Ani's newest adventures

So Grandpa Ura came to visit this weekend from Indiana. She also enjoyed her first stroller ride around the mall. She is already a fabulous window shopper - God help us when she becomes a vocal side-kick to shopping outings, anything bright, sparkly, with moving parts, you name it she's excited.

On a developmental note, Ani is now regularly holding objects and moving them towards her mouth. Sadness does reign however when the said object moves unintentionally rapidly towards her face and whacks her - thank goodness she has a hard head.

Ani also attended her first (of what will undoubtedly be many) iron pour Friday. Don't be alarmed as she donned all the appropriate safety gear (picture coming soon)

And finally - Grandpa Stedman came over to the condo to help Ani with her first construction project: installation of new sliding mirrored closet doors. Ani, by the way, is a whiz with the cordless drill - she definitely takes after her mother in this regard.

Chiemi, Ian and Ani

100 day photo

Suzanne and Ross came to visit this weekend and helped us with Ani's 100th Day photo shoot. Chiemi tells me that this is a celebratory day, i will talk more about the meaning of these pictures as soon as i have all the right information. I just wanted to let y'all see a few of the pictures since i had time to post.

more 100 day pictures coming soon

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

Hey Everyone,

For some reason that i do not know, some of y'all were receiving all the photos

(and that unnamed person posted them all over facebook so it seemed like i loved that person most and only choose to share my daughter with that person)

don't worry, I'm not going to name any names

On the other hand others were not receiving photos no mater how many times they e-mailed me and called me and asked me to resend, again and again and again.

So to solve this issue i had a few people suggest that i just start a blog and y'all can go and check it out whenever you like. I will updated it with new pics and stories instead of sending them out by e-mail. Also this will give y'all the chance to post and reply not to mention you will now be able to see the comments that others say.

I have posted every e-mail and picture from day one including this one.

take care

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(Originally 04/11/2010)

(origanlly 04/11/2010)

Hey All,

Well Ani has had an exciting two weeks, First Easter came and we enjoyed it early at Grandma Ura's home. Ani received some very nice dresses from the Easter bunny along with a porcelain figurine of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle from the Beatrix Potter series about Peter rabbit. Also Ani received a soft covered book from Aunt Linda that the Easter bunny accidentally left in Ohio that Aunt Linda was nice enough to ship down. Later on at Grandma Ura's Ani had her picture taken inside her basket since she actually fits in it this year and sat in a patch of flowers that made her cry. (kinda scratch)


The next day Yaya and Grandpa Fred came, Easter Day.

To say that Ani is more than lucky to have 3 sets of Grandparents is an understatement - 3 Easters... (sorry Chiemi took over the computer)

While they visited Uncle Todd (Ian's Brother) came over and met his niece for the first time and then was kind enough to help Fred, Chiemi and I work in the yard for a while. Later that evening we enjoyed our Easter dinner on the back porch and Ani was lucky enough to have a real life bunny come and visit her on Easter. It stayed for about 20 minutes and snaked on our garden while we ate dinner. Ani Received a porcelain mug with a gold rim that has images of Peter Rabbit on it, a duck that quacks to several different songs along with multiple Easter themed gifts.

Monday evening Grandpa Alan and Me-maw Lori came over and brought Ani her Easter basket and visited with her for a bit, (on a side note- No one ever comes to the house to see me any more)
and brought Ani (yep you guessed it) her Easter basket. Ani got an organic bunny rabbit and TONS AND TONS OF CANDY. I ate the candy.

On a non holiday note Ani has officially laughed once for Chiemi which happened first) and once for me. We later that week we drove to Knoxville Tennessee and Ani got to enjoy a 4 hour drive in the car, along the way Ani experienced her first convenience store, Her first Hotel, Her first Liquidation sale, her first Health department, and on the drive home her first Tank. a tank you ask? We drove alongside an Army Tank that was being hauled down the Hwy on the back of a semi, Ani was asleep but i thought it was cool so i mentioned it.


after we returned home Chiemi decided that she wanted to get a mirror so she can see Ani while driving so as soon as we arrived back in Ga we went straight to Baby's R us (i Live at this store).

we will wright again soon

Love yall

Ian, Chiemi and Ani.

all the pics wouldnt fit so more are coming

(originally 03/30/2010)

At the office today Ani and Chiemi had there photo taken so that it could be posted on the Joy of Motherhood billboard at Grady Hospital

(Originally 03/28/2010)

(originally 03/28/2010)
Morning all

This week we started off by visiting Grandma Gerry and Janne (Ian's Grandma and Aunt). Ani is soon approaching her 3 month old mark, and she is growing nicely. She is now moving in circles on her own while laying on her tummy and we expect her to start rolling over in the next couple of weeks. Chiemi is starting to learn how to use her new camera so from this day forth all the pictures you get may not be in color.

we will send more soon

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(Origanally 03/21/2010)

Hey All,

This weekend Aunt Linda (Chiemi's Aunt) came in to town and visited with us and met Ani for the first time. This week Ani got a new toy bouncer that she seems to enjoy also we have seemed to have progressed from bouncing to Jumping.

