Theat-ah Camp!

Now that she's 4, almost 5, Drew is eligible for all sorts of summer camps. We signed up for gymnastics camp, vacation bible school and theater camp. It was a lot of work for our little girl and she did her absolute best with the 5 days of rehearsals they had before putting on the Friday night performance. According to Drew the best part was wearing blush and mascara for the performance.

It was a loosey-goosey performance, she had many photo-ops.

 A little slower than the others on the choreography. Although at home, she performs quite well!

In her "Strawberry Shortbread" short, she delivers her lines just before she gets shot by aliens. The video below shows her (beginning at 0:43) Oscar-worthy death scene.

Proud mom and dad!

She might even consider doing theater camp again if she gets flowers and is allowed to wear makeup!

Boom Boom Pow! Drew clearly had a couple key moves down.

Hawaii 2012

Working on our sandcastle skills.

Favorite part of the trip is always the water slide. It was especially wonderful for Mommy to be able to just sit and watch her slide, swim against the current to the side, climb up the steps and slide again, all with no help. 

 Boogie boarding/surfing/ocean swim lessons with Boppa. Occasionally I would look up and see Drew fighting some small currents to get to the boogie board Boppa had pushed away from her. She did great!

 Kimo's! Someone's missing from this picture :(

 After 2 failed monkey bar attempts, she swung all the away across, accumulating 2 blisters in the process. She was pretty proud of her wounds.

 What a fish!

 At our annual trip to the Maui Ocean Center. She just loves looking at all the fish every year.

 My favorite story of the trip happened here. We had walked up to a small crowd who had just finished listening to a marine biologist talk about sharks, unfortunately we had missed the whole thing, but she was now asking all the kids a question to win a prize: "how long can a tiger shark grow to?" Drew, of course, wasn't paying attention but instead looking in the window at all the animals. One older boy raised his hand and answered 25 feet. Wrong. Another older boy raised his hand and answered 15 feet. Wrong. Drew stood up, turned to the lady, raised her hand and said "20 feet." She was correct, the whole place applauded and she won a prize for a complete wild guess. I was super proud.

 Happy 4th of July from the Valley Isle!

 Self-timer masterpiece!

 Excited and ready for the snorkel boat, the Teralani.

 Giggling with Grammy and Boppa.

 Like her aunt Kels, Drew enjoys the self-photo.

 Where's the brunette?

 We decided we like sand-cakes as opposed to sand-castles.

 Posing for the camera.

 The true mark of growing from toddler to kid is the appearance of an athletic run. I think we're there!

 Daily lunch picnic on our lawn...trying not to get hit by the occasional football, soccer ball or bocce ball.

 A very sweet girl with her Mommy.

 Somebody spots her last Hula Pie of the trip!