The Chronicles of Brownia: Jake's Vacation in Hawaii Part 1 :)

Well hello everyone, sorry its been so long..once again. But we have a lot going on in our lives right now and to top it all off we were just in Hawaii for 8 days. :D I know, it was really rough but Ryan just finished getting his master's and we decided to celebrate by going to visit our friends Ric and Amanda who just happened to be stationed in Hawaii. We had a really wonderful time with them and I will have to put in a few blogs just to cover all the awesome things that we did while we were there. :)

And lots has changed with Jake too, he has now swam in the ocean with Mommy and Daddy, crawled into the ocean all on his own, floated on a boogie board while next to a waterfall, can eat a banana by biting without us having to cut it up, he LOVES to push his cars and trucks around and he is has currently gone almost 3 days without his pacy (OK that one he is not doing too well on but hey we are getting it done and soon he will not even miss it...I hope) But some of those are pictures that you can look forward to seeing. But lets just start out with some of those pics before my son breaks down into another I want my pacy meltdown. :)

The morning of the flight Ryan and I are quickly getting ready while Jake unpacks the backpack to see what goodies we brought him.

Jake was a trooper this night as it was getting late and even later for him due to the three hour time difference. But he still enjoyed getting to know his new friends Matt and Nicole.

Jake and Mommy at the beach in Waikiki...this was our first night there as our friends took us here for dinner on the beach and to watch the fireworks.

Family shot.

A very happy boy with a very happy Daddy.

Our little friend Emily who Jake really enjoyed playing with the whole time we were there...she was very sweet to him and they were so much fun to watch.

Our first full day in Hawaii...and as you can see...Jake is ready to go and see the island.

Jake holding a coconut at the Hawaiian Flea Market where we got most of our souvenirs.

And Jake's first time in the ocean. At first Ryan set him feet on the sand so he could just put his feet in. Yeah that resulted in screaming, so we stopped that. But we quickly found that if we just held him we could walk all the way into the water and he was completely relaxed and fine (as long as he had his trusty pacy that is...he had it a bit more than normal on this trip with all the new things he did) But here you can see him with Ryan on his first ever dip into the ocean.