So this is our 10th month living overseas!! WOW, I never thought I'd be doing this. Still I sit back sometimes and think, "Am I really living overseas? Am I seriously the only American in this store? Can I really just drive 20 minutes to swim at a beautiful beach? Can I, please, learn better Japanese so I can tell the little boys outside our windows to stop screaming at each other?" Ah, foreign culture! Funny enough, the Japanese don't have a very hands-on approach to rearing children so you'll often see kids as young as three and four out by themselves, playing in the street or with a pack of older kids. We have a little gang here on our street that likes to hang out by or house because it has the only shade around. So loud and no adults around to discipline so they're constantly getting injured or playing with glass and rusted rebar...hilarious. I laugh about it sometimes...and other times I just want to pull my hair out. I just want to take a nap!!! Summer will be the hardest because they'll all be out for summer...yippee! Well, we plan to go to the beach or pool EVERY DAY!
Speaking of which, May has been making up for the rainy season by monsooning on us 6 out of every 7 days! We were getting stir crazy and then Memorial weekend hit and now it's blazing hot with sun every day! We've been to Torii Station beach and Moon beach this week and we can't wait until the Foster pool opens for morning swims! We've been to the aquarium again (Little E kept asking for two weeks) and finally to Pineapple Park which is a funny little place where you ride a car around a garden and then taste tons of pineapple foods. Delicious!
My belly is getting bigger and I'm now in only maternity clothes...which I had to buy because all my maternity clothes from Little E are WINTER! Not gonna work here...Still feeling great and looking forward to knowing the gender!
Our house church is going wonderfully. We have three families in our home each Sunday and it's very laid back and encouraging. Adam's been doing a great job leading every worship and Little E is getting a lot out of the experience of being an integral part of the whole worship time. She's also learning to sing loud and can remember all the stories about Jesus that we've gone over. She's amazingly smart, I tell you! We're enjoying the close community aspect of a house church and hope to just get closer and closer!
I hope to have better pictures of the belly soon!
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| Here's the little bean at 8 weeks...11 weeks ago! |
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| We went to Bios on the Hill a few weeks ago with Diana and Evan. Little E still talks about the water buffalo with the rope in his nose. |
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| Little E and Evan in their little elf houses |
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| Bios on the Hill treck |
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| A rainy day: here is Little E and her "thneed" |
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| Little E did an entire 90 minute p90x routine with Daddy one night |
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| This is the face that Little E and I make whenever Dad is doing something weird. |
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| Ready for the rain in our boots...and it's hot so we're in shorts too! |
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| Pineapple Park |
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| Like Adam needs a bouncer... |
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| Memorial Day at Torii Station |
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