political heat

Sorry guys this one isn't an entry about Mana or Joe, just my two cents ;)

I didn't vote so now my sister thinks I'm lame. I didn't vote because ..ya ya you don't want to hear my excuse. Barack Obama is elected president. History in the making! I know he wasn't everyones pick but he will be the president. Remember to keep him in your prayers.

The prop 8 is more heated than I thought. I can't believe people are protesting on temple ground or more like right in front of it!! I saw it on tv and was shocked. No respect I tell you. No respect.

I recently got a email from my friend Katie. It was a powerful video that was well needed. I was having a not-so-smooth day; it wasn't all that bad but just not as well as I would've liked it. Ya right I bombed TWO quizzes so I felt crappy and sooo dumb. It was this video that helped me put everything back into perspective. I tend to lose focus quickly and often forget the whole purpose of me being here. The world can get so overwhelming, especially right now with politics in our face, so I just thought it would be helpful to get this video out to who ever needs it. (Kata, u should add the video to your 'are you living or just existing' post)

the blog feels loved

Ooohh weeee someone loves my blog. Well it's nice to know that my blogging is paying off! haha. Ya it's not quite extravagant but i'm glad I get to do it this way, in keeping the 'peepo' posted and keeping track of what Mana does. The blog is basically for the family & friends that can't be here physically while Kamanamau is growing up. We'll keep you updated :D Thanks to Leeyen and Marianna for the nominee. Is there a grand prize?? by the way i love your blogs too!

1. Whomever I nominate get to put this same picture on their blog.

2. Link back to me on your post (it's all about getting visits to your own blog and to others).

3. Nominate 5 other blogs. <---um, if u have the option lol

okay, family and friends can you try and help me out here. I need some blogging friends :( sad. sad. Make a blog! it feels like i'm talking to myself and it'll be good cuz you can keep us posted on your lives too!! make it make it! break out of your anti social mode. i did lol!

4. Link up to them.

5. Leave a message (comment) on those blogs to let them know they were nominated.

Kata : Kamanamau's no.2 favorite aunty sorry you cannot be no.1 unless you live in hawaii. but we'll save your spot ok.

Ui : Joe's friend who i inherited as my friend hahaa. Her blogs are too funny. You'll never know if she's in your state or mine or even in a different country.

halloween weekend & some

FRIDAY. halloween was kind of a long day for us. Mana got to take pictures with Leeyen. She did awesome taking those pics!! I'm quite surprised because he was not having it; he would rather play with the huge exercise ball, but i must say she managed to get mean photos! She's got the photography skills. Me, i just act like i do haha. I actually like taking pictures but am not that into it. After seeing her pics I can definitely see the difference. Well we then went to tva's little activity and to the kahuku football game. I think our kids will know that if you're born into the spurrier family u will be a 'red raider fo lyph'..no joke. I kinda feel bad, but the family chain cannot be broken and i don't mind too much. Only when it gets way out of hand will i be upset but I have yet to know what out of hand is! I squeezed in some loads of laundry and did some cleaning while the guys were napping. The game was ok. A bit annoying at times but that's what you get :) We carpooled there n back. We saw the Moors family with their handsome boys and

Gabe the stranger haha.

JR, Malosi - shrek, Alema - spiderman, Kamanamau - pirate, Joe

Mommy Moors, Baby Moors, Daddy Moors, Toddler Moors ;)

Gabe and Mana

SATURDAY. No more pirate costume. I think Mana had enough of that lol. Saturday morning we did our Costco run and later went to my cousin's wedding. Congratulations to Ron and Amanda Wong-Wui!! The wedding was nice, simple, and intimate. I felt the love :) I hadn't seen the wong wui girls in almost 7 years so it was nice seeing them again. To finish off our saturday we went to the girls volleyball game. I enjoy going places where u don't HAVE TO spend money :D

SUNDAY. Joe taught Sunday school. We kinda did a little run through the day before so he caught me by surprise when he decided to sing a song at the end of the actual lesson. I love hearing his voice. Oh this reminds me...earlier tonight I had a missed call so I called the number back. It was Queens Hospital. ???!!! Queens hospital?? who would be calling me from the hospital? so I call Joe. No answer. I call my mom. She's okay; just about ready to fall asleep. Call Joe again. No answer. So I send him a 'please please please call me' text. He calls in a few minutes. In those few minutes I was about ready to break down. My heart is pounding. I feel helpless, hopeless, lost!! So when he calls and I hear his voice I nearly cried because I knew he was okay. Nonetheless Joe's Sunday school lesson was great. He went to work after church, and Mana and I went to the kakela house.

over & under, and anywhere u can think of

We've been missing in action so I have to get a post in to be covered for the week. Kamanamau is very very mobile. He crawls everywhere; he pulls himself up on anything and everything! I've watched him walking while holding on the couch but he's still a bit iffy on getting down from places. I'm not too sure if he was already aware of his reflection but i recently noticed Mana slapping, smiling, and looking at himself through the oven. If you look in the picture, you'll see the jumperoo thing that he used to love being in, but now he'd rather be under it instead of in it. He tries to crawl over it and play with the toys from the outside. Mana plays with bottles and his personal keyboard :) but eventhough we gave him a keyboard, he still wants the one that daddy and mommy uses.

