Happy Birthday to Beta-chan, and congratulations to her loving parents!
[d]None of the above. I speak to her in English. My wife, native Taiwanese speaker, talks to her in Chinese, and my wife and I speak in Japanese to each other. Beta-chan gets Japanese at day care as well. It’s not easy to raise kids to be fluent in more than one langue, but we’re going to do out best.
(and for all the others)Sorry, we were out of town for the weekend, including climbing a mountain. Here’s a good one. And another. This was on her birthday. From a camping trip. And asleep.
Oh wow, that’s really awesome! I’ve heard that babies growing up in a multi-lingual environment tend to take longer to begin speaking, but knowing those three languages is going to be such a great advantage later on. Good luck!
She’s is every bit as cute as I remember. So, was she eating mud there in the river, or just tasting a rock?
Looks like all three of you are enjoying family life. Thanks for letting us share it.
Happy birthday little Beta-chan darling.
That’s one cute kid.
Okay, the pics earned a kawaii, ne?
Ganbatte!
I think kids that age are like sponges. Don’t be surprised if she grows up speaking a polyglot of all the languages you’ve exposed her to, where she naturally transitions from one to the other to the third.
She’s beautiful! (But you already know that.)
Oh my. melt She’s so beautiful. And adorable. I showed her off to a coworker who has a son a few months older who is in full agreement.
She seems to like dirt and rocks. My kind of kid. 
Oh, she’s so lovely.
She was just tasting the rocks. We play in the mud and sand a lot, so rivers were no problem. I was reading a book about boy and girl brains, and the author talks about the differences in how parents treat them, but I can’t see how different I would treat Beta-chan if she were a boy. Not yet, at least. You play and laugh with her, sing and read to her and hold her when she cries.
It’s amazing to watch her grow and to learn new things daily. She can wave bye-bye now, and when she wants to go downstairs she’ll go to the stairway and wave bye-bye.
The first word she learned was “wan-wan” which is Japanese for doggie. Japanese dogs don’t bark, they say “wan.” There’s a park near our house, and I take her on weekends mornings so she can see the dogs. Dogs and their owners are, for the most part, really friendly and most will stop for a few minutes to let her “pet” the dog, under her daddy’s very watchful eyes. She loves this.
She and I learned to walk together. I held her hands as she lurched along. We did this for weeks and weeks, until she just started walking recently. We still hold hands part of the time, but she can handle the short distances herself.
Happy Birthday Beta-chan!!!
She is SO gorgeous! I love her smile.