Park Time

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!

Lucky Charms, a hat made at school, and shepard's pie was about as festive as we got this year. In all honesty, I completely forgot!! Gasp!!! Bad mommy moment!

Emi's 1st Hair Cut

Emi finally got her wispy mulletty hair cut! Little lady did such a good job! Nothing a lollipop and cartoon station couldn't fix! After all was said and done, I realized I should have done it much, much sooner! She's my cute little pixie now and she is my sister's 2 year old twin! 

9 months...

9 months...

1. Learned to smack her lips. She does it all the time now. 

2. Raises her arms when she is done eating to be taken out of her bumbo. She also has something weird with her shoulder sockets going on..Maybe she is double jointed like her mommy!

3. Still no bottle...Not even with apple juice. I am over it. Next milestone will be cows milk in a sippy cup. Lets hope she loves it and chugs it down. 

4. Loves Preston's Scout and his basketball night light. 

5. Plays peek-a-boo. 

6. Gives kisses (I LOVE) and high-fives. 

7. Is already kinda interacting on Skype. 

8. Tries to sing with us and of course, as we know, dances :). 

9. HAS A TOOTH!!!!! 

10. Has stood randomly a couple of times without support. 

Happy Valentine's Day

Valenine's Day in Japan

All the kids (minus Tatsumi & Emi)

Reading a princess story for Utako (Toko, as Preston says). She informed us that this was not a normal princess story. In her princess stories, the princess meets a prince and falls in love. This is just a Disney bedtime story. 

Frosting his cookie

 Chowing down on his fancy creation

Mayo and Emi--One of Emi's favorites

 First Valentine's Day--Pretty in pink

Mayo & Lightening McQueen cookie

Midori, Tatsumi, & Bunny Cookie

Yuko & Little Girl cookie

A smooch...Glad we got dressed up..Not even sure if I got a shower in sadly. 

Baby Emi

 We had a little Valentine's Day party for all the basketball wives and kids the day before Valentine's Day and then David and I celebrated the day of. The party turned out really well. Preston was SOOOOO excited to have his friends over to play. We brought all of his toys out of his room and made a play room for the kids to romp around in. We had lunch, decorated cookies, chatted, and played. It was a good, good day!

David and I did an at-home date night since we don't have a babysitter. We put the babes to bed, broke out the champagne, sushi, and strawberries and stuffed ourselves silly. We also watched some of Glory Roads, before hitting the sack. It was a quaint little Valentine's Day.

I have to add that the weather was AHHHHMMMMAAAZZZING on the 14th. I took the kids to the park where we had a picnic lunch with Alicia. My spirits were instantly lifted...Sunshine and warmth does the body good. I even wore my pants rolled up and no socks with my shoes, wooohooo, living the dream, ha ha....It was probably only 54 degrees but I thought it felt like summer compared to other weather we have been having (low 40's and snow flutters).

8 months

Top 10 at 8 months..

1. Finally started babbling....mostly nana, nom, dada, mama

2. Throws mini-tantrums when she is having to do something she doesn't want to do (e.g.: bath, diaper changes, etc)..Comes with a full back arch and wailing limbs. 

3. Helps get dressed by pushing her arms through her sleaves. 

4. dances the same humpity dance that Preston did as soon as I start singing anything. 

5. Is napping horribly! Always goes down twice a day and lately it has been for no more than an hour with 45 minutes being the norm.  Boooo!!! BUT.....(#6 might explain why)

6. Is sleeping from 6:30 pm to 8 am...It is pure CRAZINESS...Not sure if it is a growing spurt or what. To be clear that is NOT non-stop...A good night is twice and a bad night is upwards of 5 times. 

7. Loves her daddy. 

8. Said "mama" when she was in the tub and wanted out. And said "dada" while looking right at David. 

9. Favorite game=screaming match with brother. all kinds of noises, some of which ar 

10. Has a rudimentary pincer grasp. 

11. Is so, so, so busy...Into everything everywhere....

12. Took 3oz from a bottle. Is definitely a boob baby still. No bottle=no weaning from the bottle..The one upside to a child who won't take a bottle. 

Mini-pincer

Bath time with Brother..Was a horror show in about 10 seconds, but I got this cute pic before the "pouring water on baby's head" event started

First time with spaghetti=SUCCESS

 With her daddy

 My little Japanese baby

7 months

Top 10 at 7 months...

1. Is pulling herself up and cruising around low

furniture.

2. Loves to eat finger foods (toast, cheese, rice, small pieces of chicken).

3. Does not have any teeth yet.

4. Is pooping twice a day.

5. Is still a mama's girl, like "I don't want her out of my sight/no one else can hold me".

6. Crawls everywhere at lightening speed. The house needs to be baby proofed STAT!

7. Waves. She has done a purposeful wave but its not frequent.

8. Is happy riding in the stroller for much longer now, but still loves being in the Ergo.

9. Has drank about 5 bottles in her lifetime.

10. Drinks like a champ from her sippy cup.  

11. Wracked up some more international miles on her United Mileage Plus account.

12. Claps.

Preston got her ready for the photo shoot..He knew exactly what to do, hence the lopsided 7 ;).



 My baby girl