Champ & Nanos: Babymoon in Maui

I hereby announce that we are pregnant again! After a false alarm last spring (i.e blighted ovum, i.e. empty gestational sac, aka "the ghost fetus, Casper,") we are officially with child. More specifically, this child is a "she," a little baby girl due July 1st.

Because for many weeks we had been referring to her as "Baby two" or "number 2," we asked Sam to come up with a nickname for her a la "Champ." His first suggestion is impossible to replicate, having had an abundance of consonants, mostly of the "t" and "k" variety. But suggestion number 2 was perfect:

"Nanos."

Yes, we thought, "nanos" like nano, meaning small. It will do.

Last month, the three of us were thrilled to travel to Hawaii with the Weisbrod/ Arnow/ Slutsky Family: Steve, Beth, Alexis and Corey, as well as our friends Scott and Rachel Doniger and their 2 girls. It was, I think, the last vacation we will take for a while and thus we dubbed it our "babymoon."

We rented a 5 bed/ 6 bath house on Kannapalli beach in west Maui, just north of the famous black rock. The beach was just a hundred yards away, with great snorkeling and fun surf. We enjoyed a lot of beach time with the kids, an adults-only trip to the Haleakala crater, a few dinners out in historic Lahaina, and an amazing luau. The setting was perfect as we had a relaxing atmosphere with our house right on the golf course and there were plenty of people to keep an eye on the kids as they played in the yard. We enjoyed an awesome whale watch (it was humpback whale season and it was impossible NOT to see a whale on a daily basis) and took the little ones on a glass bottom boat tour of the reef.

Some of my favorite moments (thanks to Steve for taking the pics):

Our house was great. There was ample, private outdoor space next to the golf course for us to spend time on the lanai reading, eating, playing games, and goofing off: