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Showing posts with label Central Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Park. Show all posts

5.14.2010

サトコさんとコンラッド君にバイバイの日/Saying good bye to Satoko-san and Conrad-kun

カリフォルニア州のサンフランシスコに来週引っ越してしまうサトコさんとコンラッド君と、最後にもう一回プレイグループをする事が出来ました。マディソン がコンラッド君達と一緒に遊ぶのをせっかく楽しみにしていたのにたぶん乳歯のせいかな、私にくっ付き虫。集合場所に来る途中に予定外のお昼寝をしたせいで 寝むそうなのに寝れないし...困った、困った...仕様が無く私の膝に座らせてピザの耳を齧らせたら良い子にしてくれました。ある時点で赤ちゃん4人の うち3人一緒にそれぞれのピザの耳を齧っていたような気がする...笑!あの2、3分は静かで良いときだったな〜:)
Today we had our last playgroup with Conrad, Masaki, and Sephi in Central Park. Satoko-san, her husband Brian and Conrad-kun are moving to San Francisco next week so this was our last all 8 of us get together for playgroup. I was really looking forward to Madison playing hard with her friends, but she was not having a nice day yesterday probably because of her teething. She took an unauthorized nap while walking to the park and that caused her to not be able to take her afternoon nap even though she was sleepy and fussy. She could not, did not, or would not want to play away from me so she would perch herself on my lap and nibbled on my pizza crust. At one point 3 out of the 4 babies are nibbling their own pizza crusts they got from their mommies and giving their mommies a few minutes of quiet and peace so I thought that was really funny:-)



最初に 言った通り一人で置いてく度にご機嫌斜めでグスグスしていたマディソン、一回写真を撮りたくて赤ちゃん達だけで座らせたらセフィちゃんとコンちゃんを誘っ て赤ちゃん3人で泣き合唱...すごかった...そのビデオをどうぞ!
Like I said Madison got really fussy and whiny every time I left her so when I went to take some good shots of our last get together she would not have it... so she started bawling and in the end she has recruited two other of her friends to do some harmonious crying... Here it is!



セ フィ:困った、困った!
Sephi: (hands on head) "Oh man! I can't take it anymore!"

コンラッド君に最後のプレイグループの思い出をちゃんと覚えて置いて貰おうと密かに計画していた作戦を実行:)
Sephi also wanted to give Conrad something to remember her by:-)




学 校が終わった後セントラルパークに来てくれたデイブに8人のママとベイビー達揃って写真を撮ってもらう事が出来ました...残念ながら泣き疲れてどっか遠 くに行っちゃっているマディソン...でもセフィがみんなの代表で言いたいことを言ってくれてるね、ナンバーワン!!
Dave was able to come meet Madison and I after work and walked up at the perfect timing as we were walking out of Sheep Meadow so I asked him to take our last group shot... Too bad Madison is absolutely somewhere else exhausted from all the crying she did today, but Sephi is making a statement for all of us, We are the best!!

この3 人のママとベイビー達に会えて本当に良かったです。8人みんなでずっと遊んでいられたらいいけどこれも人生...離れて行くのは辛いけど沢山の良い思い出 と写真があるから大丈夫かな...また次に住む所で良いママとベイビー達に巡り会えると良いな〜!
I am absolutely so happy that Madison and I got to meet these lovely babies and mommies to share and play every week. It will be really sad that this group cannot stay intact, but that's life I guess and I have nothing, but great memories and pictures so I just hope we will be able to meet great mommies and babies like them wherever our next place may be!

5.09.2010

My 2nd Mother's Day:-)/私の2回目の母の日:)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!! Last year at this time we had been parents for just over a week...what a difference a year makes...Madison and I beat Mommy out of bed so I was able to get her into her new Celtics jersey...she looks soooo cute!!
母の日おめでとう!!去年の母の日は、ママになってたった1っ週間しか経ってない慌ただしい時...1年間でこんなに変わるなんて...ママより先に起きたマディソンと僕はマディソンの新しいセルティックスのジャージーを着せて準備する事が出来ました...と〜ってもカワイーイ!!


Mommy enjoyed her little Celtic fan...
ママとパパのお気に入りのセルティックベイビー...

