The beach and the red bucket

It was finally a glorious day outside and we didn't have anything soccer related to attend to. So we did my favorite thing, get onigiri's and go to the beach. Reina got to wear her new dress that Obaachan picked out for her and she actually enjoyed herself. She really liked playing in the water - so much so that I had to take off her diaper b/c she kept pouring water all over herself (it was too cold for Chris and I to even thing about going in). After our snack and water play we threw Reina on my back and did some good old-fashioned reef-walking. It felt like last spring break when Liz and Mike were here, except Reina was heavier!

We stopped by our Yomitan house to see if the crane was gone and there had been progress on the house...and there had! The foundation walls were all set for concrete pouring (like I know!), but the rebar was up and it looked like where the structural walls would go and that seems logical....

Later in the day we prepared for a mini-bbq with our old japanese friends Kazuki and Kaori. They had just been on their honeymoon to NYC and we still hadn't heard how it went. Reina thoroughly enjoyed playing on the balconi with her tunnel and a random red bucket we leave outside. She tried several times to sit on it (mouth up) which was hilarious. We weren't really sure what she was doing, b/c she was circling the bucket with it mouth - up and then all of the sudden she slowly squatted with her butt out, like she was trying to sit. Then she did and of course the bucket toppled. She didn't get hurt and we were sad when we couldn't get her to do it for the video camera. She did manage to get her whole-self inside the bucket later (pictured).