Have I ever told you that Tevita is

ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, COMPLETELY

SCARED.TO.DEATH

of anyone watching him do almost

ANYTHING!

I am not completely sure where it started, I believe it was somewhere between May Day and graduation his preschool year. 

(these pictures were taken at his preschool graduation)

He has recently said, in his own words, while talking about this years May Day, "I am just really nervous mom.  I just don't like people watching me at all.  Its like there is a fight going on with me and my nervous and the nervous has been doing a lot of exercises and is stronger".  He said this while clenching his teeth and tensing up every little muscle in that body.  I KNOW how scared of public attention is because I am the

exact.same.way.

I feel his pain, and yet it completely drives me crazy.   No bribe works.  Not even the light-up sword that he had been begging for for weeks.  (he told me he would wait for Santa Claus)  Basketball games, christmas concerts, Super Citizen.  You name it, he will run.

He had his first baseball game last Wednesday. 

Would not go near the field. 

He told me he had to "ease" his way in while taking one slider step closer to the bench and then realizing it was just TOO much for him to handle before running back to the fence.  By the end of the game he did pose for a photo shoot because he thought I would let him go home if he took his picture. Wrong!  During the last inning he did muster the guts to bat, but instead of running the bases....he ran to the fence again.

So imagine how PROUD of my little man I was during his second game when he hit that baseball and ran ALL the bases,

twice! 

 He even played the outfield!

(and tackled his teammates multipe times football style for the ball)

WAY TO GO VITA!!!

I have so much going on I have no idea where to start.  Mostly cause it is nothing big, just a bunch of little moments passing me by that I HAVE to write about or I will forget......and that would totally suck!  April has seriously kicked my butt.  We started the month camping for the easter weekend at Malaekahana.  (I still crack up that in Hawaii we camp only a mile from our house, but whatever!)  It was so fun.  I am mad that I did not take a single picture to prove how much fun we had.  The weather was beautiful and the kids were really good actually.  Tevita spent the majority of the time digging in the sand or body boarding.  He would wait at the beach until I was down there before getting in the water.  We walked the beach in the mornings while the sun was rising.  The crabs were everywhere and the tide was so low.  The afternoons were spent at the beach of course.  And the evenings were spent roasting hotdogs and marshmallows with the cousins.  On Saturday night we decided to do an easter egg hunt for the kids since easter was the next day.  Jerome and Berenice and Sai and Ipo and the kids hung out for the evening.  Once it was dark we hid all the eggs and had the kids do the easter egg hunt with their flashlights.  It was so much fun except that there was a quick rain pour just before we started so some of the candy in the eggs got a little soggy.  I doubt the kids noticed.  They probably ate it all anyways.  And after the egg hunt, more smores of course!  Sunday morning we woke up, enjoyed the sunrise and went home and enjoyed General Conference.  What a wonderful weekend!
After camping I spent the majority of my time thinking about filing my taxes.  It took me til the 15th to actually get them done.  I have never procrastinated so bad in my life, but I also never have had to pay $7000.00 either, hence the procrastination!
The rest of the month has been full of birthday parties, work, planning Tevita sn Shalyes birthday bash, running to town over and over again.......and baseball!