September 2023

My favorite song to sing is still Wheels on the Bus. I never get tired of hearing it or singing it. But sometimes I’m pretty particular about what part of the bus we should sing about next.

Today we visited the vehicle exhibit on our walk. My classmates and I really enjoyed looking at the pictures and the little train models. But I think I was the most excited. I exclaimed, “Densha! Basu!” when I saw the exhibit. I even talked about it after we left, saying “Densha ita ne. Basu ita

I’m a stalling expert when it comes to bedtime. Besides the usual extra bedtime hugs and kisses that I ask for with practiced charm, I have other tactics. I try to push back my bedtime by insisting I do certain things. Even after I’m out in bed and get my good night kisses and hugs

Today I woke up in a pretty good mood. I was very active on our walk to school. I was singing with Daddy and chatting about various things. One of the things I’m getting much better at is copying speech. Today I had fun copying Daddy when he said “Go go go!”

I love zukan, or illustrated reference books. I often borrow zukan from school instead of story books. I love looking at pictures of vehicles and l am getting really good at learning their names. Even at school you can often find me sitting with a zukan carefully scanning each and every page.

Even though I’m young and usually have a lot of energy there are times when we go for our walk at school that I don’t want to walk. I just feel run down and want to take it easy. At these times our teachers put me in the stroller while everyone else walks. Some days

I have a rascally face. Sometimes I can look at you and you’ll know that I’m up to no good. Or at least that’s what I want you to think.

I like me some natto. I know many non-Japanese think it is smelly and slimey…and they are right, but it is also delicious. I’m getting so good at using my chopsticks that I can eat my natto all by myself.

I’m talking more and more every day. Most of it is at school though. And school is a Japanese-speaking environment and home and English-speaking one, so Mommy and Daddy often don’t hear what I can say in Japanese. I’m stringing a lot of words together now. Today when at the park my teacher asked me

We picked up an apple pie on our way home from the city and had it for dessert. I don’t often have dessert so I was really happy and excited about the apple pie!

Daddy doesn’t have a chance to cook much during the week so he likes to cook on the weekends. I like the food he cooks, but I don’t really like how the cooking cuts into our play time. The weekends are the only time for us to spend a lot of time playing together. Sometimes

Mommy had to go to the city, so I jumped at the opportunity to ride the bus with her. She had been planning to take the subway which would be faster, but I had been talking about riding the bus all week so she changed her plans and we all took the bus instead. While

We have a display on the kitchen counter and every so often I hear Daddy talking to it. It turns out that it is an Echo Show. I had alway thought it was a very bulky iPad that was not as easy to use.

After the ice cream festival we went home to pick up the car and then drove Baaba and Obachan back home. But not without stopping for dinner at a sushi restaurant. We had a great time there as well. I ate my fill, which was quite a lot considering that I just had ice cream

The first stop for today with Baaba and Obachan was an ice cream festival. I don’t often get to eat ice cream, let alone a lot of it. So this was quite a treat for me. They had ice cream from all parts of Japan with a lot of special flavors. I started off with

Yay! We get to ride the subway! That is always fun and exciting activity for me.

I had a nice surprise when Baaba and Obachan stopped by for a visit. Actually, I had heard that Obachan was coming but I was very happy to see that Baaba came along too. She must have missed me a lot. We didn’t have a plan, so we just hung out at home for a

Our past couple trips to Costco, I’ve been eating about a third of Daddy’s Costco hot dog in addition to my lunch. That is a very good hot dog. I like it so much that we bought a pack of dogs and buns to keep in the freezer. It is not quite the same as

We had our school sports day today. We had been practicing for it for a while so I was a little excited and a little worried. But when we got into the gym and I saw how many people were there, I was not excited anymore. I was just so overwhelmed. I was not happy.

For some reason I was in a potty mood this morning so I had a seat on my Anpanman potty. Nothing came out, but it was good practice.