Category: Family
May 11th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
I haven’t posted a video of Rikuto since we went to the park to see cherry blossoms, and that was over a month ago! Since then, the little guy has passed the 9-months-old mark, and is a chunky 10 kilos!
Here are some clips from the last few weeks:
If you can’t view the video, you can [...]
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April 12th, 2008 by
Rikuto
Hello everybody. Daddy says I can write on his blog. He thinks that at my age (8 and a half months) I should learn to touch type. I think he’s wrong. My fingers are too short and chubby. I can do it with my toes, though.
My first teeth
I have two teeth now. One is a [...]
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April 4th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
I previously posted a video of Rikuto at 3 weeks old, believing it was the earliest footage of our son that we had. However, the other day I was playing with my phone when I discovered, buried deep within its memory banks, a video I had taken just 24 hours after he was born! I [...]
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March 8th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
Ricky is developing more of a personality by the day, and it’s great watching him develop. He’s started practicing with a toothbrush even though he doesn’t have any teeth yet, he’s eating a variety of mushy foods, and can finally roll on to his front. Here are a few recent clips:
If you can’t see [...]
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February 19th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
Here’s a quick quiz for you. Below you can see five pictures of our son, Rikuto. However, one of them is an imposter! All you have to do is decide which is the odd one out. If you need to, you can enlarge the pictures for a better look.
Click to enlarge: A, B, C, D, [...]
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February 7th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
Our 6-month-old son, Rikuto, just won’t stop putting things in his mouth. He has to taste everything! If he doesn’t have his dummy, then he’s chewing on his hands or bib. In this video, watch him much away on his toys!
If you can’t view the video, watch it here on YouTube.
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February 5th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
A short while ago, a reader asked to see a picture of my wife’s pink car that I’ve mentioned in a couple of posts. Although I say it’s Mami’s car, I tend to drive it more than she does because the baby goes in the baby chair on the back seat, and Mami sits with [...]
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January 24th, 2008 by
Nick Ramsay
My first post this year about our son, Rikuto, marks six months since he was born. He has grown a lot in that time and is now sitting up, eating crackers and some slimy stuff that looks like mango curry. He also seems to be favoring some toys over others and growing bored of his [...]
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December 29th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
2007 was an eventful year, starting with fortune teller Kazuko Hosoki predicting that it would be the best year for me in over a decade. I’m not really into astrology, but she wasn’t far off with that prediction.
My Top 5 Life Changing Moments from 2007
5. Taking better care of my health
On July 1st, I put [...]
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December 25th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
It’s late afternoon on Christmas Day 2007, and Ricky is having a nap as I write this. Our son has just turned five months old and woke up this morning to his first Christmas. Unlike the rest of Japan, we are fortunate not to have work or school today so are making the most of [...]
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December 24th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
In my last post, Making Mochi in the Mountains, I told you it was my first time to to make Japanese mochi. I wasn’t the only person doing something for the first time.
Rikuto sees snow for the first time
Our trip to the mochi ceremony took us way up into the mountains on a winding road [...]
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December 11th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
Earlier this year I bought myself a little electronic keyboard so I could make up some children’s songs for my ESL classes. Like most things I spend my money on, it rarely got used… until now.
Watch Rikuto play the piano for the first time ever at four and a half months old. I’d say he’s [...]
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December 9th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
In this video, Rikuto shows his curiosity for everything and anything by attacking the camera. If I had let him have it, I’m sure he would have tried to eat it, too!
If you can’t view the video, watch it here on YouTube.
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December 4th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
Here’s a lovely picture of Rikuto sat on the sofa, sporting a cute hat, mittens, and “I Luv My Mum” socks, courtesy of his Aunty Emma and Uncle Mark. The colorful clothes he’s wearing are part of Mami’s Yahoo Auctions haul. Mami’s online activities also won him a little Big-o-Ball to go with the larger [...]
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November 27th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
It’s hard to believe how quickly time has passed, and how big Rikuto has grown, but he’s already four months old and growing out of clothes with each passing week! Just compare the following video to when he was just three weeks old to see the difference.
His neck is strong enough to support his head, [...]
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November 25th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
Alhough I’m writing this four months after Rikuto was born, you’re about to watch a video of when he was just three weeks old. I didn’t post this earlier because Mami and I were talking all through it and I’ve only just learned how to remove that audio and play music and narration over the [...]
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November 21st, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
On September 9th, I posted a photo of Rikuto’s new clothes, which he got from his granny and grandad in England. If you go back and take a look at that picture, you’ll see how small he was then. If he had worn the clothes, they would have drowned him! Now, just two and half months [...]
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November 17th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
Mami recently plucked up the courage to bid in an auction over at Yahoo! Japan. The world’s largest auction site is eBay, but it doesn’t even exist in Japan, probably due to the overwhelming success of Yahoo! Auctions.
To stop herself getting carried away, Mami claims to never bid over 100 yen. That’s just 90 cents to those of you who think in [...]
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November 9th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
She denies it now, but when the Nintendo DS was released, Mami begged me to get her one. Like most husbands, I thought it would be a great chance to get my wife into gaming, so I rushed out and got her a little, white DS Lite with Tetris and Super Mario Bros.
Hooked on the [...]
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November 9th, 2007 by
Nick Ramsay
Our three and a half month-old son, Rikuto, went for his BCG jab today and cried louder than he ever has. When he got home though, he found one of his favorite toys, the Pooh Carousel, recharged with new batteries. He went crazy trying to grasp the dangling Pooh, and had more luck off-camera, but [...]
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