Evidence

Chris pointed out that although my last post went on about Reina smiling, I failed to post evidence of this. So, I made sure I took some shots of Reina smiling.

In other news, I forgot to tell you about some firsts last week. Reina got her first cold. This was more unpleasant for Chris and I then Reina, as it consisted of a continual nose drip. She also got her first real "boo-boo." Chris was cutting her fingernails, as they grow FAST, and he missed. Reina screamed for about 30seconds, and then resumed nursing, as that was what she was doing in the first place. Then she bled for about 2 minutes and the whole ordeal was over. Needless to say, Chris has been fired from finger-nail cutting.

We had three soccer games this past week, so I made sure to get Reina in her Kubasaki green and snap some more photos. You can see me in green, Reina only made it to a "pastel" green....but what can you do. She is a girl afterall, and baby clothes makers seem to think baby girls can only be seen in pink, yellow, and pastel of any other color. I meant to get a shot of us at one of the games, but I forgot. Next week! Our team has played Kadena twice (one tie, one win) and OCS twice (one loss, one tie). We played Shuri HS yesterday and Reina had a babysitter. Apparently she fussed the whole time. What happened to our "ii akachan?" This means good baby in Japanese, and its another adjective the daycare workers use. I think they just say these things to make me feel good, but I'm going to roll with it, cause it works!

As Reina approaches the end of her third month, she has started to slow down with the weight gain. Mind you, she's still pretty chubby, but she's maxed out right now at 13lbs. She does seem pretty long, but measuring her is still pretty challenging.

Liz and Mike fly in this Monday, so we're all preparing for their visit. Mainly this consists of grocery shopping and picking up our house, which is always a mess these days!

Waratteimasu

We learned a new Japanese word this week. Both Chris' Aunt Hiromi and one of the daycares workers used to to talk about Reina. It means SMILING! She has really mastered the smile, and we can almost coax it out of her...its not just random anymore.

Other news ... not much really. Reina has gone to three soccer games and I assure you she has enjoyed each one - ok, she slept through most of them, but thats all we can ask at this point right? These pictures are taken on the way to a game (hence Chris and I in Kubasaki green). Reina, well, she's just dressed up to look cute. I finally bought some green for her today - some real green that is. We had lots of pastels, since she was "gender neutral" for so long, but now I'll be able to dress her up to show her school spirit too! We have three games this week. She'll be at two (the friday game is against Shuri HS and it will be too tricky to bring her). But, she'll be babysat at home by Kaori, our good Japanese friend.

More next week.

So tired

Well, we made it. One week of daycare done. We all did great.

The soccer game went well. I had a student volunteer to watch Reina during the game, so after a LOOOONG faculty meeting I went to get Reina (this was Tuesday), and then brought her out to the field (Mike Petty). She got a little fussy, so I "wore" her in the wrap...and she went to sleep almost immediately. She slept the ENTIRE game all the while we were screaming and yelling at the girls on the field. Of course she didn't sleep too well that night. So I might continue to do that for home games. We'll see.

Its nice on the weekend now since we get to spend all day with Reina. She tends to be sleepy after daycare so we don't get to "play" with her much. But this weekend she's been nothing but smiling. Check out the video (bummer that we had the TV so loud..eh?)...you might have to squint to see it! Its a little on the small side.

We have two more weeks till Aunt Liz and Uncle Mike get here. We're all pretty excited. Hopefully it will warm up so we can get to the beach.