Mason Shoma

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.

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 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.

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!

• patrol cars and buses and taxis
• pretty flowers
• antenna
• classmate’s bus numbers
• thanks
• driving Daddy to work in a taxi
• bus door opening styles
• picking up dinner
• collecting rocks
• identifying airplane companies
• spiders

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 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.

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.

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, 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.

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!

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 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.

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.