Lara and Benjamin Playing Together

A short film clip of Benjamin and Lara, one of his favorite girl friends, playing together at Barnes & Noble book store (at its children's corner).

An elder girl (about 4 years old) and her little brother (about 1 year old) are in the video too. This girl was very friendly and very "big-sister-like", probably because she has a younger brother to look after :)





And this one (below) is another short film clip of Benjamin and Lara playing together - they are running and chasing after each other around the kitchen, so happily.

New Year Greetings

Giggling Benjamin on Christmas Day

Going for a walk with his brand-new winter jacket and hat, Christmas gifts from his grandparents in Japan, and new mittens from his Nanny

Walking in the snow

Hope you all had a happy Christmas day.

We had a great Christmas here, with Amar's Mom (AND Benjamin's Nanny) visiting us over Christmas.

Here is one short video clip from our Christmas Day - Benjamin playing "Inai Inai Ba" (= Japanese version of "Peek-a-boo") game with his Daddy and his favorite cuddly toy "Baa Baa Sheep".

Enjoy!




Some Christmas Photos...

Christmas Day Breakfast - Michiko's Sourdough Pancakes

Christmas Dinner - Roasted Chicken stuffed with ham, hazelnuts and herbs

Amar and Christine (Amar's Mom) did most of the cooking - umm, what a lucky wife I am!

New Trike, which turned out to become his best favorite Christmas gift (from Nanny)

Christmas gift from us parents was this Wooden Train Blocks (below). He loved this toy too!
(Look at his serious face :-)

The black object in front (in the photo above) is a Wooden miniature toy of London Taxi, from Grandad Colin and Grandma Kerry. Benjamin loved this AS WELL!!! Thank you!!

Morning Cuddle

Benjamin loves to cuddle his cuddly toys.
He always goes to bed with one or two (or sometimes even three!) of his favorite cuddly toys, and when he wakes up in the morning, the first thing he does is to find and cuddle his friends.

Banana!!

His favorite food - it is BANANAs.

Dancing Baby

Enjoy :-)

(Daddy is dancing on the other side of the camera - so you cannot see it in the video, but Benjamin is actually dancing with his daddy.)

Copycat Benjamin

Benjamin is such a copycat these days.
One of the funniest he has been copying lately is, "Ho-ne--y!!", as he copies the way Mommy tells off Daddy. So, when Mommy tries to tell off Benjamin, saying "Taku-chan!!", Benjamin says, "Ho-ney!" or "Da-ddy!" Apparently he thinks it's a game! (laugh and sigh;-)

Benjamin tries to play with a girl

Benjamin is now walking everywhere

These video clips were taken 10 days after he took his very "first steps" (see the previous post).

And boy, now he is walking everywhere on his own!!

　↑　He sees a dog off (says "wan-wan!" [= "bow-wow" in Japanese]) , and then he picks up something and brings it to me, saying "dozo" [="Here you are" in Japanese]. To that I answer, "Oh how sweet. Thank you very much. --- oops, it's some rubbish someone threw away."

　↑　He goes up the big hill all on his own.

　↑　He first tries to go down the hill, but he gets distracted by a bench. He climbs and crawls on that, and at the end of the bench he climbs down it very skillfully (>proud Mom ;-).

　↑　Now he goes down the hill and walks up to the play gym, where he finds other babies and kids playing. Nothing can stop him now, of course! :-)

Benjamin's first steps

Here are two video clips of Benjamin's first steps. (He had already walked his very first step the day before, to be exact, but I think we can call this "his first steps".

I took this video with my father's video camera, and it was not compatible with my mac computer. I uploaded this from my father's Windows computer, and for some reason the sound is lost in this uploaded video clips.

But I hope you will enjoy at least watching his tiny (but giant) first steps.