Christmas is coming!

I'm being such a little monkey in this picture. This and the next picture are actually from last week but we didn't get a chance to include them in last week's blog so we're including them here.

I'm showing off how I can play the drums here.

And here I am with Grandpa Waki after a really great lunch.










Let's see... this week I've been starting to get into everything. I can pretty much shimmy upright over to anything I want now and getting more and more mobile by the day.

This is the aftermath of when I get into one of the bookshelves...

Daddy went out to get a Christmas tree this week! Here I am waiting very very patiently (aka banging on the glass to hurry him up) for Daddy to get the tree together and into the house.

And here it is after Mommy decorated it! Yay! Christmas is coming!

Did I ever tell you how much I love bread? I was so happy to eat it this time around my feet couldn't stop doing a little dance...

And here I am with the Peanuts gang getting in the mood for Christmas. Auntie Sabrina gave these as a gift to Grandma Kan awhile ago and I absolutely love them. It also helped me develop a new behavior... Clapping hands!

Another milestone for Mommy and Daddy to check off for me!

With that, I am coming up very quickly to my 1st birthday. What a whirlwind year it has been! Thank you so much for coming to visit, it really means alot to me and my parents. Until next week!

My First Thanksgiving... there was alot of eating...

Hello everyone! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

I hope you had a nice one because I certainly did. Lots of family and lots of food. It reminds me how thankful I am to be in such a wonderful family. And how grateful I am for everyone of you. Thank you for being a part of my life, whether it be by visiting me in person or visiting my blog!

This Thanksgiving I saw not one, not two, but THREE turkeys! Grandpa Waki made two and Grandma Kan made this one. It's bigger than me!

Here's a picture of us at Grandpa Kan's house.

I got to eat alot at both houses. I absolutely love bread but I also got my first taste of turkey and I liked it! YUM!

Here I am with Grandpa and Grandpa Waki. This is actually a couple days after Thanksgiving when we went to visit Great Grandma Matsumoto at her home.

Coincidentally it was also the same place my Grandpa and Grandma Kan had their annual performance with the church choir. So I got to see both sets grandparents that day.

Here I am with Mommy, Daddy and Great Grandma Matsumoto

Another day, we went out eating again. This time with Grand Uncle Allen, Grand Auntie Kaman, Uncle Time, and Aunt Naomi!

I'm the only one not looking at the camera in this picture otherwise it would have been a great picture.

Doesn't Uncle Tim look so happy to hold me? From the smile on my face, I obviously think he's doing a great job

Here I am with Auntie Naomi. The puzzle I'm playing with is actually one of Daddy's old toys. Her family had borrowed it for when Uncle Tim and Auntie Naomi were little and now returned it back so that I could play with it.

Daddy got very nostalgic when he saw all his old toys and puzzles. He remembers playing with them quite vividly!

 Here I  am with Grand Uncle Allen from Hong Kong. He's showing me the Christmas tree here

And here I am with Auntie Naomi and Grand Auntie Kaman.... still fascinated with the tree.

Weee~~ I like sitting on Daddy's shoulders.

Here I am having a taste of a lemon for the first time. Aside from my reaction, it's funny because you can hear the Uncles and Daddy laughing, but Grandma Kan and Grand Auntie Kaman admonishing us for being 'mean' in the background.

I didn't seem to mind it much though.

By the end of the weekend, Mommy and Daddy were so tired they didn't know which end to put my diaper.... We had fun though. I miss all my family already! Luckily, Christmas is right around the corner!

See you again soon!

3 and 1/2 week late post!

Hello everyone! Very very sorry for the lack of posts this month! Unfortunately a few weeks ago I was a bit sick so I didn't have very many pictures..  then Daddy got plain lazy and didn't put up a post until now. Sorry again! From now until the end of the year we will try to get a post up every week!


As you can see, my parents have been experimenting with my hair since it's been getting longer. Mommy's not sure about this hairdo but I seem to like it.

 This past week was my last day at class for this year. They brought out a colorful parachute for us to sit on.

Here I am with everyone else about to go for a little spin

And here I am having a grand old time picking up balls and climbing in the gym area.

I've also been getting more and more interested in instruments.

Here I am trying to play the guitar.

It's still a bit big for me and my fingers aren't strong enough to pluck the strings yet, but I got a little sound out of it.

I'm MUCH better with these drums at Grandpa and Grandma Kan's house.

I can tap out a pretty good beat!

Do you remember this car-walker? Well since the last time, I've figured out I can get around on my own in this. It's let me get to places I want to go without having to have someone take me there. Freeeedom!!!

Here's a video of me chasing Grandma Kan around.  I've already gotten the hang of turning.

Here I am with Grandpa Kan for dinner. I'm not quite old enough to eat lobster yet so Grandma gave me a stuffed one instead. But I definitely liked touching the real one.

I'm also starting to sit on one of these things.

I think I need to have my pants off, actually.... but I'm just getting used to sitting on it and staying still for now :)

With my 1 year birthday coming up, Mommy and Daddy started putting away some of my newborn clothes.

This is the cap that I wore when I was first born... it barely fits my head now! I'm such a big boy...

Here I am with Dobby. Now that I'm more mobile I can crawl to him a little better.

He's also gotten alot more used to me so he'll let me pet him from time to time. At the moment, I'm more interested in his tags than him but he's a good dog and is very gentle with me.

This is currently Mommy and Daddy's favorite picture of me. I absolutely LOVE bread and anything similar to it. So when Daddy gave me a pork bun all to myself this was the expression on my face when I realized it was all mine.

Thanksgiving is coming up so I'm looking forward to seeing all my family this weekend! Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, we are very thankful for having you all in our lives. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

My First Halloween

Happy Halloween everybody!