He is very interested in the toilet flushing noise, or probably the toilet flushing in itself. It cracks me up because when we're in the room and he hears the toilet flush, he stops what he's doing and just looks up with 'the face'. I know many babies that love to play with the toilet water and I hope Mana doesn't get that far. It's scary enough that he might drown in that water or do something dangerous in the bathroom. We've been trying to get in the routine of closing the bathroom door at all times.

Last week was Johawna's 1st birthday party! she's such a cutie! I'm not too sure why everything was planned for last saturday...do you know?? We had like five different things going on in one day. I was bummed we missed some stuff but real happy that we made it to Johawna's bday. Krissy made the bombest <--ya, that's a word ok ;) she made the bombest cake!! i forgot to take a group pic of everyone but that's ok. Yesterday we got to meet up with them again to go to PCC's haunted lagoon. It was fun!..and even more fun standing in the two hour long line..blah.

Tomorrow is halloween. Mom bought Kamanamau a pirate costume. I had a few options of his actual costume. Some ideas were an indian boy (no shirt, paw print on his chest and a skirt thing with feathers), pillsbury dough boy (?? a chefs hat, white clothes), sumo wrestler (no shirt, either buy a mawashi or have my mom make it), hercules (no idea,buy it from the store ??), and the hulk (color Mana all green, no shirt, purple pants, draw muscles on him). Well Kamanamau recently got sick so he HAS TO wear a shirt. I like the idea of not having a shirt on him because he sweats like crazy, but now he's sick so I want him to be warm. I made him try on the pirate costume and he looks oh so cute!!!! he's the cutest pirate ever. <---can you tell i'm his mother??haha

Mana's new seat

Update on Mana's seat (we actually got it a few weeks ago) : Since Mana is surprisingly large for his age we had to bump him up to a new car seat. We scored when Michele bought us a car seat/stroller combo. It was perfect. You can use it til the child is 30 lbs, but most car seats only go up to 20 something pounds unless it's a convertible car seat. Last time we weighed Kamanamau he was 25 pounds; he was seven months at that time. We haven't seen the doctor for about 2 weeks so I figured he's going to reach 30 in no time. We searched for a seat and settled with a durable yet comfortable seat for him. The winner is a front facing alpha omega seat. I wish i did more homework and research on the car seats but we needed one quick. It's a good seat but I don't like that kamanamau looks so uncomfortable in it. Well look for yourself and see if Mana is happy or not.

dolphin bird :)

I was watching family feud as i 'lulled' Mana to sleep. It was the finale part where the winning family tries to score a certain amount of points to walk away with the money. The last question was something like: Name a BIRD that some people walk like. I'm thinking sesame street's big bird. The lady answers DOLPHIN. i tried to chuckle quietly but i couldn't help myself. I blurted out a big laugh and my son just looked at me like i was crazy. haha I called Kata to tell her so she could laugh with me but she didn't answer so I left her a voicemail with me laughing more than half of the time. Not too sure what the number 1 answer was but Kata's guessing a penguin.

Well my little boy is growing so fast. He knows and understands a lot. Sometimes when we're getting ready to leave, I'll be holding Kamanamau and just when I reach for the door handle I'll remember that I don't have my house card or car key or cell...i don't know, i forget a lot of stuff... so I'll go to the room to get whatever I'm missing and when I walk away from the door Mana gets upset. I think he whines because he wants out! haha. I only recognized this because i'm always forgetting something.
Kamanamau is also answering to his name. He'll respond with a "eh", "uh", or "oa'u". It is the cutest thing. Lately he's been saying "mum" but my mom says he's trying to say his own name because he hears it so much ?? lol. This past week I gave him meat. He ate chicken for the first time. He liked it but his poop was way gross.

what is that smell ??!!?

I don't know where it's coming from but I know it's only around our building in TVA. ugh it's so gross! i really don't know what the smell is. I asked Joe and Sonya if they could smell what I was smelling and they were like "huh?!" Even when I took the trash this morning I asked one of my neighbors if it sometimes smells like this but fortunately for her she couldn't smell because her nose was stuffed. It's driving me crazy. Well it's a good thing i can vent to myself on here haha.