Waiting For Baby

This morning you had Daddy and I so worried about you. You woke up this morning just after 6 and wanted to snuggle with me in my bed as usual. About ten minutes after coming in, you got up and went into the kitchen, got your cup and a bottle of water off the kitchen table, brought them into the room and poured yourself a cup of water. You drank your water (and wiped up whatever water you happened to spill in the process), and returned to snuggle with me. Slightly strange, but still relatively...

Our time with Bachan and Grandpa was wonderful for everyone, but already, they are back in Canada and again, here we are, just us three. Though life has quickly picked up where we left it before they came, the house seems quiet and lonely. I  surely miss them, and I know they miss us, especially you even more.  While you cannot understand the concept of missing someone so much, I know you do miss them in your own way. You often talk of them and the things they did, and one nigh...

For as long as I can remember now, you have been experimenting with the suffixes -ed and -s. These days, you are really going -ed crazy adding it to everything now. "Yesterday Kohaku comed to our house," or more oddly, "oh no, I broked it!" Our favourite however is "what did Emily doed!" You always say that when you think you have done something really funny and want us to make note of it.

You were trying out the word "actually" this past week. You asked Dad...

I have been meaning to write for a while now, but between being one computer down (of course, the good one) and being unusually busy with endless to-do lists, I just haven't had the time to write something. So finally, here I am, but I do not know even know what to say.

Well, I'll begin with this weekend. My student, Ryoko, came all the way from Kagoshima to visit us this weekend. We met her for dinner in Shuzenji, and then hosted her all day today, sharing our meals with he...

Well, here's another first for you, the first big earth quake. It was actually quite a big one, registering over 6.5 on the Japanese magnitude scale, although in this area, it was in the upper 5 rang. Despite being only half a point lower than the great Kobe quake of 95, being your first quake, and being that you were half asleep when it happened, you were completely unphased by it, and probably had no idea why your Mommy and Daddy were coming into your room at 5:07 am to whisk you out of you...