Giving some attitude.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
The Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny left several colourful eggs around the garden. What a lot of fun!
Tyler can sit up by himself (if you get him up he'll stay up)
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
Sakura Days
A bit of a ladies man!
Noah's class had a final get-together at the local park this past Thursday. As of next week they start a new academic year and will be put in new classes with new teachers. His classmates are equally divided - 16 girls and 14 boys in "Bara Gumi" which means "Rose class".
It was beautiful weather although the wind was icy. There were a few cherry blossums still around which was lovely. All in all it was a really nice afternoon.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Photo Updates
The captions: (not where they should be oh well)
Tyler love remotes.
He is absolutely content to stay put - no attempts to roll over or crawl from this fellow.
Cherry Blossom picnic.
Our very own tree, transplanted from great granny's house.
Noah's homemade hamburger with GASP lettuce in it!
Update February and March 2007
We have had a busy time lately. Noah had surgery to remove his tonsills, adenoids and drain his ears on February 8th. Mum arrived from NZ to help out with the recovery on the 12th. She was here for a whole month which was fantastic.
While mum was here we had great weather and lots of fun, including mum's birthday. We had lots of visits from Rob, Kai and Ayumi. We also enjoyed a meal out with Tak's family on the 54th floor of the tallest building in Izumisano. On the windiest day in Izumisano we decided to go to the beach which was perhaps a strange idea considering Noah had been out of hospital for about two days at that point!
I'm sure you'll see in the photos that most of our days were spent at home, enjoying the sun and playing with our baby!
Monday, March 26, 2007
More photos from February
Tak and Jac working in the kitchen.
Tyler in his World T shirt
Nana's 21st birthday ;)
Boys having a laugh.
February 2007
Getting the futons ready for nana's visit.
Doesn't Tyler look cute with his chubby arms poking out!
Friday, March 02, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Garden Update
The garden is looking great since we had Joe here last autumn.
Here's Joe's price list:
Painting and decorating: 2000 yen per hour**.
Specialist painting finishes: 3000 yen per hour**.
Gardening: 2500 yen per hour **.
**Plus transport.
Paintings and original hand-painted T-shirts varied pricing.
Noah Our New Gardener
It was lovely weather today - very mild - so Noah and I decided to do some gardening. We got some extra soil to fill in a bit of a dip in the garden, moved some rocks around and put in a few plants. Noah will be responsible for weeding and watering it each day after school. He loves working outside.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, December 25, 2006
Five Months Old
Tyler is exactly five months old since he was born on July 23rd. Here he is with some of his Christmas presents.In his right hand you can see he is clinging to his cloth for dear life. It's his favourite thing to do - suck material. Anything will do - his sleeves, bibs, blankets, daddy's shoulder.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone!
Thank you for all our great presents. We have had a wonderful weekend. We celebrated a day early since Christmas is not a holiday here - Takeshi will be at work.
Saturday - Noah, Tyler and I went to the airport to see Santa arriving. He flew in from somewhere ... and the kids from Noah's kindy put on a fantastic concert.
It was pretty exciting driving to the airport in our little car. We have to drive over a 3.7 km bridge that spans the sea. Noah had no idea where we were going and was a bit panic-stricken that I had taken a wrong turn because we were on the highway! It was a really fun adventure.
Before we left home I got Noah to write a letter and draw a map for Santa asking that he come early. Noah wrote " Dea Santa Pys come ae bit erly from Noah". His request was granted!
I spent the afternoon cooking. We had our usual fare - roast pork with vegetables, shrimp cocktails to start and trifle for pudding. We opened a couple of presents before we went to bed. Noah left Santa a glass of milk, a couple of packets of raisins and a muesli bar. This year he had to use a pillow case instead of his stocking as I got an email from Santa last week to say that his presents were quite large!
Sunday - both Noah and Tyler were very lucky. Santa left them some great gifts as well as all the presents from friends and family. Noah got lots of books about all his favourite things - space, pirates, dinosaurs, and the human body. He also got a jelly brain and a see-thru human body to make. Tak and I gave him a basketball set. His Japanese grandparents got him a CD/tape player and some book vouchers.
Tyler got tons of bath toys and cute bibs, books and food. There wasn't anything from Santa for him so I had to put in his baby rice that arrived yesterday from the Foreign Buyers Club! (for Noah's benefit).
We spent the afternoon at Cat and Masa's Christmas party which was really nice. I had several Christmas mince tarts there. I have been so busy these past few weeks I haven't had time to make mine. I just checked before and the mincemeat is good till 2008 so I will save it. There were devilled eggs, shortbread and lots of other festive goodies. It was lovely.
So we have had a really excellent Christmas. Thank you everyone!
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Noah's kindergarten is putting on a Christmas concert next week. The kids have had three gruelling days of dress rehearsals this week.Noah has done a picture of it here: these are the older children, dressed up in their nativity costumes, singing.
Noah's class is playing Jingle Bells with their instruments. Noah is playing the tree bell - a handle with several bells attached so it looks like a tree.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Tyler twenty weeks
Tyler is twenty weeks I think.
He weighs 6.7 kg and is 65 cm tall. Quite average for a baby his age. But much smaller than his brother at the same age. Perhaps we overfed Noah!
Our tree
Noah the skinny refugee and our tree.
You can see it from the side road. Looks very pretty with the new LED lights.
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