I was aware of it during my childhood, but as I got older less people mentioned it. Generally, in the U.K, people don’t run around pointing out how big your nose is. “Crikey! Your nose is huge!” is something I hadn’t heard sinceﾂI was a kid. That was until I came to Japan, a country [...]
Our son Rikuto, at nearly three months old, is amazing at staring contests. I’m not sure he realizes he has eyelids yet, or perhaps he’s just fascinated by the funny-looking people he says each day,ﾂi.e. his mum and I. Either way, this is a great picture of him staring down the barrel of his bottle. [...]
A few weeks ago I talked about children’s bedtime stories, and then later said that a baby approaching three months old has very acute hearing and if you read to him everyday, he’ll become familiar with the rhythm and intonation of your language.
This week, I started reading the first Harry Potter book to Rikuto. [...]
Next week, our son Rikuto will be three months old. I previously posted the video Is That My Hand? in which he realized that the hands flapping about his head were actually his own, and he could contol them!ﾂNow that he can control them, he does what every baby does -ﾂhe tries to eat them. [...]
Lately, my wife has been referring to Rikuto as a nakimushi because he keeps crying. Sure enough, if he’s not being held or given a tour of the house, he’s crying.
The word nakimushi comes from the words naku, which means to cry, and mushi, which means bug or insect. In English, we commonly refer to [...]
With the all the negative publicity sumo is getting, and the lack of native Japanese newcomers to the sport, Mami and I felt this would be a great opportunity to let Rikuto keep this great Japanese tradition alive.
Sure, he may not be “100% pure“, but none of the top sumo wrestlers are. Apparently, at the [...]
It’s nearly two and a half months since Rikuto was born and both Mami and I are relieved to see his neck is getting stronger - strong enough to support his head… for a moment or two.
Until now, we’ve had to hold Riku in the cradle position because babies tend to have whopping big heads [...]
Rikuto is still a long way off speaking yet, but that doesn’t stop him trying to communicate. In this video, he gets quite vocal on a number of important issues. I don’t know what he’s trying to say, but it’s fun imagining. Maybe he’s giving his thoughts on Japan’s new prime minister, or perhaps he’s [...]
The other day Rikuto turned 2-months old, and I posted about some of the things we can expect from him this month. One of those things is the realization that he has his own hands. With that in mind, and considering how these videos of the baby seem to be pretty popular with my family [...]
Rikuto is two months old today, and I was over at BabyCenter.com reading up on what to expect this month. Here’s the gist of it:
Week 1:
Rikuto should be able to recognize colors, rather than just seeing things in two tones or depending on brightness. They recommend we break out the stuffed animals, soft balls and [...]
I was teaching the future tense using “will” to three Junior High school students today, and since we had some time left at the end of the lesson, I showed them a picture of Rikuto and asked them to write answers to four questions about his future.
Here they are for your own amusement!
1. What [...]
Our baby boy, Rikuto, is exactly eight weeks old today and he’s learning very quickly how to get what he wants. This video shows what happens when you take away his dummy.
Before you jump on me with accusations of child abuse, let me reassure you that no babies were hurt in the production of this [...]
Rikuto’s grandparents in England sent him some nice new clothes, which should fit him perfectly by the time Christmas comes around. You can see how happy he was in the photo below. The card that came with them read:
Dear Ricky,
I have sent you this little outfit. I know you will look so cute in it. [...]
It has been a little over a month since Rikuto was born, so let’s take a look at two photos to see how much he has grown. First, just days after he was born, Rikuto weighed in at 2.7 kilograms and looked like this…
Now, one month later, he’s a whopping 4.3 kilograms and looks like [...]
It’s been an experience like no other, but three weeks after Rikuto’s birth, I’m slowly adapting to fatherhood.
Here are 10 observations from a new father:
Rikuto loves his dummy (or pacifier for my American readers), but when I can’t find it, I let him suck on my knuckles! He doesn’t notice the difference.
Rikuto is [...]
Friends, family, and first-time visitors. After blogging about my wife’s pregnancy for much of the last year, our son, Rikuto, was finally born at 9:25am on Sunday, July 22nd 2007, at the prefectural hospital, Gifuken Sougou Iryou Center.
I rushed Mami to the maternity clinic at 5:30 in the morning, and it wasn’t long before the [...]
July 31st is the due date for our firstborn child, Rikuto, and that date is getting very close now. With less than two weeks to go, I thought I’d take a video of my wife’s tummy, so you can see the baby move around for yourselves! You may have to watch it a couple of [...]
Today was the first day I was able to join Mami at the maternity clinic. Usually when she goes, I’m at work, and it has been very difficult to find a time that suits us both. So, with just over four weeks to go until the baby is due, I was quite excited about our [...]
Continue reading about Baby in Progress - Rikuto at 35 weeks
I’m writing this post using Windows Speech Recognition so I don’t have to touch the keyboard to write what I want to say. Isn’t that great? Anyway, today I have a great photo of Rikuto from outside his mother’s tummy.
Mami is now 34 weeks pregnant and looks it! Since she finished working at [...]
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It’s been a while since my wife and I got a decent picture of our baby boy from the maternity clinic, but now we finally have one that doesn’t look like a cloudy bowl of miso soup.
In my post “Making the Baby Bed“, I talked about how pregnancy in Japan lasts 10 months, so although [...]
