"I heart ?a?a"

At our favorite store, Jusco, they sell this series of baby clothes that me n my hubby like. "I heart" series, just like "I heart N.Y.", but this one is MaMa, PaPa n Family instead of N.Y., of course.

In Japan, most of lil kids call their mom n dad "mama" n "papa". No, it's not Japanese(obviously!), as you know we use a lot of mix language, which I call Japanglish. So this "papa" means daddy.

Anyway, when we buy these kind stuff, there's always a silence battle between me n my hubby. Yes, which one we will buy "I heart MaMa" or "I heart PaPa" is what we battle for. First we grab same thing, except the word after the heart. When we can buy both, then we get both, like the pacifiers n baby bottles we bought. But if we wanna buy only one... Yea, we wouldn't fight or argue at store, especially it's about baby clothes, but there sure is a cold war going on between us.lmao

So we wanted to buy only one clothes for Baby Ilah. Of course our eyes were on "I heart ...". Let's see, which one we got...?



I let him have it for this one.lol Actually I thought, obviously I am always with her, I am the one who's gonna take her around everywhere. So, i think it's cute of her to show her love to her daddy. When I picked this one, he said "Are you sure?"lol

N I put this one on her today, so I took pics n sent it to him. I thought that picture would make him smile when he's working hard. But he didn't think so. Later he called me n said "I'm a lil pissed because you put the clothes on her when I am not around!"lmao I guess he wants it all.lol So I said "well, it's just a clothes, why don't you wash it n put it on her again when you take her somewhere?"lol Haha, he's not really mad, of course. But maybe he wanted her to wear that when she's with him! Don't worry, PaPa. She heart you always!;))

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Officially A Geek Couple

Hahaha, you already know that I am a geek mom. N my hubby is like my best friend. We are very positive, easy-going people, n we share almost everything. That's probably because my hubby is very flexible person, I mean he's actually not stubborn. So he would try stuff what I am into(well, not girls stuff...lol). Now he finally started his own blog!!!



I didn't even help him making this! I think it looks pretty cool. He's good with trying new things, as I said before. But I never thought he would actually start his own blog! I am very proud of him!!!

Oh well, now we are officially a geek couple...lol

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My Hubby's First...

Fish!!! Yay!!!

Yep, he finally ate fish, I mean a grilled-head-to-tail fish.;)) That fish is called Sanma, very popular in this season in Japan. Sanma is known by the name mackerel pike.

I am very proud of my hubby! He is a very good challenger. He's been trying so many new stuffs since we moved to Japan. He even started his own blog! Wow, now we really are a geek couple!

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Location:Sasebo,Japan

The Best Daddy

Yep, I am talking about my hubby, Chris. He's been so helpful, n a very very very good daddy to Baby Ilah. Some might say, most of fathers are just in love with their newborns, so they would do same. If so, that's good for them too. But I am very impressed with Chris this time.



As I said, because of the painful n long labor, n also probably my age too, my body is now very useless. Today, Day2, my muscle hurts even more... We were trying to sleep with her in our room last night, but every time she started cry, I had to ask him to take care of her. N he did a tremendous job every time! She was crying cuz she was hungry, then he held her in one arm, made a bottle with the other. I know it's not a super difficult thing, but looking at him doing that at very first night made me proud of him.:))

I wonder how many fathers actually do "baby duty" without wives asking? I know most of my friends' husbands do that, but I've heard some don't do at all. Like here in Japan, especially in old traditional style couples, fathers don't really take care of babies, that I've heard. Of course not all of them, but I wonder, those fathers who don't do "baby duty", I understand that they have to go to work as usual n all(good thing for me that Chris gets 10days off from work), but don't they feel joy from feeding baby or changing diapers? I know they love their babies, but just want to look at them smiling? Baby crying is annoying for them?

Mothers. We feel n find happiness from each moments with our babies, even with stinky diaper or loud crying. But how about fathers? How many fathers feel same way as mothers? Well, of course not probably exactly same, but close feeling. Is that too much to ask?

Back to my hubby. He was not this good with our first one(well he was not home with us when John was born, he came home from the deployment a month later), with our second child he was doing better but not as this time. I mean, he's been helpful with those two n I was very satisfied, but this time, I am like more impressed. He's that good now maybe because she's our third child, maybe now he's more "daddy" than anything. I just feel happier having him as my hubby.:))

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Location:１丁目,Sasebo City,Japan

Countdown!

Yay! The countdown to the day my hubby comes home is now officially started!! It's less than a month!! He'll be home before Halloween!

