Kaika turned all of 3 months old yesterday. Didn’t do anything too out of the ordinary, but we did take some time to make a few “recordings” to briefly stop this moment in time.
The picture above actually was taken the day before, by Naoko. While I have been returning to my SLR, Naoko has been on occassion grabbing the digital and snapping photos of Kaika. Her images are getting better and better. Yuki asked in the comments to another post what color are his eyes and hair. Probably not readily apparent from the photo, so for Yuki and anyone else curious, they’re both brown.
More and more Kaika is making some wonderful utterances, or coos. I’m sure it’s all fairly standard cooing, but it is still an amazing thing to listen to, and to watch (his facial expressions, especially when he purses his lips, are priceless). Yesterday I recorded some little bits of his cooing with my mobile phone, and assembled a 24 second .wav file of them, which is available here as an .mp3 if you would like to hear some of what we hear every day:
Kaika’s 3-month old birthday cooing (mp3, 388K)
Lastly, we made some hand- and footprints, seen below. Naoko’s idea is to make these every three months. You’ll see that we sort of messed up on the feet, placing the left and right feet on the wrong side of the paper, but no biggie. Click on the image below for a larger one, which I tried to make “actual size,” to give you some idea of how Kaika is growing.
