Ella wears her sunglasses at night...

One of the rewards for finishing p90x was a new bikini! Forgot to mention, I finished! Down from size 6 to size 2 and I am tipping the scales at -18 lbs. Maybe I will post some before and after pictures.
We went to Whaler's Village to hunt for a new bikini and to have an excuse to get some froyo... Yogurtland opened up where Kel's old gallery used to be and it is absolutely delish! Ella debuted her first shoes that mommy ordered, just for the occasion..
The day before we went to Kula to meet some new friends of ours, Bodil and Dave. Bodil is Swedish just like me and her and her husband Dave live in a beautiful house up in Kula. We were invited for lunch and we had a great time! Nice to make new friends! Ella behaved and showed herself from her best side!
Being on the other side already, we figured we might as well go visit Manolo and his family too in their new house in Haiku. (Kula and Haiku are both located on the slopes of Haleakala, the volcano, and hence on the other side of the island from where we live, in case you didn't know).
Manolo had bought a stand up paddle board that he convinced us to borrow. We don't like SUP, but thought it could be worth a go.
So after finding a bikini for mommy and new sunnies for Ella, we went to Launiupoko to try it out. Kel refused to take the paddle but I gave it a go. Hurt myself only a little..

Other than that we are very much looking forward to our visitors from Sweden, arriving next week!

Ella Mahina Bell, 9 months!

Wow! Our little baby has turned 9 months! Unbelievable! She went for her check-up and she is 29,5" tall, 74,9 cm that is and she weighs in at 20,3 lbs, 9,16 kg. She is one tall baby! Unfortunately, they had to give her some shots too. Not popular! But it's a necessary evil... She did great though, cried a bit but then she was fine! We felt like we had to reward her so we went to Baby Gap and got her some new cute outfits!

The day before, which was the actual 9 month birthday, we went to Baby Beach in town and Mommy and Ella went for a swim while Daddy caught some waves.

She got some hair too, finally! Enough to make a mohawk!

Further up and further in!

We covered some new (for us) ground yesterday. We hiked up Olowalu valley along the river. It was strenuous and at times flat-out difficult, but beautiful! We hiked with some people from work, which was nice. We were pooped afterwards and went home for a family nap haha!
The next day, today in other words, I went to have my wisdom's tooth pulled. Ouch! Punch me in the face-OUCH!

Kapalua Lake hike!

It was a beautiful day for a hike! Too bad the entire thing was paved and led to a man-made lake.. Kind of took away from the 'natural' experience. Beautiful nevertheless! Ella too! Happy baby!

Tsunami!

We evacuated and headed to higher ground. Roads were closed and everything were somewhat chaotic.

We brought our tent, clever as we are, and put it up on top of the hill. Ella, as it turns out, is a happy camper! No sleep for Mommy, at least not much. Woke up and had no idea whatsoever about any damage done during the dark hours of the night. Woke up to sunshine and trafficjam...
Hardly any damage to speak of to the island and everyone is safe and sound. We are happy for that but so sad for Japan!

Ella's fave food!

My second attempt at making baby food turned out to be a success! Apple and blueberry puree! The first one, the green supermash, wasn't as popular... I have since learnt that she is too little for broccoli and that's probably whu she doesn't like it. A for effort though, right?

For all you non-facebookers

This is how we found Ella when we pulled over after shopping for protein bars at Whole Foods... Those little fingers can apparently open anything..
(I posted this on facebook already, but it's just too classic I had to share it)