18 months!

I feel like I have so much to say about Hawaii but I really feel i need to talk about all that Hunter has been learning. I only got to take a couple 18 month photos of Hunter but I'm sure you'll see plenty on the Hawaii posts to come. 

Hunter is such a goof ball! He makes the funniest faces.

Whenever I tell him no he makes this face at me

 

He isn't really talking yet. The only thing he'll say is mama (and he calls everyone and everything mama) tickle tickle and yeah. He knows most of his animal sounds. He loves to make piggy noises. I'm not sure where he learned it from but one day during church we were reading a book and there was a picture of a pig and he pointed to it and started snorting. It was the funniest thing! He also knows what a cow, rooster, goat, duck, and lamb says. But will only do it when he wants to, which is usually not in front of any one other then Andrew or myself.

He knows lots of sign language though. His best signs are more, all done, eat, drink, where, and dog. He knows all of his body parts. He is also a pro at blowing kisses! He thinks signing thank you and blowing kisses are the same thing. 

He loves giving hugs and kisses! His kisses aren't always open mouth kisses either anymore.

He LOVES his Daddy! Yesterday was Andrews first day back to work and 3 weeks and Hunter was definitely having withdraws. Today he was awake when he Andrew left for work and he had a breakdown. Once he calmed down he would still run to the door crying every 5 minutes for like 2 hrs. But Andrews off tomorrow so its all good :)

 He figured out how to beat me in our game of chase at our house. The layout of our house goes in a circle that goes through the hallway to the living room then through the kitchen then the playroom. Hunter has figured out that when I'm running from him all he has do is chase me enough till I'm around the corner then he turns around and runs the other direction so he catches me faster. He's so smart!!

I love this kid so much!!

 

First day in Hawaii

We had a very long journey going to Hawaii. We started our morning at 3am and headed down to Dulles Airport. We had no issues there since it was so early but then our plane got delayed till 7:30 which wasn't a big deal since we planned a fairly long layover at LAX. The plane we were supposed to ride was running too late so they switched us to a different plane which was awesome. The plane they switched us to was huge. Almost everyone had their row. Overall we had an awesome ride to LAX. As you can see in the picture below our little man did fall asleep for about 45min. Even though he was very tired from getting up at 3am he did really well.

 

 

 

Now here we are at the LAX airport! I was still excited at this point since the flight had gone so well. We had about 2 1/2 hrs at the airport so we got some lunch and charged our electronics and let Hunter run around. 

The plane from LAX to HNL was awful. It was super tiny and every seat was taken so there was absolutely no room for Hunter to move around. We were able to distract him for the first hour but then he lost it. He just screamed and screamed. There was no place to stand so we weren't able to rock him to sleep. After about an hour of him screaming Andrew took him to the restroom and finally got him to sleep after another 45 min of screaming in there. It was awful! I have never seen my baby like that. If it weren't for Andrew I don't know what I would've done. He is pretty amazing! Hunter slept for the last 2 1/2 hrs of the flight. We were all so tired and grouchy by the time we got there. But you can't stay mad long when you're in such a beautiful place!!

  

So after 18 hrs of traveling we arrived at the Honolulu airport. Jen and Rick had got us the beautiful leis. They smelled so good. Since we were so exhausted we just went the food court in the exchange and got some dinner and went back to their house and just relaxed the rest of the night.  

We skype on a daily basis with Jen and the girls and sometimes Rick. So Hunter was comfortable around them even though he'd never seen Rick in person and the only time he's seen Jen and the kids he was 9 months old and it was only for a few hours.

The next morning we went to the park to kill some time. Hunter had a blast playing with his cousins! 

It crazy how quickly Hunter is learning things these days! He's like a little mini Andrew. I love the picture above it really shows their silliness.

 

After the park we went to the mall for a little but Hunters diaper leaked all over Andrews shirt so we left. I was too excited to wait any longer so we went to the beach!! We weren't planning on going in the water so we weren't wearing our bathing suits but we just couldn't resist so we just wore our clothes in the water. Hunter LOVED it!! And the water was so warm and beautiful! It was AMAZING!!

 

 Then we left Hunter just like this to go spend his first night without us at Aunt Jenny's house.