So that $0.50 toy truck Yoshi got from yard sale has brought lots of fun for father & son bonding time. Yoshi would bring that truck to Nori, wanting to play together. The funniest part was that, Yoshi would go back to his original position, sat and waited for the truck to come by. No one ever told him to sit there though....
Today we met up with Ethan at the Cincinnati Children Museum. It's our first visit, about 40 mins away from our home. There were lots of play area for the kids, great way to spend half a day. Yoshi fell asleep in the car right away. He must be exhaused.
"Yoshi, stop disturbing Otoosan (daddy) in the bathroom..."
"Yoshi, can u handle the smell being so close to Uncle Henry?"
"Ok, after 3 people, it really stinks here!!!!"
We did the hay-ride, and there were lots of scarecrows along the way, but they don't look scary at all, seems very friendly (& dummy)
Actually all 4 of us doing the hay ride just for Yoshi, but he fell asleep half way to the ride....Zzzzz. It must be the bumpy ride that got him into sleepy mode.
Hello Mr. (or Mrs?) Goat
There was this big tub fill with corns. Once Yoshi got in, he didn't even move a bit, he must thought he was glued inside.....
Lately, we noticed that Yoshi is very curious with animals- dogs, cats, goat....don't worry (grandparents), we always watching him and never let him get too close to animals. Today, he had lots of fun....Yesterday morning right after breakfast, I took Yoshi out to a yard sale. It's a Japanese family yard sale, which I'm always interest in. Because I could probably find some Japanese children books/ toys for Yoshi, and some dishes for myself. So I was very excited when my friend told me about this a week ago. Yard (garage) sale here is very common, "someone's junk = someone's treasure find". That's exactly how I felt yesterday. It got me thinking I should do one at our place too, there are lots and lots of "junk" in our basement right now.
This is very interesting, it's a wooden block game teaching Japanese words. Nori was already playing with Yoshi this morning. My friend gave us for free at the yard sale.
After the yard sale, I took Yoshi to visit Nori during lunch time.
Recently Yoshi has been playing his stack of cups again. He taught himself to put together those cups, and even shaked them apart at the end. Doesn't he look like those people who shake the cylindrical bamboo cup in Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong? (簽筒) Maybe he was trying to foresee his future, wonder what's for dinner?!
The prediction begins with the cup storing a number of the sticks. The querent thinks silently or whispers it to the deity about their question. The shaking of the cylinder results in at least one stick leaving the cylinder and being dropped onto the floor. Once a single stick jumps out, that stick will have a number on it that will correspond to a number on an answer paper. The writing on the piece of paper will provide an answer to the question.
Yesterday I took Yoshi to a park, just a relaxing afternoon. Now looking at these photos, he doesn't seem to be a 18 months old baby, he looks more like a little boy instead.
There is a pond with ducks around. Before Yoshi's occupation, these duckies were relaxing under the big tree shade. They never would have thought their nap time got disturbed by a little boy wearing a bucket upside down on his head. Run...run...run.....Actually to my suprise, Yoshi was really into following them, instead of heading the opposite direction...
7 years ago (9/26/01), we got married.
Some of you probably haven't heard our wedding story- actually on our rings, they were being engraved with the date 9/16/01, which was our original date. But with 9/11, all the flights were cancelled, all the media were filled with depressing news, it just wasn't the right mood for wedding, most importantly, our families couldn't fly in. So at the last minute, we had to postponed our wedding. It was a lot of work, but we had a story to tell now. Luckily, most of our guests were able to make it the following weekend. The restaurant & all rentals were kind enough to rebook for us. Our ceremony was in a park and it was available. You know, afterall, many people were very unfortunate to loss their love ones on the same September. But for me and Nori, we are very lucky to have each other (+ little Yoshi)
13 years ago when we started to date............
Happy Anniversary Nori. xoxoxoYesterday Nori had a golf outing. I took Yoshi to an art festival nearby. Weather was very hot, but it's nice to be outdoor.
