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2011-04-23T15:24:00.005-06:00

Our kids got grown a lot. It is getting warmer every day... Well, some days are better than other.

In March Little H took some ball class. He learned volleyball, baseball, soccer, football, and basketball. He is only 3, so you can imagine how tricky that was. He enjoyed very much. It was more fun than any other classes that he took.

He loved the basketball. Now he owns his ball. When he finds older boys are playing, he wants to join so bad. But he is still a little boy he needs to be patience.

He has been a great brother for Shi chan. He helps her all the time. He brings her bag for her. He helps clean toys for her. He initiates to play with her. He takes her hand and walks the side walks. What a wonderful brother to have. Shi chan, she loves her brother! no wonder. She thinks he is the coolest person in a planet. She loves to hung out with him and of cause she already learned how to ask to get a good help. She asks him to help her out and she just stands near by him and watch him clean.

Yea, I want her to learn cleaning but she knows how to work system around already. haha

Both Little H and Shi chan enjoy to sing and dance. They remember some Japanese children songs with motions. Obento, Ohkinakuri no kino shitade, Kirakira boshi, Atakma Kata Hiza ashi are few songs they love to sing.

shi chan and Little H enjoy the warm weather in April.

They have been playing with neighbor girl who is also half Japanese. She is two. Every Friday they play together. They love each other like a real brother and sisters. When they are at church, the first person to go and say hi is each other. They give the biggest hug.

Well, I should add, Little H loves to shake everyone's hand. After sacrament meeting, he goes up to the poppet and shakes everyone's hand. That is his routine of the Sunday.

Shi chan is a very talkative young girl. She express herself really well. "Mom, I want to be cute. I want to wear pink shirt with red pants." "Mom, you are cute."

These are a few things she says. She is the cutest young lady in our family

2011-03-01T14:55:00.009-07:00

Now, they are age that they can play together and they love having friends at home. Of cause they get in fight sometime. But they love each other for sure.

They share the favorite char in a home. Little H tries to take care of his sister as much as he can. He helps to teach her to bring a chair to set up for meal time. He tried to teach her how to read Japanese Alphabet and English Alphabet.

Both love to read books like their dad. They love to hung out with books a lot. They ask to be red all the time. I just hope that they can read by themselves soon.

Shi chan is learning a lot of things. She is trying to copy what her brother does. Now she is learning to brash her teeth by herself.

We went to Museum in town.

Kids grow every day and night. I hope I do not miss anything.

Halloween 2010 and Fall

2010-10-31T20:21:00.003-06:00

It has been a long time since I posted anything.

We had a good Halloween. Here is some photos.

Enjoyed walking with hand to hand.

Young Train Engineer and a cute monkey

With a Pierette dad

She is the cutest monkey ever. She loves bananas and gets so mad when she cannot have one.

Little H thought it was the coolest thing ever. He loved to handing candies to trick or treaters at home also.

Shi chan had a good time till she encountered a dog. After that incident, every time she close to door, she started to back off and ask to be held.

Dad and grandpa took them to trick to treat, so I stayed home with grandma. She was busy handing candies, but I had a good homemade hot apple cyder with caramel popcorn. It was a cold rain night but we had a great Halloween activity.

So, lately

2010-09-16T00:14:00.002-06:00

We finally bought a house. After more than three years of hunting is done. Yea!!!

Now, it is time to think about what we want to do to the house. I mean remodeling. Not that much but a few things before we move in.

I realized that I do not like to think any more. I used to think more hard things and made decisions. But lately, I seem to have a little trouble to make decisions....

Hunnn.

I used to decide on things requires big moneys I mean really big. Like 10, 000 dollars for one machine to build or change or whatever for my work. Or in fact, one decision may change people's life or safety.

Now, I have a trouble decidedness with one color of paint of the wall. What a happened to me.

It is silly. I feel stupid. But I feel it is very difficult to make the decision that will please me and my family at same time.

Recipies

2010-03-21T20:51:00.003-06:00

I was reading my freind's blog which is called recipie blog. It is great. It only contains recipies. I am thinking to start it.

I mean I have recipies that needs to be organized and I do not like to rewrite in book... So I am thinking to have recpie blog is not a bad idea.

That way, when I need it it is all there and redy to use and organized the way I like.

Hunnn.

I will give a little more thought on this, but I may copy her idea too.

Loves to do...

2009-12-07T20:49:00.004-07:00

Little H is growing into independent boy stage. He certainly shows me what he likes and dislikes. It is interesting to see how he is becoming a little boy instead of a extended baby stage.

Currently, he is a big fun of being in a kitchen and helping mom. It is fun to see how he gets excited but be honest, sometime it is frustrating he is EVERY WHERE.

But I love to see his smiling face when he can get to help me. He washes some vegetables, put rice in a drainer to rinse, and the favorite of all press the microwave bottom.

Little H loves to help little sister also. When she cries he come right up and comfort her. He gets so concerned of her. When I was cleaning shii chan's nostril, she cried hard to refuse to be cleaned... Well, Little H hates to be cleaned his nose also. When he saw what I was doing to her, he looked at me and said "Yamete!!!! No." Yamete means "Stop it". He was shaking his head really big and telling me that I should stop so that she doesn't have to cry... It made me smile.

Our beloved princess is loving the life in a morning till get tiered. For some reasons, she is not happy evening time every day. She gets fussy and cranky.

She love to be in a saucer for baby. She is jumping inside and smiles. She grabs toy and of cause put toys in her mouth.

She hates to war clothing. She loves to be just naked if it is possible. Like her brother, she loves to take a bath and splashes at mom.

I cannot have enough smiles from her. Her smiles are truly happy face and make all of happy.

Little H and stuffed animal and his obssesion

2009-11-25T22:55:00.005-07:00

Lately, Little H loves an ape stuffed animal that I had... Now, it is his and he takes it everywhere at home. This stuffed name is now "Gori" It is from "Gorira" in Japanese which means Gorilla.

It is still a boy, one minutes he tenderly pads the Gori, next minutes he wrestle with him. But I have to admit, it is supper cute that he loves it so much.

When I tried to take a picture of him, he decided to show me a funny face.

Past two weeks, he loves to hung out in a kitchen with mom. He is a good little helper often times. He cleans the floor pretty well. He tried to help to put grocery away with me. He love to watch me cooking. Before he climbs on the radder, he says "Miru, Sawara nai" with shaking head and weaving hand. It means "Watch and do not touch" I have been teaching him not to touch unless I say OK in a kitchen. But of cause he finds some pots and balls when I was busy doing some housework.

