Todayʻs letter from Miles

Hi Mommie and Daddy!

My granma says its almost your birthday, Mommie and I thought you’d be happy to wake up on your special day and see ME there on your computer!!


That’s me looking at the fishees at the Waikiki Aquarium. I loooooved it there!



Oh, and that’s me at Kapiolani Park, right across the fishy place, where papa and granma took me to have a picnic after. Granma’s always looking at me through this box that goes click, click, click?!! I want it!!

And yesterday, we went to the swap meet to get Uncle Eric his fishy food. The lady there gave me a sushi roll – I almost ate all of it except for the hot cabbage stuff that my papa says I would spit out anyway!! My favorite is the seaweed..yum, yum!!

I was so happy my tummy was full and mostly because my granma bought me a yellow pikake flower…see it??!! I had fun after and played in papa’s VW van – Mommie, see my sandals?

I can walk really good in my sandals, you know! The best was when my papa read my new book with me!!!



And today, granma and Auntie Emily took me to the beach, one last time. Oh Daddy and Mommie, I’m going to miss Ko Olina so much. Will I be coming back to splash, splash at the beach soon? Ah, I hope so…





BUT I LOVE AND MISS YOU MORE! I’m gonna see you soon!!!

Your son Miles

I miss Miles!! Another e-mail from the golden child...

Hi again!

I’ve been going to the mall with my granma Susan and granma Rosy cuz its been raining and raining this week! It’s a little boring but at least my granma Susan lets me pull all the tags on kiddie clothes at Macy’s.

Like right now we are waiting for the rain to stop so we can go to Ko Olina and splash water and play with sand. I’m soooo missing the ocean and my papa felt so sad for me that he let me play with the water coming out from the roof gutters. Hee, hee, he didn’t have the heart to pull me away cuz I was having so much fun.

I think my granma ran inside to tattle on me - I hear the tapping of the keys on her computer in her space.

Mommie and Daddy, I’ve been a good boy, you know. I help granpa and granma with their chores and I think I’m doing a good job cuz papa and granma keep saying “ Good Boy!!”. I help grandma water all her plants in the Zen Garden ( I watch her every time and she waters EACH plant in those little pots).

Hey I can do that too tho sometimes the watering can gets too heavy (I told granma no, no…not too much water!!)


And papa, he LOVES me! He lets me clean his vw van! I wipe, wipe, wipe, just like him!!!


Then when I’m done with the chores, I get to play. My favorite is going inside my HUGGIES box and taking out all my toys.
And also playing with my pals, teddy bear and birdie (they watch over me until I sleep, ya know!!)



Ok, gotta run now. I think the sun’s peeping out so I’m going to bug my papa to see if we can go to the beach a little while.

Love you,

Mileskiii



PS Mommie, happy birthday soon! Sorry I won’t be there with you but I will be thinking out you, ok???

An e-mail from Miles (what a genious child!)

Hi Mommie and Daddy,


I tried to call you on my cellphone (the one Auntie Lisa gave me), but you didn’t answer! I ran to your room Daddy and waved to you and Mommy (grandma made a big picture of our family when we visited great grandma at the cementary). I think my grandma was trying to film me again (she’s always chasing me with her camera!!!).

Anyway, I have two friends I hang with – Birdie (granma found him at the zoo and let me take him home cuz I was sad to leave my birdie friends at the zoo) and Bear ( I found him myself when I was exploring in granma’s office)..




I love reading my books in grandma’s space – hee, hee. I spread out all my books on the floor and granma picks it all up again. I love to play that game with granma!!

My favorite is the one with the ducks, and plants and fish. Oh, and I love Elmo’s book on colors. Did you know Elmo is red like my red balloon (my granma Rosy took it from a big store called Sears. I don’t think she paid for it!!)

Hey, my grandma taught me to say NO!, NO! NO! and I can even copy her and point with my 2 fingers on both hands and say NO, NO, NO – just like granma!!

Em, I can kiss too!! Except my granma thinks its not too cool to do it with my mouth open and my lawai coming out!!

My granpa is teaching me to say FISH,. When I try I don’t why granma and granpa laugh so hard. I say it with my tongue out and my teeth on my tongue and go theeee. Then I see my granma run to get a bib and she wipes my mouth so hard – I guess when I say fish, all the water comes out….hee, hee.


I loooove the slide , Mommy. I’m a big boy and can go do the big slide by myself, you know.
But I think the best thing I love to do here is EAT. I’m always hungry. I don’t know why.

Ok., I think my granma’s tired now.

See you soon,

Love you,

Your son Miles

OMG.

I am missing Miles sooooo much! Justin and I canʻt stop thinking about our baby! He sounds like heʻs doing really well with grandma & grandpa, learning new things and exploring more than ever since he is literally on his own 2 feet! But I canʻt wait until he is back here and I have my little buddy to spend the day with outdoors. I miss our little adventures and hearing his voice, seeing him smile, and smelling his face! Mama loves you Mileskiii! I am truly blessed and thankful to be a mother and have such a beautiful son and husband. I could cry but I want to just laugh!

Big thangs!

Just had to share with you that today, Miles started walking by himself. We are so proud of him! And we were able to catch it on tape! ALOHA!

who needs indoors?

...when you got the GREAT outdoors! I'm having a wonderful time here in Oahu with my grandma, grandpapa, daddy, and mommy. All I do is mostly stay outside of grandma & grandpa's house, hangin out with my plant friends and touching their leaves nicely. I also play like I'm driving grandpa's '62 VW van. It's pretty warm and sunny here with a nice cool breeze they call "trade winds." I love it! This time around I'm not afraid to run barefoot. I've been barefoot mostly on the grass, sand and even concrete. I have a little pool that I splash splash in--in grandma's zen garden. Yesterday, I was having such a good time in the pool--I was so relaxed and decided it was poo-poo time. Grandma was laughing at me the whole time--even when she pulled my shorts down to clean me--and the 2lbs of poopoo i made plopped on the cement! Hahaha...mommy is still grossed out by it!!

Today, I finally got to go to Haunama Bay where my Aunty Erica (not Aunty ca-ca), works. She wasn't there but I got to see large blue fishes swimming around me as well as schools of other types of fish! I was so excited to go into the ocean. Grandma put me in my cool new Ocean floater and I was so gangsta. We spent a few hours playing in the sand. We had a lot of fun outdoors and here I am now back at grandpa's house, hangin out with him. My favorite thing is to be outside, day and night. I'm such a little tree-hugger already. I'll tell you more about my 3 week vacation here as an Island boy as the days go on...