Jamba and Red Cars

Things are going well here at the Hawaii Stevens house. Nate has adapted to being weaned, and started drinking milk pretty well about a week after being cut off from breastmilk. Although, for some weird reason, he still won't drink cow's milk from Grandma???

We are currently fighting an ant infestation. One of the pleasures of living in a tropical paradise are the bugs. I think they are attracted by Emma's dog food. Yuck. We put out some ant baits but I think they forgot to put the poison in them.

So I just had to put this picture on today's blog because it melts my heart. Awwww... Daddy reading Nate his bedtime story. This is one of those father/son moments that I'm so glad I got to capture on camera.

Matt ran the Jamba Juice 5K again this year and won second place overall with a time of 15:47. Amazing race! This is the 5th or so year in a row that he's won the "year of free Jamba juice," which now equates to 26 free 16oz smoothies. The first year he won it was 52 24oz smoothies. Blame it on the economy.

Also running this year was Frank "Da Tank" Lim, a.k.a. Dr. Lim, who ran a swift 25:11 at 65 years of age. It totally put me to shame, as my last 5k was a 27:16 in my twenties. We were all hoping he would win the jamba by scoring top three in his age group, but unfortunately this year some ripped 60-69 year olds came out of the woodwork and he placed 5th in his age group. If he had run any other Jamba 5k across the country or in Hawaii in years past, he would have won the prize. But his appetite for racing has been whetted, and he and Matt are already planning their next race together on July 4.

Matt took Nate up on the podium with his to collect his prize, as usual. :o)

Grandmom took Nate to get a balloon animal at the race. It is a monkey climbing a palm tree. Nate pinched the monkey soon afterwards and popped it. Oh well, it was cute while it lasted.

Nate sat on Grandpa's shoulders and played with his hair.

Matt showing off his prize. I love his "thug" expression.

Here's another picture of Nate with his favorite toy ever, his cozy coupe. We brought it with us to a barbeque at Todd Iacovelli's house so that Nate would be entertained while we hung out with our friends. Also note adorable new shoes from Todd for Nate's birthday!

The cozy coupe is a bit large for our tiny apartment, but he loves it so much that we got him an apartment-sized Lightning McQueen car that he loves riding around the living room. Cozy coupe stays at Grandmom and Grandpa's house to enjoy during our frequent visits there.

Lastly, here is a picture of Nate and I at the beach a couple of evenings ago. Matt and I have been at Ala Moana park quite often lately to get a little exercise and swim with the little guy. Nate really LOVES the water. Can you tell? :o)