8.30.2009

明日東京へたちます。 go to Tokyo tomorrow.

日本を発つのもあと2日となりました。
明日、東京へ一日早く行って、友達に会って、成田の近くに前泊して次の日9月1日に成田を出発します。

長かったようで、やっぱり短かった。

とりあえず何事もなく、無事シアトルに着けますように。。。

携帯は明日の午後4時くらいまで使える予定です。

ではでは次はシアトルからの更新になりそうです。


It's time to go back to Seattle. We will leave for Seattle on 1th September, but we are going to Tokyo tomorrow morning, and see my friend family, and then we will stay at hotel near Narita airport with my mom, and we will get our airplane.

Hope we get to Seattle safely....

Thank you Japan, and see you in Seattle :-)

8.27.2009

夏の終わり The end of summer


いつのまにかこんな大きな遊具でも遊べるようになってたんだね!
この夏でいろんな公園に行って遊んだ。

She can already climb on like this big toy, I didn't know that! She is a big girl!!!
We' ve been many many parks during this summer. It was so much fun!!
I love parks in my town. there are many beautiful interesting parks there.





夏祭りにも行ってきた。
浴衣着て、屋台でカキ氷買って、みたらし団子買って、日本の夏だな~と思う^^

アメリカにいるとできない日本の夏もこうやってずっと体験していってほしいな。だって私が日本人として体験したこういう楽しいこと、子供たちとも共有したから。

We went to summer festivals some times :) Yukine loves Japanese booths. Everytime she went to like this events, she got a snow corn.
We could see fireworks twice, it was very very beautiful, even though it's small town's. I want my kids to know Japanese culture, so really glad to be here :)
























私の保育園、小学校時代からの友達。みんな大人になってはいても、全然変わってない^^
でも、小さいころよりは、周りがみえるようになって、その小さい時のことを話すとすごくおもしろい!!
今ではできないようなこと、子供だったからできたこと、沢山あるんだよね~。

I could see many many old friends!! It was really good to see them:D
We couldn't see so much each other until now, but we are still good friends!!! We had a fantastic time together :)

8.21.2009

 

家には、知らなかったけど、ずっとブラックベリー??なに?すぐり??よくわからんけど、そんなんがずっとあったらしい。でも今回産まれて初めて食べた。笑 ラズベリーよりすっぱいけど、美味しい!
もっとはやく知ってたらジャムとか作ったのに!

I didn't know that we have a black berry bush at my grand-mom's yard. ( I'm not sure what are they, maybe black berry..) She said it's been here for a long long time though. I have eaten them first time since I was born the other day! It was not so sweet, more sour, but it's good :) If I knew about the existence of this sooner, I would make jam though, too bad!!
おばあちゃんの帽子を借りた喜音。前見えない。。。。:p



奏大くんの1歳半検診があったので、行って来ました。

順調に成長しているとのこと。大きくも小さくもなくちょうど平均というところでしょうか。頭がでかい気がするけど、四角いだけか。笑
身長:79cmあたり。 (今手元に記録がなく取りに行くのをめんどくさがる母。 苦笑)
体重:10.8cm
胸囲:41??
頭囲:40??くらいなはず。笑


色々できるようになってきました。
すごくこの2ヶ月でしゃべるようになりました。日本語を。

「あっちっち」「ちょーだい」「いたっ」「ぱっぱ(かたづけること、終わりのこと)」「ぶーぶー」「じーじーカー(じいちゃんが乗ってるからうちではショベルカーのことをこう呼びます。)」「ばしゅ(バス)」「ぱぽかー(パトカー)」「チュッチュー(電車のこと、英語では電車の音はチャカチャカチュッチューだから)」「ちゅーば(中ばあ。私の母)」「りゅうちゃん(犬の名前)」「あいしゅ(アイス)」「うぃーなー(ウィンナー)」「ぽばぽ(トマト)」。。。。まだ他にもあるはずだけど、まぁこんな感じ。会話ができます。

あと、そう、奏大くん、けっこう下のほうも進んでて、う○ちの時はした後に「ちっち」といって、お尻を押さえて報告、おしっこも一度はトイレで成功!(その一度だけ笑) そして、不思議とオマル、子供便座を嫌います。大人用に反対向きに座りたがる。
この調子でさっさととれてくれたらな~と母期待してみたり^^ めんどくさがらず頑張るぞ!!

あとはよく人をつねる、よくもの壊す、すねる。すねちゃまのように口をとんがらかせます。笑 

とりあえず寝てる以外は止まらないので忙しい。。。でも夜泣きはないのがありがたい。
シアトル行ったら、乳離れ作戦です。。。。泣くやろうな。。。--:


Kanata7s update today.

