Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Friday, 9 November 2007

This morning, I went to Kelli's house for a Honolulu Mommies Aloha Friday get-together. I discovered Honolulu Mommies about a month ago, and Kelli encouraged me to join. I got Miya and Taiga to come along too. It was fun to meet other SAHMs (Stay-At-Home-Moms), about a dozen all together. The kiddos were running wild, the couches were taken by moms nursing the babies, and moms were chatting away. About half of the moms were new to the group. It was fun to meet others from around town, while sharing thoughts on wet nurses, not getting your period yet, solids, and teething. Most of the moms in this East Honolulu group are not originally from here, some are moving back to the mainland soon, but all are very lucky to be able to afford to be SAHMs in Hawaii (which a few I talked to said that they had careers before, but it was so difficult to find daycare for their babies, that it just made more sense to be a SAHM).

The youngest baby there was 3 weeks old (and he was born 6 weeks premature, not even due until around Thanksgiving!). The oldest child was about 5. I stayed about 4 hours, and Chase was really good, tried his hardest to stay up so he wouldn't miss any of the action, but then fell asleep in my carrier for about an hour, and then when he woke up, was just calm and quiet, looking around and taking everything in.

We went home for a little bit to rest up, and then left again, once Chris came home from work, to go to Miya and Junji's to celebrate Taiga's 2nd birthday. Junji's parents had a teppanyaki grill going and made some other yummy Japanese foods. We hung out with more babies and kids and enjoyed cake and opening gifts (which Taiga got lots of Cars-themed furniture and toys, as well as books from Aunty Tanya - go figure, the teacher giving the kid books! Ha!). We stayed until about 10 pm, after the kids were wearing themselves out playing and the adults were just ready to call it a night.

It was a fun-filled day! Happy Belated Birthday, Taiga!