The Drop Off (9:30 AM)
She ran into the house and started playing.
The Pick Up (12:30 PM)
She had fallen asleep about 30 minutes ago.
I think she had a good time!
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Playing at Moritown
The padded play area is always a nice place to relax and stretch out. It's fun to jump, dance, roll, and look at the adults on the sidelines.
Ariel was ready to go after a girl in purple pants plowed her over. The girl apologized, and it wasn't a big deal.
miscellaneous Yokota
Gina, my favorite hair cutter in Japan. She works at the Yokota beauty shop. She also sings R&B with a band in downtown Tokyo.
Ariel checking out her new preschool. It's in a lady's house at Yokota, inspired by our friend Barbara's "Dream Academy". Barbara and family are now in Alaska with a new set of triplet boys. We miss them!
Sarah, the preschool teacher. Ariel's class will be 2 mornings a week, with a maximum of 6 kids.
Ariel was most interested in Sarah's fish, Sushi-chan.
At Kids' Club at the Enlisted Club with Anna and Noah. Kids' Club is a big, crazy, loud dinner every Wednesday. Ariel loves it, especially the balloons, and sitting with random people, especially older girls.
Noah and Ariel look a lot alike these days, with super-cute noses, and hair that grows straight down over their faces, because they both have the double swirl in their hair. The double swirl is called "tsumuji" in Japan. Noah's parents, Anna & Lance, are from Hawaii. Lance works with Jeff.
Yoshino Baigo (Ome Plum Park)
My friend, Megan, and I took Ariel to the plum park. The plum trees weren't in full bloom, but we still enjoyed the hillside paths. At the entrance, we found this roller slide that Ariel liked. Megan took this video. The man was working at the park, and probably wearing a mask because of allergies.
Megan and Ariel. Megan has two kids who are now teenagers. Her husband, Hank, is a helicopter pilot. We know them from our last assignment. It's fun to have them here! They've been stationed in England, so are no strangers to tiny streets and left-sided driving.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Sayonara, Mallory
I thought this was a funny picture, because the kids weren't sure about posing as a group. Left to right: Ariel, Madison, Mallory, Lindon, Tristan, and Connor.
more good times in Singapore
So did we. This was our 15-year wedding anniversary dinner. We accidentally celebrated a day early because our watches had the wrong date (because of leap year.)
Lunch and catching up with Bruce at East Coast Park. Bruce used to work with Jeff. Now he's retired and living with his family in Singapore. His wife and daughter were busy with work and school, so we missed seeing them. It was nice to catch up with him. This restaurant was beachfront, so Ariel and I got to play in the waves.
Chinatown of course! We had foot massages, and a nice Chinese grandma helped entertain Ariel. We also found a healthy vegetarian restaurant there.
Other things we did in Singapore: checked out a movie theater at Orchard Road (Shaw Cinemas), I went running through Fort Canning Park and the river & waterfront, shopped for Indian groceries, visited Mt.Emily hostel and park, played & read at the Central Library. I'm so glad we got to visit Singapore one more time before leaving Asia. Hopefully we'll make it back some day. I could live there!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Singapore Botanical Garden
This is something I've always wanted to do in Singapore. The Garden is really a huge, relaxing park. It reminded us of the park near the China Hotel Marriott in Guangzhou. Except without the air pollution.
a messy lunch
at the children's playground
Always carry a swimsuit or change of clothes! Water play is everywhere here.
Vivo City
Vivo City is our favorite place to stay cool in Singapore. It's a big mall on the waterfront, with a play area, great food, and a movie theater. We've been busy, so I'm a bit behind on blogging about Singapore.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Elmo Says "Achoo!"
We spent last week in Singapore. Here is a video of Ariel reading Elmo Says "Achoo!" to herself in the hotel room:
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Special Friends
I met the Belts (Laura, Virginia, and David) by accident last summer when I was on the wrong floor of a tower. They have become special friends.
Ginny is especially good with Ariel. Ariel likes to play with her during doughnut time after church.
our big blizzard
We had a big snow on February 27th.
It snowed heavily almost all day, then mostly melted the next day.
It was magical! But we hope it's our last snow for the year.
more Tokyo
catching the train
Sensoji (a temple) at Asakusa
bundled girls
the pagoda at Sensoji
Rabbit girl at Ueno Park
playing with pigeons
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