And we took a nice timer shot with our new camera...
タイマーを使って記念に家族写真を撮って...
We then gave Mommy the rest of her gifts for being such a great Mom...
1st running pants and socks that Mommy picked out yesterday...
ママに残りのプレゼントを開けてもらいました...
まず最初に昨日ママが選んだマラソン用のタイツとずり落ちない靴下...
2nd was a gift from Me...
そして次は僕からのプレゼント...
Lastly, a gift from Madison...
it is a set of five canisters for Madison to put her hand print into the first five years of her life...I "secretly" did year 1 with Madison last night...I guess I thought Madison would just put her hand in there and keep it steady and not just try to grab the plaster of paris while it was still soft, but boy was I wrong...I look forward to a much easier year next year, but I don't think it came out that bad...she just wasn't very happy with me once we were finally done...in fact I had to use year two's plaster of paris for our second try.
そして最後にマディソンから...
マディソンの最初の5年間の手形が作れる物なんです...昨日ママの隙を見つけてマディソンと作ったんだけど、ただ手を入れて何もしないと思っていたら大間違い...手を入れるなりグチャグチャしたいし思ったより難しく結局一回やり直して来年用の粘土を使うはめに。
So that concludes Mother's Day for the most part...we went to church...Mommy get a little nap in and we made Chicken Pot Pie for dinner together...it was a nice day.
これでだいたい母の日は終わり...教会から帰って来た後ママは少しお昼寝をして家族みんなでチキンポットパイを夕ご飯に作りました...良い日にでした。

Now we have some bonus pics from the last couple of days...first the incredible t-shirt that Anna has made Madison for next weekend's Cystic Fibrosis walk in Worcester, MA.
さて、ここからはボーナス...来週参加するシスティックファブローシスの行事用にマディソンに作ったTシャツ。



Second, we have Madison and I lounging at McCarren Park during one of my school's recent baseball games...they won and are now 11-0! Some of my co-workers enjoyed Madison as well.
そして、先週パパの学校の野球試合を見に行った時に撮ったパパとマディソンのリラックスショット...11試合全部勝利の絶好調のシーズン。
Lastly, Madison tried out her new "big girl" front-facing car seat in the house before we put it in the car yesterday...at first it appears she doesn't know what to think...
そして最後に、マディソンの新しいカーシートを車に取り付ける前に家で練習してる様子...最初は少し不安みたい...
but she warmed up quickly.
でも、すぐに嬉しそうになった。
Hope you had a great Mother's Day with your family!!
他のママ達の母の日どうだったかな!?

6.28.2009

Visit to Central Park/セントラル公園へ行く

Before our trip to the park we paused for some family photos using the tripod I brought home from work so we could take less fuzzy pictures.

公園に出発する前に仕事から借りてきた三脚を使って振りのない家族写真をとりました。






Anna's final weekend before going back to work we decided to take a trip across the Queensboro bridge to Central Park. We surprisingly found parking without a problem on 66th Street between Park and Lexington took our Bugaboo out of the trunk for its first trip in Manhattan and walked a couple blocks into the park at 67th Street. In the span of those couple of blocks we passed five other Bugaboos...a bit of a blow to Anna and my search for uniqueness, but at least ours was the only red one :-) We proceeded through the Central Park Zoo (the part you walk through without tickets where you can kind of get a glimpse of the sea lions) and headed to the Whole Foods at Columbus Circle to get our picnic lunch. By the time we had gotten our food Madison was ready to eat as well so we laid our sheet on a grassy spot not far into the park and had our "picnic." The bugaboo did pretty well...it was nice to be able to just pop out the bassinet and turn it around when the sun was in Madison's eyes...that was a nice feature and the thing corners like a Vet which is necessary to avoid the crowds in Manhattan. Anna says this post is not funny enough...I vow to do better in the future, so keep reading.

デイヴ:杏奈が仕事に戻る最後の週末を使ってクイーンズボロ−橋を渡ってすぐのセントラル公園に行く事にしました。思ったより簡単にパーク通りとレキシントン通りの間に駐車できたのでセントラル公園動物園の辺から入る事にしました。コロンバスサークルにあるWhole Foodsでピクニック用にお昼を買ってるとちょうどマディソンも起きてきたので公園に戻ってすぐの芝生の上でピクニックを食べました。バガブーとても役に立ちました!杏奈の言った通り!


Fountain outside Park Plaza Hotel
プラザホテルの噴水の前で。



Outside the Park Plaza Hotel
プラザホテルの前で。

Sleeping in the Bugaboo
バガブーでお昼寝中。


Above: Taken at 2 months old sleeping in Bugaboo Below: Taken at 20 weeks sleeping in Womb
Looks like our baby wasn't switched at birth!!
上:これは2ヶ月のマディソンがバガブーの中でお昼寝中:)
下:これは20週間目のエコーに写真。マディソンのお気に入りのお昼寝のポーズだよ!