We live next to a park (like right next door!) and I have taken Noah for a walk through there a couple of times or for a sit on the grass but last week on a really nice sunny day when we had no other real plans I took him to play in the sandpit there for the first time. It is fenced off so luckily no cats or anything can get in and the sand, while a blackish colour (is there any other kind in Japan?) was quite clean (I thought!).
He LOVED it. At first he kept picking up the sand and then looking a bit shocked that it slipped through his fingers. I snapped some pictures on my phone. He only tried to eat it twice and I managed to stop him both times!
He is down for a nap at the moment. His night sleeping is a bit all over the place meaning I am getting very little sleep. I fed him twice last night (7:30pm then to bed then fed at 12:30 and 5am then up for the day at 6am) But he woke up two or three times before the first feed and needed to be re-settled (which luckily doesn`t usually take long) and I resettled him at least once between 12 and 5 too. He has decided 6am is his time to wake up now- much to my dismay. Actually I wouldn`t mind much if he wasn`t up so often….I am hoping it is just a sleep phase.
He had his 3rd DPT shot today and didn`t cry- in fact when the doctor took the needle out Noah gave the dr a big smile as if to say “thanks for taking that out”…. His eczema is flaring up a little bit again- I think it might be the weather but am not sure. I don`t think it is a particular food but it is hard to know. We have introduced yogurt about a week ago…he has only had it twice though. It could be dairy related though I guess- will have to monitor it.
I haven`t uploaded the photos yet but we went to meet our niece for the first time yesterday- Noah`s 1st cousin. Shun`s brother and his wife gave birth to their little girl on Saturday, 2 weeks early and she weighed in 2.6kg (5 pound something- so TINY!) – she was so small and cute with quite a bit of hair. I sadly didn`t get to hold her (which is a story for another time) but hopefully I will get a cuddle sometime soon. Oh and they named her Rina! So yes, I am now officially and aunt!
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
Congrats to being an Aunt! and its great that they will be so close in age and live close to each other. Not sure when Misora will actually be able to meet any of her cousins (she`s #7 on my side) as Taka still says she is too young to make such a long trip……….men
I think I’ve got pictures of Erica that age doing much the same thing! I was so surprised with what you said about the sand in Japan only being black – we have only sand-colored sand in Kyushu, whereas NZ is famous for black-sand beaches, I mean REALLY black. DH thought something was terribly horribly wrong the first time he saw a NZ beach!
your phone takes fabulous photos!!
I love the look on his face! And congratulations on being an Aunty!
And only grey/ black sand up here, too. And I’m from an island with white yellow sand. sob sob sob…
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Aw, so cute! Look at those little legs.
And congrats on being an aunt
everyday when I pick up the sprog, she`s covered in sand. Makes for rather gritty kisses. She loves it, I hate it – I pity her child care teacher who has to pull her from it! During the wet season in Darwin, apparently the storms would come, and she would stay in the sand until dragged!
What a cute boy, nice pictures.