Stripes

After promising some sleeping pajama shots this is what happens: Shuma decides to stop crawling and standing and squirming long enough to take some awake pictures. Here he's modeling a romper bought at Fashion Center Shimamura (a discount clothing and housewares chain taking over the suburbs- like T.J. Maxx or Winners in North America) for 500 yen.

And later on, when we were romping around in my bed he posed for some more.

Here he is showing his crawling technique: always exactly like this, with his left knee up in the air and doing the work, and his right leg dragging along.

Here he shows of a magnificent curl.

And here he shows off his new clapping skills. He loves clapping, and tends to do it when he's excited about something, but also does it randomly. And occasionally completely appropriately, like at a seal show at the aquarium a few weeks ago, or at a fireworks show last night (he just has to get the timing right, as he usually starts clapping about five seconds after everyone's stopped).

And finally, he did let me take a sleeping shot.

Comments

[Ria]

Shuma is a complete sweetheart. He is by far the best looking baby I've seen.

[David]

The clapping will come in handy for "itadakimasu!". Manners are important, afterall.

[Randi]

He is so cute. Love the curl.

[Mieo]

Nice to meet you. I happened to come to your blog. I'm really happy because you love Japan, and you are intereseted in Japanese cooking. And what a cute boy he is!

[Metal Wall Art]

Oh, dear, he is really cute. And the black-and-white stripes overall pajamas is also cute, good to be worn by toddlers, as he will have comfortable mood to play.

[Grow Lean 15 Max]

For instance, I know the Vietnam Service medal is green yellow and red, but why did they decided on the thick and thin stripes.

[Theresa]

Okay, I'm going to say this. Shuma is like his parents, calm and intelligent. I get nervous looking at photos of children on most foreign mother-Japanese father blogs that post their children's pictures, but when I see Shuma I relax. Even I would babysit him, he's a little Buddha.