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Hi folks, your friend UltraGirl here with a quick visual update on the progress of everybody’s favorite 1 year old, Lincoln Arthur McDonald the 1 year old extraordinaire who turned one and became a 1 year old on April 26th of this year, his 1st birthday.

His first birthday cake is shaped like the number one.  I love this cake.  We also had a different kind of cake to share with everyone.  Too bad Linc couldn’t try very much. 

Did you know lots of babies who turned one year old have to try to carry a mochi (rice cake) that weighs about 1.8 kg in Japan?  Sounds horrible huh?  Well, this is a tradition to wish his or her life be fulfilling and they have no trouble getting food.  Linc doesn’t know yet in this photo how heavy the mochi will be.  Actually had no clue what was going on…

This is “After”.  Most babies aren’t able to carry that much on their back at the age, and actually it is even better if your baby falls down in some areas since that means your child will get so much food and wealth that he can’t carry it all.

This is the mochi he had on his little back.  Wow that was heavy. 

Dinner Time … and the living’s easy

We had special kind of sushi, pizza, my mother’s salad, and fruits.  Linc had his own style of food. 

Kampai (cheers)!

Yey!  Thank you everyone.  I’m a very happy boy.  Oh, and he claps now.  He claps a lot.

Three of us went out for dinner on Linc’s actual birthday.  The party was held the day before.

On my (ultragirl) birthday, we all visited Saitama where Motoji (my dad) is from.  His brother maintains his yard really neatly. 

Another photo of Linc in the yard with his J-grandma.

In the same yard, but he wanted to stand up.

Family photo in front of the Kabuto (samurai helmet)

May 5th is Japanese Children’s day.  Display Kabuto if you have a boy to wish for him to be strong.  This is such a nice one, don’t you think?

Just a photo I took in a restaurant the other day.  These guys are so cute.