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On Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 9:11pm, my sister gave birth to my first nephew, Zachary Shawn Chau Zheng! He was 3 weeks early and completely ready to go! In fact, my sister didn’t even know she was in labor until the doctor told her at her 37 week checkup! Both baby and mommy are doing great! Welcome to the world, Zachary!Read More →

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Umbrella hamster: <Should we wake up baby hamster for the ceremony?> Teruteru hamster: <Oh! Oh! Oh! I wanna do it! I wanna do it!> Ajisai hamster: < SHHHHH!!!! Mommy said to be quiet! We don’t want to wake baby hamster up since it took daddy a long time to calm her down!> UH &TH: < awwww….that’s no fun!> AH: <*sigh*……boys……> Introducing the new hamsters…. (left to right) Picnic grandpa and Onigiri hamster (L to R) Teruteru hamster, Ajisai hamster and Umbrella hamster Welcome to the hamster clan!Read More →

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Wow, it’s my first real Mother’s Day!  How exciting! Flowers from my hamster kids 🙂 Technically, today wasn’t a very exciting day.  In fact, it was a very ordinary day with one exception…I had a lot of free time for myself!  It’s been so long since I’ve had a free moment to do whatever I want… I woke up really early this morning because Ellie was hungry.  After I fed her and put her down IN HER OWN CRIB (Yay!) I sat down and worked on my computer while both Ellie and Jason slept.  Other than the occasional feed, I was pretty much undisturbed allRead More →

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The Tokyo Mother’s Group had a special photo session day today for families who wanted to have their portraits taken professionally. It’s a nice deal because we didn’t have to pay the sitting fee and we had about 20 minutes for photos. Afterwards, in about a week or so, we can go online and check out the photos and if we see any we want, we can pay for them to be printed. As for the quality of the photos…well, I’d have to see the final product before I can judge how professional it looks. Overall the shoot went ok. All three of us weren’tRead More →

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Yay it is Golden Week! Technically, every week for me is golden week since I don’t work…but the best thing about golden week is that Jason has 5 days off…which means he will be home to help take care of Ellie! It also means he gets a little more face time with her since he doesn’t get to chill with her that often. Ellie’s starting to recognize me more now and would sometimes smile when she sees me. Her smile can really melt your heart and make you forget that you haven’t slept for more than 3 hours the night before. Ah, I love myRead More →

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Meet Ellie!….born March 4th, 2009 at 3:13pm after being in labor for eternity…..she weighed 2.75kg at birth.  Both Jason and I are super exhausted, especially since our first night with her was spent trying to make her stop crying as soon as we put her down.  I’m still in pain from the labor so hopefully I’ve recovered a bit more by the time we get discharged from the hospital. Posted via email from myorii’s posterousRead More →

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For the first time, the entire Hamster residence, Japan branch, is sick together at the same time. We’re pretty sure it’s just a simple cold but usually, one of us is healthy enough to care for the other. Not this time! It started out with Jason feeling unwell on Monday. Tuesday, he came home from work with a cough and a slight fever. I moved myself out into the living room sofa bed so I don’t get sick. Wednesday, he called in sick and I went to work and bought food to make chicken soup. Today, I woke up with a cough and a soreRead More →

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From hamster central… Homemade Christmas cake… Newest additions to the family…White hamster and Squeaky hamster!! Thanks, meems! And hamster cups!Read More →