Strawberries

This place really is amazing when you consider that they have things like an all you can eat strawberry farm. Which Olivia, Abby and I did with some friends. 

Tiny human to little person

 I can't believe this little girl is almost two already!

Notice her new little purse. It's a clown fish. We found it at the aquarium.  She loves her purse!

Cosmos and Fish Watching

One of the things that we love about living in Okinawa is all of the flowers. There's a flower festival always going on that we can wander to visit. Starting at the beginning of January the Cosmo flowers started to bloom. They are so beautiful and they made for perfect pictures of the girls. 

Every once in a while we will do something here that reminds me of being home in Seattle. Back in Washington, they have the Tulip Festival. There are acres and acres of every kind of Tulip you can imagine. I would be surprised if this field of Cosmos was bigger than an acre. But it still brought back that feeling of looking at something that was truly breath taking. It helped that the girls were more than willing to try and take pictures. We just need to work on getting Abby to look at the camera. 

Our neighbors were there at the same time too. They have three girls; two of them older than Olivia. Olivia loves them so much. It's funny to me to see how they treat her as if she is there little sister and she treats them as her older sisters.

This is Jericah and Harper. Abby is about 2.5 months older than Harper.

We also took some time to visit the Underwater Observatory and take a glass bottom boat tour at Busena Cape. The whole area is owned by a resort so the grounds and beaches were absolutely stunning and perfectly manicured. If you have ever seen a show like The Bachelor, I think you could describe it as a scene out of there. 

It was a perfect day for this. It was hot with a cool gentle breeze, around 70 degrees. I don't know if Olivia had been on a boat prior to this. But she held no reservation when it came to getting on. She loved seeing all of the fish. It helped that as we went over the reefs that they dumped buckets of fish food to attract the fish. I wish that I had taken a picture of the boat because it was painted and shaped like a giant blue whale!

 This is the bridge headed out to the observatory.

They had these little machines that you can buy fish food to dump over the side of the bridge. At the bottom, where the reef started, there would be a ton of huge fish gobbling it up. The outside packaging of the fish food that was dispensed was something sort of a rice cracker box that you could throw into the water as well. Even though it was quite a drop down to the water, you could hear them chomping the rice cracker box.

 Steven and Olivia descending down to see the fish.

The room to see the fish through these potholes was not very large. It felt especially small with all of the people down there. Basically, the staircase had an outer ring, maybe 3-4 feet wide, that you could walk around to look through these holes. We pretty much looked through them all. Although they all showed the same thing, fish and coral, Olivia was amazed by every single view. There are so many pretty fish though in bright neon colors! Many of them are large as well!

Originally we had taken a trolly from the parking lot to the boat ride. But we decided to walk back because it was so nice out. I'm glad we did. These two perched down on some wooden stairs for some dad and daughter time. It was the cutest thing ever. Olivia loves her dad so much!

My tiny human is growing up way too fast!

This conversation happened today

Steven: I can't believe she's already 9 weeks!

Me: I feel like we have been saying 9 weeks for too long. We should check the calendar. 

......

Me: yep, we lost a week somewhere. She's going to be 11 weeks tomorrow!

Time flies but it's because we are having so much fun!