Oh, baby!
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What Mina Thinks of Bangkok (Daddy Concurs)
Quite predictably, the long car ride to and from Bangkok was not appreciated by either baby, which they were quite vocal about. This was a kind of test run; do we really want to unleash these two on a plane full of innocents for the cumulative nineteen or so hours it takes to get back to Cali (w/one stopover)? The answer might just be children’s cold medicine… Mina’s birth abroad has been duly reported, and her passport is in the works. Legally, she’s not a citizen exactly but has all the same rights as a citizen when she gets the passport. Say what? Yeah, it’s kind of a funny thing…
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ippon demo ninjin
Max is a little less enthused by this than I am, but I found the greatest song for learning counting (and introducing the concept of counters) in Japanese this week: It’s just a great song, really. I hereby declare this a Cosmic Buddha reunion number. There was apparently some fluff about this song being switched to the A-side when the album was repressed, so they repressed again as it originally was, on the B-side. The thing is, it seems this song was originally (released in 1975) not very popular and the A-side song that became a hit, when compared now, sounds really boring: ?????????. //////////////// LYRICS ////////////////// 1 ?????? ????…
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Floating
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Dinner Set
…for the discerning toddler.
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Mina chanbo
This was a few weeks ago, when she still wasn’t very cute at all.
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max on the wall
Those are newfangled, lightweight building blocks made of some porous, anechoic material (I yelled at ’em and they didn’t answer back.). They’re predictably better at insulating, but much weaker than good old red bricks – they’re only used for top story walls on a two story houses (or everywhere on a single story).
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Mina has peed on me four times today
The good news is, we’re saving heaps on disposable diapers. Also, baby pee is good luck (in many of the obscure cultures flourishing, chiefly, in my head).
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baby update via chat (i am sooo lazy edition)
me: whats up M: yo you on skype? me: nah, I’m at work M: you suck! me: next time we skype you’ll freak out though M: i want to see the baby!!!!!!!! me: mina can talk now M: and the max!!!!!!!! wtf me: not with words but with cooing and gurgling M: are you serious? me: yeah she’s a trip i just dropped off max at school i just realized that we sent him to school a lot earlier than they do in the states M: um YEAH me: but there was nothing really that rushed about it he was bored of being with us all day i even stopped…
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over yonder
Max in the sandlot near home. Taken with Samsung J700 phone (crappy camera BTW).
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serious growth
Mina could prop herself up before she was two months old… She could turn herself over as well, but only kinda by accident. This morning, she almost moved herself off the bed. She can see across the room, recognizes faces, and talks to you in long spurts when she’s so inclined… Other times, she wants to be held up so she can walk across the room. She’ll be three months old on Saturday.
