Made in Japan

Here is Conor with his new shirt from our friend Mary.

Mayuko, Kazue and me enjoying an evening out in Yokosuka. We had dinner at Bangkok Spicey. The food was good. If you are out and about in Yokosuka, and are in the mood for Thai food- check it out.

A Hiking He Will Go

Here is Josh at 6:15 a.m. on Sunday October 12th. He is all geared up and headed out to meet our friend Mike Gabiga. They participated in the Hasetsune Cup, a 24 hour/72 km hike or race. Very extreme. I am sure Josh will blog about it and post pictures of the event on his blogsite. You can check out his blog at jperry13.blogspot.com or see the link on my blog page. Not sure when he will get to it as he is very busy with work. The only reason he was able to do this event was that it fell on the three day weekend for Columbus Day. In Japan, Monday October 13th is Sports Day.

Lashes

Look at those lashes. He got his daddy's and brother's long lashes. Right now they are pretty light, but so were Ronan's when he was this little. I suspect his lashes and his hair will get darker as he gets older. What a cutie! I can look at him all day.

Big Brother

Ronan is an awesome big brother. Except for the occassional reminders that he must be gentle or that he needs to wash his hands before touching the baby, Ronan does really well around Conor. From this picture, can you tell Ronan has had some professional experience in front of the camera? He has done a bit of modeling here in Japan. We got into it for grins and giggles and to make a little extra money to put into his college fund. There are some people here who are able to supplement their military income with their children's modeling careers. I think the blonde haired/blue eyed kids get more work. Ronan has been a trooper when needing to travel all over Tokyo for some of the auditions. Not sure if we will keep it up now that Conor is here and Ronan is in school three days a week since we are not as flexible as we once were.

And Conor Makes Four

Here are the Perrys, in their first picture all together, in Yokosuka, Japan--October 3rd, 2008.

Precious, Precious, Precious

Here is Conor. What a cutie huh? And yes, his eyes are that big. I finally got a picture of him looking bright-eyed and bushy tailed versus sleeping. He is now a month old. We are enjoying watching Ronan be a big brother.
Cheers-Kristin

Our newest Angel

Conor Michael Perry

Conor is here!

Here I am enjoying my ice chips. Josh had just finished his dinner of hamburger, potatoes, veggies and a brownie. This is at about 6pm Wednesday September 3rd. I had been in Latent Labor since 11:00 a.m.





Here is Conor just after 2:29 a.m. when he was born.






Here I am with my two beautiful boys!






Here is Josh with his sons! I call them the triplets.

Nature Walk

Creatures found by Ronan when walking through our neighborhood.

While cleaning out the future baby room

This is the pack Josh used to tow all his military gear while deployed to Iraq.

Ronan fits quite nicely.
(Photo by KP-August 2008)

Ronan is 4!

Ronan, Josh and I celebrated Ronan's 4th birthday with cupcakes and presents at home. Check out how the number 4 is backwards for the photo. I will get these birthday photos down when baby number 2 is celebrating with cake (I hope).

Chocolate cupcake. Yummy!

Ronan LOVES Legos and Star Wars, so the fact that the two are combined commercially made his birthday.

Here, Josh and Ronan have a blast putting the Legos together.

Bean Bags

Here is what my 4 y/o thought of the new bean bags for the Tatami Room. This was his favorite past time for a few weeks after we bought the chairs. (Photo by KP-June 2008)

Tokyo Disney

Here we are at Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan. Ronan and I went with our friends Melissa, Ramone and Esiah Cantu.
(Photo taken by Melissa-June 2008)

Finally, we are able to download pictures from our camera. So I am going to be posting some pics that will not be in chronological order of when taken. I will put a blip with each photo so the details will be known. Enjoy! Kristin


Here are Josh and Ronan at the Kanazawa Zoo Roller Park. Notice the slide. There are a couple of slides like this in our area of Japan. Ronan always has a blast. (Photo by KP-Father's Day 2008)

38 weeks and counting

Hello All

Well I officially surpassed the week that Ronan was born during his pregnancy. I really feel like I am going to go into labor any day now, but that is a wait and see game. I have our hospital bag packed, minus toiletries, and I have an overnight bag for Ronan ready to go. I think I will have Josh put the infant car seat in the car now.

• Still no bed for this child.
• Need new curtains for baby room
• Still need to get the house in a cleaner state than it is in the event company comes around. We live off base, so I suspect we won't have too many people driving out this way. They'll most likely wait till I am on base. Just an assumption, so I want to have the house in decent order, just in case.
• Need to renew our Costco membership and pick up some pre-made meals.

So much to do, so little time. My own fault. I am a procrastinator. Must get it from my mother as she just wrote me an email this morning proclaiming herself a procrastinator. There are worse things to inherit from a parent.

Check back in a week to see if Conor made his debut yet. Love to all my friends and family. Miss you all.

Cheers ---Kristin

36 weeks and counting

Hello All

I am 36 weeks along in pregnancy #2. Feeling good. Get tired easily and I don't average a lot of sleep at night. Ronan is not a fan, but we are taking naps again to help me catch up on my sleep.
Ronan decided he wanted out of my belly at 37 weeks, so Josh and I are trying to get somewhat prepared in the event this baby comes early too. Ronan is getting super excited, but I think he will be most happy to get all of the baby items that are stored in his room out of there. Josh and I have been so lax about fixing up this kids room. Ronan had a complete room at 5 months into the pregnancy.

Ronan and I have been spending a lot time together. We went to Tokyo Disney for the day last month. It was a great time. He was big enough (or small enough) to ride many rides and he wasn't scared like I thought he would be. We went with friends. I was restricted from riding may of the rides. The park is super clean and all the staff very friendly. Typically Japan. I am sure it is part of the Disney thing too.

