiting, we decided to go visit Daddy at work and watch his plane take off!

Lucas & Daddy in the cockpit of the C-26

Noah flying the plane

 Daddy, Lucas & the C-26

Pool time

*I tried to post this on June 22nd and just now realized this didn't post*

Saturday morning, the boys and I headed over to the swimming pool to have some fun while Daddy was at work. 

Since I was on my own, we spent our time playing in the baby pool.

Noah practicing his swimming :-)

Lucas was not a big fan of the baby pool for some reason, so he only had his feet in the pool for a few minutes. After I put Lucas back in the stroller, I went over to the filter basket to get one of our toys out and imagine my surprise when I opened it up and found a dead bird floating in filter basket :-P

Unfortunately, that meant they had to close the baby pool so they could shock it with chemicals.

I was trying to decide what we should do since I couldn't take Noah into the big pool while I had Lucas, when Daddy showed up and saved the day!

After walking around in the water with Lucas for a little while, he decided the pool wasn't so bad after all :-)

Splashing around on the steps

Feeding Time

Today was unintentionally "food photo Monday" for the Fletcher Ohana.

We started off the morning with Noah wanting to eat his bacon and eggs with chopsticks! You know your child has been living in Kauai when...

He kind of gave up after the bacon and switched to a fork for his eggs :-)

I also got a few cute photos of Lucas chewing on a lime and lemon at lunch :-D

(That's a bug bite on the side of his face.

The poor kid got his Mommy's tasty blood that Mosquitos are drawn to :-(

Ready to Ride

As a special surprise, we finally got Noah a bicycle on Easter!

He had his tricycle, which he enjoyed for a few months when we first got here, but once he was told he had to wear his helmet to ride it, his interest really started to wane. Luckily, he loved riding around on his Big Wheel but he was starting to get too big for it.

First time on his Cars bicycle :-)

 

 One very happy boy!

 

 

Noah and his friend Lauren decided to swap bikes (and helmets) the other night

He was soooo excited about the pink bike!

The bike swap didn't last long since neither one of them fit very well on the other's bike, haha

 

The boys and I cruising around one evening while Daddy was flying

 

As we all know, Noah has always pushed to get to the next level as soon as possible (i.e. walking and crawling early). So it should come as no surprise that after less than 2 months of training wheels, Noah decided he wanted to take them off and he's now officially riding his bike "like a big kid"! 

Memorial Day

This year, we spent Memorial Day as a family out on our beach here at Barking Sands!

The waves were a little rougher than we had hoped so we didn't spend a ton of time in the water, but we still had a nice day together and Lucas really enjoyed eating a lot of sand :-P

It's amazing the amout of stuff that is needed to take two young kids to the beach! 

Mommy's little helper

Lucas's new favorite activity is "helping" Mommy unload the dishwasher ;-)

Luehring Family Photos (January)

We had one last photo shoot with Heidi before she moved: the Luehring family!

Here are a few highlights (despite the cloudy/rainy weather we had to try and work around):

Papa & Grandma

 Uncle Jeremy & Aunt Holly

The Luehrings

Lucas is the only one who looked good in this photo :-)

Noah was reaching his picture taking limit ;-)

 

 

 The Luehring Family ~ January 2014

***After looking at these photos again, I'm reminded of how far Ely and I have come in the last few months in terms of getting healthy! Right after these photos were taken, we started the base Biggest Loser Competition.


Three months later...

We both lost over 25 lbs!

Here's an updated family photo :-)