Friday, September 29, 2006

sick baby...

Joey has a throat infection! He is miserable, cranky and has a high fever but I have been giving him calpol and the doctor gave us some antibiotics this morning. (I took him to the paediatrician this morning because he was running a fever last night and although he didn`t have any other symptoms, I thought I had better get him checked out. It is a good job I did because the doctor said he has a very red throat so the poor baby must have been in pain!) He doesn`t have much of an appetite but he has been the fruit juice lollies I made with the moulds Mum bought for me over the summer. I can hear him starting to wake up now so I had better go but I wanted to post some recent photos as I realise I haven`t done so in a while. I hope you are all well, I will post some more videos soon as well!

Walking in the big slippers.

After the summer of trying to wear my Mum`s slippers, he finally succeeded with the balcony slippers! Now he wears all of our shoes... I am a bit concerned because his favourite ones are my bright pink sandals.. although they are extremely comfortable which might be why!!

Mummy and Daddy time


Print club 4
Originally uploaded by MurasakiMidori.

Eating yoghurt all by himself!


Eating yoghurt while watching TV


Thursday, September 14, 2006

Joey and Souta

Last week my friend Mihoko came over with her son Souta who is 2 days older than Joey (see the post below) and I cam across these pictures of when joey and Souta first met when they were a couple of weeks old:


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It is hard to believe Joey`s legs were ever that skinny!!!


Here is another couple of videos of them playing last week:


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Very slack lately...

But I have finally gotten around to uploading some recent footage of Joey. This is him in the pool in Malaysia:


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and this is him playing with his friend Souta who is 2 days older (but about 4 kilos lighter!!) As you can see, Joey is a bit of a nutcase!!!


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I have just taken advantage of some free time (Joey is asleep and Daisuke is at the gym) to upload hundreds of pictures into my dropshots account. They date back to 2004. I figured that as I was paying to be a star member I should take advantage of the unlimited storage and give my hard-drive a break!!

The link is:
Lots of photos and I am not exagerrating when I said HUNDREDS of pics!!! There are even some of us PRE-Joey.. the question is, do we look any different!?! ;-)

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Random Joey update.

As I posted on my personal blog, I have been feeling really sad lately because of all the tragic events I have been seeing on the news. I wanted to remind myself how lucky I am by posting a Joey update on here!! I took Joey to the doctor`s yesterday because he has a cold (runny nose and congestion in his chest but no serious wheezing yet, touch wood.) and they weighed him- he weighs 13.6 kilos (almost 30lbs) now!!! It is really interesting to see his personality develop, so far I have concluded that my son is outgoing (he never seems to shy away from people), strong (trying to get things away from him if he doesn`t want to give things up is a mission!!), athletic (climbing on the table is his new favourite thing to do) and he has a great sense of humour. He cracks me up alot lately because when we are laughing about something, he will join in with the joke and put his hand over his mouth and let out a big guffaw of a laugh. I have to try and get it on video one day because it really is adorable.

He is somewhat less adorable when he is throwing a tantrum because I won`t let him do something. I have always been anti- spanking and I am currently trying to find alternative ways of disciplining him but I am ashamed to admit that I have tapped him on the hand from time to time when my reprimands fail to work for the fiftieth time. I think he gets the stubborness from his father but I have heard that I was a bit of a handful as a child as well so who knows!?! ;-)

We are still having issues with his sleeping habits but I am somewhat resigned to them for now as it is going to take a change in my psyche to actively do something about it and I don`t have the strength to make him CIO or anything like that. I think it is time to re-read some of my sleep-training books! LOL! Before I do that though, I might take advantage of the fact he is asleep and take a nap myself!!

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Joey looking pensive


Joey looking pensive
Originally uploaded by MurasakiMidori.

Joey and Saori


Joey and Saori
Originally uploaded by MurasakiMidori.

Saori and joey


Saori and joey
Originally uploaded by MurasakiMidori.
Joey is big but Saori makes him look ginormous!

Sakurajima from Rte 10


Sakurajima from Rte 10
Originally uploaded by MurasakiMidori.

Joey playing in the water at Dolphin Port