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赤ちゃんが産まれて、昨日のお昼に退院して、昨晩は家でユックリできました。今日は朝からジムに行って、ここ数日間の間は病院通いで動かしていなかった身体をがっつり鍛えてきました。

After spending couple of days going back and forth to the hospital, I finally got some time to hit the gym this morning and had a great work out! My wife was also able to relax being home with our daughter and son. Hospital is not exactly the best place to get some rest....

所で産まれて来て女の子の名前はCapri（香風里）ちゃんになりました。ミドルネームはKaede(楓）で決定。産まれる前からどうしようかと悩んでいましたが、息子の時は僕が名前を決める権限があったので、今回は妻が決めました。イタリアのカプリ島をイメージした名前で、漢字も友達のカメラマンの斉藤ヒロ君に相談して決定！実は息子の漢字も考えてくれたんです。命名は本当に悩みますよね。でも、子供は一生その名前の背負って生きていくので、しっかりと考えなくてはいけませんね。親として一番最初にすることですもんね。そうそう、日本は産後２週間以内に出生届を出せば宵みたいですが、アメリカは退院前に決めないと、出生届を作成してくれないんですよね！なので、アメリカで生む場合は事前に考えておく様に！？！（笑）

Well...after a lot of debate with my wife, we ended up naming our girl Capri and her middle name is Kaede. Since I got to chose the name for my son, my wife wanted to have the say this time and she liked the sounds of Capri as from the island in Italy. It was hard to come up with a Kanji Character to fit her name in Japanese but my friend gave us some thoughts and I was happy with her name after all! I actually chose Kaede for her middle name because I wanted something that was more Japanese with in her name to be proud of our heritage. Obviously naming a child is not exactly ease especially if you have to come up with something that suits in English as well as Japanese. Capri may be a bit uncommon as a name, but the meaning in Kanji would be "Bringing the odor of your country through the wind" which I thought it was pretty cool!!