The result.... He had a big smile on his face.

Shi chan on parade

2009-11-21T20:14:00.006-07:00

So, 6 months with a baby is so fast and amazing. She grows up so fast. I cannot believe how big she is now. Well, she is about 95% height, 90% weight, 25% head circumference. She is our little big girl. Sorry that some of pictures did not turn out so good. I should have picked little beter one. Oh well....

Now she can sit with just a little support. I tell you her personality is showing more and more every day. She doesn't like to be hungry and doesn't like to go bed at night. Yes. She is quite clear about these. When she is sleepy, she shakes her head against whatever her head is on such as my chest, shoulder and her bed. She loves to have blanket on her face. In fact, she cannot go sleep without blanket near her mouth.

She moves around a lot. She roles every where. She is a go getter. She roles to her brother's chair and tries to taste his chair. She gets her brother's stuffed animal and anything that might be interesting to her...

Little H is not happy about her touching his stuff. But he is a nice brother who is learning to bring her toys so that she doesn't take his.

She loves to eat. She started solid last Wednesday. She is a good eater already.

She can drink water from shipper cup now. Wow, big girl.

Oh, did I tell you that she doesn't like her car seat much.

She started to like books. She is still learning to enjoy them. Now??? She is trying them out with her mouth most of the time. hahaha

Halloween

2009-10-31T20:31:00.005-06:00

Today is Halloween. Here in US, a lot of people are excited about this holiday and they are so into costumes...

Well, in my opinion, my kids are too small to understand what Halloween is all about so I did not make a big effort to get costumes...

However, here is some what costumed kids... Little H is a dinosaur and Shii chan is little bear.

Only Halloween party that we went... Little H's play group. It was this Monday. All kids were so quiet when they were eating their snacks. Play group moms were very considerate and most snacks were very healthy.

We visited grandparents today and here is our little angels' two shots.

October fun

2009-10-25T20:39:00.008-06:00

So it has been a while since I updated. With 5 months old and 2 year old kids. They grow a lot in an one months. I decided to post a lot of pictures with a little words. Here they are.

Little H and Shi chan are always together. They love to play together and laugh together. Now Shi chan can roll over Little H love to be right next to her and these are some of pictures of them together.

Shi chan loves her brother. Whenever he is near by her, she smiles at him. I ask Little H to comfort her when she is not happy. Sure enough, Shi chan gets happy and smiley when her brother is near by and plays with her.

Little H loves older boys. One day we went to zoo with our friends. Little H was calling the boy's name and took his hand and walked around with him.

Our Shi chan is so big now. Look this cute smile. She is sure our little princes.

Little H and Shi chan love their daddy. They have a great time just hung out.

Lately little H learn to pretend to sleep. He loves stuffed animal dog and monkey. Shi chan is having a lot of drools lately. She slobbers all over her clothes. She doesn't like to suck bottle's or Binky. But she loves to chew fingers and toys and everything... Oh did I forget to tell you that she sucks our fingers, but not her own.

Little H is feeling cool to be big brother. He wants to hold Shi chan like we do. Little H tried to pick her up when I was cooking and she was fussing. She is still too big for him to pick up but he tried any way.

Little H is pretending to play X-box with his dad. He says "ready set go" before daddy moves the character on the game. Shi chan is interested to get the toys front of her.

One morning, Little H decided to lay down on our bed... So Shi chan is in middle and had a fun little morning.

Labor day weekend

2009-09-13T22:49:00.012-06:00

We just had a three days weekend and we went to Dinosaur Park in Ogden.
Little H loved it very much. He ran around the park and found a little girl as his friend and talked to her.
Well, interesting thing was, there were many kids, but he picked Asian girl to talk to.
She was the only one whom he went to talk. He still talks Little H's language so I do not think they communicated anything much but it was cute.

Little H loved to show his face from the big panel.
He told me ( or showed me with his sign) how big the dinosaur was.
Dad took care of him while we were at park since Shii chan was scared by the loud noise.
Poor girl. I took her to the place where is quiet.

After the park, we visited grand pa and grand ma's place. Little H loves to be there since he can play with grand pa and grand ma.
Shii chan was hanging out with us on the blanket. She had a good time talking with her grandpa. Oh, she had a good swing time with dad too.

August 2009

2009-08-23T22:56:00.011-06:00

It is end of summer now...

My favorite son, Little H is getting older and wiser and of cause mischiviouse... Latest his fun is to paint on the wall. I made him clean up after his own mess. He thought it was the funest thing when he cleaned the first time. So he decided to paint more.... Second time, it was not as fun as he thought... Yeap, still I made him clean up with my hand holding his.

Since he was young, he loves water. Now days, he can say water and everything liquid is "water". I have been trying to teach him milk but no good luck yet. Not only he likes to drink it, and also he likes to play with.

His favorite person is... of cause his dad. He gets so excited to see his dad home and play with him. A few days ago, he got a new sunglasses like dad. He makes sure to wear it when he goes out. It is still little too big but he loves it.

Little H started to realise play ground equipment can be fun to play with. Here is some good smiling face of him.

My angel, shii chan, she is growing so fast. She still loves to sleep in my arm more than by herself. I started to train her to sleep schedule meaning to sleep same time every day. She is learning...

Now, she can roll over. She rolled over last Tuesday the first time. Next day, I and Little H witness her roll over. Supportive brother Little H gave her a big apluse. Look she can hold her head so high and long time now.

She is our little angel and her smiles melt our heart every day.

Shii chan loves her daddy like her brother. I wonder why dad gets a very special treatment from kids. Mom gets tumtrum all the time. Hunnnn...

I love my kids and they make me laugh, make me smiles and of cause make me stress out sometime too. hahaha...

Fun in the Sun

2009-08-08T16:39:00.004-06:00

Summer in UT is a short time. Little H enjoys a sun. We went to a park the other day.

Head's up

2009-07-30T22:29:00.004-06:00

Our Shii chan is growing so fast and now she can raise her head really well. She doesn't like it much to be on her stomach but she is hanging there.
This past 3 days, she learned to grab things really well. Now, her clothing is wide open and she is showing her big tummy with a full of milk

Our little H, he is a good eater. He loves broccoli and spinach. His favorite thing to eat???? Okra and Natto. He is not a big fun of carrots for some reasons..

Little H is learning a lot of words lately and also a lot of things. He learned to carry his stuffed animal in his shirt from his dad a while ago. Now, he can put the dog by himself in his shirt.

