Surf Contests and Winter

The waves are big now. Every day. All day. It's both exhilarating and exhausting. Everyday I go out I'm just a little bit scared ... but it rarely stops me. Although I must admit, my appetite for taking off on huge and dangerous waves is slowly waining. 

Coco is being home-schooled by mom and she's sos smart and artistic. She brings art projects to me in my office daily. She's working on her addition and subtraction, days of the week, months of the year, al sorts of important things she'll never really need to know because the world will be run by robots in 30 years. 

Van is going to school 5 days a week and being a champ. The other day he picked up a small basketball with one hand, ran out the little mini hoop, and through it in the hoop with one hand. Color me impressed. He knows how to read a decent amount of words and has a memory like an elephant. He's talking more and more now and getting much easier to understand.

Ash is finally talking! They are grunts mainly, but we get what he's saying. He absolutely loves his siblings and copies everything they do. He's also in love with trucks and can be a little nasty sometimes. He's already saying his ABC's and acting like a little boy -- I'd say Ash seems the most normal.

We're into our final 3 months here in Hawaii and it's bitter sweet. Meagan and I constantly battling with what we should do when we move home (buy a new house and be broke, move into our old house and remodel, do nothing and just be happy???). I love Hawaii so much -- it's actually difficult to be here sometimes. What do you do when you have no energy, but it's so nice outside and in the water, you just HAVE to surf or swim? You're just spent all the time. Oh well. 

Sleep when you're dead.