He had the regular check up the other day.
He is getting bigger and bigger. He seems to be growing as Japanese boy's average size. I thought his head could be bigger than average though, not really, it's just very square :p
Anyway, he is very fine :) Good good.

He starts talking a lots of word, for now, most of them are Japanese. I had no idea which language he would say first, but it seems Japanese since he is with me almost of his life then.
He can say

"Hot" "ouch" "Please" "All done" "Car" "Police car" "Bus" "Chu-chu( means train)" "Ice cream (which is important :p)" " BBQ! (Brit is happy about it)" "Tomato" " Hot dog"( Everything is in Japanese though)..... and so on. So we can communicate each other :) It's really fun and very very cute! I love to talk with him :)
And he is starting to say about potty recently! I didn't expect it at all, but once he said " chi-chi ( " (means pee in Japanese) touching his butt, he keeps saying to me about it! That's good sigh, so I shouldn't miss this chance to start potty training now, so I always take him to the potty everytime he says "pee" or "poop" even its not. Hope he will be done in this summer ;) Who knows.

other stuffs..... He often pinches and hitspeople especially my grand-mom I don't know why though, and sometimes bites people :( I want him to stop it soon!

And he still loves breast milk, so I'm thinking that I will let him finish it after I get back to Seattle. It may be very very hard for him....

I think that's enough for now.

8.19.2009

お盆 Obon

ご無沙汰です。(苦笑)
実家に帰って来てなぜこんなに忙しいのでしょう??もっとぼーーとしてる時間が多いと思ったのに。。
日本滞在も残すところ、2週間を切りました。早い!!本当に!
お盆が終わって、長野はだんだん涼しくなりつつあります。今年は夏が本当に短かったなぁ。

Hi, there!
I'm very busy everyday even if my family is helping me a lot. I was supposed to have a lots of time to space out in here, but not at all! I think that's because my little two monkeys.... :p Both are soooo busy and loud everyday.
It's getting cooler that cooler in Nagano. It will come Autumn soon here.

お盆の前の週末に、友達の志穂が誘ってくれて家族ぐるみでBBQをしました。BBQするところと公園が隣だから子供もめいいっぱい遊べてすごく疲れたけどすごく楽しい一日だった!ブリ豚もいたらいいのにな~と一日思った日でした。(そしたら子供を追いかけるのが半分で済んだ、というのが一番の理由だったり。。。:p)


志穂は年子の姉妹のママ。年子、すごい。でもかわいいのよ、しかも姉妹ってとこが。奏大と同い年にしておねえちゃんだもんね、しっかりするやろうな。
今はほんまにしんどいと思う、どっちも赤ちゃんだもんね~でもちょっと大きくなったら一緒に遊んで仲良し姉妹になるんじゃないかな~??楽しみだね^^

奏大はこの姉妹の上の子が大好きの模様。よくちょっかい出すねん。でもそんな強い押しは、ごめんらしくいつもびくびくしてる彼女。どう考えても逆効果だよ、奏大君。^^:笑

上の写真の奏大君が乗っている黄色い物体は、ショベルカーになっているんだよね~。大人でも楽しいくらい、なかなか考えられてて綺麗な公園だな~と。川も近いし、この日は前の日が大豪雨でけっこうかさ増ししてたから遊べなかったけど、色々遊べる公園でした。

来ていたみなさんに沢山遊んでもらって、午前から夜の花火まで本当に遊びつくした一日でした!!
ここまで一日を外に出てめいいっぱい、くたくたになるまで遊ぶってのも結構気持ちのいいものだね~
一年に3回あればいいけど。笑

志穂、直ちゃん、本当にお誘いありがとう!!!

We had a lot of fun in last two weeks :) First, my friends family invited us BBQ. We went to the park near river. there were a big play ground there and BBQ place. It was great for family! My friend's husband has many hobbies, and one of them is outdoor, so he has lots of stuffs for this BBQ. He and his friend were preparing BBQ sets and most of things, so I just ate delicious! What a wonderful day!!! We'd been there for 11 hours, literally all day long!!! That day's weather seemed to be raining afternoon, so we changed the plan earlier, so we got there at 11 in the morning, and we started eating, and then Kids started playing at the playground and water fountain things, and then ate again, and then it was almost 7 at night, so we decided to do fireworks which was the first plan but we didn't expect we could do it because rain was supposed to start, but it's not. We played played played all day long!!!! I was sooooo tired,but felt so good too!
Yukine and Kanata fell asleep as soon as we rode the car! They must have been so tired too!

