Family Picture - Week 23 (Chris and Maile are showing off the matching jammies that Daddy got them for Christmas)
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After Grandma Gail saw that Maile started rolling over Thanksgiving, she kindly asked that Maile deliver a similar holiday milestone when she came to Hawaii. We made no promises, but Maile indeed had a milestone up her sleeve. Unbeknown to us she had been practicing her sitting – and one morning busted it out for all to see. It’s still a little rough around the edges and she can’t pull herself up to a sitting position, but once she’s sitting she can stay that way for a good while and play with toys. Needless to say, Grandma Gail was quite impressed and pleased with Maile’s little Christmas gift…
(Click here for the video.)
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Maile’s first Christmas was action-packed. We had Christmas parties with the whole Morisato family on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
In addition to meeting all of her aunties, uncles and cousins, a highlight for Maile Girl was definitely meeting Santa. Apparently, she didn’t get the memo from her cousin Emily – as Maile was quite pleased with the man in red. She sat in her lap and loved the present he gave her. Very nice of old St. Nick to stop by and make some time for Maile Girl on Christmas Eve.
Unfortunately daddy was trying to balance both video and photo duties so he apologizes for the jumpiness of the video capture for this historic moment:
We took lots of pictures over the Christmas holiday – see the slide show below for the highlights…
(Click here for the Maile Meets Santa video.)
(Click here for all the photos.)
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Hi, I'm Maile - as my older cousin I look forward to doing whatever you tell me to do...
On Thursday, we headed to Oahu to celebrate the Christmas holiday with the extended Morisato clan (Grandma Gail’s side of the family). Christine’s brother Steve and his family met us on Oahu. They traveled in all the way from Japan! Since they live so far away this was the first time Maile met her cousins, Katie (age 3.5) and Emily (age 21 months). We’ve been very excited about getting all the girls together in one place. Two things you’ll learn from the pictures:
1. Grandma Gail made sure we didn’t lose track of the girls by making sure they were pretty much always wearing the exact same outfits (just different sizes).
2. It is REALLY hard to get 3 girls under the age of 4 to sit still for a picture and face the same direction all at once. (Forget about smiling!) We did our best, but generally went with a 2 out of 3 ain’t bad approach.
My cousins sure are giggly...
More silliness with the cousins...
For their part, Katie and Emily were fascinated by Baby Maile. They kept staring at her and “petting” her – kind of like their new pet.
Maile was great with the cousins. Although she did need a little help keeping up:
(Click here for Petting Maile video.)
(Click here for Keeping Up with the Cousins video.)
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My Grandpa Cal is a judge. Today we went to visit him at his court house. I figured since Grandpa Cal is retiring in 2012 I would audition to be the next judge on Kaua’i. How do you think I did?
Wait! I'm innocent. I swear! I'm being framed... Heeeellllp me!
Whew. That was close - mommy came and saved me!
Okay Grandpa. Break it down for me. To be a Judge, I have to read ALL of these books behind me? Do they have pictures? I'm mostly working with books that have pictures these days...
Now this is what I'm talking about. This tastes ... powerful.
Seriously - let's get these puppies added to the baby registry. New. Favorite. Toy.
Be honest. How does this look?
What's that? I don't need to wear anything under this? Not even a diaper? Nice. I'm liking this judge deal!
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Family Picture - Week 22
We took some pictures for our holiday card. This one didn’t make the cut – Maile basically decided that she was “over” the holiday card thing… but don’t worry – we did get some good shots!
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After a brief delay due to Maile’s cold (she’s still got the sniffles, but doing just fine) – we decorated our Christmas tree tonight. Chris has all her ornaments going back to when she was born! She has one for each year – and they all have a story. Even though the Christmas tree isn’t a part of what I grew up with, I like the tradition – its a great way to remember the stories. I really look forward to when Maile is a bit older and Chris can tell her about her childhood as we put up the ornaments.
Here are some pictures we took as we decorated the tree…
Tell me again what we are doing tonight? Decorating a tree? Is this going to take long? Blue Monkey and I were in the middle of a pretty heated discussion when you pulled me over here...
Oh, I take that back - this looks interesting! Let me see Daddy...
Hmm ... hard to place the flavor. Smoother than plastic. Has a hint of musk - has this been in the basement for awhile?
Wait, that tasty ornament goes on the tree? Can you put it a little lower? Going to be hard for me to reach up there...
Mommy's famous - she's on one of the ornaments! She's 3 in this picture, a bit older than me, but I definitely think I look like her...
Here's the (almost) finished product - Maile's first Christmas tree! All that is left is to add a Maile ornament... coming soon!
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Family Picture - Week 21
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On Saturday, Mommy and Daddy took me to go Christmas Tree shopping. I always like looking at the trees when I go on my walks – this was even better. There were trees EVERYWHERE! We went to this big house looking place that was just full of trees. How fun would it be to live there? (Dad note: we were at the Festival Pavilion down by Fort Mason.)
Below are some pictures we took of our Christmas tree hunt – since its my very first Christmas tree, we took our time to find the perfect one…
I really like trees. I'm a bit overwhelmed here.
Daddy, I think we should pass on this one - I'm just not sure these branches are going to hold up well.
Mommy and me checking out the tree scene...
Daddy is helping me get a bird's eye view so I can spot the perfect tree for us...
So what did we end up with? Stay tuned!
TO BE CONTINUED…
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I don't know Mommy, this seems way less efficient then the bottle or your breast, but I'll play along if this is what you want...
At Maile’s 4 month check up, her doctor said we could start introducing “solid” foods sometime in the next month. We decided to wait until after the Thanksgiving travels and on Saturday Maile had her first non-milk meal!
Sort of.
Turns out that the first “solid” thing you introduce is rice cereal mixed with breast milk. I was expecting it to me be a bit more solid than it actually was – the initial mixture was 1 tablespoon of rice cereal and 4 tablespoons of milk.
Regardless, Maile couldn’t get enough of it. I’m not sure how much of the cereal actually made it into her stomach, but she sure had a lot of fun with the whole eating experience. Check out the video below (with appropriate musical accompaniment, of course 😉
For now we are going to be giving Maile one “solid” meal a day – which is a good thing, because it takes awhile and is definitely messier than her milk only feedings!
(Click here for the video.)
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