Ronan and I had to miss a week long trip to Hawaii with Josh because I am too far along to fly. Josh really needed us there because he did not do much in the way of fun outside of going to dinner with friends. No pool time. No beach time. Things he would have done had we been there. I really enjoyed Hawaii when we were there in 2006 and hope to get back there before we leave Asia next year.

Ronan turned 4 last month. Josh, Ronan and I celebrated with cupcakes and presents at home and then we had a party with kids his age at the park. It was hot, but all kids had a great time and we kept our guests well hydrated with water. I was glad Ronan got to have a big cake and blow out candles after friends sang happy birthday. Josh and I forgot to take photos of this event.

Speaking of photos, there are none posted because our camera is not in good shape for downloading pics. The battery died during a download and now it won't download pics. Takes all the pics you want, we just can't extract them from the camera. Hope we can get this problem worked out before baby #2 makes his appearance. May have to buy a point a click camera to have for baby boy Perry's arrival.

Well, I need to get started on my day. Cheers to all our family and friends around the world.
Kristin

Time flies

Hello to all that reads this blog. Boring I know. I have not posted in a while and today I have no pics to load because my hubby needs to work out a kink with our computer. What's been happening in the Perry household?????

I am 33 weeks along in my pregnancy. Boy, being pregnant in Southern California for the last trimester is much more preferable to Yokosuka, Japan. It is hot hot hot here and it is not even the hottest it is going to get. I never had heat issues with Ronan, but that is Southern CA for you. Love that area, but we are enjoying our experiences here. This little one will have a neat story to tell when he is asked..."Where are you from?"

I am feeling good for the most part. Getting excellent care at the Yokosuka Naval Hospital. Ronan is now 4. We had a little family get together, just him, Josh and me on his actual birthday. Star Wars Lego set and Star Wars transformers presents ruled. Ronan got to visit with his cousin Ryan in Rogers, Arkansas this past May. Ryan was great about letting Ronan play with his Star Wars toys and now Ronan is hooked. Speaking of Rogers, AR--we had a great, but too short a visit, with my oldest brother Tim and his family (Vicki, Ryan and Sarah). We also got to visit with my other brother Rourke and family. Erin is 16 and Hayley is 13. WOW! is all I can say. I remember when they were just infants. And Ronan got to spend some quality time with his Cookie (my mom).

Washington State was another visit while stateside. We went to see our good friends, The Bowsers. Laura and I were preggers with our first in Port Hueneme, CA. She is now a mother of 3. Time flies. Ronan and Sarah played with each other as if 2 years had not passed since they last saw each other. Laura's other two are just a beautiful. I must say, her son Ben stole my heart. He is a cutie.

A visit to Portland, OR allowed us to spend much enjoyed time with Josh's sister Rebecca and her husband Peter. Josh's dad Bruce came for a few days as well. It was a good time.
We went to the Portland Zoo, got to see the big hospital where Rebecca works, and we rode a tram. Ronan enjoyed that very much.

Our stateside visit also took us to New Orleans, LA and Carencro, LA. My very best friends and I got together for Memorial Day Weekend at the Crozier House. Marie was 36 weeks along in her pregnancy at the time. We threw her a wonderful baby shower and ate some AWESOME food. I ate 3 lbs of crawfish by myself. I could have done 5 lbs, but I wasn't sure if I was going to have heartburn afterwards (like two more pounds would have made the heartburn less uncomfortable). Good news--no heartburn and the crawfish was delicious. Spending time with Jeanne, Heather and Marie and families is the best.

Well, I could gush about the trip a lot more but this blog is boring enough. I will post pics to match the info later this month. So much more going on, swim lessons, growing belly, birth of baby Morgan Crozier. Until next time--cheers, Kristin

Ronan's Cover

Ronan has done a little modeling since we came to Japan. Here is a catalog he did back in January of this year. The company is called Combi. They are known for their strollers and car seats.

The web address is http://combimini.jp

All the information is in Japanese, but when you go to the site, you will see a catalog with a little boy standing in swim rings with goggles on his head. That's Ronan. Select that photo and you will bring up the Combi Mini Catalog. He is on the next few pages too. Just three photos inside. Above the catalog you will see a button that says 100% then next to it buttons with arrows pointing left and right. Use the arrows to move between pages. Check it out.

Cheers
Kristin

It's a...

I am 5 months pregnant this week and Josh and I went to our revealing ultrasound yesterday.
The ultrasound tech is 95% sure it is a boy. Josh and I saw revealing anatomy quickly. The tech was great about showing us the umbilical cord and it's striations and then the penis to reassure us it was not the umbilical cord between the baby's legs.

We are very excited. Having a little boy already, I feel a little like I know what to do with a boy. I am mostly excited to know that all the measurements taken during the ultrasound show the baby is developing normally.

My doctor here has suggested I have an amniocentesis because I am of "advanced maternal age", but I am just not comfortable with pursuing this course of action. Had the ultrasound shown or indicate any abnormalities I would pursue further testing, but I am relieved to know that all is developing normally at this time.

Baby Boy Perry has a name already. I won't reveal his name here. All I will say is that he is getting one of his names from his uncle who is currently deployed to Kuwait right now.

Love to all our family and friends all over the world
Cheers
Kristin

Josh, Ronan and I went to the Enoshima Aquarium a couple of weeks ago. Here are few shots we took to capture the moment. Ronan also pointed out that he could see "mountan Fuji". Enjoy. Cheers--Kristin