Mason Shoma

I gotta tell you, snacks just taste better when hanging out in the patio.

We went to a farmers’ market today and it looked quite familiar. I think I had great food here once.

Yep, I did. They sell some awesome pineapples here and make an awesome pineapple sorbet out of them. I shared a cup with Mommy, but I probably had more than my share. Yummy!

Nana is making my Halloween costume again this year, just like she did the past two years. I was Baby Yoda and then I was a dinosaur. That was back before I could talk or to much else so I really couldn’t let her know what I wanted to be. But this year it is very clear that I want to be a car for Halloween because as you know I’m really into cars. Since she is working so hard on my costume I thought that it was only fair that I help out in sewing it. So I let Nana teach me how to use the sewing machine. I was a very good student and listened carefully and was sure not to do anything dangerous. It was a lot of fun for me to learn about sewing.

Nana has kind of become my default bedtime book reader. Mommy and Daddy are temporarily sidelined.

It’s nice that Nana and Papa’s house has a lot of cars for me to play with. It turns out that all these little Matchbox and HotWheels cars were Daddy’s from when he was a kid. I didn’t know that Daddy liked cars too! Liking cars must be in my blood.

I try to do my part and help around the house. I helped with the dishes…sort of. I just closed the dishwasher.

One of the best summer fruits is watermelon! I had quite a bit this trip. The size of the watermelon pieces is deceiving because I can have 3 or 4 of them and not feel full at all.

After such a busy day I took a moment to unwind with Nana’s ipad.

Papa knows how I like my snacks and went out to buy me some Jello. So when I got back from my napping car ride he was ready with my afternoon snack. It was very yummy and refreshing!

But being a Grandpa is not all fun and games. There are responsibilities as well. Papa was on diaper duty and took care of my diaper change like a practiced pro.

After such fun time at the beach I fell asleep in the car right after we left the beach. I was quite exhausted. Instead of heading home and cutting my nap short, Mommy and Daddy went for a mini island tour. Instead of just circling around the same place as yesterday Daddy took Mommy (and me) to the Poipu area and stopped to show Mommy the Spouting Horn. It is this place where the waves crash through some rocks and then send water shooting up while making a noise. Mommy went to check it out while Daddy waited in the car with me as I slept. I woke up after a few minutes realizing that the car had stopped and then we went to join Mommy.

We stopped by the store to pick up just one thing. But it is a big thing and a very special thing. You’ll see what it is shortly. I picked it out myself. I was very happy to find it and can’t wait to use it!

I’m just hanging with Nana. I don’t even bother trying to wake up or even find Mommy and Daddy in the morning. I just look for Nana and Papa in the family room or in their bedroom and then they hook me up with a diaper change, breakfast, and an outfit change. Once all that is done I hang with them. We read books, play with cars, and I turn on the charm to get Nana to let me play on the iPad.

After dinner, Daddy suggested we all go out for ice cream. He remembers family trips to the ice cream shop when he was young and wanted to share that with me. Mommy and Papa are huge ice cream fans so I think me loving ice cream is in my blood. I easily finished off my cup of sherbert and just had to have a taste of Mommy’s funky blue Cookie Monster ice cream. It was all so yummy!

I may love my fruits and eat a lot of everything, but I am very much a meat-eater. You should see me when we go out to an all-you-can-eat yakiniku restaurant. I eat up all the meat put on my plate the moment it is placed there. So tonight I was thrilled to see Papa fire up the grill because that meant he was cooking some meat. Tonight it was Nana’s famous lamb! It smelled so go and once the Daddy cut me some pieces and placed it on my plate it disappeared into my mouth. Then I saw him skipping the fork and knife part of eating, eating it straight off the bone and I wanted to do that. So I did, and I did it very well.

After we got home from the beach, Daddy unloaded all the beach gear and rinsed them off. When he got the tent set up again to rinse off I thought it looked like fun. So we enjoyed a mini backyard camp in the beach tent.

It was nice to be able to run around the backyard and then retreat into the shade of the tent when it got too hot.

Mommy and Daddy decided that it was a good place to have a snack. So they got me a bowl of grapes while they ate their local otsumami of poke and pipikaula. (I had a bit of the pipikaula and quite liked it.)

First thing I did when we came home from the beach was play with my Lego construction vehicle. Thank you again Maimai, Tata, Aunty Chris, and Uncle Matt!

On the way home from the beach we decided to stop for some shave ice. I woke up from my nap in the car just as we were pulling into the parking lot. The shave ice was very yummy, but I think I was still a little tired because I had a bit of a tantrum. It’s okay though. I got it out of my system and was able to enjoy my ice cold shave ice!