Family gathering at zoo

On 5th, called Children's Day in Japan, my parents-in-low took us to a zoo which does not charge for children to enter on this day. This zoo is at a mountain, so kind of large and has a lot of animals, monkeys, elephants, lions, kangaroos and etc. Children can ride horses, feed sheep and ducks, and touch small rabbits and chicks.


Worker were giving out a piece of bread to adults and children, however, animals were too hungry to wait to be fed. They sneaked into my arms and took my pieces away...:( My daughter was a little bit frightened.


My daughter was excited because of animals and grand parents. She seemed to like her grand parents a lot! and I like it:) She hold their hands and watched animals, and my husband and I walked together. It is rare and fresh for me to walk only with him side by side.





Her grand father was very very happy about walking with his grand daughter. On the way out of the zoo, he asked " Which animal do you like?", " I like giraffe!" she answered, so he bought a giraffe cushion for her. That was really quick! She gave him a big smile:)


Sometime, I feel alone in raising child, however, there are people who really love and care her. I had better rely on grandparents more, maybe.

Influenza type B is still around!!

Last week was "influenza week".

A teacher of my daughter's nursery school called me during my work on last Monday because she had a high fever of over 39°C. I immediately went to the nursery and brought her to a clinic I usually go.

The doctor tested for flues and waited for 15 minutes. I was told that she got influenza type B. Since then she had to stay home and rest until fever was gone.

The doctor gave her "Tamifuru"which is a killer medicine for the flue, however, it might cause side effect. My daughter got better because of the medicine, but she started to say something weird and cried so hard for almost three hours. I wondered why and consulted with the doctor, she told me to stop the medicine. Then she was back to "usual" for the day, however, the following morning, she again had a little fever and looked exhausted.

Then I wen to see the doctor to ask for different medicine. I just wanted her to get better to attend an entrance ceremony on Saturday.

Friday afternoon, when I was at home to prepare her to go the clinic, her teacher of the nursery called me to inform the entrance ceremony was cancelled due to the wide-spread of influenza type B. She was not the only one.

During weekend, she got really better and was able to go to the nursery on this Tuesday.

Yet still, many kids are still absent due to the flue.

Please wash your hand and gaggle after coming back to home!

Time to go to bed

My daughter is a night owl.

She does not look sleepy until 10 o'clock.

I know it is because of us;( We are also night owls.

Last weekend I made up my mind to put her sleep earlier.

I have been watching her, so I know her tendency toward sleep. She needs almost an hour to fall asleep. Therefore, I started to take her to the bed room around 9:30.

We come home at 6:00.

Dinner at 7, and take a bath with her around 8 and enjoy bath-time (important!), put ointments to her sensitive skin and put pajamas on. All has to finish by 9:20.

It is not easy for me, an working mother, however, I have tried to shift my schedule ahead of time and to keep regular hours.

Last few days, she could follow me and go to bed and fall asleep at least 10:30 p.m..

Yes, it is still not early or healthy for 2 year old, but it is on the process to reach our goal of 10.

Since she has sensitive skin and sometimes wakes up in the middle of sleep, this is good place to start:)

Let us keep on trying!

Unpredicted

Last Saturday, my daughter's nursery school held performance.

I was supposed to take time and enjoy preparing for this exciting event.

However, I found my husband had to go business trip and it has been snowing a lot more than I expected!

This means I could not park my car on the ground of nursery school and had to find space and do preparation all by myself in the morning!

Oh my God!

However, when I went to the nursery to pick her up on Friday evening, I met my only mum-friend and she offered me a parking space at her house.
Thank God!

When one shuts, another opens!

Thanks to the friend, even though it was snowing and we were little late, I was able to take her to the nursery with the friend's daughter without a big trouble:)

My daughter's class did "Three Little Pigs".

Children were divided into three groups by their height (maybe month). We could see the difference among them, small, middle and big pigs. They were all cute.

This was a second time to perform in front of many people for my daughter, she did a great job at her age!

I surely saw her growth.

I took some pictures... somehow, my micro SD did not saved and it saved only pictures I took on the way home after the performance:'(

Oh my God!

Plus I am not sure if I recorded in video camera well...(Triple oh my God?!)

This weekend...

My daughter's nursery school will hold an event that children perform plays and songs.

I heard teachers have taught them acting and singing for about a month.

I really look forward to watch it:) She will play "Three Little Pig" and she is a middle one.

I will put some pictures of it on later!

Celebrating the coming of spring!

February 3rd-we celebrate this day for the coming of spring.

It is called " SETSUBUN" meaning the day before beginning of spring.

Setsubun, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Setsubun&oldid=268659360 (last visited Feb. 6, 2009).

On this day, we do the bean-scattering ceremony from young kids to old grandmothers and eat as the same number of beans as their age. If you are 50, you should eat 50 beans! We throw beans to rooms of our house chanting "Demons Out!, Luck In!", and sometimes father disguised himself as demon to be a target of kinds.

My daughter celebrated this day and enjoyed the bean scattering at her nursery school with school mates. To prepare for this day, kids were makeing their own demon's mask and bean box.

She really like this mask and box, so she ask me " Where is my demon?" whenever I pickher her up at the nursery.

She is smiling with demon mask today, too:) I hope not she become a little demon...