My Days with a Baby!

June 29 is our wedding "ceremony" anniversary. We had our marriage registered on April 29, 2002 and had our wedding ceremony two months later.

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Koudai has two friends, although he might not recognize that. They were born around the same time as Koudai. We met them through one of the community gatherings for new mothers.

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There are three IKEA stores in Japan. Although I'm a big fan of IKEA, the first two stores are too far for me to go. Therefore, I was very excited when I heard the third one would be located in my town.

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Koudai cut his first two bottom teeth at about seven months, and his two upper front teeth are now starting to erupt.

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Recently, my husband and I have been trying to teach Koudai to wave his hand as good-bye.

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My baby has not yet come to understand when I scold him. My face or voice may not be scary enough. He even looks delighted to get my full attention. Even though I yell at him with my scariest voice, he smiles at me.

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When my baby started to roll over, I put away small items in the living room so that he didn't put them into his mouth and I could let him move freely.

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I went out to have lunch with some of my friends today. There were five adults in total, and two of them brought their daughters.

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I thought babies slept a lot. My mother says I slept all the time and she had to make sure from now and then if that I was breathing. It might be a difference between baby boys and baby girls, but my baby does not like sleeping as much as his mother did.

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There are four rooms in my apartment: the living room, the kitchen, a bedroom, and another small room. The living room and the kitchen are connected, but I have put a baby-gate between them. These two rooms are separated from the other rooms by a door.

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My husband and I watched "風の谷のナウシカ" this evening, which I recorded two nights ago.

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When I was working, I was always waiting for weekends. As a full-time housewife, I am now even more eagerly waiting for weekends.

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May baby (we call him Daifuku) has been having has had a runny nose for a while.

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I had a dental appointment today, so my mother came over to my place to take care of my baby.

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The other day, I bought a small rubber ball to play with my baby. Until yesterday, every time I rolled it to him, he just picked it up and started licking. "Give that ball to mommy, please?", but he was busy figuring out how to chew the sphere.

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I brought my baby to a hospital to get him a nine-month check-up.

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I went to a golf driving range today. It was my second time. Until a few weeks ago, I never thought about playing golf myself. Basically, I do not like playing sports and, furthermore, it seemed to me that golf was a sport for rich businessmen.

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