Scarlett's 6 month Stats

Scarlett now weighs 16 lbs, 14 oz and is 27 inches long. She is in the 75th percentile for height and weight. According to the doc, she looks great and is developing and doing everything she is supposed to be doing for a 6 month old.

Do You Think They Are Related?

Scarlett looks very similar to Quinn when he was a baby. Quinn has started to take a small interest in Scarlett since she has started to pay attention to him and be more interactive. In the pictures they were playing a game. Quinn would use his matchbox car to push a colored circle into Scarlett's reach. She would grab the circle and put it in her mouth and then Quinn would take it away & throw it. And this went on for 15 minutes. I envision a future of Scarlett driving Quinn crazy.

Scarlett is 6 months old

Scarlett turned 6 months old .... the time is going by so fast. She is getting to be such a big girl. She now sits in a high chair and eats sweet potatoes, peas, pears,prunes and cereal. She has begun to sit up by herself for a seconds before tumbling over. We head to the doctor's office this week to have the height/weight check. I'll keep everyone posted.

Scarlett is too cute!

I just love Scarlett's new outfit and she looks so pretty.

Yoshino Baigo/Plum Park Ome

It's spring vacation for Quinn and we are trying to keep busy. On Wednesday, we took a trip to Yoshino Baigo/Plum Park to look at the plum tree blossoms and have a picnic with our friends. The plum blossom season is just before the big cherry blossom season. The boys played soccer, frisbee and made friends with a Japanese boy, Kanta. The worst part of the trip is that the picnic area is on a hill and we spend half the time chasing balls down the hill.

Pajama Party, Preschooler Style...Boy That Is

Quinn had his friend Sam over on Monday night. What started out as reading books, quickly turned into a dancing, air guitar playing, and jump fest! Check out the video.

Quinn's Moving Picture Debut

Yesterday Quinn performed in a Benesse English DVD. His role was in an ensemble performance of "Ring A Ring A Rosie" (also known as Ring Around a Rosie). We were initially very excited. The agency sent us a DVD so we could practice the dance ahead of time... which we did every day. Quinn had the dance down by Saturday. That morning we took the train to the studio at the base of Tokyo Tower and arrived at 1:30 as requested by the agency. However by 4:00pm we still hadn't even been fitted for clothes. The whole time we were there they were still filming Mary Had a Little Lamb. Quinn and another boy played tag, threw paper plates like frisbees around the room and watched my Ipod to pass the time. Finally it was Quinn and the other kids waiting big moment. Quinn looked adorable in his dapper outfit. The workers took the kids to the studio upstairs to film and the parents had to wait downstairs and watch it on a TV. So that's why the video I took looks like a bad bootleg copy. They let us go and watch on the last couple of takes. Quinn looked scared a good number of the takes except for when he stopped to pick his nose after "falling down". Can you say "so proud". Luckily the other boy's mom said she had to leave by 6:00pm. So after what seemed like the 100th attempt at getting 4 three year olds to perform the same dance, they decided they had what they needed. It was an extremely long day and not our best modeling experience in Japan so far. Quinn was a trouper the whole day. Being a superstar is not always easy.
If you watch the video here are the Japanese lyrics are:
Ring A Ring A Rosie,
A Pocket Full of Posie
A Tishu, A Tishu
We All Fall Down