A Little Culture

Matt, Nate and I experienced a little random culture this past weekend. On Saturday, we went to a dog festival put on by the Hawaiian Humane Society down the street from us in Thomas Square. We walked down with Nate in the jogging stroller, and he was so comfortable that he ended up sleeping through the entire event. Matt and I had fun running Emma through the dog obstacle course, dunking her in the kiddie swimming pools to cool her off, and entering her in a dog race. The dog race was the big disappointment. Emma is fast. And not just chihuahua fast, I mean legitimately speedy. So when she lost the dog race to a random slow dog, Matt and I decided it was a question of motivation. She barely ambled towards me upon the start of the race. Ug. It was pretty funny regardless of her losing. Here are a few pictures:

Had to start with a close up of the cutest baby in the world. Matt chilling with Emma and Nate before the big race. His pep talk at this point later turned out to be largely uneffective.
Emma did, however, do really well running the obstacle course.

Yes, Nate is always trying to nurse, even when Daddy's holding him.

He loves sleeping in his carseat.

Then Mommy and Nate went down to Point Panic to watch Daddy do some bodysurfing.

To finish off our cultural weekend, we went with our friend Todd to the Lantern Festival last night at Ala Moana Beach Park. After performances by various musicians and dancers which were projected on three giant screens, participants released 2,000 floating lanterns into the ocean just after sunset. It was very cool.

Uncle Todd even changed Nate's diaper later before a Menchies frozen yogurt stop!

Supervised tummy sleeping - Nate loves his butt in the air!

This was just this morning - look how big he's getting! 5 weeks today!