FUIMAONO FAMILY

Happy Birthday Metuli Lapreal Fuimaono!!! And just like that our lil premie baby turned ONE!!! Can't believe how fast this year has passed.   On January 22, 2018 she entered this word 2 months ahead of schedule and spent the 1st month of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) strengthening her lungs, learning how to eat, and gaining weight.  After 5 weeks in the NICU, we were all so excited when she was able to come home. She was so tiny and fragile that we all became hypersensitive to her needs.  Everyone instantly fell in love with her and it has been a joy to watch everyone dote on her.   Wow Viiga has a ton of pics with her lol..making them look like besties even though Leila and Sefa are the true heroes who make her bottle, change her diapers, bath her, feed, her, and make sure the other two are gentle around her. Our whole family has this tendency to treat Metuli like she is v...

2018 was a good year...filled with a lot of life lessons and character-building experiences lol *is that the nice way of saying dramas and trials/struggles hahha.  Here's a brief recap. January we welcomed our 5th child Baby Metuli into this world   we're broke Feb - May planned & prepped for Aljay's first solo artshow Our firstborn was baptized :) Leila & Sefa completed their first year at Vineyard elementary Metuli survived her first couple months of life with Saleima & Viiga as her mini caretakers still broke but somehow making it #tithing June-November Aljay's art career is starting off on a good start the kids start Poly dance classes for the first time still broke but #blessed   December we are finally feeling like we are getting a more solid footing with our finances and not completely broke but we made it!!!! Aljay and I feel really good about the direction his career is going in kids got sick, but were better ...