These photos are from last Thursday, before we left on our weekend trip out of town. Check out Mio in full fabulous glory.
Already Fabulous…
Family and Friends
What more can you ask for in life? Cheers to good friends and family.
Meeting Anna
Our good friends Pat and Theo also had a baby girl in April, and we’ve been wanting to meet little Anna for a while now! Mio and I went to visit their beautiful family this past Sunday. It was Mio and Anna’s first playdate together, although they don’t really “play” so much as sleep, drink, and cry at this age. Still, it was really nice to see Pat and Theo again and share baby stories, and of course meet sweet baby Anna! I can’t wait for Mio and Anna to become friends in the future… 🙂
The next time we’ll see each other will most likely be during the winter holidays — I can’t wait to see how much they’ve both grown by then! 🙂
Smiling for Obaachan
Although Mio has been smiling for about a month now, her smiles have been few and far between. But since arriving in Virginia, she’s been smiling a lot for everyone, particularly for her obaachan (grandmother). 🙂
(She’s not smiling in these last couple ones, but I thought they were also cute grandmother-granddaughter moments… :))
Visitors for Mio
Mio is getting a lot of love in Virginia from not only family, but a lot of her Mommy’s friends, too! 🙂 Here are some of the wonderful people Mio has had the pleasure of meeting the past few days — she is such a lucky girl! 😀
On Friday, my best friend Debbie came to see Mio.
Our family friend had a baby in February, so we had a playdate with their daughter Junna-chan on Saturday.
Mio’s aunt Hyo (Dan’s sister) came down to visit from New York for the weekend, too!
My friend Stephanie came to meet Mio on Monday evening!
Today, Mio and I took the Metro to visit our friends Lan and Mie and their adorable sons! I forgot my camera so I couldn’t take many photos, but here are a couple that I took on my phone.
Mio is so lucky to be showered with so much love while we’re back East. We still have a little over a week left in Virginia, but we’ve already had so much fun making great memories with everyone here.
Mio Arrives in Virginia
Mio and I arrived in Virginia early Thursday morning, exhausted. Mio cried inconsolably for about fifteen minutes towards the beginning of the overnight flight, and although it was only fifteen minutes, it was the longest fifteen minutes of my life. I’m still uncertain about what was wrong with her, since I made sure to nurse her during takeoff and landing to make sure she didn’t get ear pressure problems. She slept for the last three hours of the flight, though, but I couldn’t sleep because I was afraid she’d slide off of my lap. The cabin of the plane was really hot, too, which made for a very uncomfortable five hours. Boy, was I relieved when we finally landed at Dulles Airport…. When we got to my parents’ house in Vienna, we just slept for several hours through the morning.
Mio got to meet some new members of Mommy’s family this time — my father, sister Miwa, and brother Kosei were all seeing her for the first time.
I’m really happy to be back home in Virginia and am looking forward to the next two weeks that we’ll be spending here. We hope to spend a lot of time with family and friends, and just relax and enjoy our time here. It’s definitely summer here — hot and humid! I actually kind of missed the humidity of the Mid-Atlantic region, since this is the type of summer weather I grew up with!