disneyland here we come

the house with a view

these are a few pictures of the view of the house that i want. its totally awesome. it just feels right.

honolulu zoo

we had a pretty action packed weekend that started with the honolulu children's discovery center and ended with a trip to the honolulu zoo. the trip out to the zoo was great, but i don't think we had much luck with the animals compared to my friend. anyway, tyler didn't seem to care; he had a lot of fun with the animals that did come out to see us. the highlights seem to be the elephants, monkeys, turtles, petting zoo, the fish tank, and the jungle gym. tyler had a lot of fun playing.

in all it was a very successful trip out to the zoo. we bought year pass to the zoo (it was pretty cheap), so hopefully we'll be going more often.

hawaii children's discovery center

we took tyler to the hawaii children's discovery center this past weekend. thanks to papa keith and aunty kristie for getting us an annual pass, so we can go all the time.

here is some information about the discovery center.

Explore: The Hawaii Children's Discovery Center provides a world-class, interactive, participatory learning environment designed to inspire the young and "young-at-heart" to new heights of learning and discovery.

Discover: The Center provides an environment that encourages children to use their senses of touch, sight, hearing, and smell to gain a better understanding of the world around them.

Imagine: Our goals are to help children develop positive self-concept and an understanding of others in Hawaii's multicultural community, and to offer them a "window to the world" beyond our island shores.

Dream: We want to inspire children to "dream big dreams" and to know that dreams can, indeed, come true!

basically its one big learning center, where kids can play while learning about all kinds of things.... there are just too man different activities and places to visit. in someways it reminded me of disneyland and epcot center.

anyway, like i said, we took tyler this past weekend. and as expected tyler had a lot of fun. we especially liked the children's 1-5 year olds area, where the little ones could run and around and go nuts. tyler had a lot of fun, so did us parents. i think we were more tired than him.

here are some pictures of tyler in action:

christmas 2008

this was tyler's second christmas and he seems to really enjoy the holidays. he especially loves opening presents. but, as expected he didn't really like santa. we did a lot together this holiday. we went shopping a lot and tyler didn't seem to mind that, because of the great christmas activities at the shopping centers. tyler really loved riding on the christmas express at pearl ridge. we also went to see the christmas gift of aloha at ala moana. tyler really liked the singing and dancing. it was a great show.

it was awesome to see tyler so happy. and thats what is all about.

here are some pictures of the christmas 2008 season:

tyler's omiyage from japan

bachan T brought back omiyage from japan for tyler. bachan said it was a surprise and that tyler had to open it.



tyler really liked his telephone. its actually a really relevant gift, because bachan and tyler play telephone at her house. here are couple more pics/videos.

gap casting call

we decided to enter tyler in to the gap casting call for kids. the winners get a trip to san fransico. haha. anyway, here are some of the pictures that i was considering to use for the entry. i just submitted the picture, but let me know which one you think is the best. (unfortunately these pictures and the ones before couldn't be used because of the 3 month rule associated with the contest).

picture 1

picture 2

picture 3

picture 4

picture 5

so, which one did you like? i personally liked picture 2 for some reason. anyway, we'll have more pictures soon, we are going to sears to take some more pics like these.