Trying to be a ghost or trying to wear Mama’s skirt? You decide…
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Our Little Chatterbox
Mio is quite the talker these days, and has been babbling a lot in her own language. She also tends to make some really loud, dinosaur-like noises (at times guttural, at times screechy), often conveniently while in public, just enough to embarrass us… awesome.
Here she is, rattling off the other afternoon.
Call Me Maybe
Mio was playing with her toy phone. The song was playing. It was too perfect; I couldn’t resist.
A little early for the teen melodrama, isn’t it?
Mio the Stairmaster
We don’t have stairs at our home back in California, but the rooms we’re staying in at my parents’ house is on the second floor. Since the first day we got to Virginia, Mio has been a pro at climbing the stairs, despite not having had any stairs to practice on in the past. I guess all the table-climbing made her a natural at tackling stairs… Of course, I always hover from behind to spot her and make sure she doesn’t tumble down. Here’s a video I took! (In retrospect, it probably would have been better to have it taken from the front, so you could see her face, but instead you get plenty of baby butt footage. Oh well… next time!)
Bowing Mio
I know I post almost every day about Mio, and most of you must be sick of hearing about her and seeing her… but she is constantly doing such interesting new things these days that I want to record it here, at least so that we can remember it ourselves. And of course, to show our doting family members who are too far away to see Mio all the time.
So here I am, sharing yet another video clip of our daughter. Lately, she likes to bring over items and hand them to us, and enjoys hearing us say “thank you, or when I speak Japanese to her, “arigato.” She often reacts to our thanks by lowering her head and burrowing her face in her hands in an “aww shucks” sort of way, as if she’s being bashful. We tried to capture it on video, but this time she ended up doing more of a bow of acknowledgment, as if to say “you’re welcome.” (I’m speaking to her in Japanese in the video, but the words are simple enough and you can get the general gist of what’s going on.) Without further ado, here’s yet another daily dose of Mio!