sweet baby ray

well what can i say...

he is a doll. he is such a good baby. he is adorable. he is happy. we have been dragging him around for 3 days, messing up his meal and nap schedules and he really has been taking it in stride. he cries some of course, when he is tired and hungry but for the most part just goes with the flow.

i was worried that he would be afraid when he saw me in person, because even though we video chat almost everyday, he only sees my head. and although that is scary enough, plop it on this body... frightening!! anyway, he was happy having us holding/playing with him as long as casey or chieko was around. if they both left the room, he would start to cry. that was just the first couple of days. now he is fine with us alone. he likes us better now, haha. i love the way he looks at laurie, i think he is in love.

we took him for a nice walk yesterday while casey was at the gym and chieko was talking to an insurance salesman. we were gone for quite a while and he never cried. he kept looking back and smiling, screeching sometimes, laughing. i must bring him home with me. i could look at him all day long.

he loves "peek a boo" , reading books, and his mom's cooking. he eats rice and vegetables and tofu and seaweed and chicken. and hai hain (rice crackers for babies) he has had fish. he doesn't like fruit so much. we brought him some trader joes o's and some gorilla munch (kix). he likes them, but likes throwing them on the floor more!!

casey and chieko are great parents, loving, attentive, patient. they enjoy their baby, it's going to be hard to convince them to let me have him.