Around Honolulu

I dragged my family to the contemporary art museum in Honolulu today, which features a large outdoor garden. Sawyer enjoyed the view from his backpack.


A highlight from the museum was when we visited the L'Enfant et les Sortilges exhibit, which is a group of colorful stage decorations housed in a darkened room. My sister did a dramatic reading of the show's brochure, which contained exerpts from the opera that the decorations were made for. Teresa and Alan enjoyed searching for the characters painted on the walls as they were mentioned in the story.

Becky and I had a memorable visit to this museum in 2003 ...

(picture of becky and tim in 2003 coming soon)

so it was nice to bring Sawyer back to see it.


After the museum, we went to the nearby Punchbowl National Cemetery to put fresh cut flowers on the grave of my dad's uncle Royce, who died in 1945.


(all pictures taken by my dad.)

Sawyer's aunt Becky took us to a beautiful beach on Hickam Air Force Base today, where Sawyer got his first taste of the Pacific. The swimming lessons with grandma paid off -- he had a great time.

(Thanks to my sister for the photo!)

Traveling Man

Sawyer's off to visit his aunt Becky this week. I'll try to keep you up to date with stories from the road.

(BTW, the photo is Sawyer using a Traveling Toddler, which straps his carseat to my rolling suitcase.)

Swim class

Sawyer and Grandma have been taking a swim class at the local community center. He looks concerned in this picture, but he really enjoys it. :-)

Open Wide

Sawyer's first tooth came in this month. It's sharp (and hard to photograph)!

Naptime

With all the activity last weekend, Sawyer was just worn out by Saturday afternoon. Grandma was more than happy to spend a little R&R time with him.

Whaaaaazuuuuup!

So Sawyer is a little behind on the current lingo, but he's definitely stylin' and up-to-date in his funky green shades. Sawyer and his Papa made quite the cool duo at the park.

Good memories

I was a student at Virginia Tech from 1995-1999. I was in the band freshman year; here's me standing on the lawn of West AJ, the dorm where I lived.

I heard some advice this week -- spend life making good memories with the people you love.

Here's a good memory I can share...

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Bad Hare Day

So it's a lame pun, but so appropriate to describe Sawyer's look yesterday. Maybe he should have kept the bunny hat on.