Noelani Julliet Lardelli

Well I thought I'd put up a more recent pic of Noelani Julliet Lardelli. I still can't really see any family resemblence and she doesn't look like Sam. Dad reckons she looks like Kaea and Jennae's baby Ashlyn, I can't see it? Her hair is rather light, lightish brown and when it is wet it curls on the end. So I guess we are going to have another curly mop. Tonight when I was straightening my hair Jason said, oh that will be Noelani in a few years time. Well I should be in bed as it is past midnight, but it is too tempting to browse the net while both children are fast asleep.

THANKS!

Aunty Puanani stopped by the other day with a fab prize for guessing (incorrectly) Malia's baby stats. I never win competitions...and even though i kinda won by default...i'm feeling pretty awesome right now...so Thanks heaps.  We definitely look forward to redeeming our prize at Hell's Pizza...which F.Y.I i only tasted for the first time a few nights ago and am now a fan!  On another note, thanks to everyone for the well wishes and to those who have been by to visit our newest edition and also for the lovely goodies...i never thought i'd appreciate nappies so much!

A little something from Anthony Butters

Here's the latest Anthony Butters movie...mean stuff Anthony.  Keep em coming.

Family members who look like famous people...

I thought I would post a blog of family members who look like famous people. Of course it is subjective and you could disagree (and probably will).
Tell me what you think...


Morne Morkel (South African cricket player) - Tim Butters


Irene Van Dyk - Awatea


Orlando Bloom - Dennis


Phil Waugh (Wallaby) - Elias


Helen Hunt - Crystal


Eddie Munster - Mason


Billy T. James - Uncle Gordon


Boss JD Hogg (Dukes of Hazzard) - Cooper


Shia Lebeouf - Kaea


Hansie Cronje former South African Cricket captain - Michael Butters

FINALLY!

Well, it took me 11 days from my due date to SPONTANEOUSLY go into early labour...and 2 days before i was labouring enough to warrant me the right to go to hospital.  Another 6 hours into the hospital round of labour...Noelani arrives...WHAT THE??? i was in labour first...COME ON...laugh...i was even more determined to get the kid out before midnight.  After 18 hours in Hospital....we welcome our second daughter Jaylah Anataia Iola Lohana Makata into the world on April 26th 2011...pretty cool...Noelani and Jaylah share the same birthday, they must be the chosen ones or something?. Jaylah's middle names are after my dad's Mother and Dillon's Mother's Mother...Jaylah's lungs are pathetic in comparison to her elder sister who's lungs were incredible at birth.  She came with a head of hair...but yet again, nothing in comparison to her sister's jet black crop that was so thick you couldn't see her scalp...her fingers are super long...same as noelani i would say...there is more finger than palm.  Though with her parents lack of sporting ability...i don't see her palming a basketball anytime soon.

Jaylah weighed a healthy 8lb 14 oz and was 56cm long at birth.  She and i had a few things that worked against us in labour, so she eventually...like her sister...had to be born via emergency c-section...which was a lot tougher than Naima's delivery...in that i had a lot of scar tissue which made it harder for the surgeons to get to Jaylah quickly and safetly...put it this way, i was told it take bout 10-15 mins to get the baby out and about 30-45 mins to stitch me back up...we went into theatre just after 7.30, she was born at 8.24pm...and we came out of theatre just after 9...i started off with a resident surgeon who i was told by the nurse is Excellent...and ended up with the Big Cheese of Surgery when the Resident gave him a look that was like...Ummm...this is complicated and i don't think i can do this without assistance...YAYNESS...but...i was pretty relaxed about the whole thing...infact the surgical team said i was the most chilled out woman they'd had in surgery all day and my surgery was probably the worst...and they had done a lot of c-sections that day.  I didn't see the point in kicking up a fuss when my body was already numb and i couldn't feel anything.  i don't get why woman still panic and scream.  But anywho, seeing as it was more complicated then first thought, i was advised not to have anymore children, but i think i'll leave that up to Me, Dil and Heavenly Father to decide.  I still feel there is atleast one more child yet.

