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Daddy’s girl and mother are doing great! I can’t stop daydreaming about her when I’m at work

未絢（みあ）Mia Kristen Abbott
Mi ->未 (future)
A ->絢 (to spin variety, colorful, and beautiful silk = making and spinning beautiful patterns)
She was born on December 1st at 4:13PM weighing about 6.7lbs (3000g)

“Hm, it’s strange out here in the real world… ”

“What are you doing, papa?”

Cute little baby toes… so tiny!

A little slow writing this post, it’s been a busy busy week! Sunday I took the JLPT N3, I’ll get the results by mail in about 2 months (slow), but I think it went well.

Thanks to Amanda for pinging me - or else I might have easily forgotten to update here until tomorrow. Hannah also had a good question about citizenship which I’m sure some of you out there might be wondering too:

Amanda: hannah wants to know if you are going to file for dual citizenship for Mia. that’s what they are studying in history.

me: I’ll take her to the US embassy sometime early next year and get her passport and apply for her SSN. She’ll have both US and Japanese passports until she is 20
when she turns 20 the Japanese government will require her to choose one nationality. Although the US supports dual-citizenship, Japan does not.
Mia will have to decide which to choose, I’m sure it will be a very tough early-adulthood decision.

Amanda: Wow! That will be a very hard decision. I guess it will depend on if ya’ll choose to stay in Japan or live in the states.

me: or maybe she’ll be rebellious but i hope not
we plan on living in both countries for a while, but you’re right - it will probably depend on where she feels at home

I’ll be at work during the week (working late) then heading back to Gunma early on Fridays to see Ayako and Mia-chan… can’t wait for the weekend

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