Katelyn and I at the Memorial Park and Micro Beach

It's still noon so this is what I did this morning. I took Jacob for an early morning walk then I took my oldest, Katelyn to McDonald's then to Memorial Park then Micro Beach then to Sugar King Park then to the video store - all before 11:00 a.m. I think I'm still on mainland time with all the stuff I've got done these past 2 days off. But I still have a bunch of other stuff to get done this afternoon!

Here's some highlights of Katelyn's morning...

Waking up in a good mood. She missed her Daddy when he was gone.


So we're at the parking lot of American Memorial Park when Katelyn decided that she didn't want to picnic at the park anymore and all she wanted now was to stay in the car and finish eating her sandwich.

I fought and I fought to convince her to step outside and eat at the park tables...

And the winner is...

Katelyn decided the only place she wanted to go outside and stroll around was on the Micro Beach side of the park. Here's an odd angle shot of Mañagaha Island as I carried Katelyn on my arm.

Here's Katelyn walking about.

In the background, I spotted some new structure being built on the beach that hadn't been there before. I asked Katelyn if she wanted a closer look. I didn't have to ask her twice...


She kept calling it "the model" as in, "Hey, Daddy let's go look closer at the model!"

Katelyn's awesome...

We had to get back to the real world and pick up some videos before Katelyn's naptime.

Having time off to spend with my baby is priceless!

Morning Walk with Jakes

One of the things I missed most about being in L.A. was the morning walks with my baby boy Jacob... Katelyn likes to sleep in.

Jacob lets me surprise him each morning by letting me introduce something new in detail. Today, we're going to check out some papaya up close - he doesn't know that yet.

This is the entrance to our Uncle's farm.


Baby Jakes doesn't know it yet, but he's gonna get a close-up view of some papaya. I think we're going to need a ladder.

Well, I couldn't find a ladder tall enough for Jakes to check out the papaya from the previous pic. However, we did find a papaya tree short enough for Jakes to mess around with.


I caught Jake looking up at the sky, so I thought I would show you the clouds that he was looking at.

Here's the view from exiting the farm. Time to check on Katelyn to see if she's ready to go to the park again this morning.

Here's the view from our house. Pretty special for my island kids.

Jakes really liked it, but I think it's time to get back so he can eat bananas for breakfast.

Thanks for everything John

Thinking of Brother Mark Cross