photo a day 04.1-04.07

April 01/30 • playing

April 02/30 • blue

 April 03/30 • something begins with A

April 04/30 • this happened today
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A package with lots of pretty stamps arrived from Japan!
日本から奇麗な切手が沢山の小包が届いたよ♪

April 05/30 • something good
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Warmer and prittier weather is here! 

暖かく奇麗な季節の到来♪

April 06/30 • air

April 07/30 • dreamy

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堪っていた今月分の写真をボチボチ時間を見つけて週単位でまとめてアップして行こうと思います〜（汗）
I'm going to upload photos for April a little by little...

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April photo list | taken by iPhone | Find me on Instagram

 

２歳の誕生日 Second birthday

先月から少しばかり仕事を再開したうえに、またまたちびっ子たちが風邪を引いてしましい相変わらずドタバタの日々が続いています。三寒四温とはいえ、２週間前には３０度だったのに、涼しくなったりとハチャメチャなワシントンDCの天気も影響してそう。

そんなんで、可哀想なことに体調不良のまま迎えることになったちび姉の２歳の誕生日。あまり元気がなかったけれど、誕生日プレゼントは喜んでくれました！あ まりオモチャで遊ばないので、かなり悩んだけれどキッチンセットは大ヒット☆　ちび姉、いつも連れて行くプレイグループでは必ずおままごとをしていたり、台所でボールや泡立て器で遊んでたしね。どうやら大人の真似をして遊ぶのが好きな様です。「スープ作って〜」と頼むとキッチンにダッシュ（笑）

食欲もなかったのでケーキは後日にお預けし、大好きなパンケーキを朝食に作りました。人参とバナナ入り♪今週末までには回復したらケーキで改めてお祝いよっと♪

Things has been a lot more crazier than ever with kids, work, and everything in my life. Once again, they both got sick this month. Perhaps this crazy roller coaster like weather is to be blamed... It was in 90ºFs one week, then drop back to 50ºFs. While I didn't want to hot summer weather in April, this has been a little too much. Ugh!
So unfortunately, A has been sick since last Thursday, and we didn't get to do much for her birthday besides spending time with her. But this IKEA kitchen was the biggest hit with her who rarely plays with any toys she has. After noticing that she ALWAYS play with cooking toys at the playgroup as well as with my cooking utensils in the kitchen, we have decided to get this to her. We were a little nervous if she won't play with it, but she LOVES it!! Today, I asked her to cook me some soup, she ran over there and made me soup! So cute.

Because she didn't have much of appetite on her birthday, I fixed her one of her favorites (with sneaking in some grated carrots for veggie), pancakes! Once she gets better (hopefully soon since it's been almost a week), we are planning to celebrate her birthday with a cake =)

 

そろそろ it's almos time for...

今月でチビ介くん、５ヶ月です。ちび姉もそうだったけれど、この月齢って手足を良く動かす様になりじっとしていられなりますね〜常に動きがおおげさなので興奮状態にも見えたり（笑）相変わらずうつ伏せの練習を忘れがちの私。上の子の時は、頻繁に育児書を読んでいたのに、二人目だと読みもせず…　極端な違いに自分でも呆れてますが、完全に手抜き育児でもちゃんと成長してますよ〜（汗）

最近うつぶせからゴロンと半回転寝返りが出来る様に。寝返りする日もそんなに遠くなさそうなので、添い寝しているベッドからクリブに移さないと、危なさそうです〜　なので、アメリカ式にスリープトレーニングを開始！でもかなり今回は自己流に、夜中の授乳を止めさせてからクリブへ移動の予定。クリブ移動→夜中の授乳中止だと、絶対泣かれて起こされるので私の負担が大きいかなと…　効き目はあるのだけれど、泣かせ続けるのは出来ればしなくないしね。今のところ、オシャブリさえあればどうにか夜中起きてもまた寝てくれています。ほっ…もう暫く様子を見て、大丈夫そうだったら殆ど使ってない（苦笑）クリブに移動だぁ〜　そうしら、夜中にかわいく愛らしいちび介の寝顔の代わりに、目を開けると旦那のひげ顔があるのか…ちぇっ

Ken turned 5 months on Monday. Just like how his sister was, he's become more animated, and his little arms and feet are always moving around as he is constantly excited. It's funny how much I'm more relax this time around and not reading developmental books religiously everyday. ...I'm too busy and lazy, I guess? But he is doing just fine! 

