On August 15th, I hiked over 16 miles with my classmates. We got to see a lot of interesting biological and geological specimens including this very interesting lava tree formation.

Volcano!

I spent August 14-16 on the Big Island, mainly in Volcanoes National Park, and what is a visit to Volcanoes without a shot of a volcano?

Bathtime!

The boys like to have a “Brothers’ Bath” with bubbles and turn the bath into a car wash.

S asleep on the couch

So that the boys don’t keep each other up at bedtime, we often let S fall asleep on the couch and then carry him back to bed.

H rolling around on the floor.

H wasn’t sure he wanted to be part of this photoshoot.

The supermoon

R suggested that I take a photo of the August 10th “Super Moon”, so I did. If you show H this picture, he says “sun”.

I still call them flip-flops instead of slippahs, but this is a pretty common image here in Hawaii.

Storm preparations

Iselle wasn’t expected to hit Oahu at full force and forcasters were still unsure what Julio would do, so we took some precautions in case small flying debris broke our windows and shattered the glass. Of course, if a hurricane came our direction at full force, we’d have to evacuate.

H and his teacher at swim lessons.

On August 7th, our island home was bracing for the possible arrival of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Iselle. However, since the storm hadn’t yet arrived, swim lessons continued as scheduled. Understandably, many families stayed home and both boys enjoyed private lessons (H’s lessons are always private).

S running through “The Danger Room”.

We have a park across the street from our home. Whenever we come to the big field in the park, S asks, “What is ‘The Danger Room’ today?” Usually, he supplies his own answer before you can respond and then assigns superhero roles to all participants. S is usually Robot Kadobot, his own creation. He then takes off through whatever imagined perils are present in the field that day.