Nurse and Caretaker...Grandma Leslie comes to town!

Aaron recently had surgery and Grandma Leslie came out

to help me take care of him and the girls.  It was a lot of work

and she knew I would need some help.  Thank you Leslie!

The girls were so happy to have someone to play with them

24 hours of the day.  She was a lifesaver with the girls and

with Aaron.  She nursed Aaron's wounds and played games

with the girls (Guess Who and I Spy about a million times over)

as well as giving baths and reading bedtime stories.  She also

helped with making dinner, dishes and the laundry. What would

we have done without you Grandma.  Much Mahalos!

One of the first things we did with Grandma Leslie was go

to Turtle Lagoon.  Along with our friends Gabby and Stephanie

we swam and played for hours.  We picked sea lettuce from

the rocks and fed the turtles.  They loved it.  They didn't even

have to work for their food that day.  We had a great day but

by the end we were all lobsters.  I should have reapplied the

sunscreen but just didn't.  What a bad mom!

Keeley is playing like a turtle.  We saw the turtle above

scoot itself up onto the sand for sun soaking and Keeley

did the same thing.  She played turtle for a long time after.

One of the days we took Grandma Leslie to see the Honolulu Zoo.

We had a great relaxing day.  I know, the zoo isn't really

relaxing, but that day was.  We walked around looking at all the

animals and just enjoyed the nice day.  The only bummer was that

we didn't get to see the lions.

Another activity we did while Grandma was here was take

a trip to the North Shore.  We drove all the way out to Sharks

Cove and decided that it wasn't safe to swim so we just took

some awesome pictures.  We stopped at Waimea Valley and

interacted with the peacocks and then headed to Haliewa to

get some pizza at Pizza Bob's (YUM!)  After pizza we had to

make a stop at Matsumotos for some shave ice.  What a perfect day.

The girls were sitting there eating their shave ice and I decided

to take a picture since they were so cute.  This Japanese tourist

came up and asked if he could take a picture of them too.  I

can't tell you how many pictures of the twins must be floating

around Japan in random people's photo albums.  Seriously!