Hugo Edward Lafferty Petersen

Yes, it does spell HELP...

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to my honorary little bro, Hugo and my honorary sister, Lydia. (In case you didn't know, the Petersens unofficially adopted me about a year ago.) Anyway, little Hugo is only 8 days old and is tiny!! Today was the first time I saw him and incidentally, if he'd been awake, I would have been the first brown person he ever saw, but hey, he decided to sleep making several different facial expressions, tried to sit up - which is pretty impossible at 8 days - and impersonated a bee instead. I stress, this was all while he was sleeping. It was highly amusing. (giggles)

In case you're wondering, I do have the Petersen's permission to put a pic of him and Lydia on my blog...

And on a completely different note...

I had another Japanese lesson last night where we learned how to ask "how much is this?" (kore wa ikura desu ka) - along with prices (too complicated for this website) - and colours. I just want to tell you about the colour pink in Japanese: there are two ways of saying it - pinku and moro iro (moro = peach and iro = colour). However, if you are ever in Japan and feel the need to discuss the colour pink, don't try and sound more Japanese by using the more traditional option because it is now commonly used as a synonym for porn. Ahem...