jordan & whitney + 1

4.26.2011

4.07.2011

Bunny Bunting

{A post for Janece}

Here is a picture of the bunny bunting I made last week.

I got the idea from this blog.

They're suppose to look like the peeps bunnies.

4.03.2011

8 Months

Our little guy is already 8 months!

Still not crawling but he tries. He does what we call "swimming." He frantically moves his arms and legs, only problem: they are in the air. No contact with the ground.
Loves eating whatever we eat. He'll get mad if you don't share.
Is starting to wave
Love Love Loves to bang things together.
Can stand up with our help. Can stand up by himself holding onto the coffee table.
Loves animals, especially dogs. He'll scream all day at them.
Is great at car rides now.
SOOOOO happy. Honestly the happiest baby I have ever seen.
Sleeps 7:30pm to 6am
Just got over a sinus infection :(
Will look for airplanes when he hears them. He can find them when we point them out too.
A great jumper in the jumper.
STILL no teeth. The doctor said it should be coming within the next couple weeks.
Likes to feed himself finger foods.
Can say "mmmMom" now too.
Rolls around to get places.
Likes to wrestle with his daddy.

We love our little puppy. Ahh I wish he was awake cause I wanna squish him!

ABC

FINALLY! It only took me..uh..7 months to finish.

Probably cause it took more than 12 cans of frozen apple juice to go through.

But im really happy with it.

I don't really remember what blog this ABC Tin craft came from but Levi seems to like it. Given he won't be learning his ABCs for a while but he likes to clap the letters together, pull the letters out of the bucket, pour them out and suck on them.

I saved out extra "L" "E" "V" "I" tin letters that Im going to put magnents on to use for the fridge.

3.24.2011

Grandma Tutu

My Grandma Tutu a.k.a Harumi "Dustie" Sasaoka Waggoner

Has been staying at my papa's house for the past couple months.

She has lung cancer.

We love her so so much.

Everyone who has met her loves her.

They can't help it though.

She is so genuinely sweet to everyone.

She is a hoot to be around.

Her smile and laugh is infectious.

Although Grandma loves a lot of people, there are few she loves more than Levi.

Whenever she sees him she says "Smile for me. Give me a big smile...A bigger one!"

And Levi never lets her down.

He always gives her the biggest smile.

Which melts Tutu's heart.

Lately Grandma hasn't been doing too well. She hasn't eaten or really even opened her eyes to acknowledge people.

But

When me and Levi came to visit, Janice leaned over and told her Levi was there to see her.

She opened her eyes and said

"Levi? Give me a smile."

She then tried to reach for Levi.

I brought Levi close to her and he giggled and held on to her finger.

Those two love each other.

When we first found out that Grandma had cancer I decided I wanted to make a book of her life.

She is pretty amazing.

And has some good stories.

The family has been spending the past couple weeks asking Tutu questions and writing her history.

One of my favorite stories has to be about her experience living in Hawaii as a Japanese American during WWII.

She lived near Pearl Harbor when it was bombed.

She said on the morning it was bombed she was at a Japanese Buddhist school doing the morning prayers outside.

She looked up and saw a fighter plane flying low.

She saw the Japanese flag on the side of the plane.

It flew so low that she saw the man in the plane.

He was waving at the kids, telling them to take cover.

The teachers told the kids to hurry and run home.

Grandma remembers taking her time walking through the sugar cane fields.

She doesn't remember too much after that.

She never had to go to a internment camp for Japanese Americans during that time.

She said it was because they were pions. Not important enough.

Her family was discriminated on constantly.

She said that people would say "A good Jap is a dead Jap."

She also told us about her own Rosa Parks story.

It really shows how tough my Grammy is.

She said that in Hawaii the whites would sit in the front of the bus, everyone else sat behind with the Japanese Americans in the very back. Tutu being the rebel she is decided she wasn't going to sit in back anymore and sat in the middle. The friend that was with her asked her what she was doing and that she was going to get in trouble. Grams just said "Im going to sit here and if they want to make something of it then let them."

Seriously. She is tough.

It has been so awesome to hear stories of my Grandma and her family.

We are so blessed to have her in our lives.

We love love love her!