One Week Old...and Kookie the Dirty Diaper Detective

Kalea is one week old, sleeping like an angel...


Amazingly, we discovered Kookie has an uncanny ability to inform us when Kalea's diaper is dirty. When she starts crying and Kookie starts whining, we realized he was telling us the diaper was wet! What a good boy!!!

With Uncle Ken,

Grandma and Great-Grandma...Kalea is the 8th great grandchild

Hanging with Grandpa...

On our 6th wedding anniversary, Nathan and I got a very special gift...our baby girl! Kalea Ai Oshidari was born on June 22, 2008 at 5:00pm (pretty much exactly the time of our wedding!!). She weighed in at 7lbs, 11 oz and was 20.5 inches long. It was fun not knowing whether it was going to be a boy or girl, but 9 long months of patiently waiting to meet her was well worth it.

Kalea means "light" or "bright" in Hawaiian, and Ai means "love" in Japanese. My mom's name is Aiko, so we thought it was a fitting name!


Here is Kalea taking her first pocha...

















Her first day at home....open your eyes, sweetie...



Daddy's girl