Mason Shoma

When we went to the park today, our teachers brought a bunch of beach toys so that we all could play in the sandbox at the park. We had a fun time, but I felt like something was missing. Before when I played in the sand it was on the beach in Hawaii and the ocean was just over there. This is a bit less tropical feeling. I miss the ocean.

Now that it is spring, it is a lot brighter in the morning. When Daddy opened the window this morning, light just poured in. There was so much of it, I wanted to touch it!

I ate my banana and yogurt in my highchair as usual, but after I finished eating that, I wanted to get out. That didn’t mean I was done eating, I just wanted to eat on the couch.

After dinner I read books with Daddy, but then I was feeling that I needed some exercise. After all, I ate a very big dinner! So Daddy showed my some exercises and I copied him. Not only was it a lot of fun, but it was good for our health!

Yep, I’m still steering my steering wheel instead of sharing it with someone else on our walks. It’s okay, we had enough handles for everyone, even with me taking this one all to myself.

I like to say good morning to the tulips outside of my school. They are always so bright and happy early in the morning and greet my with gleeful colors. This is a good way to start my school day.

When we got home I went through Mommy’s mommy bag and found an organizer with all my medical cards and records. I went through it to make sure everything was in order. Yep, everything looks good.

Now I can play.

Today we rode in buggies and strollers instead of walking to the park like we did yesterday. I guess our teachers don’t want to wear us out. I kind of prefer walking, but riding is quite relaxing, so I can’t complain.

Just getting a bit of reading in before dinner.

Starting next month, when the new school year starts, my friends and I will be moving up into the big kids’ (2-year-old) class. (That means we’ll all turn two by the end of the next school year in March 2024). In preparation for our advancement we practiced going on big kid walks. Instead of riding in buggies and strollers, we walked to the park, holding a walking train rope. I was the only one who insisted on holding the handle like a steering wheel with two hands while everyone else held it with one and shared. I think my way was much more fun. Isn’t it safer this way with hands at 10 and 2?

One thing I noticed about walking to the park instead of riding was that I ended being a lot thirstier. Wow, that was a workout!

I eat my banana yogurt so quickly that my toasted bread doesn’t have time to cool off before I’m ready to eat it. It’s okay because I have my bread-cooling-off Daddy to make sure I don’t burn myself on hot bread.

This is a long video, but just in case you were curious, this is me going to sleep.

I like to sample foods while grocery shopping, apparently grocery stores are not like Costco with some little portions of food at every corner. So we just pretended to sample the different foods we saw. The nice thing about pretend sampling is that it is all you can eat! I had fun and was even nice enough to share with Daddy.

We arrived home safely and I immediately got back into my normal swing of things. The hotel was a lot of fun and a new experience, but it is good to be home!

You can tell that I’m growing when I don’t fit on the diaper changing tables anymore. My butt barely fits on the table. Surprisingly, having the wall there to put my feet on was actually quite useful and comfortable.

We stopped by a roadside station on the way home and I had fun looking at all the different foods that they had. We didn’t end up buying anything, but it was fun just to look. I even enjoyed looking at the souvenir shop and liked pointing out the figurines, characters, and posters around the store. I also plopped myself down on the floor in front of the little toy section that they had. They a couple of cars that I thought looked interesting, but I think I have enough cars for now. Especially since these were remote control cars and I don’t think I’m old enough to control the cars even remotely.

When we left the roadside station I had a small morning snack in the car and then fell right asleep. I guess I was more tired than I thought. I slept all the way back to the city. We were originally going to have lunch before we dropped Obachan off at home, but no one wanted to disturb my much needed nap, so they let me sleep and arrived at Obachan’s house. I woke up the instant the car stopped. Since we were already there we said goodbye to Obachan and headed home.

I was getting hungry so we stopped for lunch on the way home.

We went to a restaurant call Jolly Pasta and I was definitely very jolly after eating the pasta! I had a kids’ pasta and kids’ side of french fries. Everything was delicious and I ate really well!

Despite going to sleep so late, I woke up bright and early, ready to face a fun new day! I started off my day eating breakfast in the hotel with Obachan. We ate the food that we bought at the convenience store and the food that Mommy and Daddy brought for me from home.

After breakfast we had to pack up because we were checking out of the hotel today. That’s too bad because I had a great time at the hotel. I enjoyed playing as I normally would at home. Mommy and Daddy were very proud of me for adjusting so well to the new environment and situation. I think this will ensure that we go on more trips in the future!