February Fun!!!

Okay! Last post was January 31st Kazumi's birthday but it was more like a blurb than anything. So let's go over more events now.

Hmm? I will probably forget a bunch of stuff, so if I do sorry.

First about each of us starting with Loa.

Loa has been getting better at making recognizable sounds. Besides "Nomu" (drink in Japanese) and "Mam-ma" which is baby talk in Japanese for food. He has a book with animals and he can pretty much make all the animal sounds from birds, dogs, cats, gorilla's and snakes.

But there is one we all have an issue with. What kind of sound does a turtle make? I've been cheating and making the the fish sound which is just the bubbles popping sound but he hasn't accepted that since he knows what fish look like and their sound.

My next attempt will be probably try to get him to do sounds or phrases from the turtle Crush from "Finding Nemo". Kinda your typical California surfer like "Hey Dude!" We will see.

His favorite sound is still brooom! When he sees cars. He likes his NHK videos but is not a big fan of regular TV but when a car commercial comes on he is just glued to the set and he points out the cars and goes "Broom!"

Kazumi is getting bigger and I think we are down to another 6 weeks before he comes. She's moving slower and the baby is getting bigger so she is not able to bend down too often and her hips hurt alot. But all in all I'm handling it pretty good......Kazumi too heh!

Me? Just got through our company's conference. All I have to say is that it was too much work! I wasn't even involved very much since I am new but I still ended up pulling a couple of 12 hour days just helping out. They had some pretty cool events like tubing and skiing over the weekend but I opted out of it since I wanted to see my family and had to resume my home duties.

I have to thank Kazumi for picking up the slack while I wasn't home and doing my chores. I usually have the trash which I could still do but I could not bathe Loa (my main duty). That and we usually switch off putting Loa to bed. The bed part is going to be switched solely to me soon since we have to have him used to sleeping without my wife when the baby comes.

Okay now the fun stuff. Eating eating and more eating!

Chinese New Years we had what looks like it's shaping up to be an annual event at the Yu's home for Chinese food. It was fun and Loa had a blast running around in a bigger space and playing with other kids which he loves to do. As you can see below we had some great Chinese take-out.... Okay, okay, we didn't take photos of the food cause we were all busy eating. But the desserts were great.



During the conference while I was working it was free food fiesta! We eat at the hotel and usually had a lunch and dinner buffet and they also had food (take-out) at work for all the employees that couldn't attend. I was going back and forth eating both at the hotel and at work since I couldn't spend the whole day at either place.

Kazumi had one of the heads from Japan come over for a visit so she spent most of the time shuttling him around and using company money to eat out with him. Twice at Chuck-A-Rama which for you non-Utah residents it's an all you can eat buffet too!

Then on the weekend we went to Ogden to check out the Union Station museum. It has a gun museum mostly because the Browning family famous gunsmiths were from Ogden and donated a lot of stuff. They also have a small but cool classic car museum also donated by the Browning family with some cars costing more than 1 million dollars and of course the trains.

Wow! It's been a week since I started this post and still haven't uploaded it till now.

I just wanted to make sure we had the pictures before anything and now we do.

Also check out the Flickr link as it's been updated. STAND IN AWE AND AMAZMENT! As our personal ham Loa-chi poses on his new IKEA chair for you and other amazing feats photographed!!