Sumahi Meditating at Adelup

Akli'e' Likes Watermelon

Gof ya-na Si Che'lu chandiha.

Malangu Si Che'lu

Christmas 2010

Sumahi and Uncle Eric

Sumahi the Uncertain Supermodel

Taken the day after Christmas at K-Mart

Sumahi's on a Boat!

Si Tata-hu, ha konne' ham para un batko gi i ma'pos na simana giya Apra ya gi oriyan Hagat.

Gof magof Si Sumahi put i hinanaon-mami, ya antes di ta li'e' i batko esta ume'essalao gui' na "Malago yu' manli'e' batko!"

Annai manestaba ham gi i batko, manmanli'e' tuninos, ya manmangonne' ham guihan lokkue'.

Gof ya-na Si Sumahi chumocho guihan, lao annai ha li'e' i kinenne'-mami, hu faisen gui' "kao malago hao kumanno' este." Ilek-na "ahe'."

Halloween Costumes

Sumahi Riding a Karabao

The first karabao that Sumahi ever rode was Mr. Tedtaotao's karabao at Fort Soledad in Umatac. This is Sumahi visiting Fort Soledad again two years later to ride the same karabao.

Sumahi at Pagat

I Tano' i Manmachalek Siha

Sumahi enjoys it when I read to her the book Where the Wild Things Are.

I read it to her in Chamorro and add my own commentary. At first she hated it when I would speak in Chamorro while reading it, because she knew that since it was a book it was statistically more likely to be in the English language. But now she's gotten used to it and she talks along with me as I read.

She likes to comment on the feet of the wild things. She says, "atan este na machalek na bikilo'. Ti patas bikilo' gui', patas nganga!."

Sumahi for Cruz/Espaldon

"Sumahi" Sounds Japanese

I hear times and times again that people say "Sumahi" sounds like a Japanese name. So I went to look for a combination of words that "Sumahi" might means. I first tried "Su" and "Mahi" as different charactor, but there were no character for just "Su" and "Mahi" means to numb. Then I tried "Suma" and "Hi" and what I come up is this:


須磨 (Suma) a Japanese family name
緋 (Hi) scarlet, crimson

And the individual character for 須磨 means this:

須 (Su) Neccessary
磨 (Ma) Polish, grind

Estague Yu' Munanangga Hao

Akli'e's current favorite song on Youtube.

For some reason he gets into a trance and gets happy everytime I show this to him.

Comes in handy when he's angry and crying.

Sumahi Matan Model Siha

Kada nai na bai fanlitratu gi as Sumahi, ilek-na, "nangga ya bei na'grabu yu'." Annai ha faisen yu' hafa mafana'an i klasin matan na fihu i models siha ma u'usa gi litratun-niha, ilek-hu na "kalang grabu i matan-niha."

Desde ayu, Si Sumahi, fihu ha tago' yu' "na'grabu i mata-mu!"

Sumahi at the Mina'Kuattro na Konferensian Chamorro

Dinosaur Famagu'on

Two Stooges

Che'lu Mohawk

Akli'e's First Birthday Party!