The Kato-Jones Family

Happy Birthday to the best brother (sorry Gene…but it serves you right as you didn’t even remember my birthday). Sorry this is a day late--was gonna post it last night but our internet connection was down.

Thanks for always being someone who I could look up to and for being someone who I knew would always be there for me when I needed you. I can still remember running away from Gene (knowing that if he caught me he’d beat me up) and looking for you to protect me. Those were crazy times but it was great having my brother as my role model.

Anyway, enough with the sappy stuff…

Wishing you the best on your birthday, Shigs, and I hope you’re able to do all that you want to do this year. You need to bring Gene over here sometime during this summer and we'll have a BBQ at the beach.

Here are a few pics that I found in my photo folder. Enjoy! (You can get June to print and frame them on your wall, especially the second one!)

Thankfully something that I wasn't a part of

Definitely not how all Katos eat

This is the real Shigeru

Posted by Aiki at 8:01 PM | 2 comments

Here are some recent photos of the kids taken this past month. They are all from random events..
First off, here's some photos of Kristy, who, as you can see, has gotten incredibly fat and chunky this past month. She loves eating, drinking, and getting attention. She always wants to do what her older sister is doing (though Katie doesn't exactly enjoy Kristy always following her around), and she loves to just look at her baby sister (whom she calls 'mama' and occasionally 'baba'). Both her and Katie are teething, so they are constantly drooling and they stick everything in their mouths (including toys, books, fingers, blankets, furniture, etc.) which has been stressful for me as its quite tiresome trying to keep them from doing so.


Here's 2 from a beach trip with Daddy. Katie got to ride on a boat (and wear a life jacket) though she wasn't too thrilled about it all. I think she was a bit apprehensive and scared about the whole thing.

Here's a couple of pics from Get-out time with Marie..






And lastly some photos of Kimberly at 2 weeks. She is still a very good baby; rarely cries, and sleeps real well at night. PTL! She is awfully funny looking; like a white gaijin ojiichan or something.

Posted by Mary at 11:17 PM | 1 comments

Happy Belated Birthday to my happy hunky husband!
I love you and I'm soo soo happy to be married to the most wonderful guy ever!
You are happy and handsome and an awesome husband and a super daddy to our kids!! Thanks for marrying me baby!! I looove youuu!!

Posted by Mary at 8:10 PM | 6 comments

Well, the baby is here after a relatively short and powerful entry into this world. Thanks for your prayers. Kimberly was born at 7:45 P.M after 4 hours (from the onset of the first regular contraction), though the real "fun" was only about 2 hours. There were no complcations and aside from slight tearing, I am recovering quite nicely (please keep me in your prayers). One happy fact is that our new one doesn`t seem to do too much aside from sleep. She didn`t even cry when she was born..and hardly ever cries now. Quite a far cry from our first 2 (who would scream their heads off every few hours and would want to nurse 24/7)..which is oh so nice, as I actually got to sleep a bit last night (in between the after contractions, of course). Anyways, here are some happy pictures.
The happy couple before... The happy mommy after (a couple seconds after delivery) with the calm purple newborn
Another, "right after" shot
The happy family with the new one (minus mommy, who was utterly exhausted and in bed)..
2 hours after delivery; oh so calm
Guess who`s hands?

Posted by Mary at 8:46 PM | 16 comments

Well, while Aiki's away at driving school, I've been having a whole lot more extra quality bonding time with my 2 toddlers. A little too much time actually..so Auntie Joan comes and saves the day every once in awhile, coming up with new things to do. Here's some pics of Katie's fun dress-up afternoon. She was utterly thrilled with her "princess who found baby Moses" get-up. I think that wig is actually the same one that one of the bathing women in the Treasure Attic is wearing. Hope you like the photos, baby! We miss youuuuu!
Here's Kate, in her graduation outfit. She wasn't too happy about this one..kept saying "too big, too big"and her hat kept falling off.
And in her "heidi" costume. Her big eye expression reminds me of my sister Katrina..its soo cute. Her new "thing".

Aaand, her favorite; the princess outfit. What do you think of the afro-hair, honey? haha
Watching the Baby moses song from Treasure Attic intently, copying the princess' every move..
And here's some special photos just for Aiki of the 2 girls being all affectionate with one another..their facial expressions really show their personalities. Sometimes they are sooo cute together!
And no..I didn't do her hair...

There's that "big eyes" expression again.
Kristy's kissing face.
Hmm..don't know what face Katie is doing here

Posted by Mary at 6:35 AM | 7 comments