Status report

No pictures today, but for my English speaking readers, a little report.

I am having killer round ligament pain compounded by BK's desire to
grind his head into my back while I have braxton hicks contractions.
Translation: I'm very uncomfortable and waddle.

On the plus side my doc is going to wait until 007 is back to induce.
While the crunchy granola part of me abhors the idea, I am very
relieved that I may get my husband by my side. I just have to cross
my legs real tight for a week. I never thought I'd say this, but
please pray for a late baby.

Not much else, I think I'm going to get some garlic bread now. Thank
you grandma!

Do you want play-doh with that?

As we were cooking dinner tonight we weren't paying enough attention to Edamame and he decided to help....

by putting play-doh in the eggs for the omelette.  He just wanted to help, all of us of course busted up laughing.  Poor kid.

Ok a couples of funny phrases coming from him:

'margles' = marbles

'bunny cookies' = Lebkuchen(the almonds look like bunnies)

Plus some pictures from daddy's iPhone

watching TV


eating at the golden arches.

No news, except for a bunch of false starts including a trip to the hospital this morning.  Still nothing.

I LOVE PINK

Ok, so I don't, but I know someone who does!

We took grandma to Costco today, to see what it looks like with a Japanese flavor to it.  While there she and Edamame discovered this.  Can you tell he's excited to be sitting in it?

other than that, just sitting tight, we're going to be doing a test drive to the hospital on Tuesday, so that Grandma knows how to get there too.

Hope everyone is having a splendid New Year!

Still alive...

...and getting kicked.

As promised, to make this whole blogging experience more fun, pictures!  First a trip down memory lane.  With grandma in town and a new baby on the way, it is time to reminisce about Edamame's beginnings.

Let me explain, fruit here comes with it's own little plastic thingy around it.  After many a sleep deprived night and on a fruit high, we decided to put a pear cozy on his head.  

Fast forward 2.5 years and you'll get a similar result, only this time with a melon cozy.


He's been a busy boy, and we try to keep him that way.  He also entertains himself with large block buildings.  Look at the concentration!

Though at dinner time, Play-doh was once again the winner, and Edamame kept telling me that I was finished with dinner and needed to come and play. "Say gochisosama deshita mommy!  You all done!"

...and what post would be complete without the fun new duds we recieved!  Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa N!  It may not look it from the picture, but Edamame was super excited to put the sweatshirt on.  Brass Knuckles will look super cute(and stay warm in out 45 degree house) in his threads too.

Brass Knuckles is moving in painful new ways, but is still staying where it is warm.  He's got 1 more day to come out, or else he has to wait until 007 gets home from CES.  EEK!

Grandma-claus is coming to town!

Yep,

Grandma is in town.  We're having lots of fun, and Edamame is totally obsessed with play-do right now(thank you Tenna and Andi!).  In baby news, after a VERY hard struggle, we've finally picked an English name.  We've been working on it of 22 weeks.  Now to find a Japanese name.  Then he can come out.  I'll try to take pictures soon, but right now I'm just trying to get my house in order.

To dispel the rumors.

I've gotten some comments about our Christmas card, which although I very much appreciate, I still feel the weird need to make sure people know the whole truth.  We took our Christmas picture about a month ago, so if you want to see what I *REALLY* look like now...here it is.



Hope everyone had a lovely day!  We sure did, it was even nice and warm.  Today on the other hand is FRICKIN' cold, and due to get colder.  Though I shouldn't complain after hearing about what is going on on the west coast.  Boy am I glad we didn't travel this year(though I'm bummed about missing all the after Christmas sales, especially with the awesome yen-dollar exchange rate right now).

Christmas Prep and Party

We've been busy, but finally everyone is healthy, the presents have been opened, and this baby can be born(he was super busy last night, I swear he was having a going away dance party in utero).  I'll take you on a photographic journey of the last few days.

This was right before Edamame got sick.  One of the big kids down the street got a new bicycle for his birthday/Christmas so we inherited his old bike.  Edamame can't do anything but roll on it, but he LOVES it.

Here we are in the throes of recovery.  He was almost all better, so it was time to make Obaachan a bookmark for Christmas.
Someone was definitely having fun.

This morning we were still a little groggy when we started eating breakfast.

One of Edamame's stocking stuffers was a toy pink camera.  We missed the OHHHHH face he made when he saw it, but we did get a shot of him taking pictures.  After he opened a present he'd take a picture of it.  No matter what it was, it got it's picture taken.  The biggest hit of the day was the lego duplo zoo.  We couldn't seem to interest him in opening any other presents, and had to open them for him.

The tunnel was definitely very much appreciated though.
Hope everyone has a lovely day!