beading

August 20th, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi is stringing beads. We hadn’t tried this until now, but it seems that she was probably ready for it long time ago.

Here’s a video. It almost looks like a tutorial with immi’s commentary:D

tuesday

June 30th, 2009 | By Kyoko

We are at the eye doctor place to make some complaints about the new glasses I just got (too long and boring of a story to post here! Though I’ll tell you we are never coming back to this place!). Immi got really cranky so immi and I walked next door to get a smoothie while Todd sort it out.

Here’s immi singing along to her favorite song while waiting in the car.

misc.

March 2nd, 2009 | By Kyoko

Immi loves driving the RC car! But we didn’t stay outside long enough for her to figure out how to make it turn because it was so cold out.

The strangest thing immi wanted to do lately was to bundle up pairs of her socks. When the laundry comes out of the dryer, I match my pairs of socks and fold one over both socks to keep them together. Todd doesn’t like this done to his socks (he thinks that it stretches them out) and instead only buy 2 kinds of identical socks (white ones and black ones, and they get replaced all at once) so that they don’t require being matched. I used to match immi’s socks, but I haven’t been lately (tired, lazy, and it really doesn’t need to  be done since her socks are so small). Anyway, she brought me her small drawer liner full of socks and started picking out pairs. Then I thought she wanted me to help her put them on, but as it turns out, she just wanted me to bundle it.

Immi is continuing to say a new word or two almost every day. Today, she saw a photo of herself and her dad and said “my dad!”. She also likes to show me words she knows by bringing me her word picture books, pointing and telling me the word. She likes to show me ‘cookie’ and ‘cheese’, sometimes she surprizes me witha new word she knows, but othertimes she makes up a word (and say it with confidence!) if she doesn’t know it.

block tower video

February 11th, 2009 | By Todd

Immi continues to amaze me with her intelligence, creativity, and dexterity.  I show her how to stack a few blocks and she build a block sky scraper! 

Before our poopy-pants  western doctors attempt to tell us that Immi is too thin or Immi does not talk early enough…perhaps they should read Immi Blog.  A two minute screaming office encounter is hardly enough to tell anything about anyone, much less get to know Imms.

Perhaps they should not use outdated development charts from fat, white, American bottle-fed babys from the mid-west that were taken like half a century ago.  Perhaps they should ask more questions about the childhood development of the parents to discover things that might be relevant to her development like that Kyoko has always been petite and that I started talking late…in order to make a relevant diagnosis BEFORE they subjugate children to additional, needless, expensive and sometimes painful testing. 

I wonder if our Doctors themselves were stacking blocks 18 high @ two years of age?  Probably not.  Oh well!  Immi is too smart and cool to want to be a doctor anyway, she will probably be a fashion diva or rocker star!

birthday cake video

February 9th, 2009 | By Todd

Mmmmmm the first taste of Immi’s 2nd birthday cake ever!

splashing video

January 31st, 2009 | By Todd

If there is one thing on earth that an Immi loves it is splashing and making lots of bubbles in the bath.

feeding adah in bed

January 19th, 2009 | By Todd

Immi likes to share her food and it does not matter where or what with.  

She even has an immi-kisses-for-food exchange program. If you have soemthing she wants, she will come up to you and give you kisses.  Then if you don’t give her what she wants she gets very very grumpy!!!

sibling sonogram video

January 18th, 2009 | By Todd

Here is a short sonogram video clip of Immi’s sibling side-kick to be.  It won’t be long now before Immi is a big sister, kind of crazy because she is so tiny!

lounging @ starbucks?

January 18th, 2009 | By Todd

What on earth is Immi doing lounging on the floor in Starbucks? Silly little kitten what are you doing?

immi feeds clifford the dog video

January 13th, 2009 | By Todd

Immi’s red doggie clifford is very very hungry and MUST eat. Woof woof!!!

monday

November 24th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi loves to play with play-doh a lot these days.

Here she is contemplating.

And now making something.

…and here’s the video:

Immi Sitting in her New Toy Box Video

September 28th, 2008 | By Todd

Immi’s Grandma got her a new box of toy blocks that are kind of like Legos but a little different.  The Imster has made it a multi-purpose box.

rings and tea party

September 12th, 2008 | By Kyoko

Immi has been really into rummaging through my jewelry boxes lately. Here she is looking at all the rings in the ring box and trying them on. (She was wearing the blue chunky resin ring on her left hand finger, but it fell off when she was showing it off!)

Immi also enjoys sharpening her color pencils. It’s definitely not my pick for immi activity (nor is playing with rings, they both require complete supervision!) but she saw me do it once and now she is hooked.

…and of course Immi still enjoys doing tea! Here is a video of Immi having a tea party.

httpv://www.youtube.com/v/j0YTTN-GBzc

Immi Sorting Crayons Video

August 20th, 2008 | By Todd

A cute video of Immi systematically organizing her crayon collection. Immi is totally our little girl, she sure knows how to organize things!

Immi Dancing to “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay Video

August 17th, 2008 | By Todd

Immi loves to dance to all kinds of different music but she really loves this Coldplay song called “Viva La Vida” in particular. Perhaps her display of rhythm is a little more on the side of performance art or slam dancing!