My friend has two girls baby, older one is same age as Kanata and younger one is 4 months old, they are only 17 months different!! She must be so busy, but her girls are soooo cute :)Kanata seems to like older girl, but she is scared of Kanata because he pushes her too much :p












そして、お盆前はこの前京都でお世話になったたかみさんファミリーが遊びに来てくれましたー^^遠いところありがとう!!
しかも私はたかみさんにすごく迷惑をかけてしまって、今でもそれが本当に気がかりなのだけど、楽しんでくれていたらいいなと思います。
(たかみさん、本当にごめんなさい。。)

















一泊していってくれたのだけど、長野の自然の中でとりあえず両日、ひたすら公園を駆け巡った二日間でした。笑


奏大くんはまだちょっとみんなより小さいけど一生懸命付いていってなんとか一緒に遊ぼうと必死。喜音は大好きな二人が来てくれてとりあえず幸せ、わたり棒がすごく好きで一生懸命練習してました!
時に三人という数ゆえにけんかやら、仲間はずれやらもめてましたが、すぐに仲直りしてみんなでわいわい遊んでました^^

And my friend’s family came visit us from Kyoto from11th to 12th. They had us when we visited Kyoto last time. I met my friend through the internet community site like facebook, she is so kind and smart woman and kids are good friends too :) Both of days were very beautiful days which is great. If it was raining, I had no idea where should I have taken them in such a countryside so :p We went to some of parks here, we spent most of time at the park. Kids were, of course, very happy :) Yukine likes to do a monkey bar a lot, everytime I take her to the park, she keeps doing monkey bar. She is getting better acutually. Kanata likes slide a lot :) He didn't understand what is scary until recently, but he starts knowing about it, so sometimes he hesitates to slide. He still do too much for him because he wants to play with big kids though.

She has two kids, 6 years old daughter and 4 years old son whose birthday is very close to Yukine. So when they enjoyed playing together, very very good friends but when they were fighting, only someone left out... :p But they found the way to resolve the problem by themselves :)










ダチョウ、見たり。

Went to see ostriches.

馬ににんじんあげたり、奏大が馬のにんじん食べたり。。。:p

They fed Carrots to horses and Kanata ate horse's carrots too :p

私もすごーく楽しかった! たかみさんのおうちに京都でお世話になったときは、本当忙しくて話もろくにできなかったので、今回ゆっくり時間を過ごすことができてよかった!!!
またぜひ来てほしいな~!!
本当にありがとうございました、たかみさん!!今度はシアトルで待ってますね~^^

I was happy being them :) It was so much fun!!! When we went to Kyoto. we were too busy and we couldn't be together, so it was really good time for us!
Thank you for coming and we are looking forward to seeing you in Seattle next time!!



そして最後の写真は、2年ぶり??になる中学の友達との再会。子供がますます大きくなっていて時間の経過を感じる。いつもお互いに連絡を取らなくなったりもするけど、こうして何年かに一度会える時があるとわかっているから、そしてまた普通にすぐに話がはずむから、安心していられる。
子供達も、前のことを忘れてしまっていたとしても、またこうやってすぐに仲良く遊べるってのが嬉しい^^

沢山の素敵な友達に会えること、この日本に帰って来て本当にすごく嬉しいことです^^

8.06.2009

近況報告 Update



大石家のラーメン。
高校の時以来。美味しかった~
I liked the Ra-men when I ate it before, I was a high school student. Though I haven't eaten it since that time, It was still good even I didn't remember the taste.




喜音の描いた、奏大さま。髪の毛のかき方が進歩。やっとばい菌でなく人間っぽくなってきたな~^^
The picture Yukine drew Kanata. People Yukine draw is getting better and better. They were like germs before though, now that it looks a human, isn't it?? Still they have stick arms and legs tho :p hehe~





With my grandma.
It had Ina matsuri, summer festival in down-town Ina( very small down-town), so Yukine wore Yukata, summer kimono and Kanata wore Jinbei kind of summer kimono. We had been many matsuri when we lived in Japan though, Yukine didn't remember at all, so she seemed to be surprised. Kids got snow corn from a food booth. Unfortunately, it was raining at the night, so we couldn't see fireworks outside, but we watched them on TV. There are some festivals here in the summer, so hopefully, we will go to see fireworks at least once.




おばあちゃんと一緒に。この日は地元の伊那まつりの日。せっかくだから喜音は浴衣、奏大は甚平で。お祭りの様子を写真に撮るのは忘れちゃったけど、喜音は去年までの日本のお祭りを覚えてなくて屋台をちゃんと見るのも興味津々。本人は、「日本のお祭り初めてやし、びっくりしちゃった!」ですと。^^:
子供ってこんなもん???喜音って忘れっぽいな~。
英語もすっかり忘れつつあります。スカイプでブリ豚と話すときも英語がでてこず、日本語になっている。。。。^^:もうなんだか心配するのもあほらしくなってきたわ。。。苦笑