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Rikuto at Nine Months Old

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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Ramsay Ramblings 5/6/2008

May 6th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

There are lots of little things to talk about this week, so here’s another dose of Ramsay Ramblings!
May 5th was Children’s Day
Mami and I have a little boy, and this year was his first Children’s Day. Thomas wrote all about Koinobori, Japanese Carp Streamers, so I’ll skip the detail and get to the photos:

Our Koinobori [...]

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Rikuto’s Diary April 12th 2008

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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Rikuto at One Day Old

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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Rikuto Goes Cherry Blossom Viewing

April 1st, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Mami and I braved the wind to show Ricky some cherry blossoms. Not many of the trees had fully bloomed, and Rikuto wasn’t too impressed, but any excuse for another family video!
I do apologize for the music. It originally had a different soundtrack with one of my favorite tunes. I was even going [...]

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Rikuto in March 2008

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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Which One is Not Rikuto?

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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Rikuto Eats His Toys

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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Rikuto Turns 6 Months Old

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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Life Changing Moments from 2007

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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Rikuto’s First Christmas

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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Rikuto Sees His Great Grandmother and First Snow

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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Ramsay Ramblings 12/21/2007

December 21st, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

My last Ramsay Ramblings proved to be quite controversial when I touched on the topic of half-Japanese children. Today’s ramblings are far more tame.
I am not your maid!
This line is my wife’s favorite English expression, which she learned from my mum when we went to the UK on our honeymoon. Mami is very good to [...]

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Rikuto Playing the Keyboard #1

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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Rikuto Attacks the Camera

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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Rikuto Wearing New Hat and Mittens

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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Baby Rikuto at 4 Months Old

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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First Video of Rikuto - 3 Weeks Old

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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Rikuto Wearing Clothes from Granny

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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Rikuto Wins Baby Clothes in Yahoo Auction

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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