Happy New Year! Mommy and Daddy and I got very sick and had to go to the hospital a few times starting the morning of Christmas Eve. I even had to go back again at night on Christmas Day. Mommy and I are doing much better now, but Daddy is still having a high temperature and problems with his kidney.
BUT! We have all spent lots of time together and Daddy hasn’t gone to work in so many days. Today we went to the park - and it was my first time to play outside in 2010! I had a lot of fun, but I got tired pretty quickly.
Daddy says he is sorry the video doesn’t have sound.
I went to an aquarium today in Tokyo. Mama wanted us to see a dolphin show, but once they started jumping and splashing in the water, I got a bit scared. Also, seeing so many people got me really tired. So Mama and Dada pushed me in my stroller for a while so I could look at all the pretty fish. I think Dada may put some pictures on his website.
Hi there!
This live band isn't so good.
Why are you taking my picture?
I love my Jiji!
I'm coming, Dada.
Window shopping is for buying windows?
Almost got it.
Let's get over that way!
Upside-down time is the best time!
Today Mama, Dada, Jiji and I went out for a walk at Lazona, the big shopping area a couple of blocks from where we live.Mama accidentally left my shoes in the diaper room, so we had to go back and get then, but we still had a lot of fun running around. Well, I did, at least. I recently got my first haircut, too, so Mama and Dada thought it would be nice to take pictures.
PS - I love hanging upside-down. Every morning when I see Dada I make him let me hang upside-down, many times without even giving him a “good morning” kiss.
Dada’s shoes are much bigger than mine. And both Mama’s & Dada’s shoes are less colorful than mine. I like wearing shoes because that means I get to go outside and walk! I love walking. It’s a lot of fun for me, and Mama takes me outside at least two times a day to walk in a park or other buildings. I also like to walk around inside my home. Did I mention that I think walking is fun? Well, it is. I should know! I do it so much every day. Because it is so fun! Yay! Walking!
Today Mama and Dada took me to Odaiba. It was my first time there, and I had a pretty nice time. It got pretty warm and sunny today, so everyone got tired. I slept in my stroller while they bought some things for the house. But I got to run around outside by the Tokyo Bay and play with the big crying bears.
Oh yeah, I’m walking now. In fact, I ran for the first time, today!
Mama’s site has lots of videos of me from her new iPod Nano, so maybe you should look there, too.
Let's play...
I swear I'm not sleepy!
Recently when Mama and Dada put me to bed, I don’t want to go to sleep. I want to keep playing. I don’t let the fact that I can only stand for a few moments or that I prefer to play while lying down get in the way of that desire, either. But Mama & Dada are very persistent and I always endup going to bed, but Mama likes to comfort me and Dada keeps me entertained the whole time.
Also, I thought I should tell you… I own two small blankets - a green one and a yellow one which I like to cover my face with when I get sleepy. I call both of them Zaza, and Mama & Dada only say it to me when they ask me if i want to go to sleep. Maybe when I say it back to them they think I mean I want to go to bed. Really, I just want to put it in my face… And rest my eyes… In my bed… With the lights off… For 8 hours. But I’m not sleepy. I promise you that.
Also, you can kind of see that my front teeth are starting to come in nicely now.
I like drinking from juiceboxes. I also like pulling straws out of juiceboxes and trying to get the juice from the other end of the straw. It doesn’t seem to work out well, but that doesn’t stop me from trying over and over again. At least I am startign to be able to put the straw back into the box, though. That’s really heard to do!!!
Baba & Jiji wanted to have special pictures taken of me when I was in Hokkaido. We just got them in the mail. Mama is really happy with the pictures, and says she likes one with me in the striped dress where I am standing to the side of the blue box the most. Dada likes the ones where I am titling my head and smiling - but he seems to think the white frilly dress is out of character for me. I think next time he wants pictures like these he will ask me to wear a kimono. But I guess that will happen when I turn 3 years old…
I hope you enjoy the pictures!
This is a long video (10 minutes) of Mama, Dada, Baba and Jita singing “Happy Birthday” to me, eating cake and just having a nice time with me at the dinner table. It’s the very first time I have ever heard anyone sing this to me, and seeing as how I got flowers and a great new “activity center” toy from Dada, got to do a lot of fun things with Mama and also got to have dinner with everyone (Dada is usually gone at work when I eat dinner) it was a great day. I look forward to my next birthday.
When I woke up today, I thought it would be like a regular day, but Mama and Dada were both super happy to see me this morning. They sang to me and were in a very good mood. Thy said they were very proud of how much I have been doing recently, so I decided to give them something I have been working on secretly… I stood up by myself today without using anything for the first time. Mama and Dada were super excited about this, so I did it a few more times today for Baba and Jita.
