today is mommy’s birthday.  the first gift that we wanted to give to mommy is the gift of sleep.  so last night at bedtime, instead of going upstairs when i got hungry, daddy fed me a bottle and we slept downstairs on the couch.  we thought that this would allow mommy to sleep through the night.  how nice of us, huh?  but instead, mommy kept waking up because she was expecting me to get hungry.  and when i never went upstairs to eat, she got worried.  mommy kept coming downstairs to check on me and daddy, so she didn’t end up getting much sleep anyway.  oh well.  we tried.  i’ll bet mommy won’t go to sleep without us ever again.

other than that, today was just like any other day for us.  daddy went to work and mommy and i hung out with koda.  when daddy came home, he made mommy a special dinner — oyako donburi (it’s mommy’s favorite).  while daddy cooked, mommy gave me a bath.  and guess what — i looove bathtime now!  i know, what a change from last month, huh?  well, a couple of weeks ago, mommy learned the trick to happy bathtime — keep the water warm!  now, bathtime is like being taken away to a tropical island.  i have warm water, and i even have a hammock that is just my size.

maybe next year, we’ll take mommy to a real tropical island for her birthday