Kulshan & Aina

Kulshan and Aina Sunshine-Frazier are two of Selah's friends from the Pacific Northwest. The Sunshine-Frazier family came to the Big Island for a "surprise" visit a few weeks ago. Selah is extremely fond of them both and says they were two of her favorite friends to play with.

Kulshan and Aina are excellent artists, and they had fun collaborating, and combining their ideas with perfect harmony, and even introduced Selah to one of her favorite new past times: Origami!

These two lovely children have appeared a few times in Selah's dreams since their departure to the mainland, and this in and of itself, is such a sweet and special connection. How special one must be to appear in the dream of a child.

Ballerina

Selah elected to start ballet classes this winter, instead of continuing with gymnastics.

She's quite confident and I must say, one of the best pupils in her class. This Spring, the class will perform a recital called Night-Night-Gecko.

Brave Girl

As mentioned in a previous post, Selah was the lead in her Solstice play at school. Her part was that of 'Brave Girl'. Aside from the fact that we were in tears watching her perform with such courage and sincerity, it was also quite humorous to us that she elected to wear the pictured bow tie. Earlier that week, we'd purchased that bow tie for our dog Mosu, who is quite the little English Gentlemen. When we saw her waltz onto stage donning the bow tie quite proudly, it was very difficult not to giggle - especially when she would adjust it gingerly and stretch her neck tall (just in case we couldn't see it).

Our little inventive liberal.

"They should make a dog toy that looks like George Bush. That way, the humans can throw it out onto the ground, then the dog chases it down and chews it all up."

Art & Flying Puppy

I love this picture of the puppy

flying in the snow. Bow-wow!

...And, a couple of art piececs I did on the computer.

The first art piece is called "Explanation." It is a transforming drawing, and can transform into lots of different animals - you can change the letters and numbers into different shapes, like triangles; lining up the legs.

The next art piece is called "Baby Owl." This is a baby owl in a tree that can go looking for food on its own. It's ready for that.

Angels on Both Shoulders

Before Winter break, Selah's teacher Miss Megan was explaining concepts of desire in decision making to the children in Selah's class. One of the students piped in, "it's kind of like having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other!"

Miss Megan said, "Yes, it is like that sometimes."

Miss Megan told me just after this comment, Selah hopped up out of her seat and stood tall, saying, "Well, I've got angels on both shoulders!" And with that, Miss Megan smiled, sighed, and said, "I believe you do, Selah." And that's when Miss Megan decided that Selah should have the part in the Winter play of the character named "Brave Girl," which is a story of Santa Lucia. We'll post more pictures of Selah in her play as soon as we can find the proper cord for the camera.

Happy New Year, everyone!

My First Digital Camera Pictures

Selah received a digital camera for her birthday, and she rocked fifty or so of the photos in its first trial run! Here are some of the super gems of the bunch. Aloha!!!