Every parent thinks their child is special or cute.\u00a0 I try to downplay this as my wife enjoys believing that every time someone says, \u201cKawaii,\u201d it means her daughter must be the cutest girl in Tokyo.\u00a0 \u201cShe is just an ordinary baby,\u201d I reply, hoping to keep her image of her child based in reality.\u00a0 It often has the opposite effect.<\/p>\n
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The other day she came home and told me that a lady with a big camera had asked if she could take some pictures of the child in Yoyogi Park because the lady thought our daughter was so cute.\u00a0 She took some photos and showed them to my wife.\u00a0 They were very nice.\u00a0 Then she asked if she could use them on her blog, and my wife said, \u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cBlog?\u00a0 What blog?\u201d I asked.\u00a0 It turns out the lady has a website where she shows all the pictures of children she has taken.\u00a0 She has a studio where she takes their pictures for parents she has met in the park.\u00a0 So now it seems that because she told my wife that our daughter is cute, I will have to take her to the studio for birthday pictures, Shichi-go-san pictures, New Year\u2019s pictures, etc.\u00a0 \u201cShe is just an ordinary baby,\u201d I said to my wife\u2026 who was no longer listening because she was checking her daughter\u2019s pictures on \u201cthe blog.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"