First Foods!!!

Koyo is starting to eat real food!!! We have started him on rice cereal and some other baby foods. We have now tired pumpkin and green peas. He liked the pumpkin, but seems to not like green peas as much. Its fun seeing him trying new things and starting to learn how to eat. He now tries to eat everything. Every time we eat he starts moving his mouth thinking he is going to be fed. He grabs for anything on the table when I am eating and brings it to his own mouth. Its fun to see him grow sooo fast!!!

He can now wear the onsie that the McLemore Aunties gave him at the hospital when he was born. the onsie says "Lock up your daughters"

Chisa Keeping busy

So since Gordon is busy with all his school work, Chisa has made new friends from Church and have started to do a little bit of crafting. We plan to have a booth at the Art Festival in November here in Huntington to sell some of the stuff we will be making.

Chisa have been working on some stuff but not much done yet. Here are some stuff that I have been working on.

Here is the wipe cover.

Here is the wipe cover for Becca (hope she likes it)

Here are some hair clips.

Thanks to DeNae and Andrea I have learned lots of cute crafts!!!

Catching up with current happenings

So we have not posted much since we moved to West Virginia. We finally feel like we are getting settled into a nice place and getting stuff organized. Gordon is busy everyday with his studies. Koyo is growing like crazy!!! We went to the doctors and he is 15lbs 12oz and 25 4/8 inches long. wow!!! so big. Chisa has been trying to keep busy with decorating the house, learning to craft with some new friends, and shopping with coupons!!! Its amazing how much time it takes to cut out coupons and to find deals!

Well, we have been to Japan and Atlanta since I last blogged. Reiko, Chisa's sister's, wedding went well and we took lots of pics. We enjoyed Japan... Koyo did very well on the flight and everywhere we went. He slept through most part of it. He got to meet with his Grandpa, great grandma, aunts, good friends of ours in Japan. Koyo got to visit the Tokyo temple, got to ride the Shinkansen (bullet train), and rode on the first flight direct flight from SLC to Japan.

In Atlanta for Granddaddy's 80th b-day we got to visit with everyone!!! It was lots of fun to see all the relatives there. Koyo got to go to his first baseball game for Fourth of July. Chisa and nanna left the stadium during the fireworks since Koyo was asleep and we didn't want to frighten him too much.

We said our buys in SLC and moved at the end of July. We drove 3 days to get to WV with Koyo, Stitch (our rabbit), Gordon, Chisa, and all the rest of our luggages. We were quite stuffed. Koyo did very well. He sleeped most of the time. He cried couple of times because he was either hungry or just was tired and wanted to be held. We had to stop every 3 hrs atleast. We got to visit the Kozlowski's in Denver the first night. We also were able to have dinner with the Nichols family that night. The second day we stayed at a motel...not the best, but we got to bring in Stitch so it was good. We finally got to Huntington, our new home at about 11PM. We unlocked the door excited to see our new home!!! Then a gush of stinky air hit us like bat right when the door opened. It smelt like there were dogs and cats' droppings all over the carpet in that house. We were very disappointed.

So we talked to our landlord, had the carpets cleaned again... didn't help. We moved out to another place that the landlord showed us. We found mold everywhere. I'm not sure what we were thinking when we moved in, but every night at around 2AM our neighbors would come out to sit in the front loan and talk really loud. Also there were people walking by and driving buy just yelling out things we didn't want to hear. We decided to move again. Luckily Gordon's parents were here for the White Coat Ceremony and helped us find a decent place out a little further from Marshall University. Chisa was so glad to find a place that she felt safer and the house was a lot cleaner!!!

During all of this Gordon had his orientation, White Coat Ceremony and his first days of class. He was busy trying to get settled while starting school.

We finally are getting settled and have gotten most of our furniture. Its been a crazy start here at Huntington but we are feeling good about being here! We miss everyone in SLC!!!

There are some photos of Koyo that I have posted on Snapfish. Just click and it will take you to the website. I am so behind on posting so I will atleast put the photos on so you can see what we have been up to these last months.

Blessing

On May 24, 2009 we got to bless Koyo. We wanted to do it before Grandma Yoko left for Japan.
Koyo was very good during the meeting. He slept through the whole time, not even one peep.
We are grateful that we were able to have so many people join in on the blessing circle.

Well, Koyo is now 5 weeks old and has definitely gained some more weight.
We still can't really tell what color his eyes is...since they change so much everyday.
Grandma Yoko went home today to Japan. We will miss having her here and all her help.
Chisa is not sure if she will be able to keep up with all the house work now.

Our rabbit, Stitch, got neutered last week. He did good and is recovering very quickly. We were hoping that it will help him settle down a little, but it seems like he still has the urges to try to hump Chisa's leg. We will have to find a way to train him better.

We are trying to prepare for our trip next week to Japan for Chisa's sister's (Reiko) wedding. We are bit worried about the travel on the plane and also in Japan. Hope that all goes well. Koyo sleeps well so we think there will be no problem in that aspect of things but just that we worry about his health. We are taking with us sanitizing wipes and hand sanitizers to make sure we take extra percuation. We won't be doing as much this time in Japan, we will have to stay home more and help Reiko with preparing for her big day!

Growing Boy

We went to the doctor the other day for Koyo's two week check up. Since his birth, he grew from 18.5 inches to 20.5 inches. He also gained weight from 6 lbs 14 oz to 7 lbs 11 oz. He is still a mellow little boy except when he is hungry. He sleeps well for which we are grateful. Here are a couple more pictures of him.

A Little Boy

We had our little baby on April 21st, at 6:42p.m. He was 6lb 2oz, 18 1/2 inches long.
We have finally decided on a name. Koyo Gordon McLemore.
Koyo is a name that Chisa's dad always wanted to give his child if he ever had a son (which he never did) and the Kanji for the name is taken from Chisa's dad's and mom's name.
Hope everyone will be able to say his name ok. Its a bit tough for some people.

Koyo has some big hands and feet like his dad and has almond shaped eyes like his mom's.
Everyone says that he is a good mix of mommy and daddy.
He is so cute and a very calm baby.
We are glad the whole delivery and labor part is over and that he is finally here.
Gordon has been busy with work, taking care of Chisa and Koyo, and tests for his anatomy class.
Chisa has been doing good recovering from labor and Pnemonia that she found out she had on the Monday after Koyo's birth.

It seems like Koyo is changing everyday. We have to keep taking pics or else we will forget what he looked like!