Halloween '08 Stills

Stillshots of Ren at Halloween 2008. This includes both the big Berwyn bash at Proska Park, plus actual trick or treating. Here are some favorites. She does look especially cute in this set, I must say:

Old Photos of Ren

Hi. Hiroko's always reminding me that we have lots of still photos of Ren that I always forget to share. Folks domestically might know how to surf my Flickr site and find them, but the certainly don't in Japan. Worse, a lot fo the time I forget to mark them public anwyay. So this week is picture week.

Here's a set of pictures of Ren from all last summer. Yes, it's been that long since I posted stillshots. Here's a few specific ones I like:











In the back of the last one, you can see me lounging in a t-shirt in the shade. Boy, I miss summer.

Ren on Halloween Night

More of Tiger Ren. We went up and down my block, visiting about ten houses. I kept striking up conversations with everyone, so I think it took us about 3 hours just to go this short distance. I video'ed Ren's very first trick or treat here, with my neighbor Kathy. I don't know if she was waiting specifically for us, but she sure was glad to see us.

It was a fun night. Ren at first of course had no idea what was going on, then figured out she was supposed to get stuff, then eventually figured out that it was candy. She kept trying to eat it through the wrapper.

Amusingly, in the second video she's caught on to the idea in reverse, and kept trying to give the lady her candy.

Ren at Berwyn Halloween Party

Hi. I haven't exactly been diligent in keeping up the videos and pics, have I? We have a huge backlog because I always forget to post. Lazy am I.

These two are from a huge Berwyn Halloween party. The Parks District converts Berwyn's largest park to a haunted forest, plus there's food, live music, pumpkins, hayrides, etc. Ren's costume is a tiger we got at a secondhand store. She loves it. Once when we were gone and a babysitter had Ren, she got it from her stored clothes and cried and cried until the babysitter put her in it.

Ren also loves dancing, as these two videos show...

Ren With Alphabet Toy

This is baby Ren around, oh, October or so, with an alphabet toy. You can get an idea of her language development here.

Ren Watches a Juggler

A whole bunch of new videos are coming. This one is from late November, when I took Ren to my office for a couple of hours. This video is of my buddy Dan, showing off his juggling skills for an appreciative baby. Dan knitted the balls himself.

Dan, now you're famous.

Ren knows her Japanese colors

So...this video isn't going to make a lot of sense if you don't speak Japanese.

What's amazing to me is this is only a couple months old. Nowadays Ren's learning more than a word a day and starting to string them together. Two or three weeks ago I could have listed all the words she knows, but now she keeps surprising me.