Here are the pictures that I promised, a little before schedule even. There are a lot of pics in here, taken from Nov. 18th till recently. Yes that date does sound familiar: It was Kai’s birthday.
Besides the B-day photos, there are pictures from Thanksgiving Vacation back in the Hamptons and also a trip we recently took to Boston.
I have a lot of pictures to get up and on the flickr site, but for now these will have to suffice. Kai has been doing this new thing where all he wants to do is “Talk Talk Talk.” His favorite thing to talk about, in case you didn’t already know, is Obama: Obama Car, Obama Juice, and even Obama’s Mama.
He does this ridiculously cute thing where if you ask him what his favorite (insert noun, e.g. movie) is, he will respond with “Obama movie.” It is sort of indistinguishable in his speech, because he slurs it a little, but that is exactly what he is trying to say. I do not know how he even picked it up. Maybe it was all the hoopla over the election. Kai is always thinking.
When you ask him who his favorite politician is, he will respond with Obama’s Chin-Chin, because he can’t pronounce “politician” correctly; this actually means something pretty funny in Japanese. I will leave it to you all to translate it.
Kai is gearing up for the move back home: making sure he will be able to impress everyone with his mastery of two completely different languages. This is for all of you who have asked if he can speak any English yet.
P.S. Thanks Brian for the wonderful, ever singing “Leap.”
Update: Fixed the Video of Kai dancing. Sorry about that, it accidentally got deleted.
So this past weekend we were able to get out for a nice dinner at our favorite restaurant. This was of course in celebration of our 2 year wedding Anniversary, which was a month prior to our date out. It took sometime to secure a babysitter, but Kai had a wonderful time, as did me and Aya. My friends were completely surprised at how much Kai ate for dinner: 2.5 bananas, lots of grapes, some baby food and some baby snacks to boot (this is normal for Kaizilla.)
I have some pics of the night out and a couple of the Kai-man playing around with his cars aka Ba-ba’s. Although recently he’s been saying “car” and “truck,” better than most Japanese people.
We also have this funny video of Kai doing one of his many dances. This is from a children’s TV show, with Aya singing in the background.
This is just what we did last weekend. Had a little day out at the department store with Aya’s family, and then also went to the immigration office to change my Visa over to a Spouse one.
This is Kai playing with what could have been considered his first girlfriend. This cute little girl ran right up to him and was playing with him the whole time we were at the Immigration office. At one point Kai went to lean in and kiss her (with a little encouragement from mom and dad), but she was embarrassed and ran off.
This other video is Kai just laughing and playing again with the cute little girl.