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These past 2 weeks have been rough for us.  A lot of that revolved around E and her current temperament. First, we’ve been working on sleep training her.  It’s been hard since she’s use to sleeping in our bed with us most of the night and moving her to her crib has not been an easy one.  She also does not self-soothe well.  E is use to sucking to sleep and not with a pacifier.  Well, I am her pacifier which does not work for me since I technically don’t get any sleep when she is sucking on me. We’ve tried pretty much all theRead More →

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Recently I signed up for an online blogging class.  It’s not so much that I need to learn how to blog since I’ve been doing it for a long time now (6 years maybe?).  I did it to help stimulate my thoughts and to get me to blog more often since I have a tendency to go days and weeks without a single post. I’m about 2 weeks behind on the prompts that were given and since it’s a self paced class, I figure I can just catch up on those on some other days…. Anyway, today’s prompt is about looking back in time toRead More →

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I had wanted to share the post labor story since it’s different how they handle it here in Tokyo than in the US.  Sorry it took so long to get it out. So….in Japan, almost all hospitals let you stay for a week after you give birth.  I think a lot of it has to do with preparing you for motherhood as well as letting you rest and recover from the birthing experience.  Plus they can do all the checkups and whatnots with the baby.  In theory, that’s a great idea since you can rest and enjoy your baby with the nurses helping you beforeRead More →

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Living in Japan, we’re bound to experience a few tremors here and there. Tonight, we had a semi big one. It’s Ellie’s first earthquake experience. How do I define semi-big, you ask? When the tremors last more than 10 seconds and it is shaking hard enough that the sliding doors are banging together and making loud noises.  Besides, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, it was a 6.9 magnitude earthquake out in the ocean just south of Tokyo. We had one tiny one when I was still pregnant and it just made the sliding doors shake a little but nothing major. Tonight, the shaking actuallyRead More →

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*Warning: the word boob appears quite frequently* I’m starting to feel tired of breastfeeding. Don’t get me wrong, I love to breastfeed E. I’ve put so much effort into it when I first began and I’ve been through hell just to get it to work that I’m very determined to breastfeed her for as long as I can. But breastfeeding is starting to wear me out. Ever since my parents came to visit and then left, E has been acting unlike herself. She is more clingy to me and has slight stranger anxiety. She tends to cry or fuss when Jason holds her or whenRead More →

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Poor Ellie…. She caught her first cold last weekend.  At first we thought it was teething because she was coughing a little bit.  We had read that sometimes teething has cold-like symptoms and since she was extra cranky that weekend, we had assumed it was because of a tooth.  I even took her to the doctor (not her usual pediatrician but a GP) who couldn’t find anything wrong with her. Then on Thursday morning, she slept in really late and was still coughing except this time with the sound of phlegm.  This is what I ended up waking up to and spending the day with.Read More →

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Ellie HAS to be teething. It’s the only reason we can think of as to why she is drooling sooooo much. Just look at all the dribbling she is doing! (you can’t see it as clearly in this picture but her chin is covered in drool) And to make matters more fun, she loves to stick her hands in her mouth, then rub it all over mommy’s shoulder, neck and chest.  Guess she’s just sharing the love…. And just because she can, she will blow bubbles at you.Read More →

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It’s really amazing how time flies by these days… E is now 4 months!  Now that Jason is back on day shift, we have started putting her in her crib for bedtime around the same time everyday and pretty much always after a bath.  We have to mix it up a little sometimes though.  She caught on the routine pretty quickly and knew what the bath meant so we’re trying to mix it up a little. It’s still a battle everyday getting her to take the nap that I know she really wants but refuses to take.  She cries and she fusses but eventually sheRead More →