New Year's Card - 年賀状

If you found this blog you most likely got one of these in the mail. This is our New Year's card for 2010. In Japan nengajo, as they are called, are the equivalent of the American Christmas card. We wrote a note on the back in English for you all outside of Japan, but might be wondering what's that written on the front. So here's the translation.

今年は、新しく家族が増える予定です。これからも温かく見守っていて下さい。

means

This year our new family will grow bigger. From now please gently watch over us.

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

(If you can't see the Japanese characters you might want to take a look here to for instructions on how to install Asian fonts.)

December Photos

Here I am on December 12th. I'm moving around a lot. You can see my umbilical cord.

Here I am on December 16th. My first ultrasound picture.

Mommy Cleaned the Toilet

If you clean the toilet when your pregnant, you'll have a beautiful baby. So today Mommy cleaned the toilet

妊婦さんがおトイレの掃除をするとかわいい赤ちゃんがうまれてくると言う迷信があるんだって。そして、今日ママはおトイレ掃除をしました。

Photo by origamidon on flickr.

Daddy's sick and working hard

My Dad got pretty sick this weekend, but Mom helped him. Even though I was making her feel bad, she still brought Dad food and blankets. Dad was able to make our nen-ga-jyo today. It says my name on it! Wow!

今週末パパはかぜを引いたでも、ママ助けってあげた。ぼくはとても元気から、ママは気分が悪いだった。ママは我慢してパパに食べ物と毛布持ってあげた。今日パパ年賀状作りました！ぼくのなまえが書いている。やったー

My First Pictures! 初めての写真！

Here I am on October, 14th. I'm just a little dot! Here I am on October, 21st. Oh! There something there! Here I am November, 4th. Wow! You can see my head arms and legs now! Here I am November, 17th. I'm getting really big now. I'm moving around too! I'm 4.64cm long and my head is 1.64cm wide!

世界の皆さん、ヨロシク！

こんにちは！

ぼくはまだ名前がもらえてない。ぼくは男か女か、わからない。ニックネームはあるけど。ぼくはコグマちゃんです！

ママはパパのことを「くまちゃん」と呼ぶ。だから、ぼくは小さいクマです！

Hello World!

Hello everyone!

I'm not born yet. I don't even know if I'm a boy or a girl! I don't even have a name. My parents are thinking about that still. I do have a nickname. コグマちゃん. Koguma-chan in English. It means "small bear." You see, my mommy calls my daddy kuma-chan all the time. I think it's because he's big, hairy and a little stinky. Since he's the big bear, I'm the little bear and I like it!