I love my kids.

my son, my daughter and my thoughts

2009-07-26T22:29:00.002-06:00

Well, I was hoping that my daughter goes to sleep so that I can sleep too.

Since I had a little time in my hand till she goes to sleep,(yes, I am rocking her with my feet... She is in bassinet that rocks)I thought I write a little...

Time flies by... My life has been changed a lot since I had my first son. Now, with two kids, even more change in my life. Great change. I would never exchange for anything. They are cute and they are so precious. Yep, they are handful.

I often wonder how I can show them how much I love them. Life is hard enough just to live. If only one thing I can teach them, I would like them to know how much I love them. I mean if I were great LDS woman, then I may need to say to teach them faith, Heavenly Father, Gospel so on... Well, as some of you know how selfish I am, what I want them to know is how much I love them...

It seem like never enough to show them love. I feel like I scowled at little H more than I show him love... I feel like I keep saying "You need to stop that. you need to listen mom. Do not...." more than "I love you."

yea, it is important to teach them a good manner and moral and all. But if someone knows they are loved, that gives them a power.

Well, I guess I am not a perfect mom.

In my nightly prayer, there are a lot of repentance every night. There are many I wish I handled better the situation with little H...

Trying every day to be a better mother... When I learn or master how to handle little one, it may be a too late. But what can I do? I do not have a perfect manual or answer how to raise a child.

Well, people say, scripture. True. But everyday little things get me and do not have enough time to think about it till nightly prayer.... yea, my life gets to be filled with changing diapper and feeding.... I know there is no excuse. I know there is no BUT. However, when I hear baby cries and little H called for "ka (it means mom)", I often cannot hear anything else....

I feel bad that they have to put up with mom like me. But you know they came to me so they must have a strength to endure me, right? hahaha

I love them more than anyone. Well, I love you, my husband!!! so no worry.

I am just bubbling so there is no point to this entry...

When I gave a birth, I was amazed myself and life itself. Since I did not use any medication (meaning natural), I was very much awear what was going on... I felt their energy and eagerness to come to this world. I saw and felt they knew what they were supposed to do.... I mean I did not teach them but they knew how to come this world...

They probably already know what right things are like they knew how to come to this world.... But like all of us, we get distracted.... So I guess my job is to guide them to right path...

The responsibility seems so big and I wonder I am qualify for it.... But I guess it is too late to back off. haha.

Even though it seems so hard sometime, it always ends with how happy I am to have these two children. I cannot thank enough to have them in my life.

If I were younger (let's say 15 years), I would love to have 3 more kids. hahah.

Why 3? I do not know. It just came to my mind.

I have never known I like kids this much. I mean I was not the type of person who love to hold baby and stuff. I did not have much thoughts about kids before. I mean I was simply not interested in them much.

But now, I like them. Well, particularly, my own kids.

hey, thanks to come to my life and give me a lot of happy days, kids!

One thing is sure. I like to be a mother of these children and it is the best job I have ever had!!!!

I am so glad that I am a woman.

I am lucky to be stay home mother. Every little thing my kids do, make my day and week, month and year.

Yeap, I feel going crazy somtime but who doesn't. I thought I go crazy when I working with bunch of engineers. hahaha. I would rather feel going crazy about my kids.

Well, now Little Shii chan is sleep now. I better go to sleep...

I love to see my little baby sleep....

Excersise

2009-07-21T21:18:00.003-06:00

I rented the excersise DVD to shed off my extra weight from pragnecy. Yea, you can laugh. I lived in 80's to know what Dirty Dancing is. Check this out. hahaha

Brother and sisiter are look like?

2009-07-21T21:15:00.002-06:00

I cannot tell Shii chan is look like me or Jens more? It is hard to tell... However, I know for sure, she looks like her brother. So there is no mistake they are related at least. hahaha

Little H is a good brother

2009-07-18T15:55:00.005-06:00

Our little H is growing everyday. Since his sister was born, he has been a good brother to her. The latest his favorite thing to do with his sister is to be near by her and lying down next to her.

Just cute to see how he likes to be with her.

Every morning, he asks me where his sister is when I did not bring her to a front room. He always wants to know where she is when we go anywhere.

He even tries to entertain her when she is fussing by Pica boo. What a good brother.

Cleaning the balcony and Rasberry picking

2009-07-17T13:58:00.004-06:00

Little H thinks that he needs to clean the balcony when he goes out there. He tries to move my weights. (They have not been used a long time so they have a lot of dust on them...) He moved a big pot.

We visited our friend's hosue on Tuesday. Little H experienced the picking rasberry the first time. He was not quite sure the first while, but he got hung of it little later. My freind helped Little H to pick the rasberry.

kids smile and I smile

2009-07-04T15:59:00.003-06:00

My little girl Shii chan now gives us a cute smile.

My Little H is running around and being a toddler and he is having fun jumping, running and chasing!

So... one month later

2009-06-21T15:32:00.007-06:00

We have not updated a while. You figure. We had a baby girl. She is cute and fun to be with. She is little over one month old now.

Her nick name is Shii chan. So here is some of her and Little H's pictures. Little H is a great older brother. In fact, I think he likes his sister more than mom. He kisses her and tries to take care of her as a 22 month old can...

So almost there

2009-05-05T13:47:00.002-06:00

Well, our second child is on the way and will be here soon. I mean the due date is 17 May, but according to the Dr, she will come here sooner than that. Hunnn.

I guess she doesn't have an enough patience to wait till due date. hahaha. I wonder where she got inpatince. hahaha.

I am very much ready to finish this pragnency now.

We are now healthy family!

2009-03-30T13:33:00.003-06:00

Finlay, we are back to healthy family!!!!

Little H and Jens are now back on truck. Yes.

I can sleep little better now. I do not have to worry about Little H might throw up during the night.

Well, yesterday, Little H and Jens found a new toy in a house. They placed the cushion from the sofa and Little H is running around top of the cushions and jump on them...

Little H had a great time. But he got a little too tired so daddy called the end. He was not happy about it and cried on daddy's shoulder a little.

I am so happy that all of our family members are back in a good health!!!

cold or flu

2009-03-17T14:12:00.003-06:00

We have been sick past one week. All of us got it from same place or same person since we all got sick at same time. Well, Jens was little delayed but not much...

I started to feel better finaly... Little H seems to have a little left over cough still and little bit of running nose... Jens is the worst one right now....

It is a nice warm day, so I should take Little H to a walk or somthing out side for fun today.