Even though his forgetful mom probably isn't giving him enough tummy time, he can roll back to the on-his-back position during the tummy time.  So that means, soon he will be rolling around everywhere and I need to let him sleep in his crib at night now... Out of convenience, I have been co-sleeping with him on my bed (believe me it was the best decision I ever made and I've been scratching my head why I didn't do that with Akari!) and feeding him in bed at night. So starting on this week, I've been sleep-training him, in my own way. My goal is to stop midnight feeding, then once he sleeps throughout the nights, I will move him to the crib... hoping I don't have to do the CIO method even though I know it's very effective (we did that with A.). So far, as long as he has a paci, he has been doing great this week. Perhaps, it might be sooner than I though that I don't get to see the adorable face of my cute innocent boy, but instead there will be my husband's face... ha!

 

photo a day // 03.28-03.31 (catch up)

すでに四月も半ばですが、残りの三月分の写真です。鼻炎になったり風邪を引いたり、仕事や寝不足でドタバタしてゆっくりパソコンをいじる時間がなかったのですが、まだちゃんと毎日写真を撮ってますよ〜

I know it's already in the second week of April, but here are the remaining photos from March. Things has been a little tough for me lately trying to juggle everything in my life, but I have been taking a photo every day, just haven't been posting here...

march day no.28 • in the mirror

march day no.29 • goodnight

march day no.30 • relax

march day no.31 • stuff

 

体調管理が難しい it's too hard to keep up.

もー、いい加減にしてほしい！

ここワシントンDCでは気温が毎日のようにコロコロ変わっています。この季節、三寒四温とは言うけれど、こんなに気温差が激しいと体調管理がキツい。今週の月曜日は雪がしっかり降り積もったと思ったら、週末には１４度まで気温が上がるらしいです。でも、残念ながら桜の満開時期は遅くなってしまい、４月の第二週目あたりに伸びたとか…

こんな気候なので、体調を崩さない方がおかしいくらい。案の定、ちび姉がどこらから風邪の菌を貰ってきて数日夜中に咳き込んでいたと思ったら、木曜日にちび介までもが…幸い悪化せず（チビ介は微熱とゼーゼーの悪化のため診察）に数日で治りました。

と、思ったら子供たちのために加湿器つけて同じ部屋で寝ていたら、今度は私が鼻炎に…月曜日はティッシュが手放せず、鼻のかみ過ぎで頭がボーっ。最近どうも鼻炎にすぐなるような気がするなぁ。アレルギーも悪化する一方だし、なにか良い方法はないものですかね…

Oh please, please stop this crazy weather, someone!! It was snowing on Monday, but now the forecast says the temperature on the weekend will be in 60ºF?! This roller-coaster like weather definitely messing us up....

Kids got sick last week. Akari picked up something over the weekend, and started coughing at night. It got so bad that she kept waking up too. Poor thing... Then it got passed onto Ken who ended up having a slight fever, and top of laryngomalacia he has, the congestion got really bad. So I had to take him to get checked just in case. Luckily, both kids got better after a few days. 

However, then I got sinus infection, ironically because of the humidifier we were using to treat kids' cough! Ugh!!! It seems like I get sinus infection so frequently. It's a little ridiculous...

ママが体調悪くて、育児を半分放棄すると子供たちはこんな感じに…　ごめんね。良くないとはわかっていながらも、テレビをつけてその間に私は休養。泣き虫チビ介は抱っこしてもらえなくてビェ〜。

Unfortunately, that was how kids were while their mom was being nonfunctional due to sinus pressure. In order to get some rest, I had to get some help from TV for A, and hold Ken so he won't cry...