We've had so many adventures to post about! Here's my attempt at catching up on what we've been up to.

Everybody loves a morning spent at the bouldering gym!

Running an errand downtown led to eating lunch at Ala Moana Mall,
which also means watching a few minutes of a free hula show (above)
and spending time on an awesome climbing structure (below).

Oh no! The pool is closed!
(Word on the street is somebody had a nose bleed the day before.)
Our pool playdate didn't go as planned, but the kids still had fun
in the sprinklers and on the playground while the moms chatted.

This time our weekly free concert happened at an oceanfront park,
and we got a couple other neighborhood families to join us.

Monkey's favorite part of the oceanfront concert was
walking (and dancing) on the seawall.

One of their favorite indoor activities lately has been making modeling
clay creations. Here Lion and Monkey show off their flower teacups.
(My phone now has dozens of photos of tiny clay things,
but this is the only one with cute grinning faces to go with them!)

We're actually finding time to do academic lessons too! (Those just aren't as exciting to write about/take photos of.) Some of the highlights: Bug is beginning 5th grade math, Monkey is plugging along finishing up 4th grade math, and Lion is taking some time to focus on memorizing math facts including multiplication and division before diving into the rest of the 3rd grade skills. Lion has just begun 3rd grade grammar and the writing lessons book that Monkey and Bug are about three-quarters of the way through (it's appropriate for 3rd-5th graders). We're about halfway through both our Ancient History Story of the World book (we just read about the early Greeks), and our Story of Science book (we're finishing up the section on the history of chemistry). Everybody loves to read! We're currently taking turns reading aloud the Series of Unfortunate Events (a trio of siblings who have each others backs through the worst of circumstances plus some great vocabulary--yes, please!). The girls each read a ton independently too. Bug and Lion are currently blazing their way through a couple of historical fiction series. Bug is reading the Dear America books, and Lion is making her way through the Magic Treehouse novels and reference books. Monkey on the other hand prefers to immerse herself in a magical world and is reading brick-sized fantasy books--currently the Bliss Bakery Trilogy.

Life is good!