Author name: Mason Shoma

Just trying out Daddy’s new headlamp. Now I’m ready for some spelunking.

We went to the play area near Costco again today. Daddy dropped Mommy and me off and then went to do our Costco shopping. I had a lot of fun, but have to admit that I still have a hard time sharing at these play areas. Especially when I’m playing with something and then some

We went to my favorite sushi restaurant, Sushiro, for lunch today. I was very excited about it, but we had to wait a bit for our seat. Went we got a table I dug right into delicious sushi. I had several plates of ikura, but I also tried some others as well.

Today I let Daddy know that I have a phone. When Daddy asked what kind of phone, I said “telephone”. I then told Daddy that I have a watch too. Daddy asked if it was a Tomica watch, and I said yes. Then Daddy asked me “what time is it?” I answered food time!

We went to the prefectural office observation deck today. We could see so much and spotted a bunch of trains and airplanes.

We had a fun English class at school today. In addition to our usual words, we learned some Halloween words as well. As usual I did very good and was a good example to my classmates. After eating my dessert Daddy came home and played with me. By “played with me” he used me as

It was another rainy day today. It was raining pretty hard on our way to school so I had to get all decked out in my rain gear. The rain gear did its job and I arrived at school completely dry. Today we made autumn posters by putting our handprints in autumn colors all over

During bath time, I asked Mommy to paint a firetruck for me with my fingerpaints. She did an awesome job! It was so nice that I was very hesitant to wash it off or even to add my own fingerpainting to it. In the end I added a little decorations and accents around it and

We had a very active day today. We went to the park to run around a bit, but we had to hurry back for our gymnastics class. Today after warming up we had chair gymnastics. It was a lot of fun and surprisingly quite tiring.

At the park today we all ran around a bunch, looked for bugs, and played in the sand. But my favorite thing was collecting awesome leaves. I’ve been doing this for a few weeks now and have accumulated quite a collection. Whenever I find a cool looking leaf on the ground when walking to school,

My hair was getting long again so it was time for a haircut again. My last haircut was quite traumatic with me crying and practically screaming. Today everything went a lot smoother. No tears this time and it was done fairly quickly. Given the choice of having my haircut at home by Daddy or at

When we got back from dropping Jiiji and Baaba off at the train station, Daddy opened the car door and started doing a silly chest thumping and foot stomping dance. Without hesitation I joined in on the silliness. After the silliness I did some driving.

Mommy’s birthday fell on a Friday and that means that we had a whole weekend to celebrate. So that means I had three days of eating birthday cakes. If this is how birthdays work, I hope the next birthday we celebrate starts on a Friday too. Jiiji, Baaba, and Obachan came over for lunch and

Jiiji, Baaba, and Obachan are coming over for lunch to celebrate Mommy’s birthday so we have to clean the house before they get here. I helped with the cleaning by doing the cleaning that looked like the most fun for as long as it was still interesting to me.

We visited the prefectural office because it was the last day that they were going to have the train exhibits on display. So we checked out the train exhibits one last time and made sure to look out onto the city and see if we could see any real trains, which we did!