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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.”   K really loves to eat baby puffs and has learned to eat them from a bowl. E enjoys helping her out by putting more puffs in her bowl for her. This was before K decided she wanted to turn her bowl upside down and pour the snacks out. I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year! We’ve had a busy day today, one that I will share in a later post since it deserves a post of its own. But it was a day of celebration with wonderful friendsRead More →

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” This week I have separate portraits of the girls, both of them on the only couch that we own in our little living room. K’s portrait is taken during the weekday when we are home together. She’s always crawling around without pants even though it’s cold in the apartment. E’s portrait was taken on the weekend after we got home from brunch. She’s wearing a Cinderella-like dress around the apartment a lot on the weekends. These days, K is super active and interactive with us. She’s also got a lot of opinions forRead More →

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” E and K wanted to take a sister selfie while on the bus so I obliged because it kept them busy. These days, Both E and K have little patience and get really bored during our bus ride home from school. It’s only 15 minutes but sometimes it feels a lot longer especially when they decide to fight and get into a screaming match often when the bus is at a red light. It’s times like those that I wish I could drive in Tokyo. At least all the screams and crying willRead More →

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” E: Wanted a hug from Jason. K: Wants to chew on everything these days. This was taken on the 3rd of January at the Denny’s in our neighborhood. We had originally planned on having brunch at Coco’s in another part of town but there was a really bad fire that happened in Yurakucho (2 stations away) which shut down the trains for a few hours so we came here instead. We found out how bad the situation was when we got home. A building next to the train lines (one we passed byRead More →

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“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” Portrait 00: E and K: Early morning shenanigans on our bed. This was taken in the last week of December 2013 during our trip to California for the holidays. I’m currently debating on how I want to wrap up 2013 and update all the going-ons from most of last year. There’s so much to cover and so many ways to approach it but I haven’t quite figured out how I want to do it yet. Or if I even want to do anything too elaborate. Then, there’s also giving closure to my oneRead More →

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If you can take only one picture, what would you capture? This was a question that a speaker had asked us at one of the lectures I attended a few weeks ago. It’s an interesting question especially since we live in a time where digital cameras make it possible for us to take limitless amounts of photos. I almost feel as if the ease of the digital age has made us think less about what and how we want to capture something because you can just keep taking a photo until you get the right one. I also find it quite thought provoking because youRead More →

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It’s no secret that I’m a photographer of some sort…at least in an academic sense. Still, I love to document things I see and experience through my lens everyday. So it’s no big surprise that E picked up on that interest and wants to be like me. Now I’m all for fostering my child’s interest in learning and exploring new things. I just don’t want to do it with my cameras because, frankly, they are nice cameras and E has butter-fingers. I use to let her play with my Fujifilm instax a lot but she kept dropping it due to the weight and she alsoRead More →