box

August 17th, 2010 | By Kyoko

Immi was cranky for no apparent reason other than that Ashland is being cranky due to teething. I notice that they often feed into each others moods (they are both good, or they are both bad). I thought before Ashland was born that we’d never be able to dine out again, but dining out hasn’t been much of a challenge at all with the two of them— they seem to both enjoy it a lot and so they are both well behaved for most part (of course this might change with 3rd one in the mix!). Anyhow, I thought it might cheer immi up if I did something different, so I put her hair up in a pony tail (something I’ve never done). She totally loved it and now very happily sitting in a box.

dress up

January 15th, 2010 | By Kyoko

Immi is playing dres-up. Tutu and princess cape and faery wand!

rain boots

November 14th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi got her first pair of rain boots! What good are rainy days (and there’s lots of those here!) if you don’t get to wear rain boots??

friday

October 22nd, 2009 | By Kyoko

Moving truck is still not here. There’s only so many days you can sleep on the floor so we got a bed. Immi seems to think it’s comfortable.

Immi can easily open the fridge door here (we gotta go get fridge lock probably…). She helped herself to some pickles. She put on her pink polka-dotted sweater and mint-green shawl presumably because it matches her PJ.

dressing up

September 30th, 2009 | By Kyoko

When I told immi that we were going out, she wanted me to brush her hair and put on a hairclip.

Who needs a shirt when you can just wear lots of sparkly things!?

friday

September 18th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi is wearing HelloKitty ears which she got from her Ojiichan’s colleague in Japan (Hi!! Immi loves wearing it!) and eating some jellybeans.

We are at immi’s grandparents for dinner. We’ve walked to the park nearby.

Auntie Junko is here too.

Immi, Auntie Junko, Ojiichan and Obaachan after dinner.

beads

September 6th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi is beading. She’s been doing this often lately (…and the pink tutu wearing). Today, she is stringing just the pink ones.

dressup

August 8th, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are at Todd’s friend’s. She is being spoiled with more jewelries than would fit on her!

apron

March 21st, 2009 | By Kyoko

We just got this craft apron for $1 at Michaels. Immi seems to enjoy wearing it. It’ll come in handy when we play with paints and glitter sticks!

fashion (!?)

February 18th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi decided that wearing swimming goggles on her head is totally THE new look. She is playing with Hello Kitty block puzzle (she doesn’t know that it makes six different big pictures, she just enjoys putting them neatly back in the box) at the moment.

Every time immi wears a hugely over-size hoodie, I think that immi looks like DEATH’s (of Terry Pratchett variety!) little apprentice. This time she’s even got a Hello Kitty [sort-of] scythe.

Immi discovered a scrunchie in my drawer and she wanted me to put it in her hair. She seems to like it a lot.

backpack

February 4th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi has been really into wearing backpack around the house. This one is actually a diaper bag with all sorts of stuff in it for her baby doll.

The little fashion queen has fleecy hoodie, striped pink Hello Kitty socks, jelly shoes and no skirt on.

bass

January 29th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi is wearing her dad’s beanie and wrist cuff.

And she really really wants to play my sparkly pink bass!

How can I say ‘no’ when she looks at me like that? …so I got it off the rack for her to play.

letter “C”

January 19th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi has been wearing the letter “C” of her alphabet puzzle mat on her head. I’m not sure what she thinks it is, a tiara? She is checking herself out in the mirror.

Immi is going to be turning 2  years-old in just 3 weeks! She must be getting suddently bigger lately because she is growing out of many of her clothes (some of which she has been wearing for 1.5+ years!).

glam banana immi

January 14th, 2009 | By Todd

Little Immi insisted on putting on her pink sunglasses and boots before bedtime.

Nobody can be totally glam without a plastic banana!

“Mmmmmmmmmmm it’s so tasty”

Mr. Oskar looks a little grumpy because he didn’t get pink sunglasses!  How sad

pink shoes

December 21st, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi seems to have figured out that we were getting ready to go out. Anxious for an adventure, she put on her pink shoes, which were the only ones she could reach by herself. When I told her that the shoes don’t really match her outfit, she left me, and then came back with a pink hat on! …I guess the shoes sort of match now?

Immi can now jump up and down without assistance! She also got much better at spinning and can do many of them without getting dizzy.

bling!

December 19th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi loves her sparklies!

bow & play-doh

November 20th, 2008 | By Kyoko

I had the last of the 5 hour driving lesson today so Immi was at her grandmoms for a bit. She came home with a bow in her hair and matching mittens! She seems to like the bow and has been keeping it on for past several hours. She is eating lunch now.

I’m making dinner and Immi is playing with play-doh.

If you wondered, I don’t bake cookies on the silver baking trey immi is playing on (…so don’t worry!). This one is just for immi to do various activities on (play-doh, beads, ponyville…) to make clean-up a lot easier:)

organizing

October 27th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi found a new storage solution for her necklaces. I think that her Auntie Junko will find this entertaining since she was just telling me how she was looking for a way to organize her earrings.

Immi dressing up. I wonder where she is going?

friday

October 17th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi figured out how to use step-stools (in this case a big puffy pillow) to reach things out of reach. She can also open the dvd slot, load it correctly and with some trial and error (can’t read the tiny descriptions above the buttons yet) get it to play all by herself.

Immi’s dad is home from the trip! And he got for her a purse at a fancy kitty boutique at the airport. He must have read my mind because I was just thinking that immi could use a brown purse (she already has a black one) since about half of her wardrobe goes better with brown (unlike mine, I don’t really need any brown purse since I don’t even have any brown shoes).

disaster!

October 11th, 2008 | By Kyoko

…of fashion variety. It’s past midnight and immi should really be sleeping but instead she wants to go out. She grabbed her favorite skirt out of the laundry basket (she wore it earlier in the day) and put it on over her polka-dotted brown onsie. She picked out a pair of shoes, grabbed a purse and she was ready to go. She brought me my shoes to wear too.

But she got really mad when I told her we weren’t going out because it’s really late.

I wasn’t just happily snapping pictures while immi was in serious distress. She is well enough to remember to take bites out of her vanilla waffers. …Besides, nothing I did was cheering her up anyways.

Such a little Drama Queen!

…in her defense, she can usually coordinate her outfit much better when she isn’t completely tired and malfunctioning…