It was a bit too quiet...

...so I turned around to see what she was doing. I found her sitting up on this shelf. My camera was right next to the computer and she seemed quite stable, so I took a picture. (I was ready to catch her if she needed it.) She stayed up there for about five more minutes relishing her mountaineering victory before she started making sounds like she wanted help getting down.






Well, the top of the shelf is no longer a safe place to put things. I found her on top of the kitchen table the other day. She has also pushed a chair up to the barrier gate we have to keep her out of the kitchen. She was using it to climb over the gate when I caught her.

We are definitely not letting her anywhere near the balcony.

March Trip to Okinawa (Just turned 8 months)

On the way to Okinawa. We had six seats all to ourselves. Like always, Akari was in heaven to have both of our undivided attention for hours.











Sporting her new Okinawan shirt.

















In the hotel room. There was a big mirror that she spent a large amount of time in front of. We will spare her the embarrassment of showing the pictures where she is making out with her image in the mirror.























This baby backpack made the trip a whole lot better than it would have been if we had only brought a stroller. We could pretty much go anywhere we wanted.















In the glass-bottomed boat. She enjoyed it a lot.













She would crawl up to these windows, use them to stand up, her hands would slip on the sweaty glass and she'd smash her face into it. The view was so attractive, that she repeated this over and over.









I don't know how many times I heard people say, "The baby's holding the umbrella. How cute." Even in languages I couldn't understand, I could tell they were saying it.