Origami and coloring

Today was a rainy day so we stayed indoors all day. But it was fun because we had a lot to do. We did origami and coloring.

We also did a lot of active things today. We played on the gymnastics bar and gymnastics mat. We played “potato picking” where we lie down and hold on to the mat while our teacher tries to pull us off of the mat. It is a lot of fun and full of laughter.

Play area

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 kid comes over and starts touching or playing with my toy. I get very upset and sometimes snatch it back and often cry. I’m still working on sharing things, especially things that are there for everyone. I understand that everyone has a right to play with everything, but I feel that the thing that I’m playing with at the moment is mine. I really have fun in the play areas, but it can also be a place of frustration and sadness sometimes.

Sushiro

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.

Phone and watch

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!

English class, jelly, Mason gun

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 a toy to play with me. I was a toy gun and he pretended to shoot with me. It was fun being a toy!

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 the poster. I usually don’t like getting my hands dirty, but I made sure to leave me mark before requesting to wash my hands. I thought I did a pretty good job with the hand prints, maybe because I’ve been getting practice by fingerpainting during bath time.

Firetruck fingerpaint

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 eventually agreed to have it washed off…later by the last person to take a bath.

Leaf collector

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, walking home, or while at the park I pick it up and hold onto it for dear life. Then when I can I add it to my collection, which is currently on the entrance table.

Haircut

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 a barber shop by a stranger, I’m going to choose Daddy, so I did my best to have a no-trauma haircut. Mission success!

Mommy’s Birthday Party

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 we all enjoyed delicious sushi! Everyone set aside the ikura sushi for me and I was very grateful. Everyone ate their fill, but I was still hungry and had some raisins after lunch. I had a lot but I wouldn’t share with Jiiji. (I was just teasing.)

I played with everyone and there were a lot of laughs. The older I get the easier it is to interact with everyone and have different kinds of fun.

Luckily we had the play time to burn of some of the calories from lunch and make room for birthday cake and dessert. I ate so many fruits, but was sure to share some of Mommy’s birthday cake with Mommy.

It was a great celebration and we had such a fun time! I hope we don’t have to wait until the next birthday celebration to get together again.

Mommy’s birthday dinner

We went out for Mommy’s birthday dinner tonight! The food was very good, but we had a limited time at the table, so we had to eat kind of fast.

We had a fun time. Mommy made me crack up by making crossed-eyes. I thought it was hilarious! I tried to do crossed-eyes to, but didn’t quite get it.

I made Mommy laugh in different ways than crossed-eyes.

At the end of dinner we had a nice surprise when a surprise birthday dessert plate arrived! Mommy was very surprised and happy. She especially liked the fact that the plate was wishing “Motchan”, my nickname for her, a happy birthday!

It was a yummy dessert!

Once again, Happy birthday, Mommy!

Since we had to leave the restaurant fairly quickly, we went in search of more food for me. We stopped by a bakery near the subway station to get me a little more food and Mommy and nice refreshing drink.

As you can see, I was in a very good mood.

We even had a fun walk home. We ran and raced a bit. And even walked like penguins.

What a fun night!

Happy Birthday Mommy!🎂🎁

After a nice dinner I was in a very good mood. I was in an even better mood when Daddy came home with birthday cakes for Mommy’s birthday. I was so excited about the cake that I couldn’t wait. But wait I did as Mommy and Daddy set everything up and took a bunch of pictures. I just wanted to eat my…I mean share Mommy’s birthday cake.

After we sang Happy Birthday to Mommy and wishing her a happy birthday and the obligatory pictures, it was time to dig into the cake! I knew exactly which birthday cake I wanted, although I let Mommy choose after making it very clear which one I wanted. The cake was delicious!

After the cake Mommy opened her card and gifts.

The sugar from the cake started to kick in and I got pretty hyper.

I think Mommy had a good birthday. She enjoyed the card I decorated and like the gifts that I chose (even the Tomica car). I promised to let her play with her car.

Happy birthday Mommy! I love you! You are the best Mommy ever and I hope you had a great birthday!