文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Parenthood' CategoryPosts relating to parenthood Anthony turns three years old tomorrow. He's been talking up a storm for quite some time, but he's behind other kids his age. It's not something we're concerned about because, if he's got, say, 70% of the language skills as his peers, he's really got 140% of the skills (70% English + 70% Japanese). I know of other kids who have three or four languages -- a kid's brain is just amazing. I've also heard many stories of kids raised in two-language households where the kid eventually refuses to speak one of the languages (usually the father's). This [...] 
View full post » This morning started well. I woke up this morning, as I do most mornings, to find that Anthony had been up and playing for quite some time. His first words to me were "Daddy, I have poopy." This was a good thing. He almost always has a poopy by the time Fumie or I wake up, but normally tries to hide it (hah, as if we have no noses), and normally fights a diaper change. So, it was wonderful this morning that he announced it, and went easily to get cleaned up and into underwear for the [...]
"Mommy, Daddy, Baby Anthony, Wallet, and Car" Anthony made this drawing at playcare. It's his first complex, well done, easily identifiable drawing, and as such, makes our heart melt in the way only a parent's can. (That's another way to say "I know you don't think it's particularly special" The original is rather large (about 20 inches across the long side). Both Fumie and I have this picture as our computer desktop image (although because I prefer a generally dark background, I use a darkened version). On the same day, Anthony also drew a solo [...] 
View full post » Today, Anthony made a poopy in the toilet. He'd been wearing underwear (not diapers) for parts of the day for a month or so, making pee-pee in the toilet with the occasional "shippai" (mistake) here and there. Since we have mostly hardwood floors, cleanup of such mistakes is not that big a deal. Yet, the success of pee-pee in the toilet has been offset by difficulties with poopy in the toilet. We would have long talks about it, and he would claim that he can't do it. Not that he didn't want to, but that, apparently despite [...] 
View full post » Our new place has almost all dark hardwood flooring, which means that dust shows itself quickly and persistently throughout the day. Thus, keeping things tidy is an issue. We have a nice electrostatic dry mop which picks up the dust well, but even if we sweep every day, during the sweeping the mop quickly creates families of dust bunnies that need to be corralled. Also, with things much larger than dust, the mop just pushes them around. The SolutionThus, we thought to augment the dry mop with a small cordless vacuum, which we might use in [...] 
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