Bouncing instructions:

1. Place child in the seated position on your left hand while holding the back of her neck or back with your right hand.
2. Briskly move the child up and down from leg to leg as if the child was bouncing on her butt.
3. When her butt strikes your leg listen to make sure hear the sound of her breath escaping from her body, it should sound like a soft panting.
4. If while doing step 3 you notice that you are knocking the breath out of my daughter please stop immediately.
5. Make sure you read step 4
6. Continue to bounce till your arms become numb



Jumping Instructions:

1. Seat the child on your lap facing away from you.
2. Place your hands under her armpits and grip her upper torso. Your grip should be smaller to holding a Giant Hamburger.
3. Out of curiosity how many of yall stopped reading and pretended to bite in to a large burger.
4. After step 2 apply enough pressure to lift the child in to the air.
5. Be sure you are not applying to much pressure that you could crush her little ribs, if you find that you are applying to much pressure please stop immediately.
6. If you find that you are not applying enough pressure and the child keeps slipping from your hands please go back to playing the Bouncing game as previously instructed.

We will be sure to take more pictures this week and get them out to everyone soon

Love
Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(Originally 03/13/2010)
Hey all

Ani went to the Pediatrician on Wednesday and everything is looking great. Ani now weighs 8lbs 10oz she is small but perfectly healthy. I was worried about her weight for a while but the doc told me that she is just a small baby and we don't need to fatten her up. Also Ani has had a bit of a Growth spurt and is now 23 inches long that means she is in the 75th percentile for her age (she very long). She smiles at us regularly and mimics us at times also. We love to play the open and close mouth game. Its real easy and yall can play it at home with your spouse or neighbor.

Open Mouth Game
1. have player one open their mouth then player two mimics them and opens theirs.
2. player one close their mouth and player two mimics again.
3. repeat till player one is tired of playing or player two falls asleep or crys.


Ani is still enjoying rides in the car and is now starting to like her stroller, this is nice because we can now go on walks and not have to carry her for the last half. not much else has happened this week Ive attached a few pics so yall can see how she is doing.

take care

love

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(Originally 02/28/2010)

(originally 02/28/2010)
Sorry for the Delay everyone

this week has been a bit hectic, not much sleeping and lots and lots of feeding. Hopefully their will be a growth spurt soon. As of today Ani weighed in a 8lbs 4oz and on the 8th of March she will be going in for her 2 month visit tot the doctor.

hope all is well

ian, chiemi and ani

Power Punch

(originally 02/07/2010)
Just thought i would send out some more pictures, also this is the first week Ani has not had to visit the doctor.

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(originaly 01/29/2010)
Hey everyone,

Well this week has been a bit hectic, Ani hasn't been gaining as much weight as we and the Pediatrician would like so we saw a lactation consultant that informed us that our daughter has a posterior tongue tie. What this means is that she is unable to lift her tongue to the roof of her mouth. While this problem does not affect bottle feeding babies, breast fed babies are a totally different issue. The tongue tie stops the tongue from forming the correct shape to extract the right amount of milk. Furthermore you should know that Ani was not starving or withering away she was just maintaining her weight and due to this correction and a new feeding schedule she in now gaining weight.

Other news, Ani has started using her hands to hold in her pacifier and bottle, though she doesn't grab them she uses her arm and hand as a way if stopping things from falling our of her mouth.

not much else is happening but we will keep yall up to date.

love yall

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

more

more pictures are coming soon

Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(original date 01/23/2010)
Hey everyone,


Well Friday was an adventure ( not really ). Friday morning we went to the pediatrician to check Ani's weight and she has gained two ounce so we are not up to 6Lbs 11oz. The goal is to get to 7lb 3oz by next Friday.

After the Peds visit we headed over the the Auditory center where we learned that Ani has perfect hearing. The good thing about perfect hearing is the comfort that we arn't the only one that has to listen to her cry at night.

Not much else is going on but ill be sure to keep everyone updated we will also be taking more pictures soon.

love
Ian, Chiemi and Ani

(original date 01/08/2010)
Morning,

Well it happened, wasn’t expecting it to happen exactly on the due date but I’ll take it.

We thought we would send out a few quick photos so y’all could see what we are getting ourselves into.

We will call later tonight hope all is well and please drive safe the roads are crazy.

Love y’all

Chiemi, Ian and Ani


(p.s. Any one else notice that Ani is just Ian all jumbled up.)