I'm happy to report, that Naima LOVES her little sister.  She insists on holding her all the time, gives her cuddles and kisses when she cries...she's responded to the change very well.  I'm so proud of Naima. Her sole chore is to get us Jaylah's wipes and Nappies whenever it's changing time, and so far...she's taking her job very seriously.  She's a good little helper.

Jaylah on the other hand...spends most of her time with her face like this? LAUGH! she does cry a lot...having said that, she's very easy to settle...so long as there is enough milk on offer, and a strong daddy's arm to cuddle her FOREVER...boy does she love her cuddles.  She's hates her cot, but we're forcing her to sleep in there...well, as much as we can. 

When she's not asleep...she usually looks like this...annoyed for no reason, bored, and hungry.  Her eyes were looking like they might go lighter...but today...they looking very dark.  Sorry Dil, guess your wish of having a child with green eyes won't be fulfilled this time round.  But...he really shouldn't complain seeing as both his kids are exact replica's of him...i don't see either of em looking like me....and i did all the hardwork.  Where's the justice?  But yes, apart from not having slept since Jaylah's arrival, we are very happy to have a little bubby in the house.  I can't wait to be well enough to start taking awesome photos of the girls together. I'm sure Naima will be more than willing to give Jaylah some modelling tips... Naima's already introduced Jaylah to Michael Jackson...infact right now she watching an M.J dvd  together.  Naima is telling her all about the music videos.  Jaylah seems...bored!

And the winner is . . .

Here is my first granddaughter - Noelani Julliet Lardelli. Her first name is Malia's middle name. Her middle namd is Jason's Mum's name. She is so cute and loves being the centre of attention as you can imagine. She has long fingers - longer than her palm. Warren says that he has never seen that before and he is already imagining her "palming" a basketball (I wonder what we're getting her for Christmas). We are going home on Friday and the next wave of support is coming from Gisborne - Jason's Mum and Dad and Sam who hasn't seen his sister yet. I'm sure that he will be a big helper to Mum.

With the huge response from the competition, I declare Chrissy the winner (as she was the only entrant). Here are Noelani's statistics with Chrissy's guesses in brackets.
Born: 26 April 2011 (25 April 2011)
Time: 12:42 pm (4:27 pm)
Weight: 6 lb 6 oz (6 lb 7 oz)
Height: 47 cm (53 cm)

Congratulations on Jaylah - born on the same day as Noelani - how about that 2 girl cousins on the same day! Your prize will be coming soon when we get back to Hamilton.

Holly's competitive nature

The setting is the annual Koromatua School triathlon. Mason is so far leading the individual race with 50 metres to go ... check out the video.

Kainoa's basketball tournament

Kainoa made the Waikato Under 12 A Boys team this year. Mason was also the coach of his team. They have been training since Nov last year & was working towards winning the Rotorua Easter Tournament. They had 5 games in total & won them all. Counties-Manukau won 55-10. Hibiscus Coast Development Team won 36-0. North Habour won 30-17. West Auckland won 27-26. Hibiscus Coast A team won 39-21. It was a round robin competition so no final as such. We knew our hardest game would be against West Auckland who are the defending champs. It was such an exciting game. I was videoing the whole game & my legs were shaking from nervousness. It was close the whole game. We were up by 1 pt at the end of the game, but the ref decided to call an intentional foul on our team right on the buzzer. So the other team got 2 foul shots. They only needed to get 1 to go into over time, but they missed both. Phew! Kainoa had a wonderful tournament. He wasn't starting 5, but definately contributed especially rebounds & steals. He also made 2 crucial lay ups in that close game. So Mase has 1 tournament win under his belt as coach. And Kainoa has 1 tournament win for Waikato rep teams under his belt now.

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