sunday

March 30th, 2008 | By Kyoko

We are preparing brunch at immi’s grandmom’s. While omelettes and waffles are cooking, immi runs around with her ducky-monkey. She is very happy because she just spotted Mr. Darcy.

Immi caught Mr. Darcy by his tail. He doesn’t seem to mind this much. They like to play together a whole lot.

Now we are at IKEA because that’s where I wanted to be for my birthday! Immi plays with her dad on the display couch.

Immi walks on the display table.

Immi gets attacked by a killer whale.

We just finished having dinner at immi’s grandparents’. After a long and exciting day immi is very tired. When she gets tired, she finds something cushy and slouches on it. This big bear is just perfect to get cozy with.

saturday

March 29th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Aunt Junko invited us for dinner in DC for my birthday (…which is tomorrow!).

We can’t come out to DC and not stop by Teaism so here we are sitting in the mini garden in front of the shop having bubble tea. Immi is having crunchy treats in her new stroller which was my birthday gift from Junko. I HATED our previous stroller (bulky, heavy, not cute) but I LOVE this one (slim, portable, glides!, looks like spaceship pod!).

…and now we are at Sushi Taro having yummiest sushi! We haven’t been here since THAT time. Immi made friends the sushi chef:)

ninja faery

March 29th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Night time is when immi is a little ninja with nunchaku.

In the morning, faery immi has tea with faeries of the magical mushroom cottage.

zoom! zoom!!

March 28th, 2008 | By Kyoko

I would post pictures of immi more often except that many of the ones I take these days end up looking like this:

or like this:

unless she is taking a nap!

bad?

March 25th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi was cruising around the table after dinner. As she reached for a blob of ketchup on the plate, Todd said “Immi, No.” (which she understands). But immi proceeded to stick her hand in the ketchup anyways. When I asked “Are you being bad?”, she threw me a kiss and giggled.

shoes

March 25th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi got new pair of shoes! I looked for ones that would be easier for her to walk around in and these have soft leather soles. Besides, they are fuzzy and pink leopard print! Immi hates wearing socks and she’ll pull them off as soon as I put them on, but she’ll keep socks on if she gets to wear shoes.

Immi is walking a lot more and crawls a lot less often. She can run quite well too!

big seat

March 22nd, 2008 | By Kyoko

Here is Immi in her new car seat which Todd installed earlier this month. We are on our way to her grandmom’s: )

Hello Spring!

March 20th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi is playing with lego blocks. She really likes them (and me too!). Mostly, she likes to take them apart and investigate individual pieces, but she does occasionally stick pieces together as well.

raspberries

March 18th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi finished eating frozen raspberries and now finger painting with them on her trey. Frozen fruits seem to help her with teething. She likes ice chips too, but I thought that fruits would be more nutritious. I just put some chopped up grapes in the freezer, hopefully those would be less messy!

sunday

March 16th, 2008 | By Kyoko

We are at Port City Java at Eastern Market in DC. We came for fresh veggies and such at the farmer’s market but it was unexpectedly a bit cold so we are warming up a bit at the coffee shop. Immi is munching on waffles I made in the morning.

Having bubble tea and healthy/tasty lunch at Teaism with aunt Junko. There isn’t a highchair here (and immi doesn’t use her baby carrier anymore) but immi had a very fun time hoping from one lap to the next: )

saturday

March 15th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi fell a sleep in the car…and still sleeping.

Immi pretending to drink daddy’s blueberry bubble drink.

Immi fell asleep tired from dancing all evening!

gates

March 13th, 2008 | By Kyoko

We have been immi-proofing our place gradually for a long time now. But it was time to get more serious. We got 2 tall gates and some other little gadgets to secure cabinets and drawers the night before and I installed them today.

Immi looks grumpy in the picture but it’s probably not so much because of the gate. She is teething some more! I had thought that she was still just working on her lower right molar (now you can see little points of teeth with her gum still intact in the middle) but I discovered this morning that she already had a fully emerged upper right molar AND an emerging upper left molar (total: 11 teeth)! Her entire gum looks swollen and she has a bit of fever. She also drools a little occasionally which she almost never does.

Immi graduated from her infant-seat/carrier thing and Todd got the new car seat installed for immi today!

Big Giraffe

March 12th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi has enjoyed this rocking giraffe since the last thanksgiving, but now she really likes it because she can hop on/off on her own!

relaxing

March 11th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi is relaxing for a bit in immiland.

toothbrush

March 9th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi is learning to brush her teeth. She has almost (her right molar is nearly completely out) 9 teeth!!

weekend

March 8th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Todd is in NY for the weekend so immi and I invited Auntie Junko for extra fun. We made green tea mousse, carrot cookies with frosting, shopped online for fabrics to make Junko a laptop case and ordered-in Thai food.

Immi had so much fun crawling/waking/running(!) around with junko following after her and playing hide-and-seek.

hair brush

March 6th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi really likes her pearlescent lavender hair brush: mostly for chewing on. So we had a hairbrushing 101 with a little help from Mr. Teddy Bear. Immi got the brushing thing immediately and had fun brushing Mr. Teddy’s head. When immi was satisfied, she started brushing her own hair.

stacking toy

March 4th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi mastered the stacking toy! When I haphazardly stacked the scattered rings to get them off the floor, immi came over to take them apart and then effortlessly stacked them back up in the correct order.

…and then later in the day, she got the toy stacked in order again. So, I clapped and said “yay!!” which made immi clap and say “yay!!”.

spring time?

March 3rd, 2008 | By Kyoko

It is so very warm out today! Immi and her dad are out side racing RC car.

saturday (laundry and party!)

March 1st, 2008 | By Kyoko

Today is saturday and we are working on laundry. Immi wants to sort clean laundry with me, and she seems to be able to pick out socks.

Here is immi walking off with as many socks as she can carry and one more.

In the evening, we went to a party hosted by Todd’s boss at work. Immi wore her leopard print dress, matching shoes, and a black faux fur coat we found for her on sale for $3.00(!). It was a really fun beach theme party and Immi had a blast socializing, crawling/walking around, and climbing up the stairs at record speed (…and we don’t even have stairs for her to practice on at home!)!

Immi learned a new word. Sort of. She can now say “Hmmm??”.

When immi wants milk sometimes she says “mih! mih!”. Almost, but not quite: )