Some More Pictures

I'm just going to blow the dust off the blog for a moment and post a new set of pictures. Share and enjoy.

I'm doing this without too much commentary just to get the record out there. But what you'll see in here includes:

1. Various pictures of Ren about the house.
2. Pictures of what Mr. Lion did while Hiroko was out of town, and Mr. Lion and I were alone in the house. He was a little naughty and partied a lot, as you see.
3. Pictures of the day I took Ren to work when there was a company picnic.
   

A couple short Ren vids

I have this awesome video of Ren laughing that's on the camera. Maybe I'll transfer it over thie weekend.

In the meantime, here's the first video I have of Ren smiling.


Also, here's a vid of her very favorite activity, sucking on her fist. She regularly get her whole outfit wet doing this.

Lots of mental firsts for Ren

Hiya,

Last weekend was very active for Ren! There were so many first I'm not sure I can remember them all.

• She laughed for the first time. I can induce it when I grab her and smile and laugh and tickle. Sometimes she'll make a big guffaw, and she makes lots of big smiles now. It remains nearly impossible to get anything on film though. As soon as the camera starts rolling, she watches it and forgets everything else.
• She's noticed there's sometimes a couple white blobs in her field of vision, which she can shake around. When her fists wander into her view, she'll drop whatever she's doing to stare at them for a moment.
• She has officially reached out to bop at a toy.
• She is aware of smaller things in her field of view. Specifically, she is now aware of Mr. Lion. He is extremely please by this development.

She continues to be for the most part an easy and fun baby. We are pleased.

Okay then, picture time!
Here's what mom looks like when dad comes home:


Ren's #1 favorite pastime, the fist suck:


Why use that bland old formula when there's White Castle vanilla shake?:


And of course, in honor of opening day, Ren showing off her true colors:


That's right, I say get 'em started on the trail to misery early!

Another video

Heya,

I've gotten busy/lazy, so I'm just going to quickie-post this (late) with little comment. I did get a bunch more short videos, including a vid of a good, big smile, which I'll post sometime soon.

Two new pictures.

Nothing special, just a couple pictures I wanted to share. Cute, no? Tomorrow, another video.

Some Updates

In the three weeks since I last posted, Ren has developed a lot. She regularly smiles and notices everything around her now, and she "speaks up", making a lot of noises that aren't crying. She turns her head a lot to look at things she finds interesting, and even holds her head up for short stretches. She's still not really making shaped sounds. She's going to bed a little earlier at night and staying asleep (sometime between 9-10:30), only getting up once during the night. There's an hour every night when she's pretty upset right before bedtime, but generally she's very easy and a joy.

She's gotten very used to bath time. Last night we bathed her and she never made a sound the entire time.

I have a couple videos to post and a couple pictures this week. I've taken lots of videos, trying to demonstrate her noises, or fist sucking, or smiles, but it's frustratingly hard to do. Most of her activity is while she is in our arms, and other times it's like she senses the camera and decides to stop.

Here is a great video of Ren with the hiccups. It also features her kicking constantly. She'll be riding a bicycle soon, for sure!

Another Video of Ren with Mobile

This video is at an angle. I don't have any software to fix this. I think I'm recording about three videos for every one that's useable, but that's not the primary task of a digital camera, after all.

Just to let you know in advance, nothing happens in this video (unless you count a lot of flailing of arms and sticking out of the tongue). but she sure is cute, anyway.

A big first: Ren now will track large objects. In particular, my head. This is somehow greatly pleasing and amusing to me. I like to move my head to the left and watch her drift over to track me, then back to the right, and so forth. This entertains me for about an hour. But as I've said in other posts, we don't have cable.