Wow... When we found out that he'll be gone for 8 months, I couldn't even imagine what's gonna happen, but thanks to my friends, it was not that bad after all. That doesn't mean that I don't mind him sent away again. I want him to be home, that would be my first choice. But I gotta admit, because we have to be apart like this, we get to know how important he is to us, we are to him. I realized a lot of things he does, after he left here, n I get to appreciate it. So I would say, this IA order was meant to be, it worked well for him, obviously he did a great job there(yes, he's got the sailor of the month!), I've got 2 letters from his commanders telling me how much works he's done n showing me appreciation, which I am very proud of him, n made me respect his job more than before.

But I won't lie! I can't wait for him to come home!!! I already have a long "to do" list!!!lol

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My First Tattoo Design

I am planning to get my first tattoo on my shoulder! Yay! Since this is gonna be my first, I wanted it to be something lil special...

So even though my hubby was not too happy about me getting cross anchor tattoo(only because he doesn't have his cross anchor tattoo yet), I wanted something with cross anchor tattoo because my hubby's born to be a Boatswain's mate(that's I believe!). I am very proud of him about that, n I love being a BM wife. So...

I actually got this heart idea from the Internet, but of course there's no girly-cross anchor design... So I just draw it.

I am not sure if I can really get this one... But I think I like this. What do you think???

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Revised: I just sent this pic to my hubby via e-mail, n... HE LIKES IT!!! Yay!

The Article About My Hubby!

I just got a link of this article about my HUBBY! Yay! This is about my hubby got the sailor of the month back in June, n this is very honored thing... I am soooo proud of him. Please visit the article, n check it out!!! BTW... this link goes to Navy.mil, so not a dangerous link...lol

Center for Surface Combat Systems IA Honored in Iraq

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Dear my love...

Dear my love,
I just want you to know...
Here are the 10 of thousands reasons why I think you are the perfect husband.

You might not be a good singer,
But you do make me laugh.
You might not be a model,
But you are actually a quite good looking guy.
You might have some short temper issues,
But you do listen to what I say.
You might not be the smartest guy in the world,
But you are the most hard-worker I know.
You might complain about your work sometimes,
But you do love what you do,
And it makes me very proud of you.
You might stink sometimes,
But you do eat everything I make.
You might snore very loud,
But you do give me the best massage.
You might not be good at picking gifts for me,
But you do let me buy what I want.
You might not be the most romantic person,
But you call me or e-mail me as much as you can.
You might be far away from us right now,
But you do make me feel that you are always there for us.
And you always put us first on your priority list.
I could go on n on, but now you got the idea why I think you are the perfect husband.
And you are still adding reasons to the list...
Love u always...
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Skype 2 My Love

My hubby's currently in Iraq, he's in U.S. military, a proud Navy man. He's got his IA order last year, n he had to leave to Iraq this past March. So he's away from home now...

Yes, we misses him so much. But thanks to all these technologies, we get to talk via online-video-phone called Skype. Unfortunately he can do Skype once a week, for now, because he's ultra busy there... But these couple of weeks, we've been doing Skype video call every Saturday morning my time(like late night in his time). We get to see his face n all, he can see me n kids, this is a great thing.

I have a few friends whose husbands are retired military. These friends of mine always tell me that we are lucky because at least we can talk to each other like this. Back then... I mean their husband served in Vietnam, they didn't have many communication options but letters n stuff... If they tried to make a phone call, though I am not sure if they could, it would have cost a fortune. So anyway, I've heard when they sent a letter to their husbands, it took for a while to get there. Now, if I send a box to my hubby, it only takes about a week. N let's not forget about e-mail, our main communication tool. We can e-mail to each other almost everyday. Isn't that nice? At least I could know if he's fine, he can see what's going on here. Back then, they couldn't do that. The wives could only pray for their husbands, n wait for him to come home, which they probably didn't even know when he's coming home. So... I cannot complain about anything.

Anyway, this, becoming every Saturday morning surprise(?), is definitely my favorite time now!

We Are Far Apart But...

March 22, today is Chris's 29th birthday and also our 6th-year anniversary. Unfortunately, we couldn't celebrate this day together. He is in all the other side of the country. We didn't do anything special, no surprises, no nothing. It sounds lil cold... huh? That's alright. We may be apart, but we are very close. We talk everyday, again, nothing special, but so we can feel each other close. Of course I miss him very much, but look, I am very happy. I am very happy that I have somebody very special, I can talk to that person everyday, I can feel that person very close, most of all I have somebody I really truly love, and I get same love from the same person.
Happy Birthday, and Happy Anniversary, honey. We may be far apart, but we are very close. I love you, and I will always love you. Thank you for being with me...