Nice breakfast

2009-03-09T14:21:00.003-06:00

Well, I have been writing about Little H a lot lately... It doesn't mean that I do not have any other thing to think of....

So... I am going to write my another favorite man in a world, Jens. He may not appreciate me writing about him.... But oh well, too bad...

Yesterday, we started a summer time as all of you know. Little H is an early riser and he doesn't care whether it is summer time or winter time... Yeap, he woke up 7:30am summer time... But my body is still reacting 6:30am.

I was tiered and sleepy. My be loved husband, he woke up and took care of Little H. Not only that he cooked us a nice breakfast...

I did not know so I woke up and took a shower and I heard the knock on the door....

"What?"

When I came out, there are my two favorite men in a whole world standing. The big one, Jens is carrying a table with big plateful of breakfast that he cooked... The little men, Little H is standing with big smile...

Jens cooked a taste pancake from scratch, scrambled egg, bacon and apple juice so that he could bring a breakfast to a bed...

What a nice hunsband, I have!!!!

Thank you, guys. I am supper lucky woman to be with you guys!!!!

Little H's revellious

2009-03-06T13:23:00.004-07:00

Well, one sign of growing is to have own mind... Yes, little H is definitely growing. This week, he decided to test mom's patience and how far he can go...

Monday, at the play group.... He did not want to sit down and to be read. He ran around and did not want to do anything what teacher said. (The reading time is a favorite time for him and he did not have a problem to be read during reading time...)

Tuesday, he did not want to eat anything even though he was hungry. He swung arms and "Ah! Ah!"

Wednesday, he knows that he is not supposed to stand up on the couch. He decided to run around the top of the couch even though mom said "Stop it"

Well, what happens. Too bad of little H, mom is not a weak woman. Even though Little H was revellious, mom doesn't let him do what he is not supposed to... Yes, even though he screams or cries, mom is always same. No! means NO!

On Thursday, I guess little H realised that it is worthless effort.... Little H turned back to normal little H. I guess he thought that mom doesn't let him do whatever just because he wants to....

Since he turn back to a good little H, he has been allowed to play in a bathroom a little bit. Usually, he cannot stay there too long.... He found my make up bag and observing what are in there. He is very satisfied with his playing time in a bathroom.
Well, little H. It is good that you are growing. I am proud of you. But you know, mom says "No" that means "No" any time anywhere. haha

Hina ningyou

2009-03-01T15:38:00.005-07:00

In Japan, we have a girls festival on March 3. We display the doll which is called Hina Ningyou. They aer prince and princess.

I and Little H go to Japanese play group every Monday morning. In that group, we made a little cup Hina Ningyo.

It was the first time for Little H to use the brush and paint.

He enjoyed to paint the cup. He was into painting inside of cup instead of out side.
So this is the his creation.

He could not resit to try to put the brush in his mouth. I guess sparkling green and red color looked appetising to him. I cached him fast enough right before he put the brush in his mouth. But around his mouth, sparkling green color all over!

For the first craft for Little H, he did good job.

Cleaning time

2009-02-22T15:33:00.003-07:00

Last night, we had a church activity at the church gym. Little H had a great time at a nursery. He did not mind to go to nursery and play with other kids. Since we are the nursery leader on Sunday, he has never been by himself in nursery before. So I was wondering how he reacts to it.

Well, little H was waiving at me when I say "Enjoy the nursery. bye bye." Yes, he was saying "Bye mom. I will enjoy playing with frinds."

After the activity, dada was clening the gym. Little H was observing what his dad was doing. Mopping the floor the gym. The first, he followed his dad and run around a little. After dad completed the job, he decided to try himself.

"Well, I think Dad did an Ok job, but just in case,
I have to make sure everything is clean!!!"

"This is a hard job to do...."

Great job little H.

New toy

2009-02-12T13:19:00.004-07:00

Today, I made a flour play dough for Little H for his new toy. I was not quite sure he will like it...

Well, look at his serious face when he started to play!!!

You need to know the first thing he wanted to do was to put them in his mouth. I had to teach him this is not a food!!!! Yeap, he is my son and loves to eat. hahaha.
Now, he knows that it is not a food...

His first time play dough experience was great fun. He played it about one hour straight till I told him it is time for lunch. He did not want to stop.

His creation was a cell phone that doesn't look like anything but the chunk of dough. How do I know? It is mom's instinct. He took it near his ear and tilted his head and show me "Moshi Moshi" (Greeting in Japanese when you answer the phone). He just loved to pull the dough, cut the dough, and put them into a container...

I showed him what he can make like flower, dog, and house... Well, he took them from my hand and smashed it and played the way he likes.

Some day, he will learn to create thing by himself, I guess. I cannot wait to see that time.

So Little H's fun thing to do...

2009-02-09T14:03:00.004-07:00

Little H is learning to enjoy his life everyday. Isn't that nice. But sometime, it is not the best thing for mom....

Latest fun that he found.... He blows his nose on CLEAN LAUNDRY!!!!!

He loves clean laundry and move them one place to another in a past. Yeap, he sometime tries to help mom and did ok job. However, now, he likes to get them and try to "BUUUUUUUU"

But he does NOT blow his nose on tissue.

I told him he should not blow his nose on CLEAN laundry. That made him even more fascinated of doing this new activity.

Yeap, I was frustrated and finally gave up and took socks from his hand and put them on to his feet for the night. hahaha. (P.S There is no running nose or anything. He is just makeing a noise.)

Let's see how he will behave today with new laundry....

Son like father

2009-02-02T14:05:00.004-07:00

Little H loves to copy what dada does. The most recent thing that he decided to copy was to pritend to play the X-Box.

Yeap, you can see little H's 20 years later picture from this photo... hahah.

mimicry

2009-01-17T16:40:00.006-07:00

Some photos are posed, but Little H really loved these two. By. and M. may not know the old saw about flattery and imitation, but they Little H had a blast leading them around the apartment in various acrobatics. Good friends with nice kids over for dinner is a pretty awesome way to spend a Sunday evening.

Da da is home for vacation!

2008-12-29T11:26:00.008-07:00

So, one of the word,Little H says "da da". You can guess what that means... Yes, it is daddy. He loves his daddy and loves to be around. Yeap, Little H is enjoying da da's vacation time!!!

Little H's first Santa experience. He did not cry or anything. He was not sure how to react first but he did smile the end.

My parents sent some gifts to Little H. He got a cute hat and grabs. Here it goes. This is the first in a snow experience for Little H. It was too much snow for him.

We went to Hill Air Force museum on weekend. It was the first time for all of us and it was great and fun. Little H enjoyed runing around and we were busy chasing after him...

Is Little H future a pilot???
Little H loves to copy Da da!!! Yeap, they are father and son.Little H has a little bit of mom too? Future engineer???

We are still on vacation with dada, so we try to update more later. Have a happy new year everyone.

Winter of 2008

2008-12-19T14:44:00.004-07:00

So, we have not been updated 6 months. Yea, I am not good at to keep updated. Sorry for friends.

Well, let's say, our lives are well and nothing really a big news. Little H is the cutest one in our family as you can imagine. Jens is working hard and all, so I decided to post some picture of Little H. Yeap, You will not see me since I am the one posting the blog. hahaha.

I know my friends, you wonder how I look more than my son looks. But tell you the truth I do not have much pictures lately since I am the one taking all picture.

So here is some picture.

This is for Halloween. My friend let us use one the costume and little H is a little Bee.
Little H has been a very popular baby. He got a lot of beads from waitress at New Orleans We went to New Orleans to visit our good friends. This is on the way home in an airplane. Yeap, we were lucky that he slept all the way home.

Now, he wants to do a lot of things by himself. One of them, drinking out of a cup and glass by himself. "I can do it, mom."

We went to a Natural History museum in SLC. Little H's one of favorite thing is puzzle.

So... these things little H does lately.
1) bring chair when he is hungry and sit down and put his bib.
2) put the chair back where it is supposed to be when he finished eating
3) when we go out, he goes to door and brings his shoes to me to put them on
4) he uses spoon and folk when he can
5) drink out of cup and glasses by himself
6) Puzzle is the one of his favorite
7) he loves a lot of empty bottles. Take lid off and on and push them hard and make sounds. Oh, don't forget he likes to push out of air on his face
8) like to play with ball
9) He says "Manma" for food and "nai nai" for cleaning up
10) loves to rolling around and make himself dizzy
11) dance with music by bending knees

Well, there may be more, but here it is.

Family Outings

2008-06-28T21:52:00.009-06:00

So, this past two weeks, we had family outings. We went to first hiking of the year and with little H! Yes, his mountain, hiking debut. He seemed like it fine. Jens got a back pack for him. The first little H was not sure about how high he is, but he seemed adjusted fine.

The mountain was beautiful. We tried to let little H to enjoy the creek.

I guess it was too cold for littl H. Look at his little feet. "wow, dad, what is this!!!! It is cold!!!"

Today, we went to Art Festival. It was hot. Little H was sweating a little. He enjoyed a light rail ride. It seems like to me that he eats more when he is out side. I cannot blame him on that. I eat more when I am out too. hahaha. I guess he got it from me. We had fun weekends.

Japan trip

2008-06-18T21:41:00.004-06:00

So, we did not update a long time.

I was in Japan with Little H! The first time Japan for little H. His grand parents are so exited and me??? I was very happy to have babysitters!!!!!

This is the first airplane trip for little H. He had a bassinet. But he was too long. Look at his little feet sticking out!!!

Of cause, we went to Onsen. He is wearing Jinbe which his uncle gave to him.

Little H loves to sleep on futon. He doesn't craw, but he rolls over everywhere. I mean every where. That is the way he moves around. So futon was the best thing for little H ever. He moves and rolls!!

We rode a lot of train in Japan. Here is an one shot Little H and Jens.

Little H, now he can pull all wipe and tissues like any other baby likes to do!!!

Huuuuu, this is my update about little H!

new born baby

2008-04-19T21:01:00.003-06:00

So, we have not updated our blog a long time. My good friend had a baby couple of weeks ago. He is so cute!!!

I just want to say.... I already forgotten how small a new born baby is. I mean I do remember but it seems a long ago.

My little H is so big now after 8 months.

My little beloved little H is no longer little H compare to a new born.

I guess I need to enjoy every moments that I have been given with little H.

Curious George Little H

2008-04-06T19:58:00.005-06:00

So... Latest Little H's hobby is to observe any objects from many different angles.

Since he became efficient with his hands, he takes many objects into his hands and looks from bottom, from top, and from sides... His face is very serious. His eyes are on the object and his mouth sticks out a little... He observes objects like he is looking at fine arts and china.

Well, well, Jens smiled and said "When his mouth sticks out and he is looking at things really seriously, he looks like a monkey. Carton monkey!!!"

So, I took a little time and found Curious George. Here it is Curious George and Little H.

What do you think????

Even though Little H looks like a Curious George, I think he is cute. hahaha

Suvenia from India

2008-03-18T20:27:00.005-06:00

So... Jens is home now. I am so glad he is home!!!!!

Here is my update about India. Well, he brought back some suvenia. Here they are.
The two boxes on the front is for me.

One at a time...

This is made by fig and nuts.
This one is hard to exprain!!! It is not too sweet. It made out of milk. I cannot say which my childhood's snack but it gave me some melancoly feel....
Our Indian freinds gave us some gift to us.

Look at this bright color shirts.

One of our friend is Hindy and he gave us this for bringing our home a good luck. We got this red elephant from another freind.

Don't you think this spice mix taste great? They are from our freind too!

The last, here is Inidan money.

So Jens will be home soon

2008-03-15T00:34:00.002-06:00

So it is one week since Jens left. This was the first time that Jens is not home this long since we had Little H. One more day and he will be home.

How I did? Well, I think I did ok. But it is nice to have him at home for sure. He is a very helpful dad. I mean Little H loves him and he gets so excited to see dad when he comes home. As far as me? Of cause, I love to have him around. hahaha. He is a great company for fukuchan.

I watched a few video including girl videos like Fried Green Tomatoes. Actually it was the first time that I watched from beginning to the end. Licence to Wed, I forgot one more video that I watched.... It was not that great any way.

I started to read a book. I have not read books in English a long time. If you can imagine, none native English speaker reads English books are not necessarily relaxing or fun thing. I learned to read in English because I went to school. It was not because it was fun to read. Well, I used to think that it would be fun to read books that is in original form therefore reading English is a fun thing if author is writing in English. Well, that was a long ago before I came to States and I went to University.

Well, there is a reason I started to read this book... I would not dear to mention since who knows who is reading this mumbling of fukuchan post... It is not that bad, but you know somethings are better not be said.

Wow, this post went to tangent. I am supposed to write about Jens will be home soon. so I should be back to the topic.

