I feel like once a baby hits 6 months it feels like they are oh so close to a year old...but then there are still 6 whole months left until they get there and it actually takes a long time? Does that make any sense? Anyway! Mirai and Taishi are 8 months old and basically [...]
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6 Months with Twins! – Mirai and Taishi’s Baby Update
We made it to 6 months! This year feels as though everything has happened and also nothing has...I can't believe we've had the twins in our life for half a year already. I think I can finally say we are on somewhat of a schedule (although the two of them are hardly in sync ha!) [...]
Mirai and Taishi’s 4 Month Update
4 months and we've hit the milestone in everyone's nightmares when they think about taking care of infants. For us, I can't say it has gotten too bad yet but then again I am probably just used to wakeful nights by this point! M and T are growing well and really starting to show their [...]
Mirai and Taishi’s 2 Month Update
2 months old (or 2.5 as I am writing this) and we are slowly but surely making our way out of the newborn stage! I know I should be savoring every moment, and I am trying my best to, but the newborn stage is hard enough with one baby let alone two. I wanted to [...]
Preparing Your Firstborn for the Arrival of a New Sibling (or two!)
I started thinking about how to prepare A for the arrival of a new brother and sister quite a while back. One of my favorite books on the topic is The Second Baby Book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith, a popular gentle parenting activist. In the book she talks a lot about not only the experience of [...]
10 Ways to Promote Oral Language Development in a Multilingual Environment (Ages 0-3)
I've been asked a few times to do a post about how I promote oral language at home, particularly since we are a bilingual household. My husband is Japanese and speaks Japanese to my now two-year old son and I speak primarily English. At two years old, my son is able to have conversations in [...]
Asahi’s 2 Year Update – Sleep and Everything Else
I'm a few months late on this post (blame my twin pregnancy!) but I'm happy to finally get to it now! Asahi is currently almost 2 years and 3 months old and a few things have changed in the last few months which I will try to note. First off, from about 20 months old [...]
5 Baby Products You Need Living in Central Tokyo (and a few you don’t!)
Living in Central Tokyo, especially as a person who grew up in a more rural situation (aka driving everywhere!) can be a learning curve when it comes to baby products. Now that my son is two, I feel like I am a bit wiser as far as baby products go! Here's a list of five [...]
Asahi at 18 Months
Asahi is now 18 months old! My last update was when he was 15 months and although some things are similar, he has also changed quite a bit, mostly in the realms of eating, sleeping, and speaking. I’ll start with his daily schedule: 6-7AM – Awake for the day. Cuddles with mama and playtime while I [...]
How I Deal With Sleep Deprivation
Ah sleep deprivation, the most dreaded part of parenthood, the thing everyone warned you about...and you know what? It's real! No matter how many all nighters you pulled in college or how many times you woke up to pee while pregnant, nothing can truly prepare you for being as sleep deprived as you will be [...]
My Motherhood Tokyo 