If you haven't seen already here are a few pictures from my photoshoot courtesy of Grandpa Kan.

I actually had two costumes this year; the lion above, and the dragon below.

As you can see, I liked the Lion costume waaaaaaaaaayy better than the Dragon one, but I wore the Dragon one on Halloween because Mommy and Daddy liked it more (because I was born in the Year of the Dragon)

Since I don't know how to trick or treat yet, Mommy and Daddy took me to a local Halloween festival at a nearby park.

Unfortunately there wasn't too much for me to do there, so I mainly looked at the other kids in their costumes.

This was an entry into a pumpkin decorating contest. I think it's a clownfish from the movie Finding Nemo. Pretty neat, huh?

I like to take things out of my toy basket now one by one and look over them carefully. Mommy took this one of me because she thought I looked very studious.

I'm also getting very picky about what I wear on my head.

No, Mommy! I said NO hats!

At class this week, I got to take a little ride on this spaceship rocker toy.

I don't quite know how to enjoy it yet but when Daddy stopped rocking me back and forth, I moved my hips a little to see if I could get it to go on my own.

I also got to play in this ball bin.

I really wasn't sure of it at first so I had to be eased into it very slowly. First I sat on the side and just touched the balls with my feet. Then I slowly sat down in it until I felt comfortable.

Just like dipping your toe in the pool before jumping in, right?

I'm starting to get a little stronger too! Here I am crawling up the slide to Daddy.

I had a visitor this week and that's Auntie Nathalie! Here we are at the Natural History Museum in front of all the dinosaur bones.

I definitely couldn't get enough of Auntie... I was smiling the entire time when she was over. Every time I looked at her I smiled. Mommy and Daddy were quite jealous..

Here's my face when I saw her in the morning to say good morning.


Thank you, Auntie for coming by, please come back soon!

That's it this week. We'll see you again soon!

A visitor, new ways to play, and Piggy Day at class!

Ever have those bad hair days? This is what mine looks like when I have one.

Lately my hair hasn't been sticking up quite as much because it's been growing longer. Mommy wants to give me a haircut but Daddy says to wait a little longer. Either way, pretty soon I'll be getting my first haircut. Yet another big milestone!

This week, Auntie Sarita was in town so we went to go visit her. I was a little shy at first but then remembered that we've met before and warmed up quickly.

I'm pointing at the chandelier in this picture because I wanted to touch it.

I'm standing up on my own more and more lately. At first glance, this picture might look like some of my other standing up pictures but I'm actually not leaning on the toy in this one.


I've started letting going so I can use both hands to play and balancing on two legs all on my own.

I'm still very wobbly, but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

Here I am playing ball with Daddy. I'm starting to get the idea of rolling it back to him so we can keep playing. I'm not accurate yet but I have alot of fun doing it.

Wanna cruise around with me?

Mommy put me in a box and had Daddy pull me around the house.  Lots of fun for me.

 It was Piggy Day at class this week!

It's a day where the teachers prepare all sorts of tastes and textures for me to try and I get to get as messy as I want. (and the best part is Mommy and Daddy don't have to clean up afterwards!)


Everyone gets their own tin. I got some pasta, jello, cheerios, red-colored rice, pudding, blue-colored rice cereal, and spaghetti in mine.

I went after the blue-colored rice cereal right away as you can in this picture, it's mostly out of the tin and on my legs/floor already.

Here I am trying to share some spaghetti.

And here I'm getting nice and messy!

I got a bath right after this because I was so sticky!

Lastly take a look at my teeth coming in. Those front ones are big aren't they? This was the clearest picture Mommy could get of me because I move around so much and I don't like anyone poking around my mouth. My two bottom ones are coming in too!

Thanks for coming by, see you again soon!

9 months and 3 weeks

This week I finally got around to getting my 9 month checkup. I am now in the 12th percentile for length, 40th percentile for weight, and 70th percentile for head circumference. I'm sticking my tongue out at my length percentile... I'm planning on doing all my growing later!
 

  This week, Grandma Kan is out of town so Grandpa Kan took care of me all by himself.


As you can see I think he's doing a great job. I got to ride in up front in his car

............... while it wasn't moving of course.

I also got to go here with  Grandpa. Can you guess where I am?

The background is a little blurry so it might be hard.

Does this picture help? I hope so! Yes, we went to Disneyland!


Here I am with Grandpa out in front of the castle. It was very very crowded at the park because of the long weekend.

Here I am about to go on my favorite ride at Disneyland.

I was too busy looking around at everything and this was the only picture where I am sort of looking at the camera...

 

Later on, Great Granduncle CK and Great Grandauntie Kay invited us out for dinner. I was smiling the entire night because I was having such a good time with them. Thank you for inviting us to dinner, it was delicious!

Mommy and Daddy also took me to Tanaka Farms to pick out my very first pumpkin!

Just like Disneyland there was so much to do and see there.

I'm not even paying attention to Daddy in this picture because I saw something I wanted to touch.

Why did Mommy put me on top of this pumpkin? Did she want me to fall off or something?

Don't worry, I didn't. I'm very good at balancing myself now.

And here's one more picture of me and Mommy sitting on a big pile of pumpkins.


It was a very fun day!

As for the rest of the week, it was pretty mellow as usual.


Daddy put me in my swing one last time before he put it away. I'm waay too big for it now as it will barely move when Daddy turns it on.

The mobile stuffed animals are easier for me to grab now though!

And last, here I am being silly. I always steal Daddy's glasses. I seem to be learning that I can wear them as well. But I keep trying to put them on like a hat and this is what happens.

I'll get the hang of it someday!

Thanks for stopping by!