I am excited to see him soon. It will be much better to have him around in a home. Believe or not it is too quiet without him. Even though I am the one usually talk. Yes, I am the talker in our family. You would never guess, wouldn't you? hahaha.

Food

2008-03-13T20:11:00.003-06:00

You are probably wonder how come Fuku chan is writing a lot.

Well, I am online more than usual since Jens is in India...
I hope to get him online... So I am here writing...

Nothing much to talk about. Just mumbling. haha

Anyone who lived by yourself can relate of what I say now. My dinner, and lunch got say carb fest. hahaha. I did not want to cook much so I ate, bread, rice and noodles... Snack Doritos, crackers, cookies.

I did not feel good. I mean I am not sick or anything just feel like not healthy... So I bought some vegetables yesterday and yesterday today. I had a vege fest. hahaha.

How do I feel? Much better.

I believe in a good food brings a good health. Good food needs a lot of vegetables and fruits too.

He did it!

2008-03-12T19:58:00.007-06:00

I have an exciting news. Probably not for you guys but it was supper exciting for me. I have been trying Little H to eat solid food for about one month now.

He had a very hard time when we started it. He actually cried when he saw the spoon. So we had a long long break more than one week. After that he kind of tried a little, but he decided that he doesn't like it. So when I brought a spoon to front of his face, he grabbed it and pushed it back to me. So we took a break for a few days till he forgot what I had been trying... This pushing spoon continued till today!!!!

It was a long journey for me and Little H. Finally, today, he decided that he try to eat from a spoon. Well, I have to tell you he still does not like me feeding him. So he took the spoon to himself and he put it in his mouth.

I thought he will let me feed him after one try. Wrong!!! He needs to be in charge. When I took a spoon and tried to give him food. He took it and push it back to me. So I took a spoon from his little finger and place some food on spoon and I gave the spoon back to him. He took it with smile and put it in his mouth. Yea!!!!!!!
His face was messy with food all over. His hands were messy and sticky. But he had a big smile and proud of himself.

I was smiling and praising him like that he finished a marathon in an Olympic and got a gold medal. He was so happy to see me smiling and praising him. He kept putting his spoon over and over.

Well, sweet potato must taste good for him. I tasted it and it was sweet and pretty good. Power of Sweet potato!!

I am so proud of you, little H!

Frinds visit

2008-03-11T20:34:00.019-06:00

We had a few friends visit last weekend....

Good friends from collage time. We used to go dancing, and pot luck party.

Yea, we had a good time together. Now, we are all mothers!!!!

Well, one of my friend's child is a GIRL. She is a cute little girl. This is important because a lot of my friend's children are boys. So for future pourpose, Little H needs to get to know good girls. You know...

This time, Little H received the first hug from a girl who is not mom, or someone who can be his mom.... She is a little older than Little H, but Little H, I apporve she is a good cute little girl. hahaha:):)

Another visit that we had last week... Yes, it is a little L!!!

Little L is a good older brother to little H. Little L gave a big hug, but Little L had a little too much energy, so it was more like a little attack???
Little L loves to copy his older friend Little L. Look I have a big boy cup now!

But Little H was thinking... "I am not sure what this does...???"

Their playing time started with a good start...

"Little L, play with me....."

"Ok, Little H, here it is"

"My mom wants to take a picture. Let's make a good pose!"

Little H had a very busy good weekend!

From Mumbai to Pune

2008-03-10T17:49:00.006-06:00

Sunday morning after breakfast, I venture out the Mumbai airport Hyatt gates; I smile and nod at the armed guards. I only have a few minutes, maybe 30, before a driver will come for us, to take us to Pune. Outside the Hyatt grounds there is construction along the streets, and tracts of land with signs indicating it belonged to the airport, though the people who had built homes on it may have quibble a bit about the airport's position.

Across the road there was another community nestled outside the grounds of another large hotel. Just past it, a midden heap and three children playing cricket in the green grass beyond. As I walked 5 or 6 auto-rickshaw drivers offered me a ride. It was only a taste; I headed back to the hotel. We were leaving soon for Pune.

The driver was an artist. As are all the drivers I've seen in India. They feel and sense their way through city streets. The horn means "coming through." The auto-rickshaw ahead moves a few feet left, our driver vectors over and flows through the opening, a couple on a motorcycle squeaks through between us. I could open my window and touch them as they pass. They sway and flow by weaving between cars and other cycles. They buzz by a family on another motorcyle; the father deftly handling the change, his son sitting in front of him, the mother, the ends of her sari (bright with the colors of sunset) streaming in the breeze, sits side-saddle in the back, with their infant in her arms.

We stop at traffic lights, and each inch is filled with vehicle, so that as many cars and bikes make it through as possible. But there are few lights. They aren't needed. At most intersections the traffic simply flows; a hundred unspoken negotiations made each moment, allow us to keep moving as does everyone from all directions.

Our driver takes us through mountains dividing Mumbai from the rest of India, on the way to Pune. The country, at the edge of summer and in the midst of a dry season before the after-summer rains, has green leaves and brown and yellow grasses, crispy in the summer sun. Seeing the grasses, I wonder if I'm still in the desert Southwest U.S. A pretense. Each community we pass appears in the midst of change, all of them brim with new construction. But, unlike my Salt Lake home, there is little demolition here demolition here except that rendered by weather and time; the old remains side-by-side with the new.

A few hours after reaching the Taj Blue Diamond in Pune, Sabya rescues me from the mistake of sleeping away the afternoon. We leave the hotel grounds and Sabya flags an auto-rickshaw, the main form of public transportation here in the city. Auto-rickshaws are a lot like scooters with a wide back seat for passengers. All those I've seen are mostly black inside and out; a handcrank pulled up from the left of the driver starts the engine.

Our driver takes us to a garden and memorial where once in the 1940s the British government held Gandhi under house arrest. I read the placards in the museum. There is some interesting information there, but for some reason what I remember is that Gandhi read more than 180 books while he was there; a feat the writer believes was more that of a young man rather than an old man (the writer's words) in his 50s. The gardens surrounding the building have a calming effect, with large tracts planted with grass and tall trees. I take some pictures of the building and of a family walking in the gardens. They see me and their boy waves at me. Sabya tells me that some of Gandhi's ashes are interred at the memorial. As an aside that makes me smile, the entrance fee is 100 rupees for me and 5 for Sabya, being a citizen of India. 100 rupees is approximately $2.50

Next Sabya has our auto-rickshaw driver take us to an area near the Pune train station. He wants me to experience the crowds. But it is Sunday, so the crowds are few (so he says and yes I've been in greater crowds but not in Salt Lake except the one time I went to see the christmas lights turned on in Temple Square). We walk around. I'm quite happy here, enjoying seeing the city from the auto-rickshaw and walking along the streets. We stop at a sweet shop and have some lassi and an Indian ice-cream whose name I cannot remember.

The plan is to have dinner with some friends and family. Sabya has a car, but his brother Saroff (I'm guessing at the spelling) has it. As the sun begins setting, it is about time for him to finish work, so we take another auto-rickshaw to a completely modern and trendy shopping center where Sabya's brother works. The department store sells everything from Tommy Hilfiger to Givenchy to Wrangler.

Saroff takes us to Sabya's place. I realize, as we go, that the driver Sungard hired to bring us to Pune, was a pretty passive driver. Saroff is an artist on the streets. I tell him and Sabya that there should be an olympic event. At Sabya's place, I meet his wife and some friends staying with them. We go to dinner in the hills that overlooks the valley in which Pune sits. The restaurant is called Khana Peena Jeena (I think), it means "Food, drink, celebrate life." It was a lot of fun; food, conversation, and watching the patron's children play in the playground. A night much like Satomi's description of a perfect time: good food, good conversation, friends.

There is beauty here, in the land and in the people. And there is grace and harmony. There is the din of a hundred vehicle horns, and smoke and dust that sting my nose and make me cough most of my first day whenever I venture outside. There are also scents of the sweet, or spicy, but always rich food. There is great wealth here and great poverty. From Mumbai to Pune, India presents itself as contrasts.

Stay tuned, Amit took us to Koyla for dinner on Monday night. I'll talk about that later.

Daylight saving

2008-03-09T13:16:00.005-06:00

I woke up today and was thinking that I need to be ready for a church. I still have 1hour and half.... Well, then I suddenly realised.... Isn't it the day light saving day???

I need to find out.. How??? I looked VCR. It was the time that I thought it should be. But this VCR is a little old one, so it is programed with old daylight saving schedule. (At least that is my understanding. I just need to read the instruction manual to change the time, maybe...)So it doesn't say anything... Well, I though how can be sure??? Oh, I need to check the cell phone they change time automatically. So, I picked up. "OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I was late one hour. hahaha.

Yea, I am not working or going to a school any more. Which means that I am not living with schedule as much as used to. My schedule is Little H's stomach. hahaha.

Frankly, I do not like daylight savings. I like sunshine in a morning. I am a morning person so I like to have sun in a morning not the night. I think that makes sense to me, but for some reasons, some of the US people do not think so....

Well, I got to a church and it was stake conference and one hour late. But I went there anyway. that is count, right?

India Arrival

2008-03-08T18:44:00.003-07:00

I wrote in a Brown Belt Sudoku book moments after landing: "At landing, a surge of excitement. Airport looks... well.. like any airport. No Temples. The scent on the ground is different even still in the plane." It was musty; full of growth and water.

The flight was long but not bad. My seat row companion was good company. I enjoyed it right up until the moment that he left and I realized he'd taken my noise cancelling headphones case which, besides headphones contained my mp3 player, hand sanitizer, and an eraser. Good thing I didn't take Satomi's headphones.

I've slept a little now and taken one picture out the window of my room. The Hyatt at Mumbai may be the most expensive hotel at which I've stayed 13500 rupees. But the room is quite nice and Satomi might love the bathroom. Much like her brother's, except floored and walled with granite.

Today, we drive/ride to Pune.

Zoo Debut!

2008-02-27T20:54:00.011-07:00

Today, it was a nice warm winter day. I decided to go out with Jens's sister and his mom to a zoo.

Little H's zoo debut day!!!

Well, interestingly, I picked the one of most crowded day of a year at zoo... Free entrance day.

I did not know such a thing exist. We had a lot of mothers and children at the zoo toady....

Here are some of animals that we saw today.

white alligator.

Grandma is holding little H to show the alligator, but he is not interested it at all.
A lot of animals were moving around today. American black bear, and look, giraffe has a baby.

Even though there are a lot of animals moving around, little H was more interested in his feet.
So I asked, "How was the first zoo experince little H?"

He replied "Well, what do you think mom...."

He was sleeping while we drove home.... Little H, just remember, your dad wanted to come along but he was working today. So no complain, right?

Trip to near city, Ogden

2008-02-19T13:39:00.013-07:00

So we went to Ogden for a short small family road trip.

Ogden is about one hour drive to North on I-15 from Salt Lake City.

It is an old rail road town in UT. Now days, well, let's say, people do not go there to have a vacation....

So where we went? We went to visit a train museum. Here is the web site.http://www.theunionstation.org/

They have a train museum, automotive museum and gun museum inside of the Union Station.

For little H, this is the first experience to go to a museum. What does he think about.... ?
"Hunnn, where am I?"

Inside, something to read....Little H is weighed and ready to go on a train trip?Auto museum part is like this...We found the old gas meter!!!! It is kinda cool. At gas station, a worker actually pumps the gas to fill the top part of the tank (glass part with numbers), then drain the gas till you fill the tank. So these numbers inside of the glass tank tells how much you put the gas into your car. Cool, and clever, yea?

We saw 1903 car... the motor is in back. It looks like a horse carriage. Yes, we are talking with an old gentleman who is volunteer at the auto museum and he shared a story about his first car. It was before WWII. Wow! That is a history! "Yes, mom, I am listening.. (by little H)" Inside of Union Station..."I love to copy what my dady does!"cool ceiling

So we had a good President day short samll trip! Of, I cannot forget to write about a food. We had a good Southern Food at SLC. Fried chicken, BBQ Rib, Collard Green, Black-eyed peas, coleslaw, potato salad and the last but not the least, peach cobbler!!! Yes. Sorry, folks, I do not have pictures. But they were tasty. Trust me.

Soccer Mom?

2008-02-14T22:02:00.013-07:00

Fuku-chan may see the day when Little H will add "soccer mom" to her resume.

	Oops missed.
	I'm supposed to kick with these?
	Let's see, if I stick my thumb here, squint my eye a little... ta da!

A Tale of Two (to four) Hiros

2008-02-14T21:04:00.011-07:00

Little H considers the weighty matters of "Does daddy see me doin' stuff" and the like, from multiple perspectives: Mano e mano or tete-a-tete;

Through the looking glass (as Little H wonders, "can daddy fully appreciate how I'm handling the faucet when he has the silver-metallic rectangle in front of his eyes?");

Or the vantage point from the right (here), as Plato affectionately called it, two removes from heaven. Okay, so he wasn't actually looking at me from there. But he does. When tummy-time and lap-time draw to a close (signalled by a series of evocative grunts) we'll then explore the fascinating environs of the bathroom sink. He'll spend the first five minutes looking at me from all four directions. I love it, of course, because he tends to smile at me each time our eyes meet (or, should I say, the photons bouncing off our eyes bounce into each other's photo receptors?)

Sometimes, the situation calls for serious introspection. If one can't get in touch with oneself, how can one begin to believe the rest isn't all simply smoke and mirrors?

Needle in Bib!!!

2008-02-07T14:43:00.001-07:00

Wow, I was so surpprised and upset when I found the needle in bib.
I washed a little Hiro's bib and was folding it... "Ah!" Somthing stinged my finger!
I checked the bib and what I found???
NEEDLE!!!!

Broken sewing machine needle was sticking out from the bib.
Luckly, I am the only one who stinged and hurt. Not little Hiro.
I was greatful for a protection that Heavenly Father gave to little Hiro.
Well, I decided to call Carter's and let them know.

Respond was even more surpprising... "Well, we will send you a prepaid envelop and please send them back to us. We will send him a little toy and we will reinvers you the price of the bib..."

Well, my husband alreaday warned me that they are not going to do much since no one was hurt.
If someone was hurt, that is TOOO late!!!

Bottom line is, corporate does not care customers, but themselve. I mean they are not reiable therefore, there is nothing they need to do...

There was no apporogy at all. Even one "sorry."

I know I onnly talked to the customer service representative, but it will be nice to show thier approgy.....

I hope this will never happen. I have to say that they are lucky that I do not sue them!

Chinese New Year party with freinds

2008-02-04T16:54:00.000-07:00

We had a chinese new year party at our freind's place.

We know that Chinese New Year is not till 7 Feburary for this year.
But we decided to have a party little earlier so all of freinds can get togather.

Well, I forgat to take a picture of chinese food!!!

But I took a picture of desserts that my freind made.

Don't you think they look great? Yea, they were tasty!!!!
yes, I have a very talented freind!!!!!

Foot action!

2008-01-30T15:22:00.000-07:00

Little Hiro started to play with his foot.
He is enjoying flex his legs to show off his foot.

Take a look at this picture!!!!

We may have a future gymnast. ha ha ha.

Friendship of kids!

2008-01-23T20:04:00.000-07:00

Little Hiro and I visited our good friend today. Little L is about 1 year and 6 months old.

After a short visit, little L gave a big hug to little Hiro to show his freindship.

Well, if you realised, Hiro can stand with little support from adult. Yes, he is growing everyday!

Little L gave a big hug and Little Hiro's comment is "Uuuuuu, it is a little too tight, Little L."

Look pciture right->

Yes, their good friendship is proofed today with this tight hug. :):)

So, HTML....

2008-01-19T16:31:00.000-07:00

So, I realised that blog uses HTML and I had no idea how to write HTML. I was frustrated because I could not make the blog the way I wanted to. Like posting a picture and text side by side, etc....

I decided that I need to study a little about HTML. Jens has a book called

HTML For the World Wide Web.

I successfully changed the font size and color!!! Yes.

Now, I try to link my Yahoo Japan blog. "Yama no fumoto de"If you are interested and read Japanese here you go!

And I try to attach the picture and text on the side. By the way, I purchased these items at IKEA for Hiro-chan. I wanted to type the text left side of the picture.

I guess I learned somethings today.

Mysteriouse Socks....

2008-01-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

Mysteriously, Hiro's socks are taken off from his feet....

Hiro has a magic????

He loves to rub his feet together and his socks comes off from his feet.

So it starts like this...

5 minutes later.....

Yap, it is my daily routine to put his socks back....

Hiro's favorite place

2008-01-11T20:23:00.001-07:00

Little Hiro has a favorite place. Generaly, people think that it is not a fun place to be. But for 5 months old, Hiro certanly thinks that it is Disney Land.

Well, we do not have to pay for the airplane fee so it is great for us. Check it out!!!!
He finds a book to read while he is enjoying his own relaxing time.

So how is your book coming?

His answer was "Ah!"

I hope that you enjoy your book, little Hiro.

Hirochama Hand Vampire

2008-01-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

You can see his preparation. He checks to see if I'm looking. Will he lay me back down? He asks. Or will his attention lapse; leaving an opening for a mouth to hand attack? It's a good question.

All that effort and... Score! He has an opening. And with it (BANZAI!) he goes for the hand. There are no teeth protruding from those fearsome gums but a somewhat prodigious amount of slobber oozes in a distinctly Lestatian fashion. That's my little Hirokun, Slobberpire

During church meeting....

2008-01-07T13:46:00.000-07:00

So, this is my first update.

Well, little H is the most popular boy in our branch. Everyone passes by "oh, he is so cute..." Of cause I am a proude mom. (big smile) However, there is a big accident yesterday...

Little H decided to announce his presence to all relife society ladies by making a really loud noise from his bottom!!!!! I was holding him on my lap and there is a big noise came out.

Oh No!!!! It was too late. Couple of sisiters had big smiles and looking at me.

I wanted to tell the world "No. It was not me!!!! It was little H!"

Well, I was moving my mouth "Sorry..." with stroling little H's head. I was hoping that they noticed it was little H. But I do not think it was effective....

Well, little H, next time when you have some comment, you need to talk!

bedtime for little h

2008-01-06T19:06:00.000-07:00

Just before reading before sleep, today, I layed Little H on the bed like this to brush his hair with a soft toothbrush dedicated to the task. I crouched over him, looking from his face to his hair. Little H reached, touched my cheek, and rested his hand on my shoulder while I brushed his locks.

Little H is cute

2008-01-05T14:05:00.000-07:00

He's five months old. He can roll over. He likes to straddle a leg and push himself up from the floor, chair, or couch. On special occasions (basically every day) he yearns for a stint in the bathroom sink. It fits him, or he fits in it. He can keep himself sitting by pushing the edge of the sink with his legs. He has a lot a to say about it. His reflection and me, his dad, certainly get an earful when we hang with him there.

This was his practice position. He still likes the angled vantage point, but he's good hanging around on his tummy without support now.
S. snapped this while I was sleeping late one Saturday morning. Little H likes to manipulate my face while I'm anywhere near him.