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I posted this video of Linc playing while I chat about what is going on with us a while ago on youtube but realized I never posted it here. It is a bit old, but since I don’t get tired of watching it (with the sound off) I extrapolate that none of you will either. He is after all the single cutest kid the world has ever seen aside from McCaulley Culkin.
Just love this bouncer
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Wow! Great video for discovering the many talents of UBob. Who knew you were such a good whistler?
You’ve got my curiosity piqued. What horrible things were you doing that MIL objected to, but insurance lady said was good?
I really like the video with the voice over. It gives us a chance to see Link in his natural element while hearing about his adventures--a very good format. Keep it up.
Link is so cute. I can tell that he’s getting pretty chubby. I can’t wait to see him in person.
My whistling skills are second only to my knowledge of the cervix, but I have to confess it wasn’t me whistling in the video. It was Linc, we are practicing now and hope to launch a father and son whistling extravaganza roadshow sometime this winter.
As for the horrible things I was doing that destroyed any possibility for future happiness for Linc. I don’t remember them in great detail, I know that giving him belly time was one, trying not to wrap him in too many clothes was another, swaddling him was a third, and holding him when his grandma wanted to hold him was another.
Why is the insurance lady a baby expert? Perhaps insurance ladies have a different function in Japan than they do here?
I hope Linc has gotten the red snoopy by now and anything else his little heart desires. I think most of all he wants to video chat with his Grandma across the big waters on her new macbook.
I think that explains my confusion in the video about who she was. After giving it some thought, I think this is the result of having a good and mostly functional national health care system. It is in the government’s interest to try to reduce the number of sick visits to the doctor, so they have hired experts on baby care to go around and check on families in the area and assure that a certain basic level of care exists and answer any questions the family may have. She explained the vaccination schedule and other important things liek that to us too. All in all it seems like something the USA would do well to emulate. Go Obama!
Incidentally according to the 2008 World Factbook estimated 2008 infant mortality rates Japan has the second lowest infant mortality rate in the world, while the U.S. is in 42nd place, two spots behind Cuba.