Kamae Ohana

Last Sunday, K and I were sitting on the couch flipping through the tv channels. I decided to check my e-mail one more time before heading off to bed. I had a surprise message from K's mom. She was on her way! (we knew she was coming, but not that soon) She got into O'hare at 5am. Luckily K had the day off, and was able to pick her up - well lucky for me, I got to sleep in.

And so started our week of family visitors. Tuesday, K's cousins arrived. They spent a couple of days with us. K took them down to the taste of Chicago on the 4th of July. Grams, Pineapple Princess and I headed over to a BBQ at Love lace park. All enjoying our 4th of July's different destination. We met up later that night with the Lund's to watch the fireworks - through the trees ; ) .


Friday morning we headed up to WI for K's uncle's memorial service and a family reunion. (I'll put the pictures on Pineapple Princess's website) We really had a great time in WI. Pineapple Princess was fascinated with all of the nature, cows, horses, corn, rabbits, fireflies, and yes, she even picked up a tick! She had so much fun just running outside and playing with her cousins.

Uncle's memorial service was really nice. K gave the eulogy and we (K, myself and his Mom) sang a song during the service. And Pineapple Princess sat so nice and still while we were up there singing. I did notice at one point that she was trying to take the camera out and take some pictures...(got to actually prove that Mommy got up and sang in front of people...). After the service, K sang as everyone mingled. We even had a special treat from his Mom, she Danced for all of us! It was wonderful!

Saturday was the family reunion, and K was the entertainment again. Very much enjoyed. It was so hot outside, that I didn't spend much time outside. After eating, Pineapple Princess and I headed back inside to the air conditioning - 95 degrees plus humidity was just way to hot for my pregnant belly! Pineapple Princess looked like she was about to melt, and had no objections to a nice cold bath, mostly to wash all the sand out of her hair - I am not sure that she left ANY at the beach!! In the early evening we headed into the "bigger" town with a bunch of K's cousins to see Transformers. I had tried to get Pineapple Princess to stay at the house with Grams, but she just wanted to be with me. So, yes I took my three year old to a PG-13 movie. She LOVED it! And is still talking about Optimis Prime and Megatron. She calls it her Robot movie. "Can I tell you what my favorite part of the Robot movie was?" is a question we have been hearing often in our house.

Today, in nursery, Pineapple Princess found a toy airplane and she told K, "Look Daddy, it's the bad Robot, Magatron." All the dad's that were in the nursery, ears perked up, and they all wanted to hear about the movie. And yes I am still a but embarrassed that Pineapple Princess went to see a PG-13 movie, especially since I have been so opinionated about it in the past...OH well.
I guess we will soon have Transformers around our house along with Cars Cars guys (from the movie CARS) and princesses.
And that was are most exciting week. Lot's of yummy food, family and not one emergency trip to see my OB